US Patent Issued to Mercedes-Benz Group on Feb. 17 for "Particle separator for battery packs and battery back having a particle separator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,868, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Mercedes-Benz Group AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Particle separator for battery packs and battery back having a particle separator" was invented by Tobias Geisler (Kirchheim, Germany), Daniel Blauwitz (Uhingen, Germany) and Sascha Koch (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A particle separator includes an inlet and an outlet where solid particle are separable from a particle-battery gas mixture introduced with overpressure at the inlet by the particle separator and where the battery gas is depressurizable at the outlet. The particle separator further includes a gas channel wound in a ...