ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,238, issued on June 23.
"Temperature-control device for individual battery cells combined to form a module" was invented by Helmut Kastler (Freistadt, Austria) and Philipp Kreisel (Freistadt, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature-control device for individual battery cells (1) combined to form a module has a main body (2) that, in order to circumferentially surround the battery cells (1), has passage openings (4) situated opposite one another in pairs in relation to a respective joining axis (3) and that forms a flow channel (5) for a temperature-control fluid. The flow channel (5) runs transversely with respect to the...