Patents Assigned to Global Technologies LLC
  • HYBRID VEHICLE AND METHOD OF OPERATION
    Publication number: 20150239475
    Abstract: A hybrid electric vehicle includes a powertrain controller and an anti-lock braking system (ABS) controller. The powertrain controller modulates the torque delivered by an internal combustion engine, a generator, and a motor to deliver a desired torque to two drive wheels. The ABS controller modulates the braking torque exerted by brakes on each of the four wheels. During modest braking events with good traction, the motor recaptures vehicle kinetic energy. During heavy braking and/or poor traction, the ABS controller and motor controller each respond to speed sensor signals to modulate the motor and brake torques to minimize stopping distance. The motor torque responds more quickly than the brake torque such that the frequency of oscillation is higher for the combined system than for an independent ABS system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Kerem BAYAR, Hai YU, Ryan Abraham MCGEE
  • Expanding Die for Clinching and Riveting Operations
    Publication number: 20150239077
    Abstract: A die for use with a cold-formed joint tool such as a clinching tool or clinch punch or self-piercing rivet punch. A split die made of a plurality of partial cup-shaped segments is disposed within a collar that defines a recess. The recess includes a forming area in which the cold-formed joint is formed and a relieved area in which the partial cup-shaped segments are shifted radially outwardly after forming to permit removal of the cold-formed joint tool from the cold-formed joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Amanda Kay Freis
  • TRACTION BATTERY THERMAL PLATE WITH LONGITUDINAL CHANNEL CONFIGURATION
    Publication number: 20150244037
    Abstract: A traction battery assembly for a vehicle is provided. The traction battery assembly may include a battery cell array and a thermal plate configured to support the battery cell array. The thermal plate may define an inlet port, two outer channels each having a channel inlet in communication with the inlet port, at least three inner channels disposed between the outer channels, and an outlet port. The ports and channels may be arranged such that fluid traveling through any two adjacent channels flows in opposite directions and fluid, when exiting the thermal plate, empties from one or more of the inner channels into the outlet port without first entering the channel inlets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Amir Jairazbhoy, George Albert Garfinkel, Neil Robert Burrows
  • TRACTION BATTERY THERMAL PLATE WITH MULTI PASS CHANNEL CONFIGURATION
    Publication number: 20150244038
    Abstract: A traction battery assembly for a vehicle is provided. The traction battery assembly may include a plurality of battery cells and a thermal plate positioned beneath the battery cells. The thermal plate may be configured for thermal communication with the plurality of battery cells. The thermal plate may define a plurality of multi-pass channel configurations, each corresponding to one of the battery cells. The multi-pass channel configurations may each include a channel inlet and channel outlet on opposite side portions of the thermal plate. The multi-pass channel configurations may each be configured to direct thermal fluid flowing therein to an outlet port of the thermal plate without directing fluid to the channel inlet of another channel configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Amir Jairazbhoy, George Albert Garfinkel, Neil Robert Burrows, LeeAnn Wang
  • METHOD FOR FUEL INJECTION CONTROL
    Publication number: 20150240737
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for controlling fuel injection in an engine equipped with a dual injector system including a port injector and a direct injector. A ratio of port injected fuel to direct injected fuel is adjusted based at least on intake valve temperature. The proportion of fuel port injected into a cylinder is increased as the intake valve temperature for the given cylinder increases to improve fuel vaporization in the intake port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gopichandra Surnilla, Eric Krengel, Joseph Lyle Thomas, Todd Anthony Rumpsa, Michael Howard Shelby
  • METHODS FOR CORRECTING SPILL VALVE TIMING ERROR OF A HIGH PRESSURE PUMP
    Publication number: 20150240769
    Abstract: Methods are provided for correct spill valve timing of a high pressure pump coupled to the direct injection system of an internal combustion engine. A method is needed to monitor and adjust spill valve timing on-board the vehicle, where spill valve timing error may result from sensors error and/or time between command signal and actuation response of the spill valve. To self-correct spill valve timing error on-board a vehicle, methods are proposed that involve monitoring and recording fuel rail pressures, high pressure pump duty cycles, and fractional liquid volume pumped values in order to find zero flow relationships.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Hao Zhang, Gopichandra Surnilla, Mark Meinhart, Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Joseph F. Basmaji
