Patents Assigned to For Global Technologies, LLC
  • System and method for tool allocation for service vehicles
    Patent number: 12254445
    Abstract: A tool application system for a vehicle may include a database configured to maintain an inventory of items on a vehicle, and a server configured to receive a request for at least one item relating to a worksite from a technician, compare the request for the at least one item to the inventory, determine that the item is not part of the inventory, transmit a part request to at least one location based on at least one factor, and transmit instructions to the vehicle in response to receiving a response to the request from the location confirming availability of the item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Brendan F. Diamond, Meghan Preiss, Annette Lynn Huebner, Lia Pillen
  • Vehicle seating assembly
    Patent number: 12252043
    Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat, a seatback, a track assembly, a front anchor, a rear anchor, and a first gear. The seatback is coupled to the seat. The seatback is pivotable relative to the seat. The track assembly is configured to couple the seat to a floor of a vehicle. The rear anchor is coupled to the seat and configured to engage with the track assembly. The front anchor is coupled to the seat and configured to engage with the track assembly. A position of the seat relative to the front anchor and the second anchor is adjustable. The first gear extends between the front anchor and the seat. The first gear defines a guide slot therein that receives a guide pin. Movement of the first gear adjusts a position of a front region of the seat relative to a rear region of the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Macit Aktas
  • Component for a vehicle suspension system
    Patent number: 12251981
    Abstract: A component for a vehicle suspension system that includes a circular first housing that defines a first aperture. A first intermediate portion is coupled to a first end portion of the first housing and has a length that is less than a diameter of the first aperture. A circular second housing is coupled to the first intermediate portion and defines a second aperture. A second intermediate portion is coupled to a second end portion of the first housing. A bracket is coupled to the second intermediate portion, the bracket has a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of apertures defined on the first surface. The plurality of apertures extend from the first surface to the second surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joe L. Buchwitz, John Joseph Uicker, Sean Christopher Remisoski
  • Multilayer structures with enhanced adhesive bonding force and articles comprising the same
    Patent number: 12251909
    Abstract: Provided are multilayer structures and articles comprising same. The multilayer structure comprises: a biaxially-oriented polyethylene film comprising a skin layer with a matte surface and a core, the core comprising one or more core layers; a sealant film; and an adhesive adhering the sealant film to the matte surface of the skin layer of the biaxially-oriented polyethylene film. The multilayer structure can exhibit an enhanced adhesive bonding force in comparison to other multilayer structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: Gang Wang, Lianjiang Zhao, Jingyi Xu, Xiaobing Yun, Jianping Pan, Gaobing Chen, Jianliang Zhu
  • Bis-phenyl-phenoxy polyolefin procatalysts having two anthracenyl ligands
    Patent number: 12252574
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure are directed to catalyst systems comprising a metal-ligand complex according to formula (I):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Figueroa, Robert D. Grigg, Jerzy Klosin, Tulaza Vaidya, Carl N. Iverson
  • Instrument panel topper system for dual horizon display with encapsulated passenger side airbag door
    Patent number: 12252090
    Abstract: An instrument panel for vehicles includes a substrate and a an airbag door assembly having one or more gaps forming openings. The substrate includes a breakaway web below the airbag door assembly. An upper skin extends over a portion of the substrate and the airbag door assembly. Foam is disposed between the substrate and the upper skin. An airbag module is positioned below the breakaway web. When deployed, the airbag causes the breakaway web and foam above the airbag door assembly to rupture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yoon Kim, Israel Martinez Martinez, Alejandro Nieto Gaspar, Francisco Ronquillo Melendez, Thomas Junior Luckett
  • Heterocycle-heterocycle-based group IV transition metal catalysts for olefin polymerization
    Patent number: 12252573
    Abstract: The polymerization process of this disclosure includes includes polymerizing ethylene and one or more olefins in the presence of a catalyst system under olefin polymerization conditions to form an ethylene-based polymer. The catalyst system comprising a metal-ligand complex according to formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: David Koenigs, David D. Devore, Brad C. Bailey, Endre Szuromi, Robert D. Grigg, David M. Pearson, Nolan T. McDougal, John B. Etienne, Sukrit Mukhopadhyay
