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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 02, 2020
Kautex Textron Gmbh & Co. KG, Bonn, DE;
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Guido Schafer, Bornheim, DE;
Stefan Lenz, Bergisch Gladbach, DE;
Felix Haas, Bonn, DE;
Georg Enkirch, Salz, DE;
Muhamed Mulalic, Cologne, DE;
Marcel Kruger, Bonn, DE;
Mohammadreza Eftekhari, Novi, MI (US);
Patrick Daniel Maguire, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Kanchana Perumalla, Troy, MI (US);
KAUTEX TEXTRON GmbH & Co. KG, Bonn, DE;
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A battery housing for a traction battery. The battery housing includes a first housing shell, and a second housing shell which can be connected to the first housing shell, for bounding an interior formed to receive at least one battery module. The first housing shell has a first collar which runs at least partially around the first housing shell. The second housing shell has a second collar which runs at least partially around the second housing shell. The battery housing has at least one connection element having two pressure limbs. The at least one connection element engages around the first collar and the second collar and to clamp by the two pressure limbs of the connection element exerting a normal force on the first collar and on the second collar. The first collar and/or the second collar has at least one first latching means. The connection element has at least one second latching means. The connection element can be latched to the first collar and/or the second collar by means of the first latching means and the second latching means.