Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
  • Polymeric charge transfer layer and organic electronic device containing the same
    Patent number: 10454036
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymeric charge transfer layer comprising a polymer and a p-dopant. The polymer comprises as polymerized units, Monomer A, Monomer B, and Monomer C crosslinking agent. The present invention further relates to an organic electronic device, especially an organic light emitting device containing the polymeric charge transfer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Korea Ltd., Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials LLC
    Inventors: Liam P. Spencer, Hong-Yeop Na, Yoo-Jin Doh, Chun Liu, Minrong Zhu, Jichang Feng, Zhengming Tang, Shaoguang Feng, Kenneth L. Kearns, Jr., Timothy De Vries, Sukrit Mukhopadhyay, John W. Kramer, Peter Trefonas, III, David D. Devore, William H. H. Woodward
  • Automatic engine stopping and starting for a parked vehicle
    Patent number: 10451020
    Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an engine that may be automatically stopped and started responsive to vehicle operating conditions are disclosed. In one example, the engine may be automatically started after it has been automatically stopped in response to a driver applying a brake pedal while the vehicle's transmission is engaged in park. The engine may be started to increase transmission pump pressure prior to engaging a gear to reduce vehicle launch time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Siraj Siddiqui, Ahmed Awadi, Eric Rademacher, Hussam Makkiya, Hafiz Khafagy
  • Dual cure 1K PU adhesive formulations using matrix encapsulated polyamines
    Patent number: 10450486
    Abstract: A new polyurethane (PU) adhesive composition with encapsulated hardeners having unique properties in automotive related applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Sergio Grunder, Daniel Schneider, Stefan Schmatloch, Andreas Lutz
  • Turbocharger system having an air-cooled wastegate actuator
    Patent number: 10450946
    Abstract: A system and methods for a vehicle are provided for adjusting each of a speed of a radiator fan and a position of grille shutters of the vehicle responsive to a temperature at a wastegate exceeding a temperature threshold. In one example, a system may include a radiator fan at a front end of a vehicle, an engine coupled to an exhaust passage, a turbine in the exhaust passage having a bypass conduit, a wastegate positioned in the turbine conduit, and the wastegate receiving airflow from downstream of the radiator fan via a cooling duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shuya Shark Yamada, Timothy J. Gardner, Christopher David Tiernan, Matthew Coon, Shawn Michael Spannbauer
  • Cold shrink article for electrical device
    Patent number: 10453586
    Abstract: A cold shrink article comprising a shaped, stretched and cured composition comprising (i) a blend of silane-grafted ethylene-?-olefin elastomer and a hydroxyl-terminated polyorganosiloxane, (ii) a vinyl-terminated silicone rubber, and (iii) an ethylene-?-olefin elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Haiyang Yu, Yanli Huo, Mohamed Esseghir, Saurav S. Sengupta, Jeffrey M. Cogen
  • Methods and systems for adjusting a direct fuel injector and a port fuel injector
    Patent number: 10450997
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reducing direct injector fueling errors due to injection variability in a transition region of a direct injector map. Fuel injection, including usage of one or more direct and port injected fuel pulses, may be planned based on engine operating conditions including engine temperature and driver demand. Responsive to any of the direct injected fuel pulses having a pulse-width that lies in a high variability transition region of the direct injector, the fuel injection may be adjusted via adjustments to a number and/or split ratio of the injections so as to not operate in the transition region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Lyle Thomas, Ethan D. Sanborn, Daniel Dusa, Paul Hollar, Mark Meinhart, Ian D. Campbell
  • Vane adjustment device and a vehicle air register assembly
    Patent number: 10449835
    Abstract: A vane adjustment device for an air register having a front vane and a rear vane is disclosed. The vane adjustment device comprises a rear vane connector rotatably connected to the rear vane about a first axis, an intermediate connector rotatably connected to the rear vane connector about a second axis different with the first axis, and a front vane connector rotatably connected to the front vane, the front vane connector including a sliding portion slidably and rotatably connected to the intermediate connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Lin, Denis Gerard O'Shannessy
  • Lane boundary detection data generation in virtual environment
    Patent number: 10453256
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus pertaining to generating training data. The method may include executing a simulation process. The simulation process may include traversing one or more virtual sensors over a virtual driving environment defining a plurality of lane markings or virtual objects that are each sensible by the one or more virtual sensors. During the traversing, each of the one or more virtual sensors may be moved with respect to the virtual driving environment as dictated by a vehicle-dynamic model modeling motion of a vehicle driving on a virtual road surface of the virtual driving environment while carrying the one or more virtual sensors. Virtual sensor data characterizing the virtual driving environment may be recorded. The virtual sensor data may correspond to what an actual sensor would produce in a real-world environment that is similar or substantially matching the virtual driving environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Ashley Elizabeth Micks, Venkatapathi Raju Nallapa, Brielle Reiff, Vidya Nariyambut Murali, Sneha Kadetotad
  • On-board vehicle electrical system having a converter and high-load consumer
    Patent number: 10449917
    Abstract: An on-board electrical system for motor vehicles has a battery, a generator and at least one normal consumer that is connected to the battery in a switchable manner. A DC voltage/DC voltage converter is connected on its primary side to the battery and on its secondary side to a high-load resistor. A switch connects the high-load consumer to a storage device in a first switching position, and to the primary side in a second switching position. A controller controls and operates the switch between the first and the second switching position. A device that detects the actual electrical power of the high-load consumer is associated with the high-load consumer, and is connected at the output end to the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Bjoern Mohrmann, Peter Schmitz, Armin Warm, Manuel Bojahr, Engbert Spijker, Mark Eifert
  • Method for operating a dual lift pump system
    Patent number: 10451013
