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US 2015/0174995 A1Published application
Battery array rail assembly with tie bracket
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsYongcai WANG, Rajaram SUBRAMANIAN, Saravanan PARAMASIVAM
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Abstract
A battery array according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a rail that supports a battery cell and a tie bracket connected to the rail and configured to limit travel of the rail.
Claims20
A battery array, comprising:
- a rail that supports a battery cell;
- and
- a tie bracket connected to said rail and configured to limit travel of said rail.
A battery module, comprising:
- a rail assembly including:
- an upper rail;
- a lower rail;
- a column that extends between said upper rail and said lower rail;
- and
- at least one tie bracket mounted to at least one of said upper rail and said lower rail.
3 more elements
A method, comprising:
- limiting travel of a rail that supports a battery cell with a tie bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.