US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on March 3 for "Battery housing with valve device, battery and motor vehicle" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,643, issued on March 3, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Battery housing with valve device, battery and motor vehicle" was invented by Philip Raettich (Stoettwang, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery housing includes a valve device for pressure equalization and for letting out a hot gas of a battery cell. The valve device has a valve seat in the form of a gas release opening in a housing wall of the battery housing and a valve body. The valve body closes the gas release opening when in a closed position, can be moved by a pressure-difference-induced internal pressure increase into a first open posit...