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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2016
Dell Products, Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Rick C. Thompson, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Bruce A. Miller, Georgetown, TX (US);
Dell Products, LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A battery pack bussing plate, method, and system for providing battery vendor identification capable of surviving a thermal failure event of a battery pack for an information handling system. By receiving a designation of a distinctive current director shape of an extended current director, the extended current director comprising a current director with at least one extension at an angle to a line between a first terminus of the current director and a second terminus of the current director, the distinctive director shape adapted to uniquely identify a battery pack vendor, and transforming sheet metal stock into a battery pack bussing plate, the battery pack bussing plate defining the extended current director, a battery vendor can be identified from a battery pack even after thermal failure of the battery pack.