US Patent Issued to LG ENERGY SOLUTION on Sept. 22 for "Battery module having pressure sensor for detecting thermal propagation" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,273, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module having pressure sensor for detecting thermal propagation" was invented by Do-Yul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a cell stack having a plurality of battery cells stacked in one direction; a pressure sensor unit disposed between one battery cell and another battery cell facing the battery cell, and having a plurality of pressure sensing nodes protruding toward the other battery cell; and a surface pressure transmission plate disposed between the pressure sensor unit and the other ba...