US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 3 for "Battery housing with a protective cap, battery and motor vehicle" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,644, issued on March 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Battery housing with a protective cap, battery and motor vehicle" was invented by Florian Einoegg (Marktoberdorf, Germany), Felix Laasch (Munich) and Alexander Mueller (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery housing includes at least one membrane-like degassing element which is designed to yield when a hot gas of the at least one battery cell is released into an interior of the battery housing, and in so doing to open up a degassing opening in the housing wall for discharging the hot gas from the interior to an area surrounding the battery housing...