ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,823, issued on March 24, was assigned to DEXERIALS Corp. (Tokyo).
"Protecting device and battery pack" was invented by Yuji Kimura (Tochigi, Japan), Chisato Komori (Tochigi, Japan) and Koichi Mukai (Tochigi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a protecting device and a battery pack capable of preventing floating of a blowout member, preventing deformation of a meltable conductor, and maintaining predetermined current capacity and blowout properties. The protecting device 1 includes: a meltable conductor 2; and a blowout member 4 connected to one surface of the meltable conductor 2, wherein the blowout member 4 includes...