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Graphite foil as an active heating and passive cooling material in a battery pack
12 Dec 23
The present disclosure relates a temperature regulating system including an anisotropic material for use as a heating material or element (e.g., an active heater) and a cooling material or element (e.g., passive cooling) in a battery pack including one or more electrochemical cells.
Dave G. Rich, Saad Hasan, Lyall K Winger, Dewen Kong, Haijing Liu
Filed: 4 Aug 21
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Power control system for an electric vehicle including sacrificial protection device
12 Dec 23
A power control system for a battery system of a vehicle includes a first contactor, a second contactor, N fuses and N vehicle loads.
Mark Daniel Gottlieb, Venkata Prasad Atluri, Madhusudan Raghavan
Filed: 10 Nov 21
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Method and apparatus for embedded in-vehicle device-to-device cloud communications optimization
12 Dec 23
A vehicular communication controller includes a microcontroller (MCU) located within a vehicle to publish a newly defined protocol data unit (PDU) including a header and a payload portion to a destination device.
Steven Hartley, Sherif Aly
Filed: 26 Oct 22
Utility
Protective lens cover for a camera
12 Dec 23
A protective cover for a camera includes a housing configured for attachment to one of the camera and a support structure which supports the camera, a lens attached to the housing and configured for alignment with an imaging axis of the camera, a light source attached to the housing and configured for providing light to a field of view of the camera, and an electrical connector carried by the housing and configured for receiving power and/or signal commands and for conveying the power and/or signal commands to the light source.
Tzvi Philipp, Timothy Busch
Filed: 6 Jan 22
Utility
Battery with Passive Fire Suppression Capabilities
7 Dec 23
A battery with passive fire suppression capabilities includes a housing, a battery cell stack disposed within an interior of the housing, and a fire suppression material disposed within the interior of the housing.
Thomas J. CHAPATON, Nicholas Paul William PIECZONKA, Ratandeep Singh KUKREJA
Filed: 6 Jun 22
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Load Distributing Thermal Runaway Barrier for a Battery Cell
7 Dec 23
A load distributing thermal runaway barrier for an energy storage battery cell pack includes a first separator plate, a second separator plate, and at least one first elastic member arranged between the first and second separator plates.
Yunshan Liu, Thomas J. Wang
Filed: 6 Jun 22
Utility
Electrode Dressing System for Spot Welding Press-hardened Steels
7 Dec 23
A system for electrode dressing including a cutter with a rim and a center land supported on the rim by a number of flutes defining openings between the flutes.
Zhenke Teng, Robert Watson, Russell A. Webster, JR., Jason M. Brown, Joseph Seme
Filed: 2 Jun 22
Utility
Supplemental and Targeted Heating of Vehicle Body-in-white Interior Components/areas for Paint Ovens
7 Dec 23
A heating system includes a conveying system configured to transport a plurality of vehicle body-in-whites (BIWs) sequentially through an oven room to cure paint applied in a paint room.
Wayne CAI, Hua-tzu Fan, Blair E. Carlson, Jennifer Therese Bracey, Mark E. Baylis, Kenneth W. McLean, Matthew Bondy, Ian McLoughlin
Filed: 6 Jun 22
Utility
Battery Systems, Methods, and Vehicles with Interconnect Board Assemblies Having Multilayer Current Collectors
7 Dec 23
Presented are electrical interconnect board (ICB) assemblies with multilayer current collectors, methods for making/using such ICB assemblies, battery systems employing such ICB assemblies, and vehicles equipped with such ICB assemblies.
Mitchell Stojanovski
Filed: 6 Jun 22
Utility
Thermal Management of Battery Modules and Strings
7 Dec 23
A battery system includes: first and second positive terminals and a negative terminal; switches; at least two battery modules, each of the battery modules including at least three strings of battery cells configured to, at different times be: connected in series and to the first positive terminal via first ones of the switches; connected in parallel and to the second positive terminal via second ones of the switches; and disconnected from both of the first and second positive terminals; and a switch control module configured to: receive temperatures of the strings of battery cells, respectively; determine temperatures of the battery modules, respectively, based on the temperatures of the strings of battery cells of that battery module; and selectively actuate the switches based on at least one of: minimizing an error between the temperatures of the strings of battery cells; and minimizing an error between the temperatures of the battery modules.
Jun-mo KANG, Dave G. Rich
Filed: 3 Jun 22
Utility
Method for Attestation of an Electronic Component on a Circuit Board
7 Dec 23
A method for attestation of electronic components includes operating a system including the components.
Kenneth William Junk
Filed: 3 Jun 22
Utility
Axial Flux Motor Assemblies with Integrated Power Electronics and Double-sided Cooling
7 Dec 23
An axial flux motor assembly is disclosed and includes: an axial flux motor comprising a rotor, and a first stator; and a power inverter assembly.
Ming LIU, Jian Yao, Chengwu Duan
Filed: 28 Jun 22
Utility
Method and System for Public Key Infrastructure for Serviceable Electronic Components In Software Defined Vehicles
7 Dec 23
A method for public key infrastructure for serviceable electronic components is provided.
Kenneth William Junk
Filed: 3 Jun 22
Utility
Vehicle Propulsion with Multiple Battery Packs
7 Dec 23
A system in a vehicle includes two or more smart battery packs to power drive units of the vehicle to move the vehicle.
Venkata Prasad Atluri, Chinmaya Patil, Norman K. Bucknor
Filed: 7 Jun 22
Utility
Optimized Additive Manufacturing
7 Dec 23
Methods and systems for additive manufacturing are provided.
Benjamin John LeBlanc, Adam John Campbell
Filed: 1 Jun 22
Utility
In-vehicle Multimodal Violence Detection for Shared Vehicles and Self-driving Shuttles
7 Dec 23
An in-vehicle violence detection system includes a speech and non-speech audio recognition module capturing occupant threat words and non-speech audio events.
Alaa M. Khamis, Wei Tong, Sai Vishnu Aluru, Upali P. Mudalige, Sravan Daruri
Filed: 1 Jun 22
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Systems and Methods for Detection and Mitigation of Crosswind Effects
7 Dec 23
Systems and methods for controlling a vehicle are provided.
Reza Zarringhalam, Mohammadali Shahriari, Klaus Tranbaek, Ashraf Abualfellat
Filed: 7 Jun 22
Utility
Dual-chemistry Propulsion System for Electric Vertical Take-off and Landing Aircraft
7 Dec 23
A system in an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft includes two or more subsystems.
Venkata Prasad Atluri, Madhusudan Raghavan, Shuonan Xu, Hanho Yun
Filed: 7 Jun 22
Utility
System and Method for Operating a Personal Energy Consumption Account for a User
7 Dec 23
A system for operating a personal energy consumption account for a user includes a mobile application adapted to interface with the user and provide access to the personal energy consumption account.
Claudia V. Goldman-Shenhar, Sharon Hornstein
Filed: 2 Jun 22
Utility
Logic to Effectively Operate Cleaning System for Lidar Sensor of an Autonomous Vehicle
7 Dec 23
A Lidar system, a cleaning apparatus for the Lidar system and a method of operation.
Kothamasi Sumithra Raju, Julien P. Mourou, Sudipto Ray, Yuchuan Liu
Filed: 7 Jun 22