US Patent Issued to Nissan Motor on Jan. 20 for "Thermal chain determination method and thermal chain detection system for battery pack" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,285, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Thermal chain determination method and thermal chain detection system for battery pack" was invented by Hiromoto Taguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ayuka Matsuyama (Kanagawa, Japan), Kohei Kasedo (Kanagawa, Japan), Qiye Yang (Kanagawa, Japan), Xubin Zhou (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomokazu Kobayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Ko Miyake (Kanagawa, Japan) and Hiroshi Ogawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack includes cells, a pressure contributing component contributing to a change in pressure in the battery pack, at least one pressure sensor configure...