Patents by Inventor Mohammad Omar Faruque
Mohammad Omar Faruque 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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Publication number: 20240383436Abstract: A restraint system includes a retractor housing; a spool rotatably coupled to the retractor housing and defining an axis of rotation; an inner torsion bar elongated along the axis of rotation and positioned coaxially in the spool; an outer torsion bar elongated along the axis of rotation, extending coaxially around the inner torsion bar, and positioned coaxially in the spool; an engagement member selectively engageable with the outer torsion bar; and a solenoid operable to move the engagement member into engagement with the outer torsion bar and out of engagement with the outer torsion bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Publication number: 20240383537Abstract: A vehicle includes a windshield and a vehicle hood. The vehicle includes an energy absorber fixed to the vehicle hood. The energy absorber is releasable from a compressed position to an uncompressed position. The energy absorber is spaced from the windshield in the compressed position and abuts the windshield in the uncompressed position. The energy absorber includes a chamber that is sealed and vacuum pressurized in the compressed position. The vehicle includes an actuator configured to unseal the chamber to release the energy absorber from the compressed position to the uncompressed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: S.M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi
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Publication number: 20240383425Abstract: A vehicle includes a bumper assembly. The bumper assembly includes a bumper, a rod fixed relative to the bumper and elongated along an axis, and a bracket spaced from the bumper along the axis of the rod. The bracket movably receives the rod. An actuator is supported by the bracket and is releasably engageable with the rod. A spring is on the rod between the bumper and the bracket. The spring biases the bumper away from the bracket.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: S.M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi
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Publication number: 20240382357Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body having a floor. The vehicle includes a track supported by the floor. The vehicle includes a first anchor supported by and movable along the track, the first anchor configured to engage with a personal mobility device. The vehicle includes a second anchor supported by and movable along the track, the second anchor configured to engage with the personal mobility device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Publication number: 20240383438Abstract: A restraint system includes a retractor housing, a webbing spool rotatably coupled to the retractor housing and defining an axis of rotation. a wire spool lockable to the webbing spool, an die fixed relative to the retractor housing, and a wire fixed to the wire spool and engaged with the die.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Publication number: 20240383424Abstract: A vehicle includes a frame and a bumper. The vehicle includes a first crush can attached to the frame. The first crush can is between the frame and the bumper. The first crush can has a first length. The vehicle includes a second crush can attached to the frame. The second crush can is between the frame and the bumper. The second crush can has a second length less than the first length. The vehicle includes a pyrotechnic device supported by the frame, the pyrotechnic device actuatable to detach the first crush can from the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S.M. Iskander Farooq, Saeed D. Barbat
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Publication number: 20240375606Abstract: An assembly includes a vehicle seat including a seatback and a restraint frame including a first bar, a second bar spaced from the first bar, and a lap bar elongated from the first bar to the second bar. The seatback has a top end and a bottom end, is elongated along a first axis from the top end to the bottom end, and the first bar and the second bar each have a first end and a second end. The bars are elongated from the first ends to the second ends. The first ends of the bars are hingedly attached at the top end. The second ends are releasably lockable to the seatback at the bottom end. The restraint frame is hinged to the seatback and rotatable about a cross-seat axis from a raised position to a locked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2023Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Publication number: 20240375607Abstract: A vehicle including a seatbelt retractor having a frame and a spool. The spool has a first end and a second end each rotatably supported by the frame. The spool is elongated along an axis from the first end to the second end. The seatbelt retractor includes a slider slidably engaged with the frame. The slider is slidable from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The seatbelt retractor includes a post supported by the slider and moveable with the slider between the undeployed position and the deployed position. The post is engaged with the spool in the deployed position and disengaged with the spool in the undeployed position. The seatbelt retractor includes a locking device operatively coupled between the spool and the post to engage the spool with the post.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Publication number: 20240367607Abstract: A vehicle includes a hood having a vehicle-rearward end and a vehicle-forward end. An airbag is disposed below the vehicle-rearward end of the hood and is inflatable to the vehicle-forward end below the hood. A pyrotechnic actuator is disposed below the vehicle-forward end of the hood. A tether extends from the pyrotechnic actuator to the airbag.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: November 7, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: S.M. Iskander Farooq, Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque
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Publication number: 20240359653Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body. The vehicle includes a first track and a second track supported by the vehicle body. The first track and the second track are elongated along a longitudinal axis. The vehicle includes a third track and a fourth track supported by the vehicle body. The third track and the fourth track are elongated along a vertical axis. The vehicle includes a harness having a first webbing movable along the first track, a second webbing movable along the second track, a third webbing movable along the third track, and a fourth webbing movable along the fourth track.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Publication number: 20240359652Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle seat having a seatback and a seat bottom defining an occupant-seating area. The vehicle includes an airbag housing having a first arm fixed to the seatback and a second arm rotatable from the seatback toward the seat bottom adjacent the occupant-seating area. An airbag extends from the first arm to the second arm. The airbag is fixed to the first arm and the second arm. The vehicle includes a computer including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to detect a removeable child-restraint system (CRS) on the occupant-seating area, and based on the detection of the removeable CRS on the occupant-seating area, inflate the airbag in response to detection of certain vehicle impacts.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2023Publication date: October 31, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Patent number: 12128845Abstract: A vehicle includes a front pillar and a rear pillar spaced along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. The front pillar and the rear pillar define a door opening therebetween. The vehicle includes a first track on the front pillar and a second track on the rear pillar. A cable is moveably engaged with the first track and the second track from an undeployed position to a raised position. The cable extends across the door opening from the first track to the second track in the raised position. An airbag is moveable with the cable from the undeployed position to the raised position. The airbag is supported by the cable in the raised position.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Rahul Arora, Saeed D. Barbat
