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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2015
Johnson Controls Technology Company, Holland, MI (US);
Jason D. Fuhr, Sussex, WI (US);
Joerg Birkholz, Sarstedt Lower Saxony, DE;
Jonathan P. Lobert, Hartford, WI (US);
Marco Jansen, Celle/Grosse Hehlen, DE;
Martin Wiegmann, Borstel, DE;
Richard M. DeKeuster, Racine, WI (US);
Robert J. Mack, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Johnson Controls Technology Company, Holland, MI (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure includes a battery module having a power assembly that includes a plurality of battery cells and a plurality of bus bars that electrically couples a terminal of each of the plurality of battery cells to a terminal of an adjacent battery cell of the plurality of battery cells. The battery module also includes a lead frame that includes a plurality of cell taps respectively electrically coupled to the plurality of bus bars of the power assembly, and a plurality of leads that extends from the plurality of cell taps. The lead frame also includes a plurality of broken interconnects that electrically isolates the plurality of cell taps from one another and electrically isolates the plurality of leads from one another.