Patents Assigned to Global Technologies LLC
  • RADIO STATION GENRE CATEGORIZATION
    Publication number: 20150195054
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving a request from a user to locate a radio station similar to a radio station currently providing content in a predefined genre to a radio receiver; accessing stored genre information compiled from a radio station scan to locate a second radio station providing content in the genre; and tuning the radio receiver to the second radio station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joel Fischer, Joey Ray Grover
  • FLEXIBLE FEATURE DEPLOYMENT STRATEGY
    Publication number: 20150193219
    Abstract: A vehicle may gather vehicle build configuration information, and provide a vehicle identifier and the vehicle information to a server. The server may determine a feature set configuration of a configurable module of the vehicle based on the vehicle information and vehicle feature associations retrieved from a vehicle data source, and provide, in a message topic of a topic tree associated with the vehicle identifier to which the vehicle is subscribed, a notification to configure the configurable module. The vehicle may update a feature set configuration of a configurable module supporting a plurality of features based on the notification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ritesh Pandya, Brian Petersen, Joseph Paul Rork, Praveen Yalavarty
  • VEHICLE CUP HOLDER ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20150191116
    Abstract: A vehicle cup holder assembly is provided and includes a cup holder. A cup holder bezel is coupled to the cup holder and has an optical element that receives light and a reflective element that partially encloses the optical element and redirects light propagating inside the optical element, wherein light escapes through a light transmissive region of the optical element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jeffery Forrest
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXTENDING BATTERY LIFE
    Publication number: 20150191098
    Abstract: A method for extending the life cycle of a battery includes receiving a storage mode status signal at a battery controller and incrementally adjusting a state of charge window over a period of time in response to receiving the storage mode status signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xiaoguang Chang, Josephine S. Lee, Xu Wang, Chuan He
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVER NOTIFICATION HANDLING
    Publication number: 20150193598
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive a notification request from an entity in communication with a vehicle computing system (VCS). The processor is also configured to receive notification content and parameters. The processor is further configured to validate a right of the entity to display a notification on the VCS. Also, the processor is configured to validate the content based on permitted content. The processor is additionally configured to validate the parameters based on permitted parameters and queue a notification for display following successful right, the content and parameter verification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joey Ray Grover, Joel Fischer, Justin Dickow
  • AUTONOMOUS GLOBAL SOFTWARE UPDATE
    Publication number: 20150193220
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include subscribing to a first topic tree topic associated with an installed vehicle software component version; identifying a desired software component version based on a published notification retrieved from the first topic; and when the desired version and the installed version differ, updating a software component using a software update retrieved from a second topic tree topic associated with software updates to the installed version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Paul Rork, Brian Petersen, Ritesh Pandya, Praveen Yalavarty
  • IN-VEHICLE CONFIGURABLE SOFT SWITCHES
    Publication number: 20150193030
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method may include receiving input to a vehicle-associated computing system (VACS) touch-sensitive display, requesting adjustment to a powered state of an accessory device connected to a switch module; providing, responsive to the input, a command from a vehicle computing system to the switch module, running on the VACS, to adjust a controlled output of the switch module; and updating the user interface to reflect a result of the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Joey Ray Grover
  • Deployable Upper Leg Stiffener for Pedestrian Protection
    Publication number: 20150191145
    Abstract: A pedestrian safety system for use with a motor vehicle includes a vehicle hood movable between a closed position and a raised position wherein a leading edge of the hood is raised relative to a front surface of the vehicle to form a gap, and a leg stiffener movable between a retracted position wherein it is beneath the hood when the hood is closed and a deployed position wherein the stiffener projects through the gap and is forward of the leading edge of the hood when the hood is raised. At least one actuator mounted beneath the hood moves the stiffener between the retracted and deployed positions. A remote sensing system detects an impending collision with a pedestrian and triggers the raising of the hood and extension of the actuators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Iskander Farooq, Mohammed Omar Faruque
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR APPLICATION DATA TRANSPORT HANDLING
    Publication number: 20150195859
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive communication requests from a plurality of applications executing on a remote device, requesting communication with a vehicle computing system (VCS). The processor is also configured to save an identifier for each requesting application. The processor is further configured to establish a single communication channel to handle the communication requests. Also, the processor is configured to order the communication requests for delivery and relay data requests from the applications to the VCS over the identified transport format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joey Ray Grover, Philip Joseph Danne
  • METHODS AND SYSTEM FOR CATALYST REACTIVATION
    Publication number: 20150192081
    Abstract: Embodiments for reactivating a catalyst are provided. In one example, a method for reactivating a catalyst coupled to an engine comprises when the engine is restarted following deactivation, adjusting a degree of fuel enrichment based on an engine off duration and an engine air amount during the restart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Mahlon Ranspach, Marc G. Uphues, Allen Lehmen
  • VEHICLE HOOD FOLD INITIATOR FREE OF STRUCTURAL REINFORCEMENT
    Publication number: 20150191205
