Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
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Patent number: 12195593Abstract: A method for making a solventless polyorganosiloxane pellet is disclosed. The pellet is comprised of a polyorganosilicate resin and a polyorganosiloxane gum. The pellet is useful for making silicone pressure sensitive adhesive compositions.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: Dow Silicones Corporation, Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Yunlong Guo, Rongrong Fan, Ruihua Lu, Wenfei Li, Zhihua Liu, Wenjie Chen, Yan Zhou, Jiayin Zhu
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Patent number: 12194803Abstract: A suspension assembly for a vehicle may include a first stabilizer bar operably coupled to a first wheel on a first side of the vehicle, a second stabilizer bar operably coupled to a second wheel on a second side of the vehicle, and an chassis coupler comprising an inverter housing and an actuator assembly. The actuator assembly may be operable to arrange the first stabilizer bar and the second stabilizer bar in a selected one of a connected state, a disconnected state, and an inverted state. The inverter housing may be alternately constrained to one of the first stabilizer bar or the chassis coupler based on a position of the actuator assembly to define each of the connected state, the disconnected state and the inverted state.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Matthew Garn
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Patent number: 12195612Abstract: Disclosed herein is a foamable composition comprising an olefin copolymer that comprises ethylene and an ?-olefin; an unneutralized carboxylated olefin copolymer; a crosslinking agent; a blowing agent; and an activator; where a weight ratio of the activator to the unneutralized carboxylated olefin copolymer is greater than 0.3. Disclosed herein too is a method of manufacturing a foamable composition comprising blending together an olefin copolymer that comprises ethylene and an ?-olefin; an unneutralized carboxylated olefin copolymer; a crosslinking agent; a blowing agent; and an activator to form the foamable composition; where a weight ratio of the activator to the unneutralized carboxylated olefin copolymer is greater than 0.3; heating the foamable composition to activate the blowing agent to form a foam; and crosslinking the foam.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Haiyang Yu, Jinliang Yan, Shanshan Feng, Richard Tien-Hua Chou
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Patent number: 12195041Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for biasing a trajectory of a vehicle. The methods comprise: identifying a lane biasing interval of a lane in which the vehicle is to travel based on a lane width; obtaining a first reference path of travel for the vehicle that passes through the lane biasing interval; generating a second reference path of travel for the vehicle using a plurality of lateral offsets and the first reference path of travel for the vehicle; and adjusting the trajectory of the vehicle using the second reference path of travel. The lateral offsets are based on a lateral offset from each index point of the first reference path that resides in the lane biasing interval.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Alice Kassar, Ramadev Burigsay Hukkeri
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Patent number: 12194802Abstract: A suspension assembly for a vehicle may be provided. The suspension assembly may include a strut which may operably couple a wheel of the vehicle to a body of the vehicle, a stabilizer bar, and a stabilizer bar link which may operably couple the stabilizer bar to the strut. The stabilizer bar link may include a first ball joint, a second ball joint, and a shaft which may extend therebetween. The first and second ball joints may include first and second threaded shafts, respectively, that may extend through respective first and second receiving orifices. A base of the first and second threaded shafts may include a non-rounded shaped perimeter. A perimeter of one of the first and second receiving orifices may be complementary to the non-rounded shaped perimeter to hold one of the first and second threaded shafts in place while the fastener may be tightened thereon.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Akhilesh Ravichandran
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Patent number: 12195096Abstract: A platform assembly for a cargo area of a vehicle includes a floor panel and a cover panel. The floor panel includes a main section slidable between a rest position in which the main section is substantially within the cargo area of the vehicle and an extended position in which the main section extends beyond the cargo area of the vehicle. An opening in the floor panel is exposed when the main section is in the extended position. The cover panel is movable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The cover panel is configured to cover the opening exposed in the floor panel when the main section is in the deployed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Vincent A. Chimento, Jack Marchlewski, Shawn Michael Morgans, Dragan B. Stojkovic
