Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Andrew Dayton Phillips

Mukesh Kumar

Lawrence C Karas

Francois Charette

Christopher R Fuller

Keng D Hsueh

Vy Tran

Gary Boes

Bill Covitz

John Andrew Stakoe

David W Stewart

Michael Murphy McElroy

Ryan Kurrle

Yang Yang

Ahmad Miqdadi

Daniel Ryan Bechlem

Mary Caye Catherine Spieth

Ajay Pal

A climate control system includes a plurality of vent registers, an HVAC unit delivering conditioned air to the plurality of vent registers, a side door status monitoring device and a controller configured to control opening and closing of the plurality of vent registers in response to side door status data provided by the side door status monitoring device. A related climate control method is also provided.

Climate control method for motor vehicle with removable roof and side doors

An apparatus for heating a window of a vehicle comprises an electrical storage unit configured to store an electrical charge and a plurality of heating circuits disposed on a window of the vehicle. The apparatus further comprises a controller configured to monitor the electrical charge of the electrical storage unit and selectively activate one or more of the heating circuits based on the electrical charge.

Backlight window defrosting system based on field of view

Climate control system and method for motor vehicle with removable roof and side doors

A sun visor fitting for holding sunglasses or other objects in a readily accessible position along the face of sun visor includes a body having a mounting section, a visor pin, a first clip and a second clip projecting from the first clip.

Sun visor fitting with integrated sunglass clip

The recreation of vibration levels at certain points in a stationary vehicle interior that are representative of realistic road conditions are achieved using road measurements in conjunction with a technique known as 'reciprocal filtering.' The reciprocal filtering technique consists of using an inverse transfer function, or impulse response in the time domain, between an excitation transducer and an accelerometer to calculate the excitation signal needed to recreate the vibrations measured on the road when squeak and rattle are present in a component of the vehicle. A set of excitation signals may be recorded for each component in the vehicle which is suspected of producing squeak and rattle noise. When a complaint is made that a vehicle is producing squeak and rattle, a service technician may reproduce noise by inducing vibrations through a kit having a CD player, an amplifier, a bass shaker and a CD with the set of excitation signals stored on separate tracks thereof. The bass shaker is attached, for example with two side tape, to the component suspected of producing noise, and noise inducing vibrations are played from the CD, through the CD player and amplifier, to the bass shaker. In this way, squeak and rattle may be quickly identified and repaired.

System for diagnosing unexpected noise in a multi-component assembly

Method for determining and reproducing noise inducing vibrations in a

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