Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
  • Methods for producing Cto Cparaffins using a hybrid catalyst comprising a high acidity microporous component
    Patent number: 12227465
    Abstract: A method for preparing C2 to C5 paraffins including introducing a feed stream of hydrogen gas and a carbon-containing gas selected from carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and mixtures thereof into a reaction zone of a reactor. Converting the feed stream into a product stream that includes C2 to C5 paraffins in the reaction zone in the presence of a hybrid catalyst. The hybrid catalyst including a microporous catalyst component; and a metal oxide catalyst component. The metal oxide catalyst component including a metal component present on a metal oxide support material. The metal oxide support material includes at least one oxide of a metal selected from Group 4 of the IUPAC periodic table of elements. The product stream has a C3/C2 carbon molar ratio greater than or equal to 4.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Alexey Kirilin, Adam Chojecki, Joseph F. Dewilde, Glenn Pollefeyt, Davy L.S. Nieskens, Andrzej Malek
  • Control signal modification to preclude phase coincidental switching
    Patent number: 12227090
    Abstract: While a voltage at a gate of one of a pair of series connected switches of a phase leg is greater than a threshold value, circuitry generates a signal with a logical value that precludes a gate driver corresponding to a gate of the other of the pair of series connected switches from driving the gate of the other of the pair of series connected switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Baoming Ge, Lihua Chen, Serdar Hakki Yonak
  • Vehicle pose management
    Patent number: 12229985
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive an image frame from a camera, the image frame showing a vehicle, determine a two-dimensional bounding box around the vehicle in the image frame, determine a first three-dimensional point that is an intersection between (a) a ray extending from the camera through a center of the two-dimensional bounding box and (b) a first plane that is parallel to a ground plane, determine a second three-dimensional point on the vehicle, and determine an orientation of the vehicle based on the first three-dimensional point, the second three-dimensional point, and the ground plane. The ground plane represents a surface on which the vehicle sits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shubham Shrivastava, Bhushan Ghadge, Punarjay Chakravarty
  • Coating composition, a coated fabric, a method of making a coated fabric, and an article made from the coated fabric
    Patent number: 12227141
    Abstract: A coating composition which comprises a first polymeric component which comprises a first polymeric dispersion, wherein polymers contained in the first polymeric dispersion have a surface free energy of equal to or greater than 28 mJ/m2 and a volume average particle size diameter of from 0.1 to 10 microns; a second polymeric component which comprises one or more second polymeric emulsions wherein polymers contained in the second polymeric emulsions have a surface free energy equal to or less than 26 mJ/m2 and a volume average particle size diameter from 0.005 to 1,000 microns; one or more rheology modifiers is provided. An article coated with the coating composition and a method of making the coated article are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Dow Silicone Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Gorin, Manesh Sekharan, David Yancey, David Bank, Jacob Milne, Mark Fisher, Rebecca Beeson
  • Integrated digital thread for additive manufacturing design optimization of lightweight structures
    Patent number: 12226958
    Abstract: A part formed by an additive manufacturing process consist of regions of voids, regions of solid material, and regions of non-uniform lattice cells, where each lattice cell includes bars. The regions are spatially distributed throughout the part as a function of load conditions such that the solid material is distributed in regions of first load paths and the non-uniform lattice cells are distributed in regions of second load paths lower in magnitude than the first load paths. Diameters of each bar of a non-uniform lattice cell are sized as a function of at least one of a resolution unit of the additive manufacturing process and part performance requirements. The diameters of the bars of the non-uniform lattice cells are classified into clusters with an average diameter size being assigned to all non-uniform lattice cells in the same cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hongyi Xu, Siddharthan Selvasekar, Ching-Hung Chuang, Ellen Lee
  • Methods and apparatus to extend brake life cycle
    Patent number: 12227157
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to extend brake life cycle are disclosed herein. An example vehicle includes a first brake associated with a first wheel of the vehicle, a second brake associated with a second wheel of the vehicle, memory, and a brake controller to execute instructions to detect a first parking event, determine, via a first sensor, a condition of the vehicle, access, from the memory, a record of a second parking event including an activation of the first brake, the second parking event preceding the first parking event, and in response to determining the condition satisfies a threshold, engage the second brake without engaging the first brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chad Michael Korte, John P. Joyce, Karl-Peter Hesseler, Thomas Svensson, Harold John Felch
  • Adaptive perception by vehicle sensors
    Patent number: 12227201
