Patents Represented by Attorney Artz and Artz
  • Patent number: 7156077
    Abstract: A fuel system for an internal combustion engine uses a fuel pump having an internally mounted pressure-responsive buffer which increases the volume available for fuel within the pump's discharge port upon shutdown of the pump, so as to assist in the mitigation of fugitive hydrocarbon emissions from fuel injectors which might otherwise result from a hot soak of an automotive engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Scott Koller, Donald Ignasiak, Thomas Joseph Luley
  • Patent number: 7093912
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and system to control regenerative braking during the operation of a yaw stability control system. The method and system use feedback control algorithms to monitor and dynamically modify regenerative and non-regenerative braking. The controller can use a simple proportional-integral-derivative feedback controller. A vehicle yaw stability control system can determine if a vehicle is experiencing an oversteer or understeer condition. The controller compares actual brake balance to a desired brake balance. The controller determines if the front axle wheels are overbraked relative to the rear axle wheels or if the rear axle wheels are overbraked relative to the front axle wheels as compared to the desired brake balance. The controller can adjust regenerative braking and non-regenerative braking levels according to the determinations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Todd Allen Brown, Michael John Schneider
  • Patent number: 7090510
    Abstract: A system for providing an auxiliary audio input for a vehicular entertainment sound system (VESS) (42) includes a portable electronic audio device (48) for generating an auxiliary plurality of audio signals. An auxiliary output line (50) terminating at an end with a plug (52) is coupled to the portable electronic audio device (48). The plug (52) is mated with an audio input jack assembly (10) that is fixedly coupled to a remotely located region (40) of an automotive vehicle external to the VESS (42). The auxiliary plurality of audio signals are then communicated through the auxiliary output line (50) to the audio input jack assembly (10). Then, the auxiliary plurality of audio signals are transmitted through an auxiliary input line (58) to the VESS (42).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mark Vincent Gatt