Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
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Publication number: 20240404435Abstract: A damaged portion of a vehicle windshield in an area near a transparent display (TD) of a head up display (HUD) may be treated with a resin. The treated portion may introduce brightness artifacts into an image projected onto the TD. To compensate images projected onto the TD for the brightness artifacts, first pixel intensity adjustment values are received via a touchscreen. Pixels of a reference image are adjusted in accordance with the first pixel intensity adjustment values to provide a reference compensated image which, when projected by a projector of the head up display (HUD) system onto the TD, counters effects of spatially varying reflectance properties of treated portion of the windshield which would otherwise appear were the reference image displayed on the TD without compensation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Jaewon Yoon, Ryan Joseph Gorski
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Publication number: 20240399946Abstract: A vehicle having a tail lift is disclosed. The tail lift may be configured to move between a retracted position and an extended position. The tail lift may be disposed perpendicular to a vehicle cargo bed in the retracted position, and parallel to the vehicle cargo bed in the extended position. The vehicle may further include a detection unit configured to detect a placement location of a cargo on the tail lift and presence of an obstruction in proximity to the tail lift. The vehicle may additionally include a processor that may obtain inputs from the detection unit when the tail lift may be in the extended position. The processor may determine that a predefined condition may be met based on the obtained inputs. The processor may further output a notification responsive to a determination that the predefined condition may be met.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, Brendan Diamond, Rob Anthony Richardson, Jon Holt, Kyaw Kyaw Soe, Solomon Lin
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Publication number: 20240403820Abstract: A method of managing a fleet of robots for delivery of materials in a facility is provided. The method includes: determining a sequence of waypoints by a Branch and Bound (B&B) method; determining a path through the sequence of waypoints by a dual graph method; and determining a fleet composition and distribution of tasks among the robots by the B&B method and a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mithun Goutham, Stephanie Stockar, Meghna Menon, Sarah Garrow, Tren Martinus Johannes Theodor Baltussen
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Publication number: 20240400003Abstract: A sensor assembly includes a sensor mounted to a movable panel of a vehicle and a telescoping nozzle mounted to a fixed panel of the vehicle. The movable panel can be movable relative to the fixed panel between an open position and a closed position. The telescoping nozzle can be extendable between a retracted position behind the fixed panel and an extended position extending from the fixed panel. The telescoping nozzle can be aimed at a surface of the sensor responsive to the movable panel being in the closed position and the telescoping nozzle being in the extended position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Venkatesh Krishnan, Segundo Baldovino, Michael Robertson, Jr.
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Publication number: 20240399801Abstract: A method to facilitate secure communication between a first tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS) and a vehicle is disclosed. The method may include obtaining a trigger signal to auto-locate the first TPMS from a plurality of TPMSs. The method may further include obtaining learning mode advertisements from each TPMS responsive to obtaining the trigger signal. The learning mode advertisements may include a random value and a test value associated with each TPMS. The test value may be an encrypted value generated using TPMS keys. The method may further include calculating a vehicle test value using the random value and a vehicle pre-shared key, and comparing the test value with the vehicle test value. The method may further include auto-locating the first TPMS based on the comparison. The method may include receiving vehicle tire condition data from the first TPMS responsive to auto-locating the first TPMS.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jochen Schubert, Dilip B. Patel, Arick Evan Rushing
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Publication number: 20240399986Abstract: A vehicle is provided including a cabin interior, one or more sensors located on the vehicle and configured to capture images of the cabin interior and generate sensor outputs, one or more powered windows configured to be controlled between open and closed positions, and a controller processing the sensor outputs of the one or more sensors with one or more pet profiles to detect a pet in the cabin interior, the controller controlling the one or more powered windows based on the detected pet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Brian Bennie, Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Clara Bennie
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Patent number: 12157691Abstract: A method for inhibiting silica scale formation which treats aqueous systems with a polymerizable-acid graft copolymer that includes an unsaturated grafting acid and having a percent acid graft of between about 3 wt. % and about 35 wt. %, as well as an alkylene oxide polymer backbone.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Puspendu Deo, Graham P. Abramo, Kaylie L. Young, Somil Chandrakant Mehta
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Patent number: 12157221Abstract: A system for providing a thermal interface material on a tray for an electric vehicle battery includes a material dispensing system (MDS) and a vision system. The MDS includes a set of pumps, a robotic dispensing system (RDS), and a controller. The set of pumps includes a first pump to house a first material and a second pump to house a second material different from the first material. The RDS is fluidly coupled to the set of pumps and dispenses a third material on the tray in a defined pattern, where the third material is a mixture of the first and second materials. The vision system is configured to capture a first set of images. The controller is configured to determine a nozzle offset of the RDS based on the first set of images and control a position of the RDS based on the nozzle offset.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Alexander Marrocco, Francis Maslar, Daniel Ondrus
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Patent number: 12159395Abstract: A method including generating a plurality of synthetic images of a material, where each synthetic image from among the plurality of synthetic images is associated with a feasibility value greater than a threshold synthetic feasibility value. The method includes determining, for each synthetic image from among the plurality of synthetic images, one or more material properties of the material and one or more process parameters of the material based on the synthetic image and generating a plurality of data points and a pareto surface based on the one or more material properties and the one or more process parameters. The method includes selecting a target data point based on the plurality of data points and a distance between a set of data points from among the plurality of data points and the pareto surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Alemayehu Admasu, Devesh Upadhyay, Patrick James Blanchard, Janice Lisa Tardiff
