Patents by Inventor Carl Trudel

Carl Trudel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240100936
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an electric axle in a vehicle. An electric axle includes an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, a coolant manifold mounted to a first end plate of the rotor, the first end plate opposite a second end plate distal to the coolant manifold, wherein the coolant manifold is configured to flow coolant to rotor coolant lines extending axially through the rotor, and a spray ring comprising coolant lines coupled to the coolant manifold, wherein coolant flowing from the coolant manifold to the spray ring flows in a direction angled to an axial direction, wherein the spray ring is positioned circumferentially about axial stator end windings and configured to spray coolant onto an outer diameter of the end windings, wherein the first end plate and the second end plate are configured to spray coolant onto an inner diameter of the end windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Carl TRUDEL, Steven VANHEE, Luke MILLER
  • Publication number: 20240106303
    Abstract: Systems and methods for electric motor cooling. The cooling system, in one example, includes a sealing ring coupled to or formed in a stator and including a flange that axially extends outward from an axial side of the stator. The cooling system further includes a first sealing sleeve with a first sealing interface that is formed between the sealing sleeve and a motor housing and a second sealing interface that is formed between the sealing sleeve and the flange, where a cavity is formed between the sealing sleeve and the sealing ring in which a stator end winding is at least partially immersed in a coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew K. PASCHALL, Samuel Wesley COX, Carl TRUDEL, Alexandre PARE, Steven VANHEE, Luke MILLER, Christopher M. COOK
  • Publication number: 20240030767
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a winding reconfiguration assembly for an electric machine. The winding reconfiguration assembly includes a multi-position contactor device designed to switch stator windings in the electric machine between a first electric configuration in a first position and a second electric configuration in a second position. The winding reconfiguration assembly further includes an electromagnetic actuator configured switch the multi-position contactor device between the first position and the second position in response to a change in the polarity of a coil in the electromagnetic actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Carl TRUDEL, Michel TULANE, Benoit BLANCHARD ST-JACQUES, Luke MILLER, Martin HOULE
  • Publication number: 20230402900
    Abstract: Systems are provided for an electric motor. In one example, a rotor assembly of the electric motor includes a shaft, a lubricant distributor inserted into the shaft, the lubricant distributor comprising a first section comprising a plurality of first nozzles and a second section comprising a plurality of second nozzles, the lubricant distributor further comprising an overflow portion arranged between the first and second sections, and a stationary lance positioned adjacent to the first section of the lubricant distributor, the lance comprising a plurality of radial nozzles. The rotor assembly controls coolant flow towards the rotor and bearings, helping to decrease drag losses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Steven VANHEE, Alexandre PARE, Enrico MOSCHETTI, Jaywant S. PAWAR, Joachim DRUANT, Frederik DESMET, Luke MILLER, Sergio DE SANTIS, Carl TRUDEL
  • Publication number: 20230385655
    Abstract: A computer-implemented infrastructure providing a consistent graphical user interface that supports user-controlled organizing, storing, accessing and sharing of heterogeneous personal information of a specific user uses computer processes executed by a server system. The computer processes include receiving a set of items of information from a computing device operated on behalf of the specific user; for each item of information in the received set of items, obtaining, as a result of parsing the received set of items, new information; using the new information, and other user information stored in association with an internal account of the specific user, to produce derived information; and storing the new information and the derived information, in a storage system in communication with the server system, and associating such stored item of information with an internal account of the specific user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Adam Kanner, Carl Trudel
  • Publication number: 20230261536
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to cool an electric machine. In one embodiment, an electric machine includes a rotor assembly that includes a rotor shaft and a stack of rotor laminations. The rotor assembly further includes one or more nozzles designed to receive pressurized coolant from a rotor shaft coolant passage and deliver the coolant to a set of open coolant channels in the stack of rotor laminations, wherein the set open coolant channels includes outlets that are profiled to direct the coolant towards a groove in a balancing plate that is coupled to the rotor assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Steven VANHEE, Joachim DRUANT, Thibault DEVREESE, Carl TRUDEL, Luke MILLER, Jaywant S. PAWAR
  • Patent number: 11720803
    Abstract: A computer-implemented infrastructure providing a consistent graphical user interface that supports user-controlled organizing, storing, accessing and sharing of heterogeneous personal information of a specific user uses computer processes executed by a server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Zingly Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Kanner, Carl Trudel
  • Publication number: 20230059467
    Abstract: A computer-implemented infrastructure providing a consistent graphical user interface that supports user-controlled organizing, storing, accessing and sharing of heterogeneous personal information of a specific user uses computer processes executed by a server system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Adam Kanner, Carl Trudel
  • Patent number: 11494664
    Abstract: A computer-implemented infrastructure providing a consistent graphical user interface that supports user-controlled organizing, storing, accessing and sharing of heterogeneous personal information of a specific user uses computer processes executed by a server system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Zingly Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Kanner, Carl Trudel
  • Publication number: 20220352782
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an electric axle in a vehicle. The electric axle comprises an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, a coolant manifold mounted to an end plate of the rotor, wherein the coolant manifold is configured to flow coolant to rotor coolant lines extending axially through the rotor, and a spray ring comprising coolant lines coupled to the coolant manifold, wherein coolant flowing from the coolant manifold to the spray ring flows in a direction angled to an axial direction, wherein the spray ring is positioned circumferentially about axial stator end windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Carl TRUDEL, Steven VANHEE, Luke MILLER
  • Publication number: 20220348063
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an electric axle in a vehicle. An electric axle comprises an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, a coolant manifold mounted to an end plate of the rotor, wherein the coolant manifold is configured to flow coolant to rotor coolant lines extending axially through the rotor, and a first spray ring arranged adjacent to the coolant manifold and a second spray ring arranged distally to the coolant manifold, wherein the first spray ring receives coolant from the coolant manifold via an interior passage and the second spray ring receives coolant from the coolant manifold via an outer passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Carl TRUDEL, Steven VANHEE, Luke MILLER
  • Publication number: 20210334672
    Abstract: A computer-implemented infrastructure providing a consistent graphical user interface that supports user-controlled organizing, storing, accessing and sharing of heterogeneous personal information of a specific user uses computer processes executed by a server system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Kanner, Carl Trudel
  • Publication number: 20200143258
    Abstract: A computer-implemented infrastructure providing a consistent graphical user interface that supports user-controlled organizing, storing, accessing and sharing of heterogeneous personal information of a specific user uses computer processes executed by a server system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Adam Kanner, Carl Trudel