Vehicular battery retainer and shield
CA 2038142 C · Owner: Gm Global Technology Operations, Inc. · Inventors: Francis, Laurie Ann; Krentz, Richard Harry
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A motor vehicle having a battery supported on a cantilevered tray within the vehicle's engine compartment wherein the vibrations otherwise experienced by the unsecured distal end of the tray is dampened by a substantially rigid bracket which engages the distal end of the tray, overlies the battery so as to retain it in the tray and also engages a vehicle body member. The damper-retaining bracket is preferably integral with an enclosure which encompasses the battery and shields the battery from engine compartment heat. The enclosure will preferably comprise hollow walls for also insulating the battery from such heat.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed March 13, 1991 and granted November 1, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended March 13, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by March 13, 2013.
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