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for a fuel system in an engine comprising two lift pumps. One example method comprises deactivating one of a first lift pump and a second lift pump if fuel fill level in a common reservoir decreases below a threshold fill level, wherein the first lift pump and the second lift pump are positioned in the common reservoir. By deactivating one of the two lift pumps, the two lift pumps may be protected from degradation due to fuel starvation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Joseph Lyle Thomas
  • Methods and apparatuses for vehicle wading safety
    Patent number: 10452072
    Abstract: Techniques and examples pertaining to vehicle water wading safety are described. A processor implementable to a vehicle approaching a waterbody may receive data related to the waterbody from one or more above-water or under-water sensors. The processor may determine a top surface and a bottom profile of the waterbody, and calculate one or more critical trajectories of water-sensitive components of the vehicle if the vehicle is to wade through the waterbody by traversing the bottom profile. The processor may then determine the wading safety based on the critical trajectories and the top surface of the waterbody. The processor may further determine a wading route, and autonomously drive the vehicle to wade the waterbody via the optimal wading route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Vincent Myers, Harpreetsingh Banvait, Joshua Scott Smith
  • Air vent for mitigating hot air in vehicle
    Patent number: 10449831
    Abstract: An air vent is mounted in a vehicle window frame. The air vent includes a one-piece body having an interior face and an exterior face. An air pathway extends between a first opening in the interior face to a second opening in the exterior face. An elongated window channel is also provided in the body for receiving the window over which the air vent is mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Juanito Yu Co, Leonard Anthony Shaner
  • EV charging connector unlock via biometric input
    Patent number: 10453282
    Abstract: An electric vehicle (EV) charging system includes a receptacle on the EV and a controller. The controller may be configured to, responsive to a removal request and a discrepancy between a stored biometric record and first biometric data received from a first biometric sensor, compare the stored biometric record and second biometric data received from a second biometric sensor that is different from the first biometric sensor, and responsive to the comparison matching, generate an unlock request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jaswant-Jas S. Dhillon, Ryan Hunt, Kevin James Rhodes
  • Gas sweetening solvents containing quaternary ammonium salts
    Patent number: 10449483
    Abstract: A method of treating oil and gas streams comprising H2S and a carbon oxide, the method including the step of treating the oil and gas stream with an amine solution having an alkanolamine and a quaternary ammonium salt, wherein the amine solution selectively removes the H2S over the carbon oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Christophe R. Laroche
  • Heat treatment to improve joinability of aluminum sheet
    Patent number: 10450639
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, an assembly is provided comprising a first member including a 6xxx series aluminum alloy heat treated to have a yield strength of at least 200 MPa and an r/t (bendability) ratio of up to 0.4. One or more members may be secured to the first member with a rivet (e.g., a self-piercing rivet). The heat treated alloy may have a yield strength of at least 260 MPa and may have a bendability ratio of up to 0.3. A method of forming an assembly is also provided, including heat treating a 6xxx series aluminum alloy to produce an alloy having a yield strength of at least 200 MPa and an r/t (bendability) ratio of up to 0.4 and riveting a member including the heat treated alloy to one or more additional members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Nia R. Harrison, S. George Luckey, Jr., James Maurice Boileau, Aindrea McKelvey Campbell, Amanda Kay Freis
  • Lane change assistant
    Patent number: 10451730
    Abstract: A computing device in a vehicle can determine a time bound for a lane change maneuver based on determining a reaction time, an occupant acceptance time, a vehicle maneuver time and a maneuver cancellation time and request authorization to perform the lane change maneuver. The computing device can determine the time bound has expired, and cancel the authorization request based on the expired time bound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Walter Joseph Talamonti, Louis Tijerina, Steven Joseph Szwabowski
  • Autonomous personal mobility systems
    Patent number: 10452077
    Abstract: Autonomous personal mobility systems including one or more personal mobility vehicles, each personal mobility vehicle including a navigation system configured to provide autonomous point-to-point navigation within a specified geographic area, and one or more sensors configured to detect obstructions proximate to the personal mobility vehicle, so as to enable the navigation system to avoid the detected obstructions. The system includes one or more kiosks configured to store the one or more personal mobility vehicles and charge the one or more personal mobility vehicles while stored. In some examples, the systems include a smartphone app interface to the navigation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Louey, Gaetano D'Agata, Graeme Cameron, Howard Schulz, David Evans
  • Misfire detection with crankshaft vibrations
    Patent number: 10451523
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for engine misfire detection. In one example, a method may include sampling crankshaft fluctuations with a first and a second sampling window, wherein the first and second windows overlapping each other; and identify misfire based on the sampled signals. The method may further comprise adjusting engine operation responsive to the misfire indication via a control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mikhail Ejakov
  • Lock for pivoting member in vehicle with push button release
    Patent number: 10449884
    Abstract: A lock for a pivoting member in a vehicle comprising: a button having a depressed position and an undepressed position; a cam abutting the button having a rotated position and an un-rotated position; and a rod operably connected to the cam having an extended position and a retracted position; wherein, when the button is in the depressed position, the cam is in the rotated position, and the rod is in the retracted position. The pivoting member can be an armrest or a seatback, among other things. The rod includes a first grooved section. The cam includes a first finger adjacent to the first grooved section. As the cam transitions from the un-rotated position to the rotated position, the first finger of the cam interacts with the first grooved section of the rod to cause the rod to transition from the extended position to the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raghavan Narayan Setlur, George Jacob, Daniel Jay Osterhoff
  • Vehicle hood
    Patent number: D864060
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Woodhouse, Kemal Curic, Xitij Mistry, John C. Caswell