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Patent number: 12194916Abstract: A vehicle for use in collective zone lighting includes a wireless transceiver and a controller. The controller is configured to create a group of vehicles using wireless messaging, via the wireless transceiver, between the vehicle and one or more other vehicles, and instruct the group of vehicles to collectively light an area using exterior lights of a plurality of the group of vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Keith Weston, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Aaron Bradley Johnson, Brendan F. Diamond, Stuart C. Salter
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Patent number: 12194807Abstract: A vehicle suspension link may include a bushing, a knuckle, a link arm operably coupled to the knuckle via the bushing at a ring formed at one end of the link arm, and a coupling assembly disposed between the knuckle and the bushing. The coupling assembly may include a serrated face and a one-way install feature extending out of a plane of the serrated face to permit orientation of the bushing in the ring such that the serrated face is oriented toward the knuckle, and prevent orientation of the serrated face away from the knuckle.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Grant Warr, Peter Joseph Jargowsky
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Patent number: 12194883Abstract: Methods and systems for supplying electrical power from a vehicle to an external accessory are described. In one example, two different voltages may be applied at different times to a connector so that the external accessory device need not include a battery. In particular, a first voltage may power a main load of the external accessory and a second voltage may power a microcontroller that communicates with the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dominic Gelfuso, Andres Straulino, Prahlad Saggere, Christopher Ballard, Stuart C. Salter, Brendan Diamond
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Patent number: 12194981Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting driver demand wheel torque of a vehicle. The driver demand wheel torque may be adjusted as a function of a minimum wheel torque. The minimum wheel torque may be determined according to a plurality of torques that may be evaluated in three different phases.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Yanan Zhao, Jason Meyer, Rajit Johri, Mark Steven Yamazaki, Jeffrey Allen Doering
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Patent number: 12195610Abstract: Polymer blends, films, and coated substrates that include the polymer blends. The polymer blends include at least 90% by weight low density polyethylene polymer and from 1 to 10% by weight ionomer. The LDPE polymer has a melt index (I2)from 2 g/10 mins to 6 g/10 mins, and a molecular weight distribution from 5 to 11 as determined by a conventional gel permeation chromatography method. The ionomer includes an ethylene acid copolymer, in which from 15% to 70% of acid groups are neutralized by sodium cation based on the total number of acid groups in the acid copolymer. The ethylene acid copolymer is the polymerized reaction product of: at least 50% by wt. ethylene, from 2 wt. % to 40 wt. % of monocarboxylic acid monomer, and from 0 to 20 wt. % of alkyl acrylate, based on the total wt. % of the monomers present in the ethylene acid copolymer.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Jong Young Lee, Yifan Dong, Barry Alan Morris, Teresa P. Karjala, Eva-Maria Kupsch
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Patent number: 12195834Abstract: A method of forming an aluminum alloy component including melting and solidifying an aluminum alloy, solution treating the aluminum alloy, and heat treating the aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy includes scandium, zirconium, erbium, silicon, at least one of molybdenum and tungsten, manganese and the balance aluminum and incidental impurities. The concentration of the alloying elements, in atom %, is greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.15 scandium, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.35 zirconium, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.15 erbium, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.2 silicon, greater than 0.0 and less or equal to 0.75 molybdenum when included, greater than 0.0 and less than or equal to 0.35 tungsten when included.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignees: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Northwestern UniversityInventors: James M. Boileau, Bita Ghaffari, David N. Seidman, David C. Dunand, Anthony De Luca
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Patent number: 12195611Abstract: The present disclosure provides embodiments of a halogen-free flame retardant composition including one or more polyolefin copolymers having a melt flow index of 350 grams per 10 minutes (g/10 min) to 1000 g/10 min measured at 190 C and 2.16 kg, wherein the one or more polyolefin copolymers comprises maleic anhydride-grafted polyolefin, ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer, or both; and greater than 83 wt. % of inorganic fillers based on the total weight of the halogen-free flame retardant composition.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2020Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Stefan Ultsch, Svyatoslav Burmistrov
