US Patent Issued to YOUNGDO IND. on July 1 for "Pressure relief device for high-pressure vessel" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,378, issued on July 1, was assigned to YOUNGDO IND. Co. LTD. (Busan, South Korea).

"Pressure relief device for high-pressure vessel" was invented by Woo Cheol Nam (Busan, South Korea) and Jin Oh Shin (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure relief device for a high-pressure vessel comprises: a cap member having a space part formed therein; and a piston member having a first chamber part, and dividing the space part of the cap member into a second chamber part and a third chamber part, and thus, when fusible alloy is molten, the molten fusible alloy sequentially flows into the first chamber part and the second cham...