Patents Assigned to Global Technologies LLC
  • Cooling Line Grommet Sealing Passage Through Multiple Vehicle Panels
    Publication number: 20150035319
    Abstract: A grommet assembly for sealing an opening through a floor pan and a reinforcement panel that are spaced apart is disclosed. The grommet assembly also seals around cooling lines that pass through the grommet assembly. The grommet assembly defines hollow sealing legs having extended and inverted positions in which the cooling lines are sealed when the hollow sealing legs are in the inverted position. The grommet assembly seals on the floor pan and is attached to the reinforcement panel. A mounting bracket for the grommet is disclosed having recessed and slotted apertures to aid in receiving the mounting post and aligning the grommet in the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David D. Fabricatore, Emin Oker, Elizabeth Louise Dearie
  • POLYOLEFIN BASED FORMULATIONS FOR MEMBRANES AND FABRICS
    Publication number: 20150038629
    Abstract: The invention provides halogen-free, flame-retardant flexible polyolefin-based formulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventor: Stefan Ultsch
  • SMALL STORAGE POCKETS FOR A VEHICLE SEAT ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20150035325
    Abstract: A vehicle seat assembly includes a seat portion disposed adjacent to a seat back having a front surface, a back surface, an inboard surface, and an outboard surface. A side pocket extends across the inboard surface and terminates at a forward edge proximate the front surface at a first end and terminates at a rearward edge proximate the back surface at a second end. An upper back pocket disposed is on an upper back surface of the seat back and a lower back pocket disposed on a lower back surface of the seat back.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Todd Gagnier
  • STORAGE ASSEMBLY FOR VEHICLE CENTER CONSOLE
    Publication number: 20150035308
    Abstract: A storage assembly for positioning between vehicle seats, includes an enclosable compartment that has opposing longitudinal sidewalls and opposing lateral sidewalls that are connected to the opposing longitudinal sidewalls to define an interior volume. A plurality of retention features are spaced along an upper edge of the opposing longitudinal sidewalls and the opposing lateral sidewalls. A hanging storage module has a rigid panel suspended in the interior volume and a pair of support elements protrudes horizontally from opposing ends of the rigid panel to removably engage a corresponding pair of the plurality of retention features on a select one of the opposing longitudinal sidewalls and the opposing longitudinal sidewalls. The rigid panel has a side portion configured to vertically hold at least one object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Annette Lynn Huebner, Kristin Ann Hellman, Artur Sakarian, Ryan Welch, Scott H. Dunham, Stuart C. Salter, Cornel Lewis Gardner
  • COLLAPSIBLE BICYCLE
    Publication number: 20150035250
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a body configured to house a removable frame, a spare wheel, a removable headrest, and a jack. The frame, the spare wheel, the removable headrest, and the jack can be assembled into a bicycle. Thus, the bicycle includes at least one component having a dual use in a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mangala A. Jayasuriya, James Chih Cheng, Kristin Marie Schondorf
  • Process for Preparing Polycarbamate and Reaction Product Thereof
    Publication number: 20150038670
    Abstract: A first process to produce polycarbamate comprising providing urea in liquid form; and adding the liquid urea to a polyol is provided. A second process for producing polycarbamate comprising adding solid urea to a polyol in liquid form to form a reaction mixture is provided. Also provided is a reaction product produced by the first process or second process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Xinrui Yu, Yiyong He, John W. Hull, JR., Paul Foley
  • System For Machine Grinding A Crankshaft
    Publication number: 20150038059
    Abstract: A machine grinding system is provided for machine grinding the main bearing journals, pin bearing journals, the post surface, gear-fit wall surface, and the flywheel flange surfaces of a four cylinder crankshaft. The system includes three operating stations, each operating station only requiring one machine to maintain the desired production rate. The first operating station machine grinds the main bearing journals, post surface, and gear-fit wall surface; the second operating station machine grinds the pin journals; and the third operating station machine grinds the thrust bearing surfaces and the flywheel flange surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Michael A. Kopmanis
  • MULTILAYERED BUS BAR
    Publication number: 20150035496
    Abstract: An example multilayered bus bar includes, among other things, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer. The second conductive layer is sandwiched between the first and third conductive layers. A polarity of the second conductive layer is different than a polarity of the first and third conductive layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Jun Kikuchi
  • EXHAUST GAS RECIRCULATION CONTROL
    Publication number: 20150033735
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for controlling an exhaust gas recirculation valve in an engine by determining errors in exhaust backpressure estimates and adapting EGR flow estimations based on these errors to meet target EGR dilutions in the engine. In one example approach, a method comprises adjusting valve position based on desired EGR flow and estimated EGR flow, where the estimated flow is based on estimated exhaust backpressure, and the estimated exhaust backpressure is updated based on errors between actual and desired intake oxygen concentration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Imad Hassan Makki, Timothy Joseph Clark
  • Air bag chute topper system
    Patent number: 8944460
    Abstract: An automobile air bag module is provided that includes a housing chute at least partially surrounding an air bag, wherein the housing chute comprises a front wall, a rear wall, at least one sidewall, and a female pocket located adjacent a housing chute sidewall. Also included is a topper cover having a reinforcement protrusion that comprises a male locking tab that matably engages the female pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Nicholas Andrew Mazzocchi
