US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on July 21 for "Battery pack with structure for suppressing entry of charged particles" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,015, issued on July 21, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Battery pack with structure for suppressing entry of charged particles" was invented by Taro Matsushita (Toyokawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery pack according to the present disclosure includes a battery cell, a case for storing the battery cell, a smoke exhaust port provided in the case, a smoke exhaust port provided outside the smoke exhaust port to form an electric field or a magnetic field outside the smoke exhaust port, and a trap device that traps charged particles by trapping the charged particles."

The patent was filed on Nov. 30,...