Patents by Inventor Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke
Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke 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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Patent number: 11896857Abstract: A respirator includes a head unit configured to be received on a human head and a purifying unit configured to provide purified air to the head unit. The purifying unit includes a first housing portion having an interior side defining a blower cavity, an exterior side defining a partial filter chamber with a filter sealing surface, and an inlet hole circumscribed by the sealing surface and extending between the interior and exterior sides. A second housing portion has an interior side defining a blower cavity. The first and second housings are attached to each other to form a housing such that the blower cavities are opposite each other to define a blower chamber within the housing. A blower is disposed in the blower chamber. A filter covers over the inlet hole and is disposed against the sealing surface such that air entering the hole passes through the filter.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Manfred Koberstein, Clay Wesley Maranville, William Stewart Johnston, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Nicholas Andrew Mazzocchi
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Patent number: 11563247Abstract: A cold ambient battery chilling mode of an electric vehicle may be implemented if the vehicle battery is being charged when the ambient air temperature is low and a temperature of the battery is elevated. During cold ambient charging, coolant flows through a heater core and through a battery heat exchanger. Cold ambient air may be utilized to cool the coolant flowing through the heater core, and coolant from the heater core flows through the battery heat exchanger and cools the battery during charging. A battery chiller may be deactivated when the cold ambient battery chilling mode is activated to reduce energy consumption.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Manfred Koberstein, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, William Stewart Johnston, Hamish Lewis, Christian Brent Schoeneman, Alan Gutowski
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Publication number: 20220347497Abstract: A method of assembling a personal air purifying respirator includes assembling a housing including a blower disposed therein, a filter cavity, and an outlet manifold; installing a filter on the housing; attaching a filter cover to the housing with the filter cover disposed over the filter, wherein the filter cover defines an air inlet; and testing the filter including energizing the blower, introducing a testing aerosol into the air inlet, and measuring air exiting the outlet manifold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2021Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: John Wesley Wilds, Manfred Koberstein, Clay Wesley Maranville, William S. Johnston, James Allan Birley, Scott Allan Hanson, John Martin Salens, Blake Gecse, Ryan M. VanBelle, Meghan Christine Shinska, Mark William Miller, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Daniel Heilman
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Patent number: 11390134Abstract: A dual zone auxiliary climate control system for a vehicle includes an evaporator, a heater core having a first zone and a second zone, a first zone mode door downstream from the first zone of the heater core, a second zone mode door downstream from the second zone of the heater core and a blower. The blower forces air through the evaporator and the heater core toward the first zone mode door and the second zone mode door. A method of providing a dual zone auxiliary climate control system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Robert Louis Hayes, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Steve Michael Kahrs, Manfred Koberstein
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Publication number: 20220219023Abstract: A respirator includes a head unit configured to be received on a human head and a purifying unit configured to provide purified air to the head unit. The purifying unit includes a first housing portion having an interior side defining a blower cavity, an exterior side defining a partial filter chamber with a filter sealing surface, and an inlet hole circumscribed by the sealing surface and extending between the interior and exterior sides. A second housing portion has an interior side defining a blower cavity. The first and second housings are attached to each other to form a housing such that the blower cavities are opposite each other to define a blower chamber within the housing. A blower is disposed in the blower chamber. A filter covers over the inlet hole and is disposed against the sealing surface such that air entering the hole passes through the filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2021Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Manfred Koberstein, Clay Wesley Maranville, William Stewart Johnston, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Nicholas Andrew Mazzocchi
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Publication number: 20220023675Abstract: A powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) assembly includes, among other things, a tube extending from a filtration unit to a headpiece system. The tube is biased toward a looped position where the tube includes a loop. A PAPR manufacturing method includes, among other things, reorienting a tube to have a loop by placing the tube about a mandrel, heat-treating the tube, and removing the mandrel from the tube. The tube is biased toward a looped position after the removing due to the heat-treating while the tube is reoriented to have the loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2020Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Jeffrey Paul Luther, Martin P. Smets, Michael Medoro
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Patent number: 11135897Abstract: An air duct system for passing an air flow emanating from an air outlet to a measurement device for detecting parameter measurement values for at least one parameter of the air flow, includes at least one collecting unit for collecting the air flow emanating from the air outlet. That one collecting unit can be disposed on the air outlet so that a contact surface of the collecting unit encloses at least one outlet opening of the air outlet circumferentially. The collecting unit includes a wall defining a continuous air duct with an inlet end section and an outlet end section.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dietmar Fischer, Michael Lezuo, Manfred Koberstein, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke
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Patent number: 11034214Abstract: An integrated display and ventilation assembly includes a display screen and a first air register. The first air register is displaceable between a first stowed position concealed behind the display screen and a first deployed position projecting from behind the display screen. A related method of ventilating a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Frank Fusco, Manfred Koberstein, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Alan Gutowski
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Patent number: 11014432Abstract: A vehicle vent assembly includes a first flow channel selectively operating a primary airflow. A second flow channel selectively operates a first secondary airflow that exerts a first pressure on the primary airflow. A third flow channel selectively operates a second secondary airflow that exerts a second pressure on the primary airflow. The first and second secondary airflows control a direction of the primary airflow. The first pressure includes a positive or negative pressure, and the second pressure includes a respective negative or positive pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Steven Nicholas Fidh, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke
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Publication number: 20210111448Abstract: A cold ambient battery chilling mode of an electric vehicle may be implemented if the vehicle battery is being charged when the ambient air temperature is low and a temperature of the battery is elevated. During cold ambient charging, coolant flows through a heater core and through a battery heat exchanger. Cold ambient air may be utilized to cool the coolant flowing through the heater core, and coolant from the heater core flows through the battery heat exchanger and cools the battery during charging. A battery chiller may be deactivated when the cold ambient battery chilling mode is activated to reduce energy consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Manfred Koberstein, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, William Stewart Johnston, Hamish Lewis, Christian Brent Schoeneman, Alan Gutowski
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Patent number: 10933716Abstract: An autonomous vehicle includes a passenger cabin, a sensor group and a passenger cabin climate control system including a control module. The sensor group includes a passenger cabin odor sensor, an occupancy sensor and a vehicle speed sensor. The control module has a control logic adapted to purge an odor from the passenger cabin in response to data received from the sensor group indicating the presence of an odor in the passenger cabin, an unoccupied passenger cabin and the autonomous vehicle is moving at a minimum predetermined speed for a minimum predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Alan Gutowski, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Manfred Koberstein, Curtis Mark Jones
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Publication number: 20210031732Abstract: A sensor assembly includes an inlet duct having an elongated inlet segment and an elongated second segment extending upwardly from the elongated inlet segment, a water separator in the elongated second segment, a water drain in the inlet duct below the water separator, and an elbow between the elongated inlet segment and the elongated second segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: SAMI A. ALKHARABSHEH, ASHLEY LUCAS, RASHAUN PHINISEE, JENNIFER A. HERR-RATHKE, VENKATESH KRISHNAN, RAGHU RAMAN SURINEEDI
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Publication number: 20200298649Abstract: An autonomous vehicle includes a passenger cabin, a sensor group and a passenger cabin climate control system including a control module. The sensor group includes a passenger cabin odor sensor, an occupancy sensor and a vehicle speed sensor. The control module has a control logic adapted to purge an odor from the passenger cabin in response to data received from the sensor group indicating the presence of an odor in the passenger cabin, an unoccupied passenger cabin and the autonomous vehicle is moving at a minimum predetermined speed for a minimum predetermined time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Alan Gutowski, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Manfred Koberstein, Curtis Mark Jones
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Publication number: 20200298650Abstract: A dual zone auxiliary climate control system for a vehicle includes an evaporator, a heater core having a first zone and a second zone, a first zone mode door downstream from the first zone of the heater core, a second zone mode door downstream from the second zone of the heater core and a blower. The blower forces air through the evaporator and the heater core toward the first zone mode door and the second zone mode door. A method of providing a dual zone auxiliary climate control system is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Robert Louis Hayes, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Steve Michael Kahrs, Manfred Koberstein
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Patent number: 10766333Abstract: A vehicle air-handling system includes a heat exchanger, a blower in communication with the heat exchanger, and an operable duct having driver and passenger portions that are each in communication with the heat exchanger and the blower. When the blower is activated, the driver portion continuously delivers blower air and the passenger portion selectively delivers blower air.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Frank Fusco, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Manfred Koberstein, Jose A. Nava, Steven M. Kahrs
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Patent number: 10744849Abstract: A closed loop auxiliary heating circuit includes a coolant, a closed loop coolant line and a pump for circulating the coolant through the closed loop coolant line between a computing device and an auxiliary heater core whereby heat is transferred from the computing device to the auxiliary heater core to heat the cabin of an electric motor vehicle. An electric motor vehicle incorporating the closed loop auxiliary heating circuit is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Manfred Koberstein, Mario Domonick Iaquinta, Jared Lynn Fromme, Curtis M. Jones
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Publication number: 20200156441Abstract: A vehicle defogging and demisting system includes an air handling system, a first humidity sensor adjacent a second row vehicle window, a second humidity sensor adjacent a third row vehicle window and a controller. The controller is configured to defog and demist the second row window in response to a first data stream received from the first humidity sensor and the third row vehicle window in response to a second data stream received from the second humidity sensor. A method of defogging and demisting second and third row vehicle windows of a motor vehicle is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Mukesh Kumar, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Andrew Phillips
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Publication number: 20200055371Abstract: A closed loop auxiliary heating circuit includes a coolant, a closed loop coolant line and a pump for circulating the coolant through the closed loop coolant line between a computing device and an auxiliary heater core whereby heat is transferred from the computing device to the auxiliary heater core to heat the cabin of an electric motor vehicle. An electric motor vehicle incorporating the closed loop auxiliary heating circuit is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke, Manfred Koberstein, Mario Domonick Iaquinta, Jared Lynn Fromme, Curtis M. Jones
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Publication number: 20200039326Abstract: A vehicle vent assembly includes a first flow channel selectively operating a primary airflow. A second flow channel selectively operates a first secondary airflow that exerts a first pressure on the primary airflow. A third flow channel selectively operates a second secondary airflow that exerts a second pressure on the primary airflow. The first and second secondary airflows control a direction of the primary airflow. The first pressure includes a positive or negative pressure, and the second pressure includes a respective negative or positive pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2018Publication date: February 6, 2020Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Steven Nicholas Fidh, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke
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Publication number: 20190308488Abstract: A climate control system includes an outlet shutoff mechanism and an HVAC plenum delivering conditioned air to the outlet shutoff mechanism. The outlet shutoff mechanism includes a housing, having a guideway and a first air discharge outlet, a flexible door, displaceable along the guideway between a first position and a second position, and an actuator feature to displace the flexible door.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: October 10, 2019Inventors: Jose A. Nava, Mukesh Kumar, Gary D. Marshall, Jennifer A. Herr-Rathke