Patents by Inventor Sam Wagner
Sam Wagner 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).
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Publication number: 20240222742Abstract: An assembly and a method of manufacturing a battery pack with airgap sizing for preventing ejecta debris clogging are disclosed. The assembly includes a battery module configured to house a battery unit, wherein the battery module includes a battery cell and a cooling plate configured to stabilize battery cell temperature. The assembly includes a fire wall configured to intercept ejecta debris from the battery cell. The assembly includes an airgap configured to contain the ejecta debris between the firewall and the battery cell. The assembly includes a headspace configured to tolerate the ejecta debris on top of the battery cell, wherein the headspace includes an ejecta vent configured to vent the ejecta debris.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: Sam Wagner, Nathan Goldsberry
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Patent number: 11984571Abstract: A cooling assembly for preventing cell-to-cell heat transfer is provided. Cooling assembly may include a battery pack, which may include a plurality of battery cells. Cooling assembly may also include a cooling plate. Cooling plate may include a geometry that prevents battery cells from exchanging heat during operation and/or malfunctions. Cooling plate geometry may include geometric features imprinted in a surface of cooling plate.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sean Donovan, Sarah Overfield, Nathan Goldsberry, Sam Wagner, Jeffrey Goldman, Yesaswai Chilamkurti
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Patent number: 11981445Abstract: An apparatus for preconditioning a power source of an electric aircraft is presented. The apparatus includes a power source of an electric aircraft, a computing device, and a user device. The computing device is configured to receive a flight plan, determine a predicted power usage model as a function of the flight plan, and initiate a power source modification on the electric aircraft as a function of the predicted power usage model. The user device is configured to display a flight performance infographic as a function of the predicted power usage model.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sarah Overfield, Sean Donovan, Sam Wagner
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Patent number: 11967693Abstract: An assembly and a method of manufacturing a battery pack with airgap sizing for preventing ejecta debris clogging for an electric aircraft are disclosed. The assembly includes a battery module configured to house a battery unit, wherein the battery module includes a battery cell and a cooling plate configured to stabilize battery cell temperature. The assembly includes a fire wall configured to intercept ejecta debris from the battery cell. The assembly includes an airgap configured to contain the ejecta debris between the firewall and the battery cell. The assembly includes a headspace configured to tolerate the ejecta debris on top of the battery cell, wherein the headspace includes an ejecta vent configured to vent the ejecta debris.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sam Wagner, Nathan Goldsberry
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Publication number: 20240128586Abstract: In an aspect a system for battery environment management in an electric aircraft, where in the system include, at least a at least a battery pack mounted within a fuselage of an electric aircraft. A battery pack may include a plurality of batteries configured to provide electrical power to the electric aircraft. A battery pack may also include a pouch cell. Adjacent to the battery pack there may be at least a channel. A channel is configured to provide a flow path for directing battery ejecta to a predetermined location.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Nathan William Joseph Wiegman, Sean Donovan, Sam Wagner
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Publication number: 20240128543Abstract: An assembly and a method of manufacturing a battery pack with airgap sizing for preventing ejecta debris clogging for an electric aircraft are disclosed. The assembly includes a battery module configured to house a battery unit, wherein the battery module includes a battery cell and a cooling plate configured to stabilize battery cell temperature. The assembly includes a fire wall configured to intercept ejecta debris from the battery cell. The assembly includes an airgap configured to contain the ejecta debris between the firewall and the battery cell. The assembly includes a headspace configured to tolerate the ejecta debris on top of the battery cell, wherein the headspace includes an ejecta vent configured to vent the ejecta debris.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sam Wagner, Nathan Goldsberry
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Publication number: 20240128582Abstract: An apparatus for venting battery ejecta for use in an electric aircraft is presented. The apparatus includes a battery module with a plurality of electrochemical cells. The electrochemical cells include a vent port connected to a venting path to an outlet used to vent battery ejecta in thermal runaway events. The apparatus is designed to prevent ejecta from passing beneath an electrochemical cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Nathan William Joseph Wiegman, Tyler John Skroski, Stuart Denson Schreiber, Sam Wagner, Nathan Goldsberry
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Patent number: 11870104Abstract: Aspects relate to systems and methods of use for a crash safe battery pack that includes a case, a first battery module located within the case and mounted to the case with at least a breakaway mount, a second battery module located within the case, a frangible connection configured to provide electrical conduction between the first battery module and the second battery module, and a die configured to contact and separate the frangible connection when the crash safe battery pack is impacted with a sufficiently great connection breaking force.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sean Richard Donovan, Sam Wagner, Peter Adam Gottlieb
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Patent number: 11848433Abstract: A system for battery pack cooling including a battery pack. The battery pack includes a plurality of pouch cells and a separation element, where the separation separates at least a first pouch cell of the plurality pouch cells from a second pouch cell of the plurality of pouch cells. The separation element contains a fluid. The system also includes a cooling plate, where the cooling plate is adjacent to the lower side of the battery pack. The cooling plate comprises at least a cooling fin, where the at least a cooling fin extends towards the separation element.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Stuart Denson Schreiber, Sarah Overfield, Sam Wagner, Sean Donovan, Nathan Goldsberry
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Publication number: 20230402677Abstract: A system for battery pack cooling including a battery pack. The battery pack includes a plurality of pouch cells and a separation element, where the separation separates at least a first pouch cell of the plurality pouch cells from a second pouch cell of the plurality of pouch cells. The separation element contains a fluid. The system also includes a cooling plate, where the cooling plate is adjacent to the lower side of the battery pack. The cooling plate comprises at least a cooling fin, where the at least a cooling fin extends towards the separation element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Stuart Denson Schreiber, Sarah Overfield, Sam Wagner, Sean Donovan, Nathan Goldsberry
