ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,038, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Air cooling type battery module having separate cooling structure for battery cell" was invented by Tae-Gyu Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery module according to the present disclosure includes: cylindrical battery cells arranged in horizontal and vertical directions, with a top cap facing upward; a module case in which the cylindrical battery cells are accommodated; and cooling caps mounted on lower end portions of the cylindrical battery cells, wherein the cooling caps protrude below a lower end of the module case...