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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2025
Filed:
May. 31, 2023
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
S.M. Iskander Farooq, Novi, MI (US);
Mohammad Omar Faruque, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Dean M. Jaradi, Macomb, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An assembly including a vehicle battery tray. The assembly includes a track fixed relative to the vehicle battery tray. The track is elongated along a cross-vehicle axis. The assembly includes a brace slideably engaged with the track. The brace is slidable along the track relative to the vehicle battery tray along the cross-vehicle axis in a vehicle-outboard direction from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The assembly includes a pyrotechnic actuator operatively coupled to the brace to slide the brace along the track from the undeployed position to the deployed position.