Patents by Inventor Tom Spencer

Tom Spencer 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).

  • MODULAR VEHICLE ARCHITECTURE FOR ASSEMBLING VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20260249938
    Abstract: A modular vehicle architecture for efficiently assembling vehicles. The modular vehicle architecture includes preparing a plurality of individual section of a vehicle in a plurality of sub-assembly lines prior to forming a full body frame of the vehicle. The vehicle architecture further includes joining the plurality of individual sections of the vehicle in a mainline. The full body frame of the vehicle can include a front side, a rear side, a top side, a bottom side, a left side, and a right side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: August 27, 2026
    Inventors: Brian Paul Greviskes, Paul J. Venhovens, Gregory Lucas Peer, Malcolm Burgess, Adip Rai, Sachin Shrimant Sawant, Nils Petter Winberg, Mubeen Ahmad, Veera Aditya Choudary Yerra, Mitchell Heinzmann, Tom Spencer, Lars Moravy
  • Integrated energy absorbing castings
    Patent number: 12503165
    Abstract: An integrated energy absorbing system of a vehicle with a front integrated energy absorbing casting and a back integrated energy absorbing casting. Each front and back casting is a single unified casting that makes up the integrated energy absorbing system. Ribbed sections such as “I” sections and “C” sections make up the castings and are formed from a variety of different techniques and/or formings such as cutout, waveform profile, tapering, flaring and/or rib spacing. Additional sections such as closed section castings may also be integrated in the integrated energy absorbing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Adip Rai, Sachin Shrimant Sawant, Petter Winberg, Malcolm Burgess, Tom Spencer, Pall Kornmayer, Grant Pattinson, Paul D. Edwards, Carlo Rinaldi, Alexandre Reikher, Charlie Kuehmann, Daniel Moll
  • INTEGRATED ENERGY ABSORBING CASTINGS
    Publication number: 20250289502
    Abstract: An integrated energy absorbing system of a vehicle with a front integrated energy absorbing casting and a back integrated energy absorbing casting. Each front and back casting is a single unified casting that makes up the integrated energy absorbing system. Ribbed sections such as “T” sections and “C” sections make up the castings and are formed from a variety of different techniques and/or formings such as cutout, waveform profile, tapering, flaring and/or rib spacing. Additional sections such as closed section castings may also be integrated in the integrated energy absorbing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2025
    Publication date: September 18, 2025
    Inventors: Adip Rai, Sachin Shrimant Sawant, Petter Winberg, Malcolm Burgess, Tom Spencer, Pall Kornmayer, Grant Pattinson, Paul Edwards, Carlo Rinaldi, Alexandre Reikher, Charlie Kuehmann, Daniel Moll
  • INTEGRATED ENERGY ABSORBING CASTINGS
    Publication number: 20230373563
    Abstract: An integrated energy absorbing system of a vehicle with a front integrated energy absorbing casting and a back integrated energy absorbing casting. Each front and back casting is a single unified casting that makes up the integrated energy absorbing system. Ribbed sections such as “I” sections and “C” sections make up the castings and are formed from a variety of different techniques and/or formings such as cutout, waveform profile, tapering, flaring and/or rib spacing. Additional sections such as closed section castings may also be integrated in the integrated energy absorbing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Adip Rai, Sachin Shrimant Sawant, Petter Winberg, Malcolm Burgess, Tom Spencer, Pall Kornmayer, Grant Pattinson, Paul D. Edwards, Carlo Rinaldi, Alexandre Reikher, Charlie Kuehmann, Daniel Moll
  • Torque box with shear planes at inner joint
    Patent number: 9352789
    Abstract: A torque box for a vehicle includes: first and second clamshells joined to each other at respective top and bottom edges and configured to form at least first and second enclosures with an inner joint in between, the first and second enclosures configured to provide top and bottom shear planes at the top and bottom edges, respectively, and at least first and second shear planes at the inner joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: N. Petter Winberg, Tom Spencer, Sachin Shrimant Sawant, Malcolm Burgess
  • TORQUE BOX WITH SHEAR PLANES AT INNER JOINT
    Publication number: 20150298744
    Abstract: A torque box for a vehicle includes: first and second clamshells joined to each other at respective top and bottom edges and configured to form at least first and second enclosures with an inner joint in between, the first and second enclosures configured to provide top and bottom shear planes at the top and bottom edges, respectively, and at least first and second shear planes at the inner joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Tesla Motors, Inc.
    Inventors: N. Petter WINBERG, Tom Spencer, Sachin Shrimant Sawant, Malcolm Burgess