US Patent Issued to DANA TM4 on June 23 for "Electric axle with direct rotor and head spray cooling" (Canadian, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,973, issued on June 23, was assigned to DANA TM4 INC. (Boucherville, Canada).

"Electric axle with direct rotor and head spray cooling" was invented by Carl Trudel (Boucherville, Canada), Steven Vanhee (Hooglede, Belgium) and Luke Miller (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for an electric axle in a vehicle. An electric axle includes an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, a coolant manifold mounted to a first end plate of the rotor, the first end plate opposite a second end plate distal to the coolant manifold, wherein the coolant manifold is configured to flow coolant to rotor coolant line...