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Patent number: 12115928Abstract: An assembly includes a seat bottom and a seatback supported by the seat bottom, the seatback having a top end. The assembly includes a first airbag and a second airbag, each inflatable to an inflated position and supported by the seatback at the top end. The assembly includes a lap belt extending from the first airbag to the second airbag. The assembly includes a first retractor and a second retractor, both supported by the seat bottom and spaced from the seatback. The second retractor is spaced from the first retractor along the lateral axis. The assembly includes a first tether extending from the first retractor and fixed to the lap belt, and a second tether extending from the second retractor and fixed to the lap belt.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Zhenyan Gao
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Patent number: 12115924Abstract: A vehicle seat has a seatback and a seat bottom defining an occupant-seating area. An inflatable device is fixed to the seatback and is inflatable from the seatback vehicle-forward along the occupant-seating area from an uninflated position to an inflated position. The inflatable device has an inflation chamber. The inflatable device is a thermoplastic elastomer. The vehicle includes a computer including a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to: detect a removeable child-restraint system on the occupant-seating area; and based on the detection of the removeable child-restraint system on the occupant-seating area, inflate the inflatable device in response to detection of certain vehicle impacts.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq, Dean M. Jaradi
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Publication number: 20240336217Abstract: An assembly includes a vehicle seat including a seat back, a first track mounted to the seat back, an upper airbag movable along the first track, a second track mounted to the seat back, a lower airbag movable along the second track, and a mechanical assembly configured to simultaneously move the upper airbag along the first track and the lower airbag along the second track in opposite directions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2023Publication date: October 10, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Patent number: 12109919Abstract: A seating assembly includes a rotation assembly. The rotation assembly includes a first portion, a second portion, and an arm portion. The first portion includes an inner wall, an outer wall, and a floor extending between the inner wall and the outer wall. The second portion is movable relative to the first portion. The arm portion includes a first end, a second end, and a tab. The first end of the arm portion is rotatably coupled to a circumferential surface of the second portion. The arm portion is movable between an engaged state and a disengaged state relative to a hole defined by a leg of the first portion and an opening defined by the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 8, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S. M. Iskander Farooq, Saeed David Barbat
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Publication number: 20240324547Abstract: An assembly includes an inflatable harness having a first loop of webbing, a second loop of webbing, and a panel connecting the first loop of webbing to the second loop of webbing. The assembly includes an inflatable tether extending from the first loop of webbing, the inflatable tether in fluid communication with the inflatable harness. The assembly includes a latch plate fixed to the inflatable tether, the latch plate defining a fluid passage in fluid communication with the inflatable tether to provide inflation medium to the inflatable harness.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq
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Publication number: 20240313322Abstract: A vehicle battery enclosure includes a first member elongated along an axis and a second member spaced from the first member. The vehicle battery enclosure includes a battery compartment between the first member and the second member. A wing is rotatably connected to the first member and is rotatable relative to the first member from a stowed position (FIGS. 1, 4A, 4B) to a deployed position (FIGS. 2, 3, 5A, 8, and 9). The wing is aligned with the battery enclosure along the axis in the deployed position. A pyrotechnic actuator is operatively coupled to the wing to rotate the wing to the deployed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2023Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi, S.M. Iskander Farooq, Saeed D. Barbat
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Publication number: 20240300433Abstract: An assembly for a vehicle includes a front pillar and a rear pillar. The front pillar and the rear pillar define a door opening. The vehicle includes a first track supported by the front pillar and a second track supported by the rear pillar. The vehicle includes a bar extending from the first track to the second track. The bar is moveable relative to the first track and the second track from a lowered position to a raised position. The bar extends across the door opening in the raised position. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the bar. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position when the bar is in the raised position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Dean M. Jaradi, Mohammad Omar Faruque, S.M. Iskander Farooq, Saeed D. Barbat
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Publication number: 20240304937Abstract: The electric-vehicle battery assembly includes a battery enclosure defining a cavity and includes battery cells enclosed by the battery enclosure in the cavity. An outlet extends through the battery enclosure and in fluid communication with the cavity. A vent includes a frame moveably supported by the battery enclosure. The frame is moveable relative to outlet between an open position allowing fluid flow from the cavity between the outlet and the frame and a closed position preventing fluid flow from the cavity between the outlet and frame. The vent includes a microporous membrane supported by the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: S.M. Iskander Farooq, Mohammad Omar Faruque, Dean M. Jaradi