  • POWER GENERATION SHUTDOWN ALERT
    Publication number: 20150243151
    Abstract: A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, communicating an alert to a location remote from a vehicle in response to disabling a Power Generation mode of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Wright, Walter Joseph Ortmann
  • INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARD FOR IN-CAR COMMUNICATION AND ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150242392
    Abstract: An in-car communication and entertainment system including an international keyboard having a key (e.g., an ABC key) located on a display/screen (e.g., touch screen) enabling a user to toggle through multiple pages of characters, for example accented or special characters associated with a particular language. The key also includes jewels/indicators representing the amount of pages of characters associated with a particular keyboard wherein each jewel or indicator is lit or highlighted to indicate the specific page. Additionally, another key (e.g., a Globe key) enables the user to change the typing language without changing the system language. In this manner, the international keyboard enables users to interface and communicate with the system in a number of different languages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Dean Thomas Wisniewski, Ivette Hernandez, Richard Englert, Jason Bernard Johnson
  • PREDICTING ENERGY CONSUMPTION FOR AN ELECTRIC VEHICLE USING VARIATIONS IN PAST ENERGY CONSUMPTION
    Publication number: 20150239455
    Abstract: An example method of controlling an electric vehicle includes altering operation of an electric vehicle in response to a predicted energy consumption rate. The method includes adjusting the predicted energy consumption in response to variations in past energy consumption rates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Shiqi Qiu, Jason Meyer, Fling Tseng, Sangeetha Sangameswaran
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ENABLING POINT OF INTEREST INFORMATION TO A NAVIGATION SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150241224
    Abstract: A point-of-interest information system comprising a transceiver configured to send and receive data and a processor in communication with the transceiver. The processor configured to receive at least a portion of point-of-interest (POI) data from a nomadic device using the transceiver. The at least a portion of the received POI data is in a first format that is incompatible with a vehicle navigation system. The processor may reformat the at least a portion of the POI data from the first format to a second format compatible with a navigation system according to an application programming interface. The processor may transmit the portion of the POI data to the navigation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Philip Joseph DANNE, Joey Ray GROVER, Joel J. FISCHER
  • ALKOXYLATE COMPOSITIONS AND THEIR USE AS AGRICULTURAL ADJUVANTS
    Publication number: 20150237852
    Abstract: Provided is a surfactant blend and its use as an adjuvant in agricultural compositions. The surfactant blend comprises: (a) an alkoxylate of formula I: R1O-(AO)x-(EO)y—H (I); and (b) an alkoxylate of formula II: R2O-(EO)r—(PO)p-(EO)q—H (II) wherein R1, R2, x, y, r, p, and q are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2012
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ling Zhong, Jeff J. Mu
  • METHOD FOR TRIGGERING A VEHICLE SYSTEM MONITOR
    Publication number: 20150243109
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving the frequency of attempting and successfully completing one or more on-board diagnostic routines. Engine operating conditions are predicted based on a vehicle operator's driving pattern and routines are initiated if the predicted conditions match the conditions required for performing the routine. If the conditions do not match, entry and/or execution conditions of the routine are adjusted to better match the predicted conditions, so as to enable the routine to be attempted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Fling Tseng, Imad Hassan Makki, Robert Roy Jentz, Aed M. Dudar, Dimitar Petrov Filev, John Ottavio Michelini
  • WASTEGATE VALVE SEAT POSITION DETERMINATION
    Publication number: 20150240707
    Abstract: Various methods for compensating variation in the geometry and position of linkages and valve seats in wastegate assemblies are provided. In one example, a method of operating a wastegate in an internal combustion engine comprises, at engine startup, placing a wastegate valve at a seat, recording a position of the seat and associating the seat position with one or more operating parameters, and modifying a position of a wastegate actuator based on the seat position throughout engine operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Yan Wang, Vladimir V. Kokotovic, Amey Y. Karnik, Eric Luehrsen, Gregory Patrick McConville
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REDUCING VANE STICKING IN A VARIABLE GEOMETRY TURBOCHARGER