  • Inducing caspase activity
    Patent number: 12251399
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards methods of inducing caspase activity. The methods include contacting a cell with a treatment compound represented by the following Formula (I), where the treatment compound is a random copolymer, R1 is selected from hydrogen and a hydroxyl group, R2 is selected from hydrogen and a hydroxyl group, R1 is different than R2, and a sum of x and y is from 4 to 20,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Caroline Woelfle-Gupta, Andrew Scott, Matthew LeBaron, Daniel Wilson, Susan L. Jordan, Robert L. Schmitt, Raja Settivari
  • AUGMENTED REALITY (AR) ASSISTED DIE MAKING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250086346
    Abstract: A method of performing a finishing operation on a surface of a component includes: acquiring, by a sensing system, an image of the surface of the component; retrieving a CAD model of the surface of the component; comparing the image of the surface of the component with the CAD model of the surface of the component; determining at least one target area on the surface of the component where a difference in a geometry between the image and the CAD model of the surface of the component exceeds a threshold; and displaying at least one visual overlay corresponding to the at least one target area on a real-world content or a virtual content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raj Sohmshetty, Elizabeth Bullard, Chris Schultz, Jeff Tornabene, Martin Smets, Jian Wan, Lorne Forsythe, Kyle Saul, Ramesh Parameswaran
  • REMOVABLE AND DOCKABLE DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20250083524
    Abstract: A device assembly of a vehicle that includes a display housing where a display is attached to the front of the housing and a receiver is attached to the rear of the housing. The receiver couples to a receiver mount on the vehicle. An interlock connection exists between the display housing and the receiver mount. When the interlock connection is locked, triggered by the car being in a dynamic state, the display housing cannot be slidably decoupled from the receiver mount. When the interlock connection is unlocked, triggered by the vehicle being in a static state, the display housing can be slidably decoupled from the receiver mount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Harmon, Leyna Hirsch, Hussain Z. Tajmahal
  • DEBURRING GAUGE FOR STATOR OF AN ELECTRIC MOTOR
    Publication number: 20250088084
    Abstract: A deburring gauge system that includes a gauge set, a gauge holder secured to the gauge set, and a controller. The gauge set is configured to be at least partially inserted into a slot set of a stator. Each gauge part of the gauge set includes a body having a shape that corresponds to a shape of a respective slot of the slot set. The body of each gauge part includes an abrasive portion extending along a length of the body. The controller is in communication with the gauge holder and configured to move the gauge holder in a first direction toward the stator so that the abrasive portion of the body is at least partially inserted into the respective slot and move the gauge holder in a second direction away from the stator so that the abrasive portion of the body is removed from the respective slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner
  • CANTILEVERED SENSOR ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20250085398
    Abstract: A sensor assembly can include a bracket mounted to a vehicle roof in an attachment area of the vehicle roof. The bracket may cover the attachment area and the bracket may include a cantilevered portion extending in a vehicle-forward direction from a forwardmost point of the attachment area. A sensor can be mounted to, or within, the cantilevered portion forward of the forwardmost point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Robertson, JR., Segundo Baldovino, Venkatesh Krishnan
  • LOAD-LIMITING SEATBELT RETRACTOR
    Publication number: 20250083634
    Abstract: A seatbelt retractor includes a frame and a spool rotatably supported by the frame. A ring is coaxial with the spool on a rotational axis and is selectively lockable with the spool. A locking device is operatively coupled between the spool and the ring to rotationally engage the spool with the ring in a locked position and rotationally disengage the spool from the ring in an unlocked position. One of the ring or the frame defines a recess and a tab is fixed to and extends from the other of the ring or the frame into the recess. When the locking device is in the locked position, the tab is elastically deformable relative to the ring and the frame when rotational force on the ring relative to the frame about the rotational axis exceeds a deformation threshold to allow rotation of the ring relative to the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ROBOTIC ASSISTED DIE SURFACE FINISHING
    Publication number: 20250085694
