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AssigneeTesla, Inc.
InventorsBrian Dean Hachtmann, Mark Riegel, David Elias Hegeman, William Christopher Bishop, William Vucich Beecher
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An enhanced multi object potting fixture for exposure to a curing modality that sets an adhesive includes a fixture housing supporting a plurality of objects, the fixture housing having a wall defining a plurality of bonding wells with each the bonding well receiving a first portion of one of the objects, each the bonding well including an aperture in the wall proximate the first portion wherein each bonding well includes a target zone for selective cure of the adhesive to inhibit the adhesive from exiting the aperture; and a fixture enhancement structure integrated into the wall concentrating the curing modality in each the target zone.
A method for bonding a battery and a fixture, where the fixture has a bonding well defined by a wall of the bonding well and a bottom of the bonding well, and an optical enhancement structure defined by a one or more of an internal surface defined in the bottom of the bonding well, an external surface opposite the bonding well, and a curved surface opposite the bonding well, wherein the fixture defines an aperture in the bottom of the bonding well, wherein a space exists between the wall of the bonding well and the battery, and between the bottom of the bonding well and the battery, and wherein a portion of the bottom of the bonding well defines a target zone, the method comprising:
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