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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 05, 2022
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);
Lorne Forsythe, Novi, MI (US);
Hussein Berry, Dearborn, MI (US);
Andrew Niedert, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Darrel Alan Recker, Ypsilanti, MI (US);
Aaron Bradley Johnson, Allen Park, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture for trailers with adjustable batteries are disclosed herein. An example trailer disclosed herein includes a platform, a battery disposed at a first location relative to the platform, a drive to move the battery relative to the platform, and a controller to determine a first load distribution on the platform and in response to determining the first load distribution on the platform does not satisfy a first threshold, adjust a position of the battery, via the drive, to a second location relative to the platform.