ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,429, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Polestar Performance AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).
"Mechanical vent for battery pack" was invented by Jongseok Moon (Gothenburg, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vent for an electric vehicle battery pack configured to transition from a venting, open position to a sealed, closed position in the event of a thermal event experienced by the electric vehicle battery pack, thereby trapping the gasses within the electric vehicle battery pack, including a curved disc shaped and sized to selectively seal an aperture defined by the electric vehicle battery pack, the curved disc formed of a first materi...