    Abstract: A system comprises a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory storing instructions executable by the processor to cause the processor to determine a perception zone of interest, via a trained perception model, based on at least one of a vehicle parameter or planning data, wherein the vehicle parameter comprises at least one of a vehicle direction or a vehicle speed and the planning data comprises a route and trajectory to be traversed by the vehicle; determine a vehicle route and trajectory based on a subset of sensor data, wherein the subset of sensor data corresponds to the perception zone of interest; and operate the vehicle to traverse the vehicle route and trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jianbo Lu, Timothy Mark Feldkamp, Sanghyun Hong, Ling Zhu, Mitch McConnell
  • Airbag assembly for liftgate
    Patent number: 12227139
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle roof and a liftgate pivotable relative to the vehicle roof between an open position and a closed position. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the liftgate and moveable with the liftgate between the open position and the closed position. A tether is fixed to the airbag and the liftgate. The tether extends from the airbag vehicle-rearward to the liftgate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhibing Deng, Srinivas Reddy Malapati, Joseph E. Abramczyk, Deepak Patel
  • Systems and methods for providing bidirectional charging between electrified vehicles and electrified recreational vehicles
    Patent number: 12227092
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for coordinating and executing bidirectional energy transfer events between electrified vehicles and one or more participating electrified recreational vehicles. Energy may be transferred from an electrified vehicle to one or more electrified recreational vehicles, from the one or more electrified recreational vehicles to the electrified vehicle, or both during bidirectional energy transfer events. The proposed systems and methods may further be configured to provide various charging configurations between the electrified vehicle and the one or more electrified recreational vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, James Baumbick, Annette Lynn Huebner, Peter Phung, Ryan O'Gorman, David Brian Glickman, Katherine Howard-Cone
  • System and method for monitoring vehicle tires
    Patent number: 12227039
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system and method embodiments for monitoring tire conditions. For example, the system includes a sensor that is configured to: receive light that is reflected off of at least one object within a field of view (FOV) that is adjacent to a vehicle as reflected light, and provide tire data indicative of a distance between the sensor and a surface of a tire of the vehicle extending into the FOV based on the reflected light. A controller is configured to generate a message in response to a moment of a probability distribution of the tire data being less than a threshold, or tire data indicative of a rate of change of shadow length exceeding a threshold shadow length, and to provide the message to at least one of a user interface, a vehicle system, and an external computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Whinnery
  • Vehicle seatback having rotatable arm on bolster
    Patent number: 12227138
    Abstract: With reference to the Figures, wherein like numerals indicate like parts throughout the several views, a vehicle includes a vehicle seat that includes a seatback and a seat bottom that defines an occupant seating area. The seatback includes an inboard bolster and an outboard bolster spaced from the inboard bolster in a cross-seat direction with the occupant seating area between the inboard bolster and the outboard bolster. A arm is rotatably supported by the inboard bolster. The vehicle includes a computer that includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to detect an occupant in the occupant seating area and based on the detection of an occupant in the occupant seating area, rotate the arm toward the occupant seating area in response to detection of certain vehicle impacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Zhibing Deng, Joseph E. Abramczyk, Deepak Patel
  • Method of preparing functional organosilanol compounds
    Patent number: 12227530
    Abstract: A method of preparing an organosilanol compound is disclosed. The method comprises reacting (A) an initial organosilicon compound and (B) water in the presence of (C) a catalyst. The catalyst (C) is selected from: (C1) [(C8H12irCl]2[(p-cymene)RuCl2]2; and (C3) Pd/C. The initial organosilicon compound (A) has the general formula HO—Si(R)2—[Si(R)2O]a—OSi(R)2—Y and the organosilanol compound has the general formula HO—Si(R)2-[Si(R)2O]a—OSi(R)2—Y, where each R is an independently selected hydrocarbyl group; Y comprises a functional moiety selected from alkoxysilyl moieties, epoxide moieties, and acryloxy moieties, with the proviso that Y is other than the acryloxy moieties when the catalyst (C) is (C3) Pd/C; and subscript a is 0 or 1. The organosilanol compound prepared by the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Dow Silicones Corporation, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Donald V. Eldred, Matthew Jeletic, John Roberts, Andre Yvon-Bessette
  • Flow drill screw and tip configuration
    Patent number: 12228159
