Patents by Inventor Yi Yang Tay
Yi Yang Tay 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: 11167716Abstract: An instrument panel for a passenger compartment of an automotive vehicle comprises a molded plastic substrate and a skin covering the substrate. The substrate has inner and outer surfaces, and is adapted to be mounted in the passenger compartment adjacent a windshield. The inner surface is adapted to receive an air bag chute assembly for deploying an air bag. The inner surface is inscribed by a door groove defining a deployment door at least partially tearing open to expel the air bag. The outer surface is inscribed by a hinge groove following a chord path bisecting the outer surface of the deployment door and configured to bend in response to an edge of the deployment door impacting the windshield. The impact force against the windshield is reduced while stiffness of the door against the air bag remains high to facilitate tearing open of the door by the air bag.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Yi Yang Tay, Li Lu, Kenneth J. Kwasnik, Lisandro Trevino
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Publication number: 20200247347Abstract: An instrument panel for a passenger compartment of an automotive vehicle comprises a molded plastic substrate and a skin covering the substrate. The substrate has inner and outer surfaces, and is adapted to be mounted in the passenger compartment adjacent a windshield. The inner surface is adapted to receive an air bag chute assembly for deploying an air bag. The inner surface is inscribed by a door groove defining a deployment door at least partially tearing open to expel the air bag. The outer surface is inscribed by a hinge groove following a chord path bisecting the outer surface of the deployment door and configured to bend in response to an edge of the deployment door impacting the windshield. The impact force against the windshield is reduced while stiffness of the door against the air bag remains high to facilitate tearing open of the door by the air bag.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2019Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Yi Yang Tay, Li Lu, Kenneth J. Kwasnik, Lisandro Trevino
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Patent number: 10703317Abstract: An armrest assembly includes a body outlining a crushable space. The body includes a first deformation initiating feature, a second deformation initiating feature, a deformation propagating feature and a fracture initiating feature provided at spaced locations around the crushable space. The features function to dissipate energy in the event of a side impact and therefore force or load that might be transmitted to a motor vehicle occupant as a result of a side impact.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Yi Yang Tay, Linh Doan, Bhavani Thota, Li Lu, Michael Gerard Orlowsky, Brian Pietila
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Publication number: 20200017053Abstract: An armrest assembly includes a body outlining a crushable space. The body includes a first deformation initiating feature, a second deformation initiating feature, a deformation propagating feature and a fracture initiating feature provided at spaced locations around the crushable space. The features function to dissipate energy in the event of a side impact and therefore force or load that might be transmitted to a motor vehicle occupant as a result of a side impact.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2018Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: Yi Yang Tay, Linh Doan, Bhavani Thota, Li Lu, Michael Gerard Orlowsky, Brian Pietila
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Patent number: 10377336Abstract: An air bag chute assembly for an automotive instrument panel is injection molded to form an integral deployment chute, door, and attachment flange, The flange attaches to the instrument panel around an aperture in the instrument panel. The tubular chute extends interiorly from the flange to a lower end configured to receive an inflating air bag from an air bag module and defines a deployment path along a longitudinal axis. A door flap is disposed in an upper end of the chute rotatable from the flange to emerge through the aperture. The flap has an interior side impacted by the inflating air bag carrying a plurality of raised strengthening ribs. The flap has at least one closed-section hollow channel protruding from the interior side to a channel height extending beyond the strengthening ribs formed by gas-assist injection molding.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Li Lu, Hui Wang, Yi Yang Tay, Liying Qi, Nicholas A. Mazzocchi, Kenneth J. Kwasnik
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Publication number: 20190143929Abstract: An air bag chute assembly for an automotive instrument panel is injection molded to form an integral deployment chute, door, and attachment flange, The flange attaches to the instrument panel around an aperture in the instrument panel. The tubular chute extends interiorly from the flange to a lower end configured to receive an inflating air bag from an air bag module and defines a deployment path along a longitudinal axis. A door flap is disposed in an upper end of the chute rotatable from the flange to emerge through the aperture. The flap has an interior side impacted by the inflating air bag carrying a plurality of raised strengthening ribs. The flap has at least one closed-section hollow channel protruding from the interior side to a channel height extending beyond the strengthening ribs formed by gas-assist injection molding.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2017Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Li Lu, Hui Wang, Yi Yang Tay, Liying Qi, Nicholas A. Mazzocchi, Kenneth J. Kwasnik
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Patent number: 10272864Abstract: A door assembly includes a monolithic base including a top panel having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The monolithic base includes an attachment panel extending downwardly from the first end at an acute angle. The monolithic base includes an outer panel extending downwardly from the second end.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Yi Yang Tay, John Pinkerton, Aleksandar Spasovski, Michael Dong, Joseph Edward Abramczyk
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Publication number: 20190118752Abstract: A door assembly includes a monolithic base including a top panel having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The monolithic base includes an attachment panel extending downwardly from the first end at an acute angle. The monolithic base includes an outer panel extending downwardly from the second end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Yi Yang Tay, John Pinkerton, Aleksandar Spasovski, Michael Dong, Joseph Edward Abramczyk
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Patent number: 10099625Abstract: A vehicular glove box bin has a molded substrate of a first durometer plastic material defining a concave body with bin sides, bottom, and open mouth. The sides include a front wall arranged to receive an impact load in a substantially normal direction, and at least one perforated wall substantially aligned with the normal direction which has at least one stiffness reducing gap. A substitution panel comprising a resilient material having a second durometer less than the first durometer is molded into and closes the gap. The gap and the substitution panel define locking surfaces for retaining the substitution panel. The combined first and second durometers provide a predetermined collapse in response to the impact load. The placement and sizes of gaps together with the selected durometers allow a designer to tailor the stiffness around various portions of the bin to match a desired impact performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Li Lu, Jeffrey Kloberdanz, Yi Yang Tay, Gary D. Mullen
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Patent number: 10059294Abstract: An assembly includes a door trim panel, and an armrest assembly supported by the door trim panel. The armrest assembly includes a crushable member. The crushable member includes a substrate defining a gap extending through the substrate. The crushable member includes a plug disposed in the gap and fixed to the substrate on a perimeter of the gap. The substrate is rigid relative to the plug.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 28, 2018Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Yi Yang Tay, Hui Wang, Li Lu, Linh Doan, Bhavani Thota