Patents Assigned to Global Technologies LLC
  • Patent number: 9486798
    Abstract: A method for making an anion exchange or chelant resin comprising a vinyl aromatic polymer including a repeating unit comprising an aromatic ring substituted with an aliphatic amino group, wherein the method comprises the step of reacting a vinyl aromatic polymer with a nitro compound comprising from 1 to 12 carbon atoms with the proviso that the ? carbon includes at least one hydrogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignees: Dow Global Technologies LLC, Rohm and Haas Company
    Inventors: George D. Green, John C. Rohanna, Alfred K. Schultz
  • Patent number: 9488152
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for cleaning out condensate stored at a charge air cooler. In response to increased condensate accumulation at a charge air cooler, airflow through the engine is increased to purge the condensate while an engine actuator is adjusted to maintain engine torque. Combustion stability issues of engine cylinders are addressed by adjusting fueling of each cylinder individually during condensate ingestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Paul Glugla, Kristofor Robert Norman, Shuya Shark Yamada
  • Patent number: 9487128
    Abstract: A running board of a vehicle is provided herein. The running board includes a housing and a light-producing assembly disposed inside the housing. The light-producing assembly includes a plurality of light sources and a photoluminescent structure configured to luminesce in response to excitation by light emitted from the plurality of light sources, wherein luminescent light escapes the housing via a first light permeable portion and a second light permeable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Paul Kenneth Dellock, Harry Lobo, Michael Musleh
  • Patent number: 9487211
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting the operation of an electric coolant pump in a hybrid vehicle system. During vehicle compression braking conditions, a motor propels the vehicle while the engine spins un-fueled to absorb torque. During such conditions, the coolant pump is operated based on the absorbed torque to maintain an engine temperature within a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Osama A. Abihana
  • Patent number: 9487151
    Abstract: A motor vehicle storage compartment includes a housing defining an interior storage space and a top having a cutout defining a rear lip for supporting at least a portion of an item. A pivoting front support is provided, configured to bias between an open position and a closed position. A retainer is provided to keep the front support in the closed position. When biased to the closed position, the front support defines a lip for supporting an opposed portion of the item. When biased the front support the open position, the item falls into the storage compartment interior storage space for retrieval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Keith Daniel Roupe, Randall Walter Lomako
  • Patent number: 9488127
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a head gasket positioned between a cylinder block and a cylinder head. The cylinder block has first and second cylinders separated by a block bore bridge, and a block cooling jacket with a first passage and a second passage intersecting a block deck face. The cylinder head has first and second chambers separated by a head bore bridge, and a head cooling jacket with a third passage and a fourth passage intersecting a head deck face. The gasket forms a slot positioned adjacent to at least one of the block bore bridge and the head bore bridge to fluidly connect the first and fourth passages to cool the at least one of the block bore bridge and head bore bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Theodore Beyer, Jody Michael Slike, Jeffrey D. Fluharty, John Christopher Riegger, Scott Eeley
  • Patent number: 9490461
    Abstract: A passenger vehicle is provided with a seating row that is oriented in a passenger compartment forward of a storage compartment. The seating row has a seat back that is pivotally connected to the vehicle body for providing access to the storage compartment when the seat back is in a collapsed position. A battery having a top surface is mounted within the storage compartment. A receptacle is provided with a back surface that is connected to the top surface of the battery by a panel. The receptacle moves in a fore-and-aft direction relative to the battery between a rearward position within the storage compartment and a forward position within the passenger compartment. A face of the receptacle engages the seat back, and the panel extends from the receptacle to the battery in the forward position for providing a raised platform extending to the passenger compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Marc Jonathon Lucas, John Stephen Wuerth, Peter Daniel Houk
  • Patent number: 9488139
    Abstract: An engine system including an air intake duct positioned upstream of an engine cylinder may include an ice ingestion feature for retaining condensation. An ice ingestion feature may include indents formed in the bottom of an air intake duct wall. As such, the ice ingestion feature may include compartments and/or grooves of varying depths, widths, and/or angles such that the ice retention rate may be based on the surface area of the compartment or grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Scott M. Rollins, Christopher B. Bishop
  • Patent number: 9488535
    Abstract: A battery pack thermistor test method includes charging a battery pack, monitoring a rise in average temperature reported by at least one thermistor on the battery pack over a predetermined time period, preparing at least one thermistor slope by calculating a least square fit of time vs. temperature for the at least one thermistor and comparing the at least one thermistor slope to process-defined thermistor slope limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Robert C Keeton
  • Publication number: 20160319479
    Abstract: The present invention provides strategies to improve the moisture management properties of textiles while retaining high comfort levels. The treatments also help to protect textiles against microbial growth. The treatment strategies of the present invention are based at least in part on the use of cationic bis-imidazoline(s) and their salts. Quaternized bis-imidazoline cations and their salts are particularly preferred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Sandeep Nikam, Ritesh Gulabani, Yogaraj Nabar
  • Publication number: 20160316744