  • Suspension control for pulse/glide green cruise control
    Patent number: 8948969
    Abstract: A method is described comprising modulating vehicle speed about a target speed by operating a vehicle with an engine at high output and then operating the vehicle with the engine off, and adjusting operation of a suspension system based on the vehicle operation with the engine at high output and the engine off to control vehicle pitch during the modulating of vehicle speed about the target speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Davor Hrovat, Dimitar Petrov Filev, Jianbo Lu
  • Door handle system for an automotive vehicle
    Patent number: 8943752
    Abstract: A door handle system for an automotive vehicle door includes a door handle and a body panel. The body panel is moveable between a flush position and a recessed position. If the body panel is in the flush position, portions of the door handle are concealed. If the body panel is in the recessed position, portions of the door handle are visible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Freeman Thomas, David Woodhouse, Jordan Bennett
  • Multi-cylinder internal combustion engine and method for operating a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 8944026
    Abstract: A method for partial cylinder cutoff is provided. The method comprises operating a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine with applied ignition, in which an odd number n of cylinders is arranged in line, and during partial-load operation when engine load is below threshold, enabling a partial cutoff of the cylinders, the partial cutoff comprising operating each cylinder only intermittently such that each cylinder is fired and cut off in turn at an interval of (2*720° CA)/n.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Tobergte, Carsten Weber, Kay Hohenboeken, Helmut Hans Ruhland, Bert Pingen
  • Method and system for brake control
    Patent number: 8944528
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to reduce a hard brake pedal feel. A brake control variable is adjusted in anticipation of a hard pedal condition to increase hydraulic brake line pressure and maintain a normal pedal feel. A pedal force is inferred from brake line pressure relative to brake booster vacuum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Moses Alexander Fridman, Ralph Wayne Cunningham
  • Methods and systems for ammonia slip detection
    Patent number: 8943798
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are described for detecting ammonia slip. In one example method, an amount of exhaust gas recirculation is reduced when output from an exhaust gas sensor indicates an increase in nitrogen oxide above a threshold amount. When the sensor output increases above a second threshold while the exhaust gas recirculation is reduced, the sensor output is allocated to nitrogen oxide; and when the sensor output does not increase above a second threshold while the exhaust gas recirculation is reduced, the sensor output is allocated to ammonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Riffle, Frank M. Korpics, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, Devesh Upadhyay, John Paul Bogema, Jeff Reich
  • Multi-modal route planning
    Patent number: 8949028
    Abstract: A route start point and a route end point are specified. Data is retrieved relating to a vehicle type for possible use on the route, and including at least one attribute of each of one or more possible route waypoints, the at least one attribute relating to at least parking availability for the vehicle type. A route is determined between the start point and the end point at least in part by applying the route parameter to the attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Erica Klampfl, Yimin Liu
  • Solar charged hybrid power system
    Patent number: 8947039
    Abstract: A solar powered hybrid power system including a solar charge collector; a charge storage system comprising at least a first charge storage device adapted to receive and store charge from said solar charge collector; wherein said charge storage system further comprises a power electronic circuit selectively connectable to at least a second charge storage device, said power electronic circuit adapted to transfer said stored charge to said at least a second charge storage device at a selectable voltage level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Jay Louch, Donald Charles Franks
  • System and method for injecting fuel
    Patent number: 8949002
    Abstract: Methods and systems for adjusting fuel injection of an internal combustion engine are disclosed. In one example, a change in fuel pressure is scheduled when a number of pilot fuel injections provided by a fuel injector to a cylinder transitions from a first number during a first engine cycle to a second number during a second engine cycle. The methods and systems may reduce engine emissions and improve engine noise characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Joshua Putman Styron
  • Motor vehicle window regulator with low friction guide rails
    Patent number: 8943665
    Abstract: A motor vehicle window regulator in which a matrix coating is applied to a metal blank. The matrix coating is comprised of particles of a fluoropolymer (such as polytetrafluoroethylene) carried in an organic polymer binder. The coated metal blank is cold-formed to the shape of a guide rail with a longitudinal track disposed along an edge of the guide rail. A window slider is mounted onto the guide rail to slide along the longitudinal track, so that the fluoropolymer particles lubricate the sliding of the window slider on the longitudinal track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chester S. Walawender, Joshua M. Myers, Edward T. Kozak, Douglas L. Wilson
  • Method and apparatus for tracking device connection and state change
    Patent number: 8947221
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to determine if a vehicle computing system (VCS) has been placed in a monitoring mode. The processor is also configured to detect and log the connection or disconnection of any remote devices. The processor is further configured to flag logs if the VCS is in a monitoring mode. Also, the processor is configured to detect the presence of a known vehicle driver or the termination of the monitoring mode and report any flagged logs upon known driver detection or monitoring mode termination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ryan Robert Dauzet