ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,070, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM (Bruges, Belgium).
"Systems and method for an electric motor with pin-fin cooling" was invented by Jaywant S. Pawar (Pune, India), Chetan Prashant (Pune, India), Amol G. Thakare (Pune, India) and Steven Vanhee (Hooglede, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various methods and systems are provided for thermal management of an electric motor via a coolant flow around portions of the electric motor, where the coolant flow is disrupted by an arrangement of pin-fins. In one example, an electric motor comprises: a casing including a coolant inlet arranged opposite to a coolant outlet ...