Patents Assigned to Global Technologies LLC
  • REAR COLLISION AVOIDANCE AND MITIGATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160207530
    Abstract: Data is collected from vehicle sensors to generate a virtual map of objects proximate to the vehicle. Based on the virtual map, an in-vehicle computer determines a traffic condition in front of and behind a host vehicle. The in-vehicle computer determines collision avoidance maneuvers. The computer instructs vehicle control units to implement the collision avoidance maneuvers. The computer may additionally or alternatively communicate the collision avoidance maneuvers to a driver via an interface. In the case of unavoidable collisions, the computer determines and initiates damage mitigation actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. Stanek, Tobias John Pallett, Sarra Awad Yako, Mark Davison, Mark Douglas Malone, Mathew Alan Boesch, John A. Lockwood, Hsin-hsiang Yang, Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Manoharprasad K. Rao
  • VELOCITY BASED PEDESTRIAN SENSING
    Publication number: 20160207495
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a sensor configured to output an impact signal and a processing device programmed to calculate an acceleration envelope from the impact signal, calculate a velocity envelope from the acceleration envelope, determine a threshold value based at least in part on a vehicle speed, and compare the acceleration envelope to the threshold value. The processing device is further programmed to output a control signal to deploy a pedestrian protection countermeasure if the acceleration envelope exceeds the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jialiang Le, Manoharprasad K. Rao, Hubert Szawarski
  • VIRTUAL AUTONOMOUS RESPONSE TESTBED
    Publication number: 20160210383
    Abstract: A computing device includes a processing circuit and a data storage medium, and is programmed to receive a user input representing a vehicle control action associated with operating a virtual vehicle in a virtual environment, virtually navigate the virtual vehicle through the virtual environment according to the vehicle control action, collect virtual sensor data, and process the virtual sensor data collected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Alaniz, Ashley Elizabeth Micks, Vidya Nariyambut murali, Sneha Kadetotad, Harpreetsingh Banvait, Jinesh J. Jain
  • VIRTUAL SENSOR TESTBED
    Publication number: 20160210775
    Abstract: A computing device comprising a processing circuit and a data storage medium. The computing device is programmed to receive virtual sensor data that represents data collected by a virtual sensor associated with autonomously operating a virtual vehicle in a virtual environment and process the virtual sensor data to identify a limitation of a real-world sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Alaniz, Vidya Nariyambut murali, Ashley Elizabeth Micks, Harpreetsingh Banvait, Sneha Kadetotad
  • AUTONOMOUS DRIVING REFINED IN VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
    Publication number: 20160210382
    Abstract: A computing device includes a processing circuit and a data storage medium. The computing device is programmed to receive a user input selecting at least one testing parameter associated with autonomously operating a virtual vehicle in a virtual environment, simulate the virtual environment incorporating the at least one testing parameter, virtually navigate the virtual vehicle through the virtual environment, collect virtual sensor data, and processing the collected virtual sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Arthur Alaniz, Harpreetsingh Banvait, Ashley Elizabeth Micks, Vidya Nariyambut murali
  • Methods and systems for engine stopping
    Patent number: 9393954
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improving operation of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, an engine is stopped to a desired position via slipping a driveline disconnect clutch so that engine starting may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alex O'Connor Gibson, Jeffrey Allen Doering, Adam Nathan Banker, David Oshinsky, Dennis Craig Reed
  • Photoluminescent engine compartment lighting
    Patent number: 9393904
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus for a vehicle is disclosed. The illumination apparatus comprises at least one photoluminescent portion disposed on at least one feature of an engine compartment. A lighting controller is in communication with a vehicle controller and a lighting device located proximate a hood of the vehicle. The light source is configured to emit a first emission to excite the at least one photoluminescent portion to illuminate a region of interest corresponding to the at least one feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Vichit Chea
  • Fuel control for spark ignited engine having a particulate filter system
    Patent number: 9394844
    Abstract: A system for filtering and oxidizing particulate matter produced by a gasoline direct injection engine is disclosed. In one embodiment, engine cylinder air-fuel is adjusted to allow soot to oxidize at an upstream particulate filter while exhaust gases are efficiently processed in a downstream catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Carolyn Parks Hubbard, Robert Walter McCabe, Eva Thanasiu, Jeffrey Scott Hepburn, Helmut Hans Ruhland, Moritz Klaus Springer, Thomas Lorenz, Georg Louven, David Karl Bidner
  • Method and system for pre-ignition control
    Patent number: 9394846
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for addressing cylinder pre-ignition. Each cylinder of an engine may be operated in either a split injection mode or a single injection mode based on the pre-ignition history of the cylinder. The timing and number of injections in the split injection mode is adjusted based on the pre-ignition count of the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Chris Paul Glugla, Robert Sarow Baskins
  • Method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine
    Patent number: 9394834
    Abstract: A system is disclosed herein for a four-stroke internal combustion engine, the system comprising: at least two cylinders; a fuel direct injection device; a variable valve timing system; an engine controller to control spark ignition and valve timing according to load; wherein, below a lower load threshold, a first cylinder is deactivated, an injection of fuel takes place into a combustion chamber of the first cylinder and an outlet valve of the first cylinder is open during a compression stroke. Fuel injected into the deactivated cylinders may enter the exhaust tract through the open outlet valves and serve as a reducing agent therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Yasser Mohamed sayed Yacoub
  • Methods for annealing block copolymers and articles manufactured therefrom
