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Thermal Guard: Description

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Fig 1: Identifying Battery Thermal Guard
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A flexible plastic bubble-wrap style thermal guard (Fig 1 ) slides over the battery case to enclose the sides of the battery. The thermal guard consists of a heavy black plastic outer skin and two lighter plies of plastic that have been formed into a sheet with hundreds of small air pockets entrapped between them. The resulting material is very similar to the bubble-wrap used to protect items in many parcel packaging and shipping applications.