ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,038, issued on April 29, was assigned to DANA BELGIUM N.V. (Bruges, Belgium).
"Systems and methods for providing direct spray cooling in an electric motor" was invented by Louis Lambourg (Valenciennes, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for providing cooling to an electric motor via direct spray cooling. In one example, a system may include a shaft including an oil conduit extending axially therein and a plurality of openings fluidically coupling the oil conduit to an external surface of the shaft; a rotor positioned coaxial with the shaft, an inner diameter of the rotor greater than an outer diamet...