ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,530, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AURORA POWERTRAINS OY (Rovaniemi, Finland).
"Thermal management of a battery module and of a battery pack" was invented by Olli Haavikko (Sinetta, Finland), Matti Autioniemi (Rovaniemi, Finland) and Jori-Jaakko Niskanen (Rovaniemi, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermally controllable battery pack includes a scalable number of battery modules. Each battery module includes a group of horizontally stacked battery cells. Thin metal plate housing surrounds the modules. A thermal fin is placed between some of the adjacent battery cells, so that each battery cell has contact to at least one...