    Publication number: 20150240708
    Abstract: A method for operating an engine system is described herein. The method includes moving a plurality of vanes in a variable geometry turbocharger toward a closed position in response to tip-out and after moving the plurality of vanes toward the closed position, moving an EGR valve from a fully closed position toward an open position in response to tip-in, the EGR valve in fluidic communication with an exhaust sub-system upstream of the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Jeremy Kostrzewski
  • VEHICLE CHARGING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150239352
    Abstract: A system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a slidable bar, a connecting bar attached to the slidable bar and a charging device carried by the connecting bar and movable with the slidable bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher W. Bell, Frank Kallio
  • DISAMBIGUATION OF DYNAMIC COMMANDS
    Publication number: 20150243283
    Abstract: A first computing device registers a first grammar that is stored in a persistent memory of the first computing device and that is a system grammar of the first computing device. The first computing device further registers at least one second grammar associated with an application stored in at least one second computing device. Input including may be received. The first grammar is selected for the command upon a determination that the input is specified as a command in each of the first grammar and the second grammar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth Halash, Stefan Bankowski, Louis Vincent Bellanca
  • INFORMATIONAL BASED ENGINE STOP/START SENSITIVITY CONTROL FOR MICRO-HEV
    Publication number: 20150239450
    Abstract: A controller may be configured to adjust a brake apply and release detection calibration based on a detection sensitivity associated with a predicted driver start/stop intention for a vehicle and an associated confidence level indicative of a likelihood of the predicted driver intention; and perform at least one of engine startup and engine shutdown according to the adjusted brake pedal detection calibration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: HAI YU, JOHANNES GEIR KRISTINSSON, RYAN ABRAHAM MCGEE, MATHEW ALAN BOESCH
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CHARACTERIZING A PORT FUEL INJECTOR
    Publication number: 20150240739
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are described for calibrating a port injector of a common fuel, dual injector per cylinder engine which includes first and second fuel rails and first and second fuel pumps. In one example, after pressurizing both fuel rails and suspending operation of the two pumps simultaneously, a single cylinder is fueled by a port injector while the remaining cylinders are fueled via their respective direct injectors. Fuel rail pressure drops are measured in the rail coupled to the port injector and correlated to port injector performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ross Dykstra Pursifull, Joseph Lyle Thomas, Gopichandra Surnilla, Daniel Dusa
  • TRACTION BATTERY THERMAL PLATE WITH TRANSVERSE CHANNEL CONFIGURATION
    Publication number: 20150244039
    Abstract: A traction battery assembly for a vehicle is provided. The traction battery assembly may include a battery cell array having a plurality of battery cells. A thermal plate may be positioned beneath the battery cells and be configured for thermal communication therewith. The thermal plate may define a plurality of channel configurations within the thermal plate. Each of the channel configurations may correspond to one of the battery cells and include an inlet and outlet on a same side portion of the thermal plate. An inlet plenum may be in communication with the inlets and an outlet plenum may be in communication with the outlets. The channel configurations and plenums may be arranged such that fluid exiting the inlet plenum enters the channel configurations via the outlets and fluid exiting the outlets enters the outlet plenum and not into the inlet of another one of the channel configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Amir Jairazbhoy, George Albert Garfinkel, Neil Robert Burrows
  • AUTONOMOUS DRIVING SENSING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20150241226
    Abstract: First and second sets of data are collected in a vehicle from respective data sources. Each of the first and second sets of data are provided for determinations respectively selected from first and second categories of autonomous vehicle operations. A determination is made to take an autonomous action selected from the first category of autonomous vehicle operations. Data is used from each of the first and second data sets relating respectively to the first and second categories of autonomous vehicle operations to determine the autonomous action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Publication date: August 27, 2015
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gerald H. Engelman, Alex Maurice Miller, Richard Lee Stephenson, Levasseur Tellis, Timothy D. Zwicky