Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
  • Patent number: 12132370
    Abstract: An e-machine that provides propulsion and regenerative braking includes a rotor and a stator that includes pin conductors encircling the stator. Current is conducted around the stator for a plurality of phases of alternating current. Phase terminals and neutral terminals are connected by terminal connectors to a plurality of wires that connect to the neutral terminal or connect the phase terminals to a source of alternating current. The terminal contacts include means for dampening vibration disposed adjacent terminals. The means for dampening vibration may include a spiral segment of the wire that encircles the terminal or the spiral segment may be disposed adjacent the terminal. A flexible joint assembly may be a clamp including a terminal contact that is movable on ball bearings between an upper jaw and a lower jaw. Another flexible joint assembly may include a receptacle that receives a plug supported on ball bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Xiaogang Zhang
  • Patent number: 12128333
    Abstract: A process for recovering monomers and solvent present in a waste stream including the steps of: (a) providing a waste feed stream containing monomers, solvent and impurities; (b) subjecting the waste feed stream of step (a) to a separation process under conditions for separating the monomers and solvent from the impurities of the waste stream; (c) recovering the monomers and solvent in one or more streams; and (d) passing the one or more of the monomer and solvent streams from step (c) to further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Abu Mokhtarul Hassan, Dennis W. Jewell, Sven Claessens
  • Patent number: 12129450
    Abstract: A liquid laundry detergent formulation is provided, comprising: a liquid carrier; a cleaning surfactant; and a cleaning booster polymer, wherein the cleaning booster polymer has structural units of a monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (I) and, optionally, structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (II)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Asghar A. Peera, Stephen J. Donovan, Roy Roberts
  • Patent number: 12130196
    Abstract: A method for verifying an alignment of one or more devices of a vehicle in a manufacturing environment includes selecting an alignment verification routine to be performed by an autonomous alignment verification mobile robot (AAVMR) and autonomously positioning the AAVMR based on a position of the vehicle and one or more displacements associated with the alignment verification routine. The method includes performing, using the AAVMR, the alignment verification routine to generate one or more alignment characteristics associated with the one or more devices and broadcasting a notification based on the one or more alignment characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Kerry Lance Paskell
  • Patent number: 12128833
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a light assembly for a motor vehicle. In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a motor vehicle, including: a light assembly including a first section, a second section, a third section, and a fourth section, wherein the first, second, third, and fourth sections are selectively illuminable independent of one another; a conspicuity lamp; and a controller configured to command the light assembly to illuminate at least one of the first, second, third, and fourth sections in phase with the conspicuity lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Aaron B. Johnson, Luciano Lukacs, Michael L. Merritt, Joshua Schwab
  • Patent number: 12128807
    Abstract: A seating assembly includes a seatback coupled to a support surface. A seat is movably coupled to the seatback such that the seat is pivotable relative to the seatback. The seat is movable between a stowed position and a deployed position. A work surface is movably coupled to an underside of the seat. The work surface is movable between a stowed position and a deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Johnathan Andrew Line, Scott Culver Anderson, Clay Mastin, Justin D. Sorum, Albert Kim, Abbas Ghamlouche
  • Patent number: 12129368
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to unsaturated polyolefins and processes for preparing the same. The present disclosure further relates to curable formulations comprising the unsaturated polyolefins that show improved crosslinking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey C. Munro, Haiyang Yu, Hong Yang, Lixin Sun, Colin Li Pi Shan
  • Patent number: 12128956
    Abstract: A vehicle of unibody construction includes a left rail, right rail, first kickup member, and second kickup member. A left transition portion of the left rail extends inboard and upward from a left forward portion to a left rear portion. A right transition portion of the right rail extends inboard and upward from the right forward portion to the right rear portion. A left end of the first kickup member is coupled to the left forward portion and a right end of the first kickup member is coupled to the right forward portion. The second kickup member is rearward of the first kickup member. A left end of the second kickup member is coupled to at least one of the left forward and left transition portions. A right end of the second kickup member is coupled to at least one of the right forward and right transition portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jamil M. Alwan, Djamal Eddine Midoun, Sean Timothy Ryan, Peyman Aghssa, Zakareia H. Hussain, Stephen William Gallagher
  • Patent number: 12129783
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a vehicle. In one example, a method may include acquiring measurements from at least one exhaust emission sensor of the vehicle, the exhaust emission sensor positioned to measure one of NOx, NH3, and O2 levels in exhaust gas of the vehicle. The measurements may be input into a machine learning model trained to output a predicted real-time amount of at least one exhaust gas constituent in the exhaust gas and operations of an emissions aftertreatment system may be assessed and adjusted based on the predicted real-time amount of the at least one exhaust gas constituent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Kempema, Conner Sharpe, David John Kubinski, Xiao Wu, Mehrdad Shahabi
  • Patent number: 12128353
