ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,390, issued on May 26, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Strap for battery module, battery module comprising same, and jig for compressing strap" was invented by Ho-June Chi (Daejeon, South Korea), Jung-Hoon Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Jeong-O Mun (Daejeon, South Korea) and Byoung-Cheon Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a strap, which compresses an outer surface of a battery module to prevent the battery module from being deformed by swelling of a battery cell, and the strap has a closed loop structure larger than an outer peripheral of the battery module, and at least...