US Patent Issued to PTEC-PRESSURE TECHNOLOGY on July 21 for "Thermally activatable pressure relief device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,233, issued on July 21, was assigned to PTEC-PRESSURE TECHNOLOGY GMBH (Burscheid, Germany).

"Thermally activatable pressure relief device" was invented by Klaus Perthel (Burscheid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermally activatable pressure relief device includes a housing having an inlet passage and an outlet passage. A receiving cavity in the housing connects the inlet passage and the outlet passage. A blocking element provided in the receiving cavity. The blocking element is movable between a blocking position and a release position and blocking a fluid flow from the inlet passage to the outlet passage in the blocking ...