Patents by Inventor Brittany M. Repac

Brittany M. Repac 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).

  • Patent number: 10608301
    Abstract: Methods and systems for creating a battery module. A battery cell can include a cooling device that cools a busbar and a power electronics package. To allow the cooling device to be attached to the busbar and allow the cooling device to cool both the power electronics and the busbar, the cooling device is mounted on the busbar with the busbar held between two portions of the cooling device and with the power electronics mounted on an opposite side of the cooling device from the busbar. The fluid or phase change material may then circulate through a cavity in the cooling device to cool both the power electronics and the busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: NIO USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam H. Ing, Alexander J. Smith, Brittany M. Repac
  • Patent number: 10436306
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling noise in multiple motor gearbox drive units having a common housing are provided. The disclosure describes adjusting an angular position of a drive element of a first motor drive unit relative to the angular position of a drive element of a second motor drive unit in a multiple motor gearbox drive unit. This adjustment to the relative angular position of the drive elements shifts the phase angle of noise sound waves generated by the first and second motor drive units in the multiple motor gearbox drive unit. In some cases, the phase angle shift causes a noise sound wave generated by the first motor drive unit to cancel a noise sound wave generated by the second motor drive unit thereby reducing the overall noise emitted from the common housing of the multiple motor gearbox drive unit while operating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: NIO USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Dimitri Bassis, Brittany M. Repac
  • Publication number: 20190186616
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling noise in multiple motor gearbox drive units having a common housing are provided. The disclosure describes adjusting an angular position of a drive element of a first motor drive unit relative to the angular position of a drive element of a second motor drive unit in a multiple motor gearbox drive unit. This adjustment to the relative angular position of the drive elements shifts the phase angle of noise sound waves generated by the first and second motor drive units in the multiple motor gearbox drive unit. In some cases, the phase angle shift causes a noise sound wave generated by the first motor drive unit to cancel a noise sound wave generated by the second motor drive unit thereby reducing the overall noise emitted from the common housing of the multiple motor gearbox drive unit while operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Dimitri Bassis, Brittany M. Repac
  • Publication number: 20190067763
    Abstract: Methods and systems for creating a battery module. A battery cell can include a cooling device that cools a busbar and a power electronics package. To allow the cooling device to be attached to the busbar and allow the cooling device to cool both the power electronics and the busbar, the cooling device is mounted on the busbar with the busbar held between two portions of the cooling device and with the power electronics mounted on an opposite side of the cooling device from the busbar. The fluid or phase change material may then circulate through a cavity in the cooling device to cool both the power electronics and the busbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Adam H. Ing, Alexander J. Smith, Brittany M. Repac