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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 26, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2022
Cps Technology Holdings Llc, New York, NY (US);
Matthew R Tyler, New York, NY (US);
John P. Dinkelman, South Milwaukee, WI (US);
CPS Technology Holdings LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A battery module that includes a stack of battery cells is disclosed, each battery cell of the battery module has a terminal, and the terminal has a first alloy of a metal, the battery module has a bus bar that includes a body having a nickel plating on at least a portion of the body, and an indentation disposed on the body, where a thickness of the nickel plating is between 0.2% and 20% of an overall thickness of the body, a weld physically and electrically couples the terminal to the bus bar, and the nickel plating enables the weld to be stronger than a weld between the first and second alloys.