Patents by Inventor Nathan Lee

Nathan Lee 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: 20260005378
    Abstract: A traction battery pack assembly, includes an enclosure assembly, a cell stack within an interior of the enclosure assembly, and a corrugated shield. The cell stack has one or more battery cells. The corrugated shield is disposed between the cell stack and an area of the enclosure assembly. The corrugated shield can shield the enclosure assembly from vent byproducts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 1, 2026
    Inventors: Mihir Devendra Upadhye, Daniel Paul Roberts, Jie Deng, Nathan Lee
  • Patent number: 12463268
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to battery packs for electrified vehicles, and in particular relates to a volume filler for immersion cooled battery arrays. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a battery pack, including: an enclosure assembly defining a volume; a battery array within the volume, wherein the battery array includes a plurality of battery cells; and a volume filler within the volume, wherein the volume filler is disposed on a side of the battery array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Liam E. West, Nathan Lee, Wen Dai
  • Publication number: 20250246718
    Abstract: Thermal management systems are provided for managing thermal energy in a traction battery pack. An exemplary thermal management system may utilize a combination of immersion cooling for limiting convective heat transfer and thermal barriers for limiting conductive heat transfer across one or more cell stacks of the traction battery pack. The immersion cooling may provide an edge cooling scheme in which coolant is directed across minor side surfaces (e.g., top, bottom, and ends) of battery cells of the cell stacks but does not contact major side surfaces (e.g., faces) of the battery cells. The thermal barriers may include a single layer or multiple layers of one or more thermally resistant materials (e.g., mica, aerogel, etc.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Nathan LEE, Wen DAI, Nan ROBARGE, Foo Chern TING, Adam DENLINGER
  • Publication number: 20250201966
    Abstract: Immersion thermal management systems are provided for managing thermal energy in a traction battery pack. An exemplary immersion thermal management system may utilize an edge cooling scheme in which a coolant contacts minor side surfaces (e.g., top, bottom, and ends) of battery cells of the traction battery pack but does not flow across major side surfaces (e.g., faces) of the battery cells. The edge cooling scheme provides adequate cooling without adding volume and mass to the traction battery pack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Nathan Lee, Wen Dai, Chulheung Bae, Adam Denlinger
  • Publication number: 20250192351
    Abstract: A battery pack venting assembly includes a battery pack enclosure assembly providing an battery pack interior, and cell stacks within the battery pack interior. Each cell stack includes a plurality of battery cells. Module enclosure assemblies are also within the battery pack interior. Each of the module enclosure assemblies houses one or more of the cell stacks. An exhaust trunk extends through the battery pack enclosure assembly from the battery pack interior to an area outside the battery pack interior. Exhaust branches within the battery pack interior each extend from one of the module enclosure assemblies to the exhaust trunk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Nathan Lee, Chulheung Bae, Adam Denlinger
  • Publication number: 20240413431
    Abstract: A traction battery pack includes a cell stack, an enclosure assembly housing the cell stack, and stand-offs that space-apart the cell stack from a portion of the enclosure assembly to provide a coolant channel configured to communicate a coolant. The stand-offs can be part of the enclosure assembly or part of an insert separate from the enclosure assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Lee, Jie Deng, Liam E. West
  • Publication number: 20240412878
    Abstract: A system generates a visualization that represents progression of a cancer genome. To generate the visualization, the system obtains a genetic dataset derived from cancer cell samples of a patient and clinical data associated with the patient. A genomic data structure is generated to represent the genetic dataset, and clinical event data structures are generated to represent each of a plurality of clinical events based on the clinical data. The visualization includes interactive elements that are populated based on the genomic data structure and the clinical event data structures. When a user input associated with a first interactive element is detected, the system displays information associated with the first interactive element based on the genomic data structure or the clinical event data structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicants: FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
    Inventors: Elizabeth Krakow, Ivana Bozic, Nathan Lee, Cecilia Yeung, Jerald Radich, Olga Sala-Torra, Isaac Jenkins
  • Publication number: 20240413430
    Abstract: A traction battery pack assembly includes a coolant reservoir that receives coolant from a traction battery pack. The coolant reservoir is configured to receive the coolant in a direction that causes the coolant to swirl within the coolant reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Lee, Mihir Devendra Upadhye, Chulheung Bae, Hassan Farhat
  • Publication number: 20240234868
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to battery packs for electrified vehicles, and in particular relates to a battery pack including a busbar frame configured as a coolant manifold. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a battery pack, including: a battery array, wherein the battery array includes a plurality of battery cells and at least one busbar; and a busbar frame configured to support the at least one busbar, wherein the busbar frame includes an internal channel configured to communicate a fluid to thermally condition the battery array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Liam E. West, Nathan Lee, Wen Dai
  • Publication number: 20240234862
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to battery packs for electrified vehicles, and in particular relates to thermal exchange plates for immersion cooled battery arrays. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a battery pack, including: a battery array including a plurality of battery cells, wherein the plurality of battery cells includes a first battery cell and a second battery cell; and a thermal exchange plate, wherein the first battery cell is spaced-apart from the second battery cell by the thermal exchange plate, wherein the thermal exchange plate includes a main section and a projection extending outward from the main section, wherein the projection includes a channel configured to communicate a fluid to thermally condition the battery array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Liam E. West, Nathan Lee, Wen Dai
  • Publication number: 20240234857
