Patents by Inventor Doug Vandervoort
Doug Vandervoort has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 8371344Abstract: A refilling system for a vehicle including a body panel having a fixed opening, an adjustable refilling assembly partially enclosed by the body panel, the adjustable refilling assembly including a first port and a second port, the adjustable refilling assembly movable between at least a first configuration in which the first port is aligned with the fixed opening and a second configuration in which the second port is aligned with the fixed opening.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Doug Vandervoort, Grant A. Compton, Stanley Jay Novak, Brenda Johnson, Kirk Rasmussen, Marius Efstate
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Publication number: 20120217239Abstract: A refilling system for a vehicle including a body panel having a fixed opening, an adjustable refilling assembly partially enclosed by the body panel, the adjustable refilling assembly including a first port and a second port, the adjustable refilling assembly movable between at least a first configuration in which the first port is aligned with the fixed opening and a second configuration in which the second port is aligned with the fixed opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Doug Vandervoort, Grant A. Compton, Stanley Jay Novak, Brenda Johnson, Kirk Rasmussen, Marius Efstate
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Patent number: 8167009Abstract: A refilling system for a vehicle including a body panel having a fixed opening, an adjustable refilling assembly partially enclosed by the body panel, the adjustable refilling assembly including a first port and a second port, the adjustable refilling assembly movable between at least a first configuration in which the first port is aligned with the fixed opening and a second configuration in which the second port is aligned with the fixed opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2008Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Ford Gobal Technologies, LLCInventors: Doug Vandervoort, Grant A. Compton, Stanley Jay Novak, Brenda Johnson, Kirk Rasmussen, Marius Efstate
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Patent number: 7686464Abstract: A conversation mirror assembly is provided for use in passenger compartments of motor vehicles. The conversation mirror assembly includes a mirror housing having a mirror support surface. A first conversation mirror face biased toward the driver is fitted to the mirror support surface. A second conversation mirror face biased toward the front seat passenger is fitted to the mirror support surface adjacent the first conversation mirror. The first conversation mirror face and the second conversation mirror face may be either spherical or aspherical. The first conversation mirror face may be separate from the second conversation mirror face. Alternatively, the first conversation mirror face and the second conversation mirror face define two facets of a single mirror.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2007Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Grant A. Compton, Jay R. Degenkolb, Doug Vandervoort, George Walowich, Lynda Kristen Fulgenzi, Lisa Burns, Gerald L. Elrite
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Publication number: 20100012205Abstract: A refilling system for a vehicle including a body panel having a fixed opening, an adjustable refilling assembly partially enclosed by the body panel, the adjustable refilling assembly including a first port and a second port, the adjustable refilling assembly movable between at least a first configuration in which the first port is aligned with the fixed opening and a second configuration in which the second port is aligned with the fixed opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2008Publication date: January 21, 2010Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Doug Vandervoort, Grant A. Compton, Stanley Jay Novak, Brenda Johnson, Kirk Rasmussen, Marius Efstate
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Publication number: 20090306990Abstract: A vehicle coordinate measuring system and method including a coordinate measuring device operably connected to a computer, and a voice input device for receiving prompts from the computer and enabling an operator to transmit responses to the prompts to the computer, with the computer adapted to translate the responses to digital information. The coordinate measuring device may record and transmit point location data to the computer, and the computer may correlate the point location data from the coordinate measuring device with the digital information from the responses.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2008Publication date: December 10, 2009Inventors: Doug Vandervoort, Mike Brodie, Arthur Elly, III, Grant Compton, Hugh Brooks, Daniel P. Johnson
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Publication number: 20080304171Abstract: A conversation mirror assembly is provided for use in passenger compartments of motor vehicles. The conversation mirror assembly includes a mirror housing having a mirror support surface. A first conversation mirror face biased toward the driver is fitted to the mirror support surface. A second conversation mirror face biased toward the front seat passenger is fitted to the mirror support surface adjacent the first conversation mirror. The first conversation mirror face and the second conversation mirror face may be either spherical or aspherical. The first conversation mirror face may be separate from the second conversation mirror face. Alternatively, the first conversation mirror face and the second conversation mirror face define two facets of a single mirror.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2007Publication date: December 11, 2008Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Grant A. Compton, Jay R. Degenkolb, Doug Vandervoort, George Walowich, Lynda Kristen Fulgenzi, Lisa Burns, Gerald L. Elrite
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Patent number: 7447616Abstract: A computer-implemented method for rapidly designing a vehicle package is disclosed. The method receives virtual vehicle package model data, converts the data into mechanical vehicle package model data and transmits the data to a mechanical vehicle package model system. A method is also disclosed for adjusting the mechanical model, converting the adjustment into data readable by a computer aided design system and transmitting the data to the computer aided design system for generating or modifying the virtual vehicle package. A system for designing a vehicle package is disclosed having a mechanical vehicle package model, a computer aided design system, a translator embodied in a computer system in communication with the computer aided design system and a mechanical vehicle package model in communication with the translator.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2005Date of Patent: November 4, 2008Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Nanxin Wang, Doug Vandervoort, Jian Wan, Gianna Gomez-levi, Stephan Sieczka, Jack Malone, David Pulliam
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Publication number: 20070038422Abstract: A computer-implemented method for rapidly designing a vehicle package is disclosed. The method receives virtual vehicle package model data, converts the data into mechanical vehicle package model data and transmits the data to a mechanical vehicle package model system. A method is also disclosed for adjusting the mechanical model, converting the adjustment into data readable by a computer aided design system and transmitting the data to the computer aided design system for generating or modifying the virtual vehicle package. A system for designing a vehicle package is disclosed having a mechanical vehicle package model, a computer aided design system, a translator embodied in a computer system in communication with the computer aided design system and a mechanical vehicle package model in communication with the translator.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2005Publication date: February 15, 2007Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Nanxin Wang, Doug Vandervoort, Jian Wan, Gianna Gomez-levi, Stephan Sieczka, Jack Malone, David Pulliam