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US 9,543,768 B2Granted
Safety device
AssigneeRobert Bosch GmbH
InventorsJochen Bertsch, Cornelius Liebenow
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Abstract
A safety device includes a discharge device for discharging an electric energy store in response to a deformation of the energy store, that is impending or has occurred.
Claims21
A safety device, comprising:
- a determination device to determine that deformation of an electric energy store has occurred, the determination device including first and second contact elements mounted side by side on the electric energy store, the first contact element being configured to expand radially in a direction of the second contact element in response to axial compression to create a conducting connection between the first and second contact elements;
- and
- a discharge device to discharge the electric energy store in response to the determined deformation of the electric energy store.
A method for safely discharging an electric energy store, the method comprising:
- determining a deformation of the electric energy store, the determining including a first contact element, mounted side by side on the electric energy store with a second contact element, expanding radially in a direction of the second contact element in response to axial compression to create a conducting connection between the first and second contact elements;
- and
- discharging, using a discharge device, the electric energy store as a function of the determining.
A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having program instructions, which when executed by a processing device perform a method of safely discharging an electric energy store, the method comprising:
- determining a deformation of the electric energy store, the determining including a first contact element, mounted side by side on the electric energy store with a second contact element, expanding radially in a direction of the second contact element in response to axial compression to create a conducting connection between the first and second contact elements;
- and
- discharging, using a discharge device, the electric energy store as a function of the determining.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.