Patents by Inventor Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson 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: 20240113376Abstract: A grounding assembly for a battery enclosure includes a washer including a first serrated surface and a second serrated surface opposite the first serrated surface, a fastener including a serrated surface configured to mate with the second serrated surface of the washer, and a seal disposed on the washer. The first serrated surface is configured to remove a non-conductive coating from the battery enclosure. The seal is configured to form a watertight barrier between the washer and the battery enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Alexander Robert Rink, Nathaniel Conti
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Publication number: 20240091999Abstract: A tool for driving a threaded fastener includes a driver head, a motor, and an injector. The driver head includes a spindle rotatable about an axis. A distal end of the spindle defines a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage mating drive surfaces on the fastener to rotate the fastener about the axis. The driver head defines a fluid passage having an outlet proximate to the distal end of the spindle. The motor is drivingly coupled to the spindle to rotate the spindle about the axis. The injector is coupled to an inlet of the fluid passage and configured to feed a liquid insulator through the fluid passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Christopher William Coyne, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Publication number: 20240063495Abstract: An assembly includes a first piece of an enclosure having an interior area. The first piece has a first flange that projects outward from the interior area. The assembly also includes a second piece of the enclosure, the second piece including a second flange that projects outward from the interior area. The assembly further includes a gasket seal that is sandwiched between the first and second flanges. The first and second flanges are secured together at a flange-to-flange interface that is between the gasket seal and the interior area.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Xiaogang Zhang, Nathaniel Conti, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Parikshit S. Gupte
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Patent number: 11848459Abstract: This disclosure details exemplary barrier seal assemblies for sealing vehicle electrical housings. The vehicle electrical housings may include any electrical housing utilized within a vehicle, including but not limited to battery pack housings and electrical connector assemblies. An exemplary barrier seal assembly may include a primary seal, a barrier seal, and a carrier that extends between the primary seal and the barrier seal. The barrier seal assembly is configured to reduce the ingress of corrosion inducing substances into an interior of vehicle electrical housings.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Thomas Edward Smith, Christopher William Coyne
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Patent number: 11820057Abstract: A tool for driving a threaded fastener includes a driver head, a motor, and an injector. The driver head includes a spindle rotatable about an axis. A distal end of the spindle defines a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage mating drive surfaces on the fastener to rotate the fastener about the axis. The driver head defines a fluid passage having an outlet proximate to the distal end of the spindle. The motor is drivingly coupled to the spindle to rotate the spindle about the axis. The injector is coupled to an inlet of the fluid passage and configured to feed a liquid insulator through the fluid passage.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Christopher William Coyne, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Publication number: 20230241956Abstract: A battery housing for an electric vehicle includes a cover, a body, and a seal. The body is secured to the cover and includes a first edge section and a second edge section secured to and overlapping the first edge section. The seal is engaged with the cover and includes a channel receiving the first and second edge sections of the body. The first and second edge sections of the body are engaged with the seal within the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Robert Reiners, Mathias Huber, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Patent number: 11652253Abstract: An exemplary enclosure assembly includes, among other things, first and second pieces of an enclosure having an interior area. The first and second pieces are pressed vertically together at an interface. A gasket seal seals the interface at a position outside the interface relative to the interior area. An exemplary enclosure securing method includes, among other things, sealing an interface by compressing a gasket seal horizontally between first and second enclosure pieces of an enclosure that provides an interior area. The first and second pieces are pressed vertically together along the interface.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Smith, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Christopher William Coyne
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Patent number: 11415253Abstract: Devices and assemblies are provided for a quick connect device. In one example, a connector may include a first visual cue for coupling an outer portion to a middle portion and a second visual cue for coupling an inner portion to the middle portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Publication number: 20220234267Abstract: A tool for driving a threaded fastener includes a driver head, a motor, and an injector. The driver head includes a spindle rotatable about an axis. A distal end of the spindle defines a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage mating drive surfaces on the fastener to rotate the fastener about the axis. The driver head defines a fluid passage having an outlet proximate to the distal end of the spindle. The motor is drivingly coupled to the spindle to rotate the spindle about the axis. The injector is coupled to an inlet of the fluid passage and configured to feed a liquid insulator through the fluid passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Christopher William Coyne, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Patent number: 11325291Abstract: A tool for driving a threaded fastener includes a driver head, a motor, and an injector. The driver head includes a spindle rotatable about an axis. A distal end of the spindle defines a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage mating drive surfaces on the fastener to rotate the fastener about the axis. The driver head defines a fluid passage having an outlet proximate to the distal end of the spindle. The motor is drivingly coupled to the spindle to rotate the spindle about the axis. The injector is coupled to an inlet of the fluid passage and configured to feed a liquid insulator through the fluid passage.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Christopher William Coyne, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Publication number: 20210159471Abstract: This disclosure relates to a gasket adapter for use in a battery assembly of an electrified vehicle. An example battery assembly includes a gasket with a perimeter strand providing at least a portion of an outer perimeter pathway of the gasket, a secondary strand providing at least a portion of a secondary pathway of the gasket, and an adapter connected to the perimeter strand and the secondary strand.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Justin Negrete