    Abstract: A vehicle hood includes an outer hood member, an inner hood member attached to an under side of the outer hood member and defining at least one fold-initiating opening through the inner hood member and a plurality of structural reinforcements defined by the inner hood member, wherein the at least one fold-initiating opening is positioned distal from each of the plurality of structural reinforcements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Gardynik, Christopher Pope
  • Transverse sill reinforcement for a truck bed and method of making a sill reinforcement
    Patent number: 9073586
    Abstract: A sill reinforcement assembly is provided for a sill area of a pick-up truck bed that is supported on and connected to a pair of frame rails. A unitary one-piece aluminum reinforcement is secured to the frame rails below the pick-up truck bed by a frame bolt fastener. The unitary reinforcement includes a continuous tubular receptacle for the frame bolt. One or more transverse walls of the reinforcement are connected by one or more bridging walls to the tubular receptacle. The transverse walls are connected by one-sided fasteners to a laterally extending wall of transverse beams. The frame bolt extends through the truck bed floor, the tubular receptacle, the transverse beam and is secured to the frame rails below the pick-up truck bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Courtright, Joshua Hemphill, Vincent Chimento
  • Composite polyamide membrane
    Patent number: 9073015
    Abstract: A method for making a composite polyamide membrane including the steps of applying a polyfunctional amine monomer and polyfunctional acyl halide monomer to a surface of the porous support and interfacially polymerizing the monomers to form a thin film polyamide layer, wherein the method is includes at least one of the following steps: i) conducting the interfacial polymerization in the presence of a subject monomer comprising at least one carboxylic acid group linked to an aromatic moiety and wherein the aromatic moiety is further substituted with at least one of an acyl halide or anhydride functional group and ii) applying the subject monomer to the thin film polyamide layer. The invention includes many additional embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Steven Rosenberg, Steven D. Jons, Joseph D. Koob, Mou Paul, XiaoHua Qiu, Abhishek Roy, Chunming Zhang, Aman A. Desai
  • Vehicle interior conversation mirror assembly
    Patent number: 9073494
    Abstract: An overhead console assembly for a vehicle comprising a sunglass bin is disclosed. The sunglass bin defines an outer perimeter configured to be disposed in an overhead console. The overhead console assembly also includes a mirror assembly configured within the outer perimeter of the sunglass bin. The mirror assembly includes an axial engagement assembly that connects the mirror assembly to the sunglass bin. The axial engagement assembly comprises a damper operable to maintain a position of a conversation mirror about a positioning axis relative to the sunglass bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Clark, Scott Simon, Michael Chan, Jeffrey Singer, Anthony Ligi
  • Sterilisation and decontamination device
    Patent number: 9072804
    Abstract: A sterilization, sanitization and/or decontamination device (1) comprising a main body (10) and a detachable control panel, preferably in the form of a lectern (12), the main body having a discharge outlet (16) and containing a humidifier unit, an ozone discharge unit and a controller for controlling the humidifier and ozone discharge units, the detachable control panel including a user interface (40) for wireless remote control of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: DOW Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Dunkley, Mark Hamilton
  • Flexible heat accumulator for engine coolant
    Patent number: 9074826
    Abstract: A heat accumulator for a vehicle engine, comprising storing coolant in a flexible storage container with an inner body and an outer body, with an insulation device arranged between the bodies, and an inflow and an outflow for the coolant wherein the storage container can expand and deflate in response to the amount of coolant stored. The flexible storage container allows for the heat accumulator to conform to various under hood space constraints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Volker Haupts
  • Method for continuously producing low equivalent weight polyols using double metal cyanide catalysts
    Patent number: 9074044
    Abstract: Polyether polyols having equivalent weights of up to 500 are continuously prepared in the presence of a double metal cyanide catalyst. A first step of the reaction is performed at a temperature of at least 150° C., while controlling the hydroxyl content and unreacted alkylene oxide content of the reaction mixture to within certain ranges. A portion of that reaction mixture is withdrawn and permitted to react non-isothermally to consume the unreacted alkylene oxide. This process is highly efficient, does not result in catalyst deactivation, as is commonly seen in previous processes, and does not produce a significant ultra high molecular weight tail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: John W. Weston, Carlos M. Villa, Jean-Paul Masy, Kevin C. Seavey
  • Vehicle suspension mounting system
    Patent number: 9073401
    Abstract: A vehicle suspension subsystem is provided having a leafspring that is mounted to a vehicle frame with a clevis type mounting bracket. An end of the leafspring includes an eyelet which receives a bushing, the bushing in turn receiving a pivot. The clevis type mounting bracket is mounted to the vehicle frame and consists of a metal plate fastened to an L-shaped casted bracket. The metal plate and L-shaped casted bracket have aligned apertures which define a pivot axis. With the pivot being located in the bushing and the bushing located in the eyelet of the leafspring, one end of the pivot is disposed in the aperture of the metal plate and the other end is disposed in the aperture of the L-shaped casted bracket, allowing the leafspring to rotate about the pivot axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John Edward LeMerise, Blake Frost
  • Method and system for control of an EGR valve during lean operation in a boosted engine system
    Patent number: 9074541
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for reducing EGR estimation errors during lean engine operating conditions. During lean engine operation, EGR is disabled if the estimated exhaust air-fuel ratio becomes leaner than a lean threshold. The lean threshold is adjusted based on an upper limit of EGR errors that may be tolerated by the engine at a given engine speed and load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, Todd Anthony Rumpsa, James Alfred Hilditch, Timothy Joseph Clark, Ralph Wayne Cunningham, Julia Helen Buckland, Daniel Joseph Styles
  • Corner connector for a photovoltaic module frame
    Patent number: D733645
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jie Cai, YongJin Guo, YanLi Huo, Shaofu Wu, Wenbin Yao