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dehydration composition and method of use thereof for drying gas streams, in particular natural gas streams, wherein the dehydration composition comprises a (a) glycol and (b) an additive selected so as to increase the viscosity, surface tension, and/or specific gravity of the dehydration composition. Said dehydration composition and method results in the reduction of solvent loss during the dehydration step in a gas dehydration unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Christophe R. Laroche, John R. Dowdle, Eric J. Klinker
  • Patent number: 12129326
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards method of making a metal-ligand complex, the method including: reacting a (L1)H compound and a base in a primary solvent to make a reaction mixture comprising an intermediate anionic L1 compound in the primary solvent; and reacting the intermediate anionic L1 compound and a L2MX3 complex to make a L1L2MX2 complex, wherein L1 and L2 independently are cyclopentadienyl-type (Cp-type) ligands, M is zirconium or hafnium, and each X is a halide and wherein the intermediate anionic L1 compound is not isolated from the reaction mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Roger L. Kuhlman, Pamela D. Nagel
  • Patent number: 12128845
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a front pillar and a rear pillar spaced along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. The front pillar and the rear pillar define a door opening therebetween. The vehicle includes a first track on the front pillar and a second track on the rear pillar. A cable is moveably engaged with the first track and the second track from an undeployed position to a raised position. The cable extends across the door opening from the first track to the second track in the raised position. An airbag is moveable with the cable from the undeployed position to the raised position. The airbag is supported by the cable in the raised position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Rahul Arora, Saeed D. Barbat
  • Patent number: 12128820
    Abstract: A vehicle comprising a body defining a passenger compartment. The body has a roof and a plurality of support pillars extending proximate to the roof and a plurality of lighting zones comprising a plurality of lighting devices located in an upper portion of the body proximate to the roof and the plurality of support pillars. A user input is configured to allow for the selection of the lighting zones, a color of light output and an intensity of the light output, and a controller responsive to the user input to control the lighting zones to illuminate light in a selected lighting zone at the selected intensity and color with the selected intensity and color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Laudy Patricia Mora Ortiz, Brenda Guadalupe Tenorio Hernandez, Carlos Ernesto Saenz Camacho, Hector Amador
  • Patent number: 12128894
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to receive a speed of windshield wipers of a vehicle, adjust a setting for an adaptive cruise control of the vehicle based on the speed of the windshield wipers, and instruct a propulsion of the vehicle to operate in accordance with the adjusted setting of the adaptive cruise control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jordan Barrett, Brendan Francis Diamond, Andrew Denis Lewandowski, Keith Weston
  • Patent number: 12129452
    Abstract: A liquid laundry additive is provided, comprising a cleaning booster polymer having structural units of a monoethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid monomer; structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (I) wherein x is an average of 0 to 20, wherein y is an average of 0 to 30 and wherein x+y is at least 1; and, optionally, structural units of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer of formula (II) wherein R1 is independently selected from a —C1-4 alkyl, and wherein R2 is independently selected from H and methyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Asghar A. Peera, Stephen J. Donovan, Roy Roberts
  • Patent number: 12132417
    Abstract: A power converter includes a pair of series connected switches and circuitry. The circuitry includes another switch and an optocoupler that activates responsive to changes in current through one of the series connected switches exceeding a predefined threshold. Activation of the optocoupler causes the another switch to conduct and reduce a gate voltage of the one of the series connected switches to reduce the changes in current through the one of the series connected switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Baoming Ge, Lihua Chen, Serdar Hakki Yonak, Boris Curuvija
  • Patent number: 12130145
    Abstract: A method and system for navigating a vehicle based upon data of a group includes automatically determining a specific group identity for an operator and one or more occupants of a vehicle by digitally identifying the operator and the one or more occupants of the vehicle based upon Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) of a wireless network with multiple antennas in the vehicle to estimate localization of wireless devices of the operator and the one or more occupants, evaluating parameters associated with the specific group identity, and determining a path for the vehicle based upon the specific group identity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Alfred Ostrowski, Leopoldo Urbina, Elizabeth Anne Manwell, Akshay Dirisala, Sakthish R. Sathasivam, Austin Kirchner
  • Patent number: 12128125
    Abstract: A polymer blend is provided comprising: (A) multistage polymer, comprising: acrylate rich stage comprising: structural units of monoethylenically unsaturated non-ionic, acrylate rich stage monomer selected from C1-22 alkyl (meth)acrylates and mixtures thereof; and carbosiloxane rich stage, comprising: structural units of carbosiloxane monomer of formula (I); and (B) silicone-grafted vinyl copolymer, wherein the silicone-grafted vinyl copolymer, comprises: structural units of a vinyl (B) monomer; and structural units of a carbosiloxane dendrimer of formula (V). Also provided are personal care formulations comprising the polymer blend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company, Dow Silicones Corporation
    Inventors: Fanwen Zeng, Hilda G. Buss, Matthew Jeletic, Xiaodong Lu, Tian Lan, Isabelle Van Reeth, Helene Dihang, Marc Eeman, Bryan L. McCulloch, Jodi Mecca, Ralph C. Even, Inna Shulman, Michaeleen L. Pacholski
  • Patent number: D1048962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kemal Curic, Earl Lucas, Darren Luke, Jaewoo Chang
  • Patent number: D1048979
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kemal Curic, Earl Lucas, Darren Luke, Jaewoo Chang