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Patent number: 10910683Abstract: This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles or other electrified components. An exemplary battery pack may include a heat exchanger plate assembly having a metallic plate and a polymeric plate that are joined together to establish a coolant circuit therebetween. The metallic plate or the polymeric plate may include a protrusion that extends through an opening of the other of the metallic plate or the polymeric plate. The protrusion may either be crimped or heat staked to a surface surrounding the opening in order to join together the metallic plate and the polymeric plate of the heat exchanger plate assembly.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Eric Myers, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Neil Robert Burrows
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Publication number: 20200274112Abstract: This disclosure details exemplary barrier seal assemblies for sealing vehicle electrical housings. The vehicle electrical housings may include any electrical housing utilized within a vehicle, including but not limited to battery pack housings and electrical connector assemblies. An exemplary barrier seal assembly may include a primary seal, a barrier seal, and a carrier that extends between the primary seal and the barrier seal. The barrier seal assembly is configured to reduce the ingress of corrosion inducing substances into an interior of vehicle electrical housings.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2019Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Thomas Edward Smith, Christopher William Coyne
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Publication number: 20200262116Abstract: A tool for driving a threaded fastener includes a driver head, a motor, and an injector. The driver head includes a spindle rotatable about an axis. A distal end of the spindle defines a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage mating drive surfaces on the fastener to rotate the fastener about the axis. The driver head defines a fluid passage having an outlet proximate to the distal end of the spindle. The motor is drivingly coupled to the spindle to rotate the spindle about the axis. The injector is coupled to an inlet of the fluid passage and configured to feed a liquid insulator through the fluid passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2019Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Christopher William Coyne, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Publication number: 20200251698Abstract: A battery pack assembly includes, among other things, an enclosure assembly that encloses a lower tier battery array and an upper tier battery array, a lower tier heat exchanger, an upper tier heat exchanger, and a coolant channel of the enclosure assembly. The coolant channel is configured to communicate a liquid coolant between the lower and upper heat exchangers. A battery pack fluid communication method includes, among other things, fluidly coupling together a lower and an upper tier heat exchanger by securing an upper tier floor of a battery pack to a tray of the battery pack.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Saravanan Paramasivam, Dave Moschet, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Samir Subba
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Publication number: 20200161722Abstract: This disclosure details exemplary battery pack designs for use in electrified vehicles or other electrified components. An exemplary battery pack may include a heat exchanger plate assembly having a metallic plate and a polymeric plate that are joined together to establish a coolant circuit therebetween. The metallic plate or the polymeric plate may include a protrusion that extends through an opening of the other of the metallic plate or the polymeric plate. The protrusion may either be crimped or heat staked to a surface surrounding the opening in order to join together the metallic plate and the polymeric plate of the heat exchanger plate assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Eric MYERS, Samuel Jeffrey TOMLINSON, Neil Robert BURROWS
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Publication number: 20200052252Abstract: An exemplary enclosure assembly includes, among other things, first and second pieces of an enclosure having an interior area. The first and second pieces are pressed vertically together at an interface. A gasket seal seals the interface at a position outside the interface relative to the interior area. An exemplary enclosure securing method includes, among other things, sealing an interface by compressing a gasket seal horizontally between first and second enclosure pieces of an enclosure that provides an interior area. The first and second pieces are pressed vertically together along the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2018Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Thomas Smith, Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson, Christopher William Coyne
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Publication number: 20190271426Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a quick connect device. In one example, a connector may include a first visual cue for coupling an outer portion to a middle portion and a second visual cue for coupling an inner portion to the middle portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventor: Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Patent number: 10337656Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a quick connect device. In one example, a connector may include a first visual cue for coupling an outer portion to a middle portion and a second visual cue for coupling an inner portion to the middle portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson
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Patent number: 10167983Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a quick connect device. In one example, a connector may include a first visual cue for coupling an outer portion to a middle portion and a second visual cue for coupling an inner portion to the middle portion.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventor: Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson