Patents Assigned to Global Technologies LLC
  • Flexible single piece sliding door
    Patent number: 9421914
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a seatback having an opening defined along a portion thereof. A track is coupled with the seatback adjacent the opening and extends in an imperfect arc. A door comprising a single piece, flexible body is supported by the track and is slidable between an open position and a closed position relative to the opening. The door is moveable through the imperfect arc by flexing of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alan George Dry, Joseph S. Talamonti, Gunnar Groesbeck
  • Pulse joining cartridges
    Patent number: 9421636
    Abstract: A pulsed joining tool includes a tool body that defines a cavity that receives an inner tubular member and an outer tubular member and a pulse joining cartridge. The tubular members are nested together with the cartridge being disposed around the outer tubular member. The cartridge includes a conductor, such as a wire or foil, that extends around the outer tubular member and is insulated to separate a supply segment from a return segment. A source of stored electrical energy is discharged through the conductor to join the tubular members with an electromagnetic force pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sergey Fedorovich Golovashchenko, John Joseph Francis Bonnen
  • Rapid synchronizer touch point adjustment
    Patent number: 9423024
    Abstract: A method of adapting transmission controls to locate synchronizer touch points in an automated layshaft transmission. This method may include actuating a motor to move a shift drum along a layshaft at an essentially constant speed; measuring a feedback current as the motor moves the shift drum; detecting a first spike in feedback current adjacent to a second spike in feedback current for a gear; determining a shift drum angle for the first spike; and adjusting a transmission controller to set a synchronizer touch point at a shift drum angle adjacent to the first feedback current spike for the gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Tumavitch, Shawn A. Holland, Bradley D. Riedle, William L. Murray
  • System and method for scutching material fibers
    Patent number: 9421548
    Abstract: In at least one or more embodiments, a system for scutching material fibers includes first and second plates defining a first cavity to receive and discharge material fibers, the first plate including a first number teeth extending into the first cavity and movable in a first direction, the second plate including a second number of teeth extending into the first cavity and movable in a second direction different from the first direction. Teeth as present in the first number and/or the second number of teeth may be spaced apart from each. In certain instances, the material fibers may be carbon fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Haibo Zhao, Ann Marie Straccia, Daniel Quinn Houston
  • Modular rigid barrier
    Patent number: 9423319
    Abstract: A rigid barrier system includes a base piece and a face piece. The face piece may be configured to be to be mounted to the base piece, such that the face piece is laterally movable while mounted to the base piece in an unfixed mode. Alternatively or additionally, the rigid barrier system may include a steel floor plate resting on a base layer. A mass of the base layer may be at least ten times a mass of the face piece and the base piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Rodney Simon, Jerome Ng, William McDonald
  • Road characteristic prediction
    Patent number: 9421979
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes at least one sensor that collects infrastructure information in real time and outputs sensor signals representing the collected infrastructure information. A processing device processes the sensor signals, predicts a future road characteristic based on the infrastructure information, and controls at least one vehicle subsystem in accordance with the predicted future road characteristic. A method includes receiving infrastructure information collected in real time, processing the infrastructure information, predicting a future road characteristic based on the infrastructure information, and controlling at least one vehicle subsystem in accordance with the predicted future road characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Joseph Szwabowski, Anthony Mario D'Amato, Dimitar Petrov Filev
  • Coating compositions
    Patent number: 9422444
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards coating compositions comprising from 20 to 85 percent of an aqueous dispersion based on a total weight of the coating composition, a basic water composition, and a crosslinker, wherein the aqueous dispersion comprises a melt blending product of (a) a base polymer comprising a polyolefin, (b) a polymeric performance improving agent (c) a polymeric stabilizing agent, and (d) a polymeric coupling agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Lundgard, Houxiang Tang, Jeffrey Wilbur, Jinghang Wu, David L. Malotky
  • Brake insulator with thermal barrier
    Patent number: 9422995
    Abstract: A brake caliper for a brake system of a vehicle includes a caliper body, a piston, and a brake insulator. The piston may be positioned at least partially inside the caliper body. The brake insulator includes a fabric and is positioned adjacent to a face of the piston. The brake insulator may have a thickness of about 0.75 mm to about 1.5 mm. The brake insulator may include a fabric connected to the piston and the fabric may include polymeric elements. According to at least one exemplary embodiment, a brake insulator for a brake caliper may include a fabric having a plurality of elements positioned relative to one another to create a plurality of interstices between the elements. The interstices may include air pockets and the brake insulator may have a thickness of about 0.75 mm to about 1.5 mm. A vehicle may include the exemplary embodiments of the brake insulator and the brake caliper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Charles K. Evans, Chris Oakwood
  • Process for preparing stable dispersions of starch particles
    Patent number: 9422669
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, the present disclosure provides for a process for preparing a dispersion of starch particles in an aqueous liquid. In one or more embodiments, the process includes introducing a feed starch and the aqueous liquid into a rotor stator mixer, maintaining the feed starch and the aqueous liquid in the rotor stator mixer at a temperature ranging from a gelation temperature to less than a solubilization temperature, and shearing the feed starch into starch particles with the rotor stator mixer to form the dispersion of starch particles in the aqueous liquid. In one or more embodiments, the starch particles produced by this process have an average particle size diameter of no larger than 2 micrometers and the dispersion has 20 to 65 weight percent of the starch particles based on a total weight of the dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Gregory W. Welsch, Brian J. Ninness, Michael D. Read, Timothy J. Young, Michal E. Matteucci, David E. Hammond, Liang Hong, Donald K. Ervick, Jr.
  • Methods and systems for a vehicle driveline
    Patent number: 9421976
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving operation of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, driveline disconnect clutch operation is adjusted in response to vehicle mass so that the vehicle may operate similarly at lower and higher vehicle masses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Allen Doering, Alex O'Connor Gibson, Gregory Michael Pietron, James William Loch McCallum, Yuji Fujii
  • Aminopyridine derivatives for removal of hydrogen sulfide from a gas mixture
    Patent number: 9421492
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel class of aminopyridine derivatives with the general formula: wherein R1; R2, R3, and R4 are each independently hydrogen, an alkyl group, —(O—CH2—CH2)n-OH wherein n is an integer from 0 to 8, —CH2—(O—CH2—CH2)n-OH wherein n is an integer from 0 to 8, an hydroxyalkyl group, an aminoalkyl group where the nitrogen can be part of a 5 or 6 ring membered cycle, an alkylene group containing quaternary ammonium, a carboxylic acid and/or a salt thereof, or a sulphonic acid and/or a salt thereof, preferably R1; R2, R3, and R4 are each hydrogen. The compounds are useful for removal of hydrogen sulfide and other impurities from fluid streams containing hydrogen sulfide, including selective removal from such streams which also contain carbon dioxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Christophe R. Laroche, Gerardo Padilla
  • Shuttle valve assembly and method for intercooler condensation removal
    Patent number: 9422855
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for removing condensate from an intercooler of a turbocharged internal combustion engine. Using valves to drain condensate may create a direct fluidic connection between the compressed air of the intercooler and ambient exterior air, allowing both condensate and compressed air to escape due to valve design or failure of valve actuation devices. To provide a simple and reliable method for removing condensate without removing compressed air, a hollow valve is used to shuttle condensate from the intercooler to the exterior environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: James M. Basile, Joseph Skrobowski, Scott Willis
  • Universal joint with protective shield
    Patent number: 9422987
