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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 08, 2012
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2007
Ernest Matthew Villanueva, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Charles Hewett, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
William Vucich Beecher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dorian Watkins West, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Scott Ira Kohn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Eugene Michael Berdichevsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ernest Matthew Villanueva, Mountain View, CA (US);
Brian Charles Hewett, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
William Vucich Beecher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Dorian Watkins West, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Scott Ira Kohn, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Eugene Michael Berdichevsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Tesla Motors, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment includes a bottom clamshell and a top clamshell sandwiching a first battery and a second battery, with a fill port extending from a top surface of the top clamshell through to the bottom surface of the top clamshell and to a space between the first and second batteries. The embodiment includes a protrusion coupled to the top clamshell proximate to the fill port and extending into the space, wherein the protrusion at least partially occludes a direct path through the fill port to the space.