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to battery packs for electrified vehicles, and in particular relates to a volume filler for immersion cooled battery arrays. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a battery pack, including: an enclosure assembly defining a volume; a battery array within the volume, wherein the battery array includes a plurality of battery cells; and a volume filler within the volume, wherein the volume filler is disposed on a side of the battery array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Liam E. West, Nathan Lee, Wen Dai
  • Publication number: 20240234869
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to battery packs for electrified vehicles, and in particular relates to a manifold assembly for a battery pack. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a battery pack, including: a battery array including a plurality of battery cells; a thermal exchange plate, wherein the thermal exchange plate includes a channel configured to communicate fluid from a first side of the thermal exchange plate to a second side of the thermal exchange plate; and a manifold assembly including a cap connected to the first side of the thermal exchange plate, wherein the cap is configured to communicate fluid into the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Liam E. West, Nathan Lee, Wen Dai
  • Patent number: 10855870
    Abstract: A digital video camera, including a heat management system, which includes at least one inlet and at least one outlet in the housing to enable air to flow through the housing. The heat management system also includes a first heat sink thermally connected to an image sensor(s), and a second heat sink thermally connected to a data processing unit(s), and a centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan is configured to draw air into the front of the fan in an axial direction and push air radially out in a sideways direction, whereby air travels through the inlet(s) over the first heat sink and then over the second heat sink to the outlet(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: BLACKMAGIC DESIGN PTY LTD
    Inventors: Grant Petty, Simon Kidd, John Vanzella, Michael Cornish, Shannon Smith, Suan Heng Yeo, Nathan Lee
  • Publication number: 20200036852
    Abstract: A digital video camera, including a heat management system, which includes at least one inlet and at least one outlet in the housing to enable air to flow through the housing. The heat management system also includes a first heat sink thermally connected to an image sensor(s), and a second heat sink thermally connected to a data processing unit(s), and a centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan is configured to draw air into the front of the fan in an axial direction and push air radially out in a sideways direction, whereby air travels through the inlet(s) over the first heat sink and then over the second heat sink to the outlet(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Grant Petty, Simon Kidd, John Vanzella, Michael Cornish, Shannon Smith, Suan Heng Yeo, Nathan Lee
  • Patent number: 10412252
    Abstract: A digital video camera, including a heat management system, which includes at least one inlet and at least one outlet in the housing to enable air to flow through the housing. The heat management system also includes a first heat sink thermally connected to an image sensor(s), and a second heat sink thermally connected to a data processing unit(s), and a centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan is configured to draw air into the front of the fan in an axial direction and push air radially out in a sideways direction, whereby air travels through the inlet(s) over the first heat sink and then over the second heat sink to the outlet(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: BLACKMAGIC DESIGN PTY LTD
    Inventors: Grant Petty, Simon Kidd, John Vanzella, Michael Cornish, Shannon Smith, Suan Heng Yeo, Nathan Lee
  • Patent number: 10232406
    Abstract: A magnetically retained screen assembly for a conveyor for processing goods is disclosed. The magnetically retained screen assembly includes one or more magnetic screens and one or more magnet assemblies, wherein the one or more magnet assemblies are configured to magnetically retain the one or more magnetic screens within the conveyor support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: PPM Technologies Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Devin Ray Reeser, Nathan Lee, Howard Taylor
  • Publication number: 20180054542
    Abstract: A digital video camera, including a heat management system, which includes at least one inlet and at least one outlet in the housing to enable air to flow through the housing. The heat management system also includes a first heat sink thermally connected to an image sensor(s), and a second heat sink thermally connected to a data processing unit(s), and a centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan is configured to draw air into the front of the fan in an axial direction and push air radially out in a sideways direction, whereby air travels through the inlet(s) over the first heat sink and then over the second heat sink to the outlet(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Grant Petty, Simon Kidd, John Vanzella, Michael Cornish, Shannon Smith, Suan Heng Yeo, Nathan Lee
  • Patent number: 9838558
    Abstract: A digital video camera, including a heat management system, which includes at least one inlet and at least one outlet in the housing to enable air to flow through the housing. The heat management system also includes a first heat sink thermally connected to an image sensor(s), and a second heat sink thermally connected to a data processing unit(s), and a centrifugal fan. The centrifugal fan is configured to draw air into the front of the fan in an axial direction and push air radially out in a sideways direction, whereby air travels through the inlet(s) over the first heat sink and then over the second heat sink to the outlet(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Grant Petty, Simon Kidd, John Vanzella, Michael Cornish, Shannon Smith, Suan Heng Yeo, Nathan Lee
  • Patent number: 9808918
    Abstract: A system, and a method of using a system, for controlled tool operation. The method includes providing a tool used in a force application such as a such torque application. The tool communicates with a controller which can communicate with the tool, and to a display in communication with the tool and the controller. The controller can be programmed with operational information about a tool operation. Information related to the operational information is displayed to a user during use. Service information including at least information about an amount of force applied during use is recorded and stored in the controller. Also disclosed is a computerized system for controlled tool operation which sends operational instructions to the tool before use and retrieves service information from the tool after use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Snap-on Incorporated
    Inventors: Chris Lawton, Jie Li, De L San, Nathan Lee
  • Patent number: D1038210
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Grant Petty, Simon Kidd, Michael Cornish, Ryan Harper, Nathan Lee, Sophie Koikas, Daniel Graeme Corcoran, Jerry Chiang, Shannon Smith