US Patent Issued to LG Energy Solution on July 1 for "Battery module having structure capable of rapid preheating, battery pack comprising same, and vehicle comprising same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,842, issued on July 1, was assigned to LG Energy Solution Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Battery module having structure capable of rapid preheating, battery pack comprising same, and vehicle comprising same" was invented by Jeong-Seop Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module includes a cell stack having a plurality of battery cells; and a phase change preheater disposed on the cell stack. The phase change preheater contains a phase change material that causes a phase change as crystal nuclei are formed, and accordingly causes an exothermic reaction."

The patent was filed on March 23, 2020, under Applica...