    Patent number: 9394411
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a block copolymer comprising a first block derived from a vinyl aromatic monomer; where the vinyl aromatic monomer has at least one alkyl substitution on an aromatic ring; a second block derived from a siloxane monomer; where a chi parameter that measures interactions between the first block and the second block is 0.03 to 0.18 at a temperature of 200° C. Disclosed herein is a method comprising polymerizing a vinyl aromatic monomer to form a first block; and polymerizing a second block onto the first block to form a block copolymer; where the second block is derived by polymerizing a siloxane monomer; and where the block copolymer has a chi parameter of 0.03 to 0.18 at a temperature of 200° C.; where the chi parameter is a measure of interactions between the first block and the second block of the copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, ROHM AND HAAS ELECTRONIC MATERIALS LLC
    Inventors: Shih-Wei Chang, Jong Keun Park, John W. Kramer, Erin B. Vogel, Phillip D. Hustad, Peter Trefonas, III
  • Low density ethylene-based polymers with high melt strength
    Patent number: 9394389
    Abstract: The invention provides a composition comprising a first ethylene-based polymer, formed by a high pressure, free-radical polymerization process, and comprising the following properties: a) a Mw(abs) versus I2 relationship: Mw(abs)<A×[(I2)B], where A=5.00×102 (kg/mole)/(dg/min)B, and B=?0.40; and b) a MS versus I2 relationship: MS?C×[(I2)D], where C=13.5 cN/(dg/min)D, and D=?0.55.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Otto J. Berbee, Cornelis F. J. den Doelder, Teresa P. Karjala, Karl Zuercher, Jian Wang, Stefan Hinrichs
  • Acetylated polyol hydroxystearate plasticizers and plasticized polymeric compositions
    Patent number: 9394425
    Abstract: Plasticizers having an acetylated polyol hydroxystearate and plasticized polymeric compositions containing such plasticizers. Such plasticized polymeric compositions can be employed in forming various articles of manufacture, such as coated conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bharat I. Chaudhary, Beate Sczekalla
  • Supercharged internal combustion engine with exhaust-gas turbochargers arranged in series and method for operating an internal combustion engine of said type
    Patent number: 9394855
    Abstract: A supercharged internal combustion engine, comprising a high-pressure turbine connected to a channel of a low-pressure turbine and a bypass line, branching from upstream the high-pressure turbine, connectable to the channels of the low-pressure turbine via a control element positioned within the bypass line, is provided. Adjusting the control element fluidly connects each of the channels of the low-pressure turbine to the bypass line responsive to the exhaust-gas flow rate to optimize the performance of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Andreas Kuske
  • Compositions of dibromomalonamide and their use as biocides
    Patent number: 9392789
    Abstract: The application describes synergistic microbicidal compositions comprising: 2,2-dibromomalonamide and an oxidizing biocide selected from the group consisting of: monochloramine, bromochlorodimethylhydantoin, hypobromite ion or hypobromous acid, hydrogen peroxide, dichloroisocyanurate, trichloroisocyanurate and chlorine dioxide and a method for controlling microorganism growth in an aqueous or water-containing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Freddie L. Singleton, Bei Yin, Janardhanan S. Rajan
  • Method of controlling the stopping and starting of an engine of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 9394872
    Abstract: A method of controlling the stopping and starting of an engine is disclosed in which, during an engine shut-down period, if a signal indicative of a request for restarting the engine is generated, the engine 1000 is restarted if the engine speed (N) is within a predefined speed range and the absolute pressure (MAP) in a manifold of the engine is below a predefined limit MAPlim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Howell, Anthemios Philemon Petridis, Richard John Hippley
  • Fuel filler spud diffuser
    Patent number: 9393863
    Abstract: A system for diffusing a fuel flow for a vehicle. The system includes a fuel tank, containing fuel in both liquid and vapor form. A fuel filler spud extends from a fuel inlet on the exterior of the vehicle into the fuel tank and defines a fuel outlet there. A diffuser is mounted on the fuel filler spud for diffusing fuel flowing into the tank. The diffuser can take the form of a tongue-like protrusion, which can have flow channels or grooves, as well as flow diverters, which can be arranged in a matrix in the fuel outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Frank Topolovec, Dennis Michael Harrigan, Daniel Frank Cragel
  • Method and system for stopping an engine
    Patent number: 9393949
    Abstract: A method and a system for improving operation of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, a disconnect clutch is operated in response to an engine stop request to adjust an engine stopping position during an engine shutdown. The approach may reduce engine starting time after the engine stop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alex O'Connor Gibson, David Oshinsky, Seung-Hoon Lee, Jeffrey A. Doering, Dennis Craig Reed
  • Charge air cooling control for boosted engines to actively maintain targeted intake manifold air temperature
    Patent number: 9394858
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for adjusting a charge air cooler fan or charge air cooler coolant pump and an engine cooling fan and/or vehicle grille shutters based on a target manifold charge air temperature. In one example, the grille shutter position and/or engine cooling fan speed may be adjusted based on a difference between a target manifold charge air temperature and a temperature of the charge air cooler cooling medium. Further, the charge air cooler fan speed or charge air cooler coolant pump speed may be adjusted based on a difference between a charge air cooler inlet charge air temperature and the target manifold charge air temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Adam J. Richards, John Eric Rollinger
  • Torsional damping using a torque convertor bypass clutch
    Patent number: 9393947
    Abstract: A method for controlling a clutch driveably connected to an engine and vehicle wheels includes stopping fuel supply to an engine cylinder, provided a misfire occurs in the cylinder, producing slip across the clutch, resuming fuel supply to the engine cylinder, provided engine speed and engine load remain below reference limits, and adjusting a state of the clutch without reference to engine misfiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Chris P. Glugla, Robert S. Baskins