US Patent Issued to Ankug Engineering on Dec. 9 for "Battery fire suppression system with fire extinguishing agent cooling function" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,394, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ankug Engineering Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery fire suppression system with fire extinguishing agent cooling function" was invented by Jae Man Park (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Geon Seok Lee (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a battery fire suppression system with a fire extinguishing agent cooling function, in which a fire extinguishing gas serves as a refrigerant for cooling a fire extinguishing agent and at the same time, the fire extinguishing gas is sprayed into a battery room or a battery module to quickly extinguish a fire in the battery. While a...