    Abstract: A method of performing a finishing operation on a surface of a component includes: (a) generating an image of the surface of the component; (b) comparing the image of the surface of the component with a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) model of the surface of the component to identify a target area to be finished; (c) selecting, by a controller, one of a plurality of finishing tools to perform the finishing operation on the target area; (d) operating, by a robot, a selected one of the plurality of finishing tools to perform the finishing operation; (e) measuring a surface roughness of the target area; and (f) repeating steps (a) to (e) until the surface roughness of the target area satisfies a predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Raj Sohmshetty, Chris Schultz, Elizabeth Bullard, Jeff Tornabene, Ramesh Parameswaran, Kyle Saul, Lorne Forsythe
  • FLEXIBLE REAR STORAGE COMPARTMENT
    Publication number: 20250083610
    Abstract: A vehicle device for cargo space of a vehicle includes a container configured to be arranged behind a rear bench seat in an installed state and having an access on the vehicle cab side. A headrest is mounted on the rear bench seat displaceably between an upper position and a lower position. The container and the headrest are arranged on a common axis that is configured to be oriented parallel to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle in the upper position of the headrest. A pivotable lid is designed to open and close the container. The opening of the container is free in the lower position of the headrest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nils Kuether, Carsten Schauf
  • ANONYMIZING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION IN IMAGE DATA
    Publication number: 20250086315
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to identify personally identifiable information (PII) in an initial image frame; encode a region containing the PII of the initial image frame to a latent vector with a lower dimensionality than the region; anonymize the region from the initial image frame, resulting in a modified image frame; and associate the latent vector with the modified image frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David Michael Herman
  • POSE GENERATION VIA LIDAR SENSOR MEASUREMENTS
    Publication number: 20250085429
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to generate a set of points from a measurement scan obtained by a lidar sensor and to generate an expected termination distance of the set of points based on a neural implicit representation of the set of points. The instructions may additionally be to compute a loss function that includes a relatively low margin correlated with the variance or standard deviation of a training distribution centered at a learned point of the set of points based on the expected termination distance of the learned point, the learned point being learned by the neural implicit representation. The instructions may additionally be to generate a keyframe from the set of points and to generate a pose of the lidar sensor based on the keyframe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Seth Isaacson, Pou-Chun Kung, Katherine Skinner, Manikandasriram Srinivasan Ramanagopal, Ramanarayan Vasudevan
  • LIQUID PHASE SINTERED ALUMINUM ALLOY FOR BINDER JET PRINTING
    Publication number: 20250084510
    Abstract: An alloy includes a mixture of aluminum, tin and magnesium. An amount of the magnesium is between about 2.5% and 6.5% by weight of the mixture. The alloy is binder jet printed and liquid phase sintered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicants: Ford Global Technologies, LLC, The University of Western Australia, The University of Melbourne
    Inventors: Graham Schaffer, Tim Sercombe, Tesfaye Molla, Yang Huo, Mei LI, Mark Meinhart, John Cornell, Ampaiphan Atthapreyangkul, Jincheng Wang, Andrew Youssef, Sean Oakley, Joss Doak-Smith
  • Systems and methods for providing a heating cycle to an after-treatment system of a vehicle
    Patent number: 12247506
    Abstract: A method of providing a heating cycle for an after-treatment system is described. The method comprises initiating a pre-charge cycle of a DCDC converter and determining a temperature of the after-treatment system. In response to determining the temperature of the after-treatment system is below a threshold temperature and the pre-charge is complete, the method further comprises operating a solid-state switch to electrically connect a high voltage power source to a heating element to of the after-treatment system, and heating the after-treatment system with the heating element until the after-treatment system reaches the threshold temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Cox, David Hesketh, Themi Petridis
  • Displaceable panel for seating assembly
    Patent number: 12246627
    Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly includes a seat and a seatback. The seatback includes a frame that has opposing first and second frame members and first and second displaceable panels that are pivotably coupled to the first and second frame members. The first and second displaceable panels are movable between stored positions and deployed positions in response to a force exerted on the seatback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ranjit Nagi, Nathan Pabalate, Nicholas Gilbert, Patrick Davis, Megan Romelfanger