US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on Sept. 15 for "Apparatus for managing safety of secondary battery and method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,753, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for managing safety of secondary battery and method thereof" was invented by Jae-Kuk Kwon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyung-Jik Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus including a control unit operably coupled to a voltage measuring unit, a temperature measuring unit and a discharging switch. The control unit measures a cell voltage and a cell temperature by using the voltage measuring unit and the temperature measuring unit, turns on the discharging switch to forcibly discharge the secondary battery through...