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Patent number: 12197208Abstract: A first plurality of center points of first two-dimensional bounding boxes corresponding to a vehicle occurring in a first plurality of images acquired by a first camera can be determined. A second plurality of center points of second two-dimensional bounding boxes corresponding to the vehicle occurring in a second plurality of images acquired by a second camera can also be determined. A plurality of non-linear equations based on the locations of the first and second pluralities of center points and first and second camera parameters corresponding to the first and second cameras can be determined. The plurality of non-linear equations can be solved simultaneously for the locations of the vehicle with respect to the first and second cameras and the six degree of freedom pose of the second camera with respect to the first camera.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Punarjay Chakravarty, Shubham Shrivastava, Bhushan Ghadge, Mostafa Parchami, Gaurav Pandey
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Patent number: 12195042Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product aspects for validating protolanes. For example, the method includes determining a protolane level flowchart from one or more flowcharts corresponding to one or more gates of a protolane selected from a set of protolanes of a geonet, wherein the one or more flowcharts correspond to conditions that can be encountered by an actor approaching the corresponding one or more gates, and wherein the geonet comprises a plurality of lane segments associated with the set of protolanes. A graph through the protolane level flowchart is generated that corresponds to actions of an actor. Reasoning of the actor is validated by testing the actions of the actor against the graph through the protolane level flowchart.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: George Peter Kenneth Carr, Shawn Cook, Brett Browning, Andrew Hartnett, Constantin A. Savtchenko, Neal Seegmiller, Christopher Cunningham, Thomas Mark Petroff, Michael Pacilio
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Patent number: 12195120Abstract: An example vehicle frame subassembly for a vehicle is disclosed herein. The example vehicle frame subassembly includes a first frame portion defining a wheel axle, and a second frame portion extending from the first frame portion at an angle from the wheel axle, the wheel axle at a first height, an end of the second frame portion at a second height different from the first height, the vehicle frame subassembly to configure a vehicle for a selected ride height when the vehicle frame subassembly is implemented in the vehicle, the second height corresponding to the selected ride height.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael John Harmon, Hussain Z. Tajmahal, Marielle Conrad, Benjamin Jordan Curtis, David Earl Ooms, Yejin Han
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Patent number: 12194816Abstract: An air flow control system includes a plenum having an air inlet, a first air outlet, a second air outlet and a third air outlet, a vent door, an air guide, carried on the vent door, and an actuator. The actuator displaces the vent door between a first position closing the first air outlet and a second position opening the first air outlet. A climate control method for an autonomous vehicle is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Anthony Ligi, Jr., Gary D. Mullen, Francis Raymond Gillis, Steven Nicholas Fidh
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Publication number: 20250010790Abstract: A lighting system for a vehicle having at least one lamp device arranged in the region of an interior roof lining of the vehicle. The at least one lamp device is arranged such that a work region is defined by at least a first vehicle row of the vehicle is illuminable by the at least one lamp device. The lighting system comprises a closed-loop lighting system control device which is coupled to a closed-loop vehicle control device of the vehicle and configured to receive vehicle state information from the closed-loop vehicle control device. The lighting system is configured, in a lighting mode of the lighting system, to automatically terminate an illumination of the work region on the basis of received vehicle state information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Max Anton Schumacher, Rodrigo Mendes de Oliveira, Axel Morawietz
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Publication number: 20250010808Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a vehicle bumper and a crush can to support the vehicle bumper on the vehicle frame. The crush can may include an inflation chamber, which is inflatable from an uninflated state to an inflated state. The vehicle can also include an inflator in fluid communication with the inflation chamber of the crush can.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2023Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Saeed D. Barbat, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Publication number: 20250015327Abstract: A system includes a fuel cell stack and a controller. The controller is configured to operate the fuel cell stack with a given air stoic ratio while a temperature of the fuel cell stack is greater than a temperature threshold and to operate the fuel cell stack with a lower air stoic ratio, to thereby suppress a stack voltage of the fuel cell stack in order to increase heat generation of the fuel cell stack, while the temperature of the fuel cell stack is lower than the temperature threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hao WANG, Zeng QIU, Matthew RILEY, Ryan MA, Michiel J. VAN NIEUWSTADT