    Abstract: A screw includes a head portion, an externally threaded shank extending from the head portion, the externally threaded shank having an external surface, and a flow-hole-forming tip disposed at a distal end portion of the externally threaded shank. The flow-hole-forming tip includes a radiused lower zone having an external surface tangent to the external surface of the externally threaded shank, a conical middle zone having an external surface tangent to the external surface of the radiused lower zone, the conical middle zone defining a vertex angle, and a radiused distal end zone having an external surface tangent to the external surface of the conical middle zone. The flow-hole-forming tip includes a width of the flow-hole-forming tip is greater than a length of the flow-hole-forming tip and/or the vertex angle is greater than or equal to 90 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Semblex Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Dornik, Amanda Kay Freis, Garret Sankey Huff, Brandt J. Ruszkiewicz, Stephen J. Crockett
  • Vehicle body structure mounted side view mirror
    Patent number: 12227131
    Abstract: A side view mirror assembly includes a base frame configured to couple to a bracket that is connected to a vehicle static structure. The base frame interfacing with the bracket through a guide that is at least partially received within a pocket when the base frame is coupled to the bracket. A mirror housing assembly is adjustably supported by the base frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Mario Contreras Sosa, Isaias Abner Garcia Vergara, Andrew Lee, Cameron James Daniels, Ted Victor Kolar
  • Battery housing for electric vehicles
    Patent number: 12227064
    Abstract: A battery housing for an electric vehicle includes a cover, a body, and a seal. The body is secured to the cover and includes a first edge section and a second edge section secured to and overlapping the first edge section. The seal is engaged with the cover and includes a channel receiving the first and second edge sections of the body. The first and second edge sections of the body are engaged with the seal within the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Reiners, Mathias Huber, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
  • Method of preparing silicone-acrylate hybrid composition and hybrid composition formed thereby
    Patent number: 12227650
    Abstract: A method of preparing a silicone-acrylate hybrid composition is provided. The method comprises irradiating an acrylate composition in the presence of: (i) a silicone article, and/or (ii) a silicone composition; to polymerize the acrylate composition and give the silicone-acrylate hybrid composition. The acrylate composition comprises an acrylate compound and an initiator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, DOW SILICONES CORPORATION, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Dongchan Ahn, Jeremy Beebe, Shane Mangold, Ken Shull, Muzhou Wang, Anthony Silvaroli, Tyler Heyl
  • Methods for assembling traction battery packs
    Patent number: 12230826
    Abstract: Manufacturing processes are disclosed for assembling traction battery packs that include battery systems, such as cell-to-pack battery systems. An exemplary assembly method includes inserting one or more cell stacks of the cell-to-pack battery system into a cell-compressing opening of an enclosure tray. The method may involve the use of slider plates that provide sliding surfaces that facilitate the insertion of the cell stacks into the cell compressing opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Daniel Maguire, Che-Chun Chang, Marc Dugas, Mohammadreza Eftekhari
  • ELECTRIC VEHICLE HAVING MOTOR SHIELD
    Publication number: 20250050721
    Abstract: An electric vehicle includes a pair of opposed longitudinal outer rails, a plurality of cross beams, a pair of opposed longitudinal inner rails, a housing and a plurality of bushings. The cross beams extend in a transverse direction of the electric vehicle and include first and second cross beams secured to the pair of opposed longitudinal outer rails. The pair of opposed longitudinal inner rails are located inboard of the pair of opposed longitudinal outer rails and between the first and second cross beams. The pair of opposed longitudinal inner rails are secured to the first and second cross beams to form a box. The housing is connected to the box and is configured to be connected to the motor. The bushings are at least partially supported by the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Sykes, Daniel Charters, Tyler Powell, Tim Winstanley
  • SUBFRAME ATTACHMENT SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20250050948
    Abstract: A subframe attachment system includes mounting brackets configured to be attached to a respective longitudinal rail of a vehicle frame. Each mounting bracket includes a mounting structure configured to be accessible from the cargo bed, an inner member, and outer member. The inner member is located at an inboard side of the respective longitudinal rail and includes a first upper end positioned above a top side of the respective longitudinal rail and a first lower end positioned below a bottom side of the respective longitudinal rail. The outer member is located at an outboard side of the respective longitudinal rail and includes a second upper end positioned above the top side of the respective longitudinal rail and secured to the first upper end of the inner member, and a second lower end position below the bottom side of the respective longitudinal rail and secured to the first lower end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Cliff Standifer
  • ASPHALT COMPOSITIONS INCLUDING ASPHALTENE AND EPOXY-FUNCTIONALIZED ETHYLENE COPOLYMER
    Publication number: 20250051574
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides embodiments of an asphalt composition and methods of making that may include asphalt, supplemental asphaltene, and epoxy-functionalized polyethylene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Fabricio Arteaga Larios, Cristina Serrat, Sean P. Doughty