US Patent Issued to AUDI on July 14 for "Energy storage device for a motor vehicle and method for counteracting a fire of an energy storage device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,220, issued on July 14, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Energy storage device for a motor vehicle and method for counteracting a fire of an energy storage device" was invented by Dirk Bader (Fellbach, Germany) and Michael Grabowski (Ingolstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An energy storage device for a motor vehicle includes a battery module and at least one thermally insulating filling element, which is preferably designed as a thermally insulating cell separator element arranged between two battery cells of the battery module. The filling element is designed to be soluble here, so that it dissolves at lea...