    Abstract: A constant velocity (CV) joint includes a shield to protect a J-boot from damage due to projectiles such as stones and to prevent ballooning. A rigid portion of the shield is fixed to a ring, which is adapted for fixation to a powertrain component such as a transmission. A flexible portion of the shield prevents projectiles from entering through the opening created by non-coincident axes of the shaft and ring. The flexible portion has a number of truncated conical panels with alternating orientation that accommodate the variable size opening by flexing in an accordion-like fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Peter Nicholas, Jonathan Gretsky, Scott Wilson, Anthony Paskus
  • Traction battery assembly with plenum arranged to promote development of more uniform pressure therein
    Patent number: 9425444
    Abstract: A vehicle battery assembly includes a housing defining a plenum having an inlet, and a plurality of battery cells disposed within the housing. The plenum has an effective cross-sectional area that decreases as a distance from the inlet increases and is arranged to promote development of generally uniform pressure within the plenum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas A. Wagner
  • Modular powertrain component for hybrid electric vehicles
    Patent number: 9421857
    Abstract: An assembly includes a torque converter including a casing supported for rotation about an axis, a rotor hub secured to the torque converter casing for rotation about the axis, a leg member secured to and supporting the rotor hub for rotation about the axis, and an electric machine including a rotor secured to the rotor hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Steven A. Frait, John E. Brevick, Keith A. Devereaux
  • Pouch for fresh produce item and method
    Patent number: 9422098
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pouch for holding a fresh produce item and a method. The pouch includes (A) a body composed of at least one flexible multilayer film having a haze value less than 20%. The body further includes a front wall, a rear wall, and a gusset panel that form a closed chamber. (B) The gusset panel includes a rim. (C) A fresh produce item is located in the closed chamber. (D) The pouch has a chamber-to-rim ratio (mm) from 6:1 to 200:1. At least a portion of at least one wall is transparent permitting a person to see the fresh produce item in the pouch. The method includes displaying the fresh produce item through at least one of the front wall or the rear wall at a chamber-to-rim ratio from 6:1 to 200:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Jill M. Martin, Haley Lowry, James F. Warner, Jihoon Kim, Thomas A. Herbert
  • Single polymer film structures for use in stand-up-pouches
    Patent number: 9421743
    Abstract: The present invention relates to film structure suitable for use in stand up pouches comprising all polyethylene material. The film structure can be a monolayer film or a multilayer film structure having specific requirements for each layer. The combination results in a film structure having adequate stiffness to function as a stand-up pouch while also providing acceptable water vapor transmission rates and good tear resistance. Such films have improved sustainability characteristics as they should permit down-gauging of the films and, can more easily be recycled, at least for the preferred embodiment comprising only polyethylene resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Rosana Rosa, Nicolas C. Mazzola, Jorge C. Gomes
  • Ethylene/alpha-olefin/nonconjugated polyene interpolymers and processes to form the same
    Patent number: 9422383
    Abstract: The invention provides a solution polymerization process to form an ethylene/?-olefin/nonconjugated polyene interpolymer, said process comprising polymerizing ethylene, an ?-olefin, and a nonconjugated polyene in at least one reactor in the presence of a catalyst selected from Formula I, as described herein; and wherein the polymerization is conducted in a continuous process; and wherein the interpolymer has a rheology ratio (V0.1/V100 at 19° C.) greater than, or equal to, 20.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Colin LiPiShan, Thomas W. Karjala, Michael L. Smith, Liam P. Spencer, Jerzy Klosin
  • Tritylated alkyl aryl ethers
    Patent number: 9422493
    Abstract: A compound having formula (Ph3C)mAr(R1)j(OR2)n, wherein Ph represents a phenyl group, Ar is an aromatic ring system having from six to twenty carbon atoms, R1 and R2 independently are C1-C18 alkyl or C4-C18 heteroalkyl, m is one or two, j is an integer from one to four and n is an integer from one to three.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignees: Rohm and Haas Company, Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Robert Butterick, III, George David Green, Raymond J. Swedo
  • EGR operation method and system for increased drivability
    Patent number: 9422878
    Abstract: A method for an engine may comprise, in response to an EGR valve closing, determining an EGR oxygen content, and purging an EGR system when the EGR oxygen content is less than a threshold oxygen content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Pohlkamp, Brien Lloyd Fulton