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Publication number: 20230387544Abstract: A venting assembly for battery ejecta on a side different from an egress, wherein the venting assembly comprises a plurality of battery packs configured to power the electric aircraft, wherein each battery pack of plurality of battery packs comprises a plurality of battery cells, a plurality of vents wherein each vent of the plurality of vents is attached to each battery pack of the plurality of battery packs, and at least an outlet in fluidic communication with the plurality of vents, wherein the at least an outlet is located on a different side of the electric aircraft as an egress.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Braedon Lohe, Nathan William Joseph Wiegman, Sean Donovan, Sam Wagner
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Patent number: 11824224Abstract: In an aspect a system for battery environment management in an electric aircraft, where in the system include, at least a at least a battery pack mounted within a fuselage of an electric aircraft. A battery pack may include a plurality of batteries configured to provide electrical power to the electric aircraft. A battery pack may also include a pouch cell. Adjacent to the battery pack there may be at least a channel. A channel is configured to provide a flow path for directing battery ejecta to a predetermined location.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Nathan William Joseph Wiegman, Sean Donovan, Sam Wagner
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Publication number: 20230356681Abstract: A device for emergency disconnection of a high voltage electrical connection between a power source and a high voltage component of an electric aircraft in response to a crash. The device includes a controller, where the controller is configured to receive a sensor datum from a sensor of device, to determine a crash element between and initiate a disconnection protocol as a function of the crash element.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Braedon Lohe, Sean Donovan, Nathan William Joseph Wiegman, Sam Wagner
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Patent number: 11811079Abstract: Aspects relate to systems and methods for manufacture of a battery pack including a metal case circumscribing an inner volume circumscribed on all but one open side, where the case additionally includes a sealing rim positioned at least partially about the open side, a first component that includes at least two or more sides of the case, and a second component that includes at least one other side of the case, at least a battery module installed within the inner volume of the case, and an inner panel installed within the inner volume, between the case and the at least a battery module. In some aspects, sealing rim, first component, and second component are all joined together by welding.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sean Richard Donovan, Sam Wagner
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Publication number: 20230307784Abstract: In an aspect a system for battery environment management in an electric aircraft, where in the system include, at least a at least a battery pack mounted within a fuselage of an electric aircraft. A battery pack may include a plurality of batteries configured to provide electrical power to the electric aircraft. A battery pack may also include a pouch cell. Adjacent to the battery pack there may be at least a channel. A channel is configured to provide a flow path for directing battery ejecta to a predetermined location.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Nathan William Joseph Wiegman, Sean Donovan, Sam Wagner
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Publication number: 20230219691Abstract: An apparatus for preconditioning a power source of an electric aircraft is presented. The apparatus includes a power source of an electric aircraft, a computing device, and a user device. The computing device is configured to receive a flight plan, determine a predicted power usage model as a function of the flight plan, and initiate a power source modification on the electric aircraft as a function of the predicted power usage model. The user device is configured to display a flight performance infographic as a function of the predicted power usage model.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sarah Overfield, Sean Donovan, Sam Wagner
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Publication number: 20230219422Abstract: A system for monitoring moisture content in a battery pack of an electric aircraft. The system includes a at least an energy storage element, a user interface configured to display moisture content datum to a user, and at least a sensor. At least a sensor is configured detect a moisture content datum of the energy storage element and communicate with the energy storage element. The system also includes a computing device communicatively connected to the at least a sensor. That computing device is configured to generate a notification as a function of the moisture content datum and transmit the notification to a user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicant: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sam Wagner, Sean Donovan
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Patent number: 11697502Abstract: In an aspect of the present disclosure is a system for cooling a high voltage (HV) cable on an electric aircraft, including a fuselage configured to receive the HV cable, including a first side comprising a first venting closure movable between an open position and a closed position. The fuselage may further comprise a second side opposite the first side, the second side comprising a second venting closure movable between an open position and a closed position; wherein the first and second venting closures are configured to create a cooling channel between the first and second venting closures when the first and second venting closures are in the open position, wherein the cooling channel contacts the HV cable.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sean Donovan, Sam Wagner, Quinn Perini
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Patent number: 11691709Abstract: An aircraft with increased crash robustness including a fuselage with a forward end, an opposite rear end, a ventral surface, and a dorsal surface. The aircraft further including a longitudinal axis running from the rear end to the forward end and a dorsoventral axis orthogonal to the longitudinal axis and running from the dorsal surface to the ventral surface. The aircraft also including at least a battery module located within the fuselage comprising a plurality of battery cells, each battery cell includes an axial axis positioned orthogonally to each of the longitudinal axis and the dorsoventral axis, and each battery cell has a plurality of radial axes orthogonal to the axial axis, wherein the plurality of radial axes includes a first radial axis aligned with the longitudinal axis and a second radial axis aligned with the dorsoventral axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Sean Donovan, Nathan William Joseph Wiegman, Braedon Lohe, Sam Wagner
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Patent number: 11691517Abstract: A device for emergency disconnection of a high voltage electrical connection between a power source and a high voltage component of an electric aircraft in response to a crash. The device includes a controller, where the controller is configured to receive a sensor datum from a sensor of device, to determine a crash element between and initiate a disconnection protocol as a function of the crash element.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: BETA AIR, LLCInventors: Braedon Lohe, Sean Donovan, Nathan William Joseph Wiegman, Sam Wagner