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US 2020/0139178 A1Published application
Apparatus and methods for battery fire suppression using multi-port extinguishing agent distribution
AssigneeFlexgen Power Systems, Inc.
InventorsTony Olivo, Pasi Taimela, Robert William Johnson, JR., Clifford Thomas Jones
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Abstract
An apparatus includes a rack including a plurality of vertically-stacked battery shelves and a vertically extending pipe disposed adjacent the rack. The apparatus further includes a plurality of ports fluidically coupled to the pipe and spaced apart along a length of the pipe, respective ones of the ports configured to direct an extinguishing agent from the pipe towards respective ones of the shelves.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a pipe configured to extend adjacent at least one rack having a plurality of vertically stacked battery shelves;
- and
- at least one plurality of ports fluidically coupled to the pipe, respective ones of the ports configured to direct an extinguishing agent from the pipe towards respective ones of the shelves.
An apparatus comprising:
- a rack comprising a plurality of vertically-stacked battery shelves;
- a vertically extending pipe disposed adjacent the rack;
- and
- a plurality of ports fluidically coupled to the pipe and spaced apart along a length of the pipe, respective ones of the ports configured to direct an extinguishing agent from the pipe towards respective ones of the shelves.
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A method comprising:
- positioning a pipe adjacent at least one rack having a plurality of vertically stacked battery shelves;
- and
- directing an extinguishing agent from respective ones of ports fluidically coupled to the pipe towards respective ones of the shelves.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.