Battery enclosure with removable cover sections
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsStuart C. Salter, Renata Michaela Arsenault, Kent Snyder, Brian Joseph Robert, Ann O'Neill, David Brian Glickman
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Abstract
A system for recycling a component of a battery assembly includes a removal tool and a cover of the battery assembly. The cover includes a component removal zone configured to be removable from the cover by the removal tool to expose the component and a locator identifying the component removal zone for removal by the removal tool.
Claims20
A method for removing a component from a battery assembly, the method comprising:
- detecting, via a sensor, data identifying a locator on a cover of the battery assembly, the locator indicating a removal zone of the cover;
- adjusting, via a controller, a path of a removal tool based on the data identifying the locator;
- actuating the removal tool along the adjusted path to separate the removal zone from a remainder of the cover;
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- removing the component covered by the removal zone of the cover.
A battery assembly comprising:
- a housing including a base and a cover, the base and the cover defining an interior cavity of the housing;
- and
- a battery component disposed within the cavity of the housing,
- wherein the cover comprises:
- a component removal zone configured to be removed from a remainder of the cover and arranged to cover the battery component;
- and
- a locator identifying the component removal zone for removal.
A system for accessing a component of a battery assembly behind a cover of the battery assembly, the system comprising:
- a removal tool configured to separate a component removal zone of the cover from a remainder of the cover;
- a sensor configured to detect a locator on the cover of the battery assembly;
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- a controller configured to receive data from the sensor and identify a location of the component removal zone based on the received data, wherein the controller is configured to operate the removal along a removal path to separate the component removal zone from the remainder of the cover.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.