Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
  • Stripping method for conductor elements for a hairpin coil
    Patent number: 12184048
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a plurality of conductor elements includes providing the plurality of conductor elements, each conductor element includes a conductor end section having an electrically insulating surface coating; securing the conductor end sections of the conductor elements with respect to each other; and simultaneously removing at least a portion of the electrically insulating surface coatings of the conductor end sections using a machining surface of a stripping tool being moved along the conductor end sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Baranowski, Julius Maximilian Engelke, Maira Magnani, Maik Broda, Raphael Koch, Marcel Mathissen
  • Polymeric composition containing a light stabilizer
    Patent number: 12180353
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a composition. The composition includes a silane functionalized polyolefin; a flame retardant; and a hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS) having a Mw greater than 5,000 Dalton. The present disclosure also provides a coated conductor. The coated conductor includes a conductor and a coating on the conductor, the coating including a composition. The coating composition includes a silane functionalized polyolefin; a flame retardant; and a hindered amine light stabilizer (HALS) having a Mw greater than 5,000 Dalton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Bharat I. Chaudhary, Xindi Yu, Yichi Zhang, Peter C. Dreux
  • Methods and apparatus to calibrate a suspension sensor
    Patent number: 12179538
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to determine the load of a vehicle via calibrate a suspension sensor are disclosed herein. An example vehicle described herein includes a force transducer, an actuator coupled to the force transducer, memory including instructions and a processor to execute the instructions to engage the actuator to a bottom surface of a vehicle, apply a first force to the bottom surface via the actuator, determine a first displacement of a first suspension component of the vehicle, and calibrate a first sensor of the vehicle based on the first force and the first displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Weston, Francis Aroyehun, David Michael Russell, Andrew Niedert
  • Enhanced vehicle window anti-fogging strategy
    Patent number: 12179555
    Abstract: A method for defogging a window of a vehicle includes steps of automatically selecting a climate control system operating mode and determining a risk of window fogging. The climate control system operating mode is selected from an outside air mode, an air-conditioning mode, and a defrost mode. A controller determines the risk of window fogging according to one or more inputs, and the same or a different controller may automatically select the climate control system operating mode. The controller is configured to increase a climate control system blower speed to increase a rate of airflow provided by the currently-actuated climate control system operating mode. The controller may sequentially advance the climate control system operating mode through the outside air mode, air-conditioning mode, and defrost mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alan Gutowski, Manfred Koberstein, William Stewart Johnston
  • Methods and apparatus to calibrate a weight estimation
    Patent number: 12181335
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to calibrate a weight estimation are disclosed herein. An example apparatus comprises memory including stored instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions to determine, via a first sensor, a first load estimation of a vehicle corresponding to when the vehicle under a load condition, determine, via a second sensor, a second load estimation corresponding to when the vehicle is moving and under the load condition, and calibrate, based on a difference between the second load estimation and the first load estimation, an error of the first load estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Rani Kiwan
  • Vehicle closure having automatic position adjusting sensor
    Patent number: 12179675
    Abstract: A closure on a vehicle with a sensor mounted to the closure that pivots relative to the closure as the closure is opened and closed to maintain a desired orientation of the sensor when the closure is in different positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael S. Robertson, Jr., Tyler D. Hamilton, Venkatesh Krishnan
  • Notches of frame rails of three-wheeled vehicle
    Patent number: 12179840
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle frame including a first frame rail, a second frame rail spaced cross-vehicle from the first frame rail, and a middle frame rail between the first frame rail and the second frame rail. The first frame rail and the second frame rail each have a vehicle-inboard side facing toward the middle frame rail. The vehicle-inboard sides each define a plurality of notches. The middle frame rail has a downward side facing downwardly and perpendicular to the vehicle-inboard sides. The downward side defining a plurality of notches. The vehicle frame has a rear cross-member and a front cross-member spaced vehicle-forward of the rear cross-member. The rear cross-member and the front cross-member are between the first frame rail and the second frame rail. The notches of the vehicle-inboard sides and the notches of the downward side are between the rear cross-member and the front cross-member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Saied Nusier, Jamel E. Belwafa, Srinivasan Sundararajan, Rahul Arora
  • Vehicle brake control
    Patent number: 12179727
    Abstract: A system for braking a host vehicle. A memory storing instructions executable by a processor includes instructions to actuate friction brakes in the host vehicle when a brake condition occurs. The brake condition includes that the host vehicle is parked on a roadway, a person is located exterior to the host vehicle, and an approaching vehicle will come within a distance threshold of the host vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Francis Diamond, Stuart C. Salter, Kenneth McHugh, Keith Weston
  • Methods and apparatuses for OTA broadcast efficiency
    Patent number: 12185204