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Patent number: 12156506Abstract: An assembly includes an inflatable harness having a first loop of webbing, a second loop of webbing, and a panel connecting the first loop of webbing to the second loop of webbing. The assembly includes an inflatable tether extending from the first loop of webbing, the inflatable tether in fluid communication with the inflatable harness. The assembly includes a latch plate fixed to the inflatable tether, the latch plate defining a fluid passage in fluid communication with the inflatable tether to provide inflation medium to the inflatable harness.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq
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Patent number: 12159454Abstract: This document discloses system, method, and computer program product embodiments for mitigating the addition of false object information to a track that provides a spatial description of an object, such as a track of radar data or lidar data. The system will analyze two or more frames captured in a relatively small time period and determine whether one or more parameters of an object detected in the frames remain consistent in a specified model. Models that the system may consider include a constant velocity model, a surface model, a constant speed rate model or a constant course rate model. If one or more parameters of the detected object are not consistent over the sequential frames in the specified model, the system may prune the track to exclude one or more of the sequential frames from the track.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Shubhendra Chauhan, Xiufeng Song
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Patent number: 12157393Abstract: A vehicle battery system includes a battery, storage, and one or more controllers. The storage maintains data defining power outputs for the battery at a plurality of predefined combinations of temperature and state of charge. The one or more controllers repeatedly update the data for some of the plurality based on temperatures and states of charge repeatedly encountered by the vehicle, update the data for other of the plurality based on data from a remote server, and discharge the battery according to the data for the some and other of the plurality.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Hesam Zomorodi Moghadam, Rui Wang, Xu Wang, Andrea Cordoba Arenas
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Patent number: 12157254Abstract: A hollow body composite component is produced by a method using an injection mold, wherein a cavity of the injection mold is filled at least partially with a flowable material by injection of the flowable material, and a mandrel is driven through the flowable material to form a hollow body. Using the mandrel, at least one strip-shaped reinforcing element is introduced into a hollow body interior and is arranged on a surface of the hollow body facing the hollow body interior.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Baranowski, Maik Broda, Pascal Rebmann, Markus Franzen
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Patent number: 12157841Abstract: A process comprises (i) providing an isocyanate component A that is a reaction product of an aliphatic polyisocyanate, an aromatic polyisocyanate, an aliphatic polyester polyol, and a polyether polyol; (ii) providing a polyol component B comprising an aliphatic polyester polyol and a polyether polyol; (iii) mixing A and B to form a solventless adhesive (SLA) composition component A and component B each comprises an aliphatic polyester polyol having a viscosity from 800 to 6000 mPa·s at 25° C. and a hydroxyl number from 60 to 180 mg KOH/g; the SLA composition has (a) an initial viscosity at 40° C. from 500 to 1600 mPa·s, (b) an increasing viscosity ratio from 100% to 112% of the initial viscosity after the SLA composition stands at 40° C. for 10 min, and (c) an end viscosity at 40° C. from 120% to 210% of the initial viscosity at 40 min after forming the SLA composition.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas CompanyInventors: Chenyan Bai, Elodie Hablot, Gaobing Chen, Thorsten Schmidt, Abraham Barretto
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Patent number: 12160804Abstract: A vehicle broadcasts a lane change intent message indicating parameters of a maneuver to be performed by the vehicle operating as a main traffic participant vehicle, the maneuver requiring use of a road resource. Response messages are received from recipient vehicles indicating approval or disapproval of performance of the maneuver. Responsive to one of the recipient vehicles returning a response message indicating conflict with use of the road resource required for performance of the maneuver, a conflict resolution procedure is performed between the main traffic participant vehicle and the conflicted recipient vehicle, the conflict resolution procedure using a pre-agreed identical conflict resolution algorithm executed on each of the main traffic participant vehicle and the conflicted recipient vehicle to each make a same distributed decision whether to proceed with the maneuver.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Syed Amaar Ahmad, Ivan Vukovic, Azin Neishaboori, John Walpuck
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Patent number: 12159560Abstract: Apparatus and methods for managing HUD power in vehicle head up displays are disclosed. State indications are stored. Based on the state indications a determination is made as to whether a HUD power control condition is met. If a HUD power control condition is met a corresponding HUD power control action is determined. A set of HUD power control commands corresponding to the HUD power control action is sent to the HUD to control the HUD to take the power control action.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Brendan Francis Diamond, Stuart C. Salter, Ryan Joseph Gorski, Mahmoud Y. Ghannam
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Patent number: 12157481Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for vehicle path planning. The methods comprise: estimating a current state of a vehicle based on sensor data; generating a control error representing a difference between the estimated current state of the vehicle and a desired state of the vehicle as described by a previously published trajectory; comparing the control error to a threshold value; generating a first plan for the vehicle using an open-loop path planning approach when the control error is below the threshold value or a second plan for the vehicle using a closed-loop path planning approach when the control error is above the threshold value; and causing the vehicle to execute the first or second plan.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Daniel Althoff, Andreas Joachim Knoblach, Scott Julian Varnhagen
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Patent number: 12160976Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for metal foam cooling of vehicle electronic. An example apparatus may include an electronic control unit (ECU) comprising an electronic component included within a housing. The example apparatus may also include a metal foam configured to dissipate heat produced by the electronic component and also configured to facilitate electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding for the electronic component. The example apparatus may also include an interface between the ECU and the metal foam, wherein the interface provides a connection between the ECU and metal foam to facilitate heat dissipation from the electronic component to a location outside of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mahmoud Ghannam, Ming Liang, Michael Dupuis, Deepa Ramaswamy
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Patent number: D1053086Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Soohyoung Kim, Damon G. Depeyster, William Mangan
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Patent number: D1053087Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Soohyoung Kim, Damon G. Depeyster, William Mangan
