US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on Oct. 27 for "Battery pack including fire suppression means" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,540, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery pack including fire suppression means" was invented by Jin Kyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes a means configured to, when an abnormal phenomenon, such as fire outbreak or heat generation, occurs in a battery cell, prevent fire or heat from propagating to another battery cell adjacent thereto. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells, a case configured to receive the plurality of battery cells, an energy discharging means configured to discharge energy of the battery pack when t...