    Abstract: A system broadcasts a vehicle state query to a plurality of vehicles within an ATSC broadcast radius at a plurality of different time windows. The system receives responses to the state query indicating at least vehicle motion data. The system aggregates the data to determine time windows when vehicles are present within the broadcast radius and are not stationary when vehicles are present within the broadcast radius and are stationary. Further, the system determines time windows projected to result in completed delivery above a predefined threshold percentage of a vehicle software update designated for broadcast, chosen for delivering the update to the threshold percentage as quickly as possible with higher data rate transmission relative to other time windows. The system automatically instructs an ATSC transmission point to broadcast the vehicle software update during the determined time windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Oliver Lei, Jayanthi Rao
  • Load limiting seatbelt retractor
    Patent number: 12179693
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a seatbelt retractor including a housing and a spool rotatably supported by the housing. The seatbelt retractor includes a load limiter fixed to the spool and lockable with the housing. The load limiter has a first coupling and a second coupling spaced from the first coupling on the rotational axis. The first coupling has a first energy absorber retained in a first cavity. The first energy absorber is compressible relative to a first male segment and a first female segment of the coupling. The second coupling has a second energy absorber retained in a second cavity. The second energy absorber is compressible relative to a second male segment and a second female segment of the second coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Saeed D. Barbat
  • Systems and methods for diagnosing stuck ATWU valve
    Patent number: 12180876
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing a stuck Active Transmission Warmup (ATWU) valve. In one example, a method for an ATWU valve monitoring routine of a vehicle comprises determining a temperature difference between an engine coolant temperature (ECT) and a transmission fluid temperature (TFT) over a duration before the ATWU valve is commanded from a closed position to an open position or from the open position to the closed position comparing a rate of change of the TFT before and after the ATWU valve is commanded to the open position or the closed position; and indicating a stuck ATWU valve based on at least one of the temperature difference, the TFT rate of change comparison, or a combination thereof, based on a calibration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sitaram Rejeti, Adam Krach, Vaibhav Khanna, Luis Juarez
  • Adaptive controls of engine disconnect clutch
    Patent number: 12179741
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, an electric machine, and a clutch configured to selectively couple the engine to the electric machine. A controller is programmed to command a torque to the electric machine based on a clutch model that includes a learned time constant previously selected using a family of candidate time constants based on a comparison of the family to measured pressure data of a previous engagement of the clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Akshay Bichkar, Jason Meyer
  • Vehicle seating system for a stationary vehicle
    Patent number: 12179635
    Abstract: A seating system for a vehicle includes a first sidewall and a second sidewall. A second sidewall opposes the first sidewall. The first sidewall and the second sidewall at least partially define a cargo space. A first seating assembly is coupled to the first sidewall. A second seating assembly is coupled to the first sidewall. A bench seat is configured to be selectively adjustable between an adjacent support position and a cross support position. The bench seat is coupled to the first seating assembly and the second seating assembly when in the adjacent support position. The bench seat is coupled to the first sidewall and the second sidewall in the cross support position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Johnathan Andrew Line, Robert Allen Bastuba, Jr., Collin Joshua Smith, Robert Charles Shipley, Francisco Edgar Guizar Ramirez, Scott Culver Anderson
  • Method for graphene incorporation into a rubber compounding by using liquid plasticizer route—LPR method
    Patent number: 12180349
    Abstract: A method for producing a rubber composite includes mixing graphene with a liquid plasticizer to create a graphene/plasticizer solution, mixing the graphene/plasticizer solution with solid rubber and curing to form a preform, and shaping and vulcanizing the preform. The graphene/plasticizer solution may be a nonaqueous solution. The present disclosure also relates to a rubber composite part produced by the above-referenced method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rodrigo Denizarte de Oliveira Polkowski, Cristiano Grings Herbert, Alper Kiziltas, Deborah Frances Mielewski, Cristiane Carla Gonçalves, Cindy Sofia Barrera-Martinez
  • Vehicle-enabled officer assistance
    Patent number: 12183191
    Abstract: An enforcement vehicle includes monitors an identified stopped vehicle using one or more sensors of the enforcement vehicle, to determine if any change to the stopped vehicle indicates a likelihood of escalation based on predefined escalation characteristics. The enforcement vehicle detects at least one escalation characteristic via the monitoring and automatically enacts a predefined vehicle reaction based on a predicted type of escalation determined from one or more detected at least one escalation characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Douglas H. Randlett, Christopher Charles Hunt, Chad Hoover, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Brendan F. Diamond
  • Motor vehicle, toy replica and/or other replica
    Patent number: D1055770
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Colard, Alex Allmandinger, Bernrd Marcus, Julian Sole, Laurence Holt
  • Vehicle front upper grille
    Patent number: D1055790
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Piaskowski, Doyle Letson, Christopher Walter, Christopher Stevens
  • Vehicle front upper bumper cover
    Patent number: D1055791
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kemal Curic, Earl Lucas, Jordan Meadows, Fernando Morita, Luiz Henrique Antonelli
  • Vehicle rear spoiler
    Patent number: D1055816
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Piaskowski, Gordon Platto, Ryan Olsson, Omead Dorandish
  • Vehicle windshield
    Patent number: D1055817
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kemal Curic, Earl Lucas, Jordan Meadows, Jaewoo Chang, Henri Kavaja