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions containing a wetting agent, a polycarboxylate type surfactant, and a sulfonate type surfactant. The composition can be used as an additive package composition in a pesticide suspension concentrate formulation to enhance thermal stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Wei Lu, Hua Ren, Jianhai Mu, Dong Yun, Jing Ji, Xiaohua Wang, Ling Zhong
  • Patent number: 9481395
    Abstract: A vehicle frame is provided having a frame. The frame includes a main rail and a lateral rail. A bracket is operably coupled to the main rail. The vehicle frame assembly also includes a wedged shape deflecting member. The wedged shape deflecting member has a first end which is operably coupled to the bracket and a second end which is operable between a standard use position and a collision event position. The standard use position is where the second end is spaced a predetermined distance from the main rail. The collision event position is when the second end is in abutting contact with the main rail. During a collision event, the second end moves from the standard use position to the collision event position such that the deflecting member absorbs and deflects energy imparted on the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ridha Baccouche, Saeed David Barbat, Jamel E. Belwafa, Rahul Arora
  • Patent number: 9481067
    Abstract: The present invention in one or more embodiments provides a roller tool for roughening a friction ring of a brake disk, the roller tool including a roller body including inner and outer ends and a casing surface positioned there-between, the inner end differing in cross-section dimension than the outer end, the casing surface including thereupon one or more protrusions for contacting the friction ring. The roller tool may further include a support frame supporting the roller body. The support frame may include a short leg connected to the outer end of the roller body and a long leg connected to the inner end of the roller body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gerhard Flores, Josef Koepp, Valeri Hartmann, Clemens Maria Verpoort
  • Patent number: 9481788
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing stable aqueous epoxy resin dispersions with polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) in finely divided, solid, or granular form as a primary dispersant, and stable aqueous epoxy resin dispersions made thereof. Specifically, the process is a solvent free continuous extrusion dispersion process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Liang Chen, Liang Hong, David L. Malotky
  • Patent number: 9482191
    Abstract: A system for an engine, comprising: a fuel tank; a thermal regulator comprising a phase-change material, the thermal regulator coupled to the fuel tank; and an engine coolant passage positioned to transfer thermal energy between engine coolant and the phase-change material. In this way, the temperature of the fuel tank may be managed passively by the phase-change material, and actively by engine coolant, thereby allowing heat energy to be shunted away from the fuel tank, cooling the fuel within the fuel tank, and reducing fuel vapor concentration, thus enabling a fuel vapor canister with a reduced size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Seung-Man Yang, Aed M Dudar, Russell Randall Pearce, Shahid Ahmed Siddiqui
  • Patent number: 9482176
    Abstract: A system and method for operating an engine using gaseous fuel is described. In one example, engine operation is adjusted responsive to a temperature of air entering an engine and a resultant temperature of a gaseous fuel injected to the engine. The system and method may improve engine air-fuel control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Ross Dykstra Pursifull
  • Patent number: 9481070
    Abstract: The invention provides a polishing pad suitable for planarizing at least one of semiconductor, optical and magnetic substrates. The polishing pad is a cast polyurethane polymeric matrix formed from an isocyanate-terminated molecule and a curative agent. The cast polyurethane polymeric matrix contains 4.2 to 7.5 weight percent fluid-filled microspheres in the isocyanate-terminated molecule. The fluid-filled-microspheres is polymeric and has an average diameter of 10 to 80 ?m and the polishing pad having a conditioner sensitivity (CS) of 0 to 2.6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignees: Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials CMP Holdings, Inc., Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bainian Qian, George C. Jacob, Kun-Ming Tsai
  • Patent number: 9482287
    Abstract: Stress-relief grooves are provided in a pressure plate of a friction element assembly in a motor vehicle comprising a transmission. The friction element assembly includes a piston assembly provided for applying a force to a set of plates and friction members to cause torque to be transmitted through the friction element assembly. A pressure plate is supported by the housing and held in place by a snap ring mounted in a mounting groove. The pressure plate includes a first side facing the set of plates and friction members and a second side having at least one stress-relief groove configured to reduce stress in the housing at the mounting groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Bradley Ronald Heuver
  • Patent number: 9481296
    Abstract: An illuminated emblem assembly is provided that includes a power source, a backing member, and a light-producing assembly coupled to the power source and supported by the backing member. The light-producing assembly includes a plurality of light-emitting diode sources. The light-producing assembly may also include a plurality of micro-sized, dispersed light-emitting diode sources. The illuminated emblem assembly further includes a translucent base region over the light sources, a chromatic layer over the translucent base region and a UV-stable translucent sealing structure over the chromatic layer that seals the backing member, the light producing assembly, and the chromatic layer. The sealing structure may be UV-stable and/or include a design feature. The illuminated emblem assembly exhibits a chrome- or mirror-like finish when viewed under ambient lighting conditions. Further, the illuminated emblem assembly possesses a glowing appearance when activated under low light or nighttime conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Richard J. Roberts, LaRon Michelle Brown, Cornel Lewis Gardner
  • Patent number: D770950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: George Bucher, Dean Carbis