Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Bhavani Thota

Linh Ngoc Doan

Juergen Koehler

Stuart C Salter

Gary D Mullen

Michael James Whitens

Satyanarayana Raju Vemulapati

Li Lu

Nitesh Jadhav

Gian Carlo Morlet Ugalde

Daniel Morin

Paul Kenneth Dellock

James J Surman

Deepak Patel

Scott Holmes Dunham

Tyler Glenn

Amit Chakravarty

Babak Shahmehri

Yi Yang Tay

Ryan Mowery

Jane Maria Aselage

Bill Moore Sherwood

Mirza Safder Ali Baig

Ricardo Juarez Favila

Jesus Miranda Lujan

Zhibing Deng

Aaron Bradley Johnson

Joseph Edward Abramczyk

Robert William McCoy

Chester Stanislaus Walawender

Anthony Ligi, Jr

Mangala Ambalangodage Jayasuriya

John Andrew Stakoe

Chi Li

Eric Axel Smitterberg

Scott Simon

Kenneth S Laird

John Pinkerton

Steven Nicholas Fidh

Adrian Nicholas Alexander Elliott

Anna Miller Hill

Chuck R Reese

Justin Lee Healy

Michael G Orlowsky

Thomas William Pietila

Joseph Andrew Hickey

Tahmidur Rahman

Michael Shawn Watterworth

Brent Clifford Dalton

Kathleen Blackmore

Guillermo Alanis

Kris Allyn Warmann

Srivardhan Tallapragada

Aleksandar Spasovski

Michelle L Schneider

Santiago Yepes Gallo

Colleen M Maraffino

Angela Zaetta

Brian Pietila

Murali Maddali

Stephen Dreher

Hui Wang

Kevin Murphy

Diane Carole Snoeyink

Salvador Soriano

Eric Rifel

Juan Pablo Jimenez

Sandra Cristina Alvarado Gomez

Chris Richardson

Joseph John Bouwhuis

Mark Haradean

Aravinda Naraharisetti

A storage box includes a door that is coupled to the base. A pivot pin is coupled to the door and is operable between an engaged position, wherein the pivot pin is rotatably engaged with the base, and a disengaged position. The pivot pin is configured to move door-inboard due to contact with the base as the pivot pin moves from the disengaged position to the engaged position.

Storage box for a vehicle

A vehicle includes a lift gate that is operable between a closed position and an open position, and a lamp assembly. The lamp assembly includes a housing coupled to the lift gate and having a backing with a reflective surface, a light source that is coupled to the housing and configured to emit light, and a lid that is operably coupled to the housing. The lid includes a reflective interior surface and reflective exterior surface that is opposite the reflective interior surface. The lid is operable between an open position, wherein the reflective surface of the backing is exposed, and a closed position.

Reflective lamp assembly for a vehicle

An airbag assembly includes a housing having a base, a first wall, a second wall, and a pair of end walls defining a cavity. The first wall and the second wall are spaced from each other, each of the first wall and the second wall extending from the base to a distal edge. The pair of end walls are spaced from each other and extending from the first wall to the second wall. The distal edge of the first wall extends from the end walls toward the second wall. The airbag assembly includes an airbag disposed in the cavity.

Airbag housing

A vehicle door includes a first interlock coupled to an inner frame panel. A second interlock coupled to an inner trim panel. The first and second interlocks are separated to define a ready state. During an impact condition, the first and second interlocks selectively engage one another to define an impact state that resists deflection of the inner trim panel away from the inner frame panel.

Vehicle trim panel interlock for limiting trim panel separation during an impact condition

A apparatus includes a trim panel and a displaceable face pane. The trim panel includes a storage compartment and a guideway having a latching slot and a positioning rack. The displaceable face panel has a trunnion received for sliding movement along the guideway.

Trim panel and displaceable face panel providing enhanced storage function

A fastener boss includes a body having a receiving column. The receiving column includes a first section with a first wall thickness and a second section with a second wall thickness wherein the first wall thickness is greater than the second wall thickness. A motor vehicle component incorporating the fastener boss is also disclosed.

Fastener boss and motor vehicle component incorporating that fastener boss

A door trim assembly includes an armrest, a pull handle, including a receiver, and a bracket joining the armrest and the pull handle. The bracket includes a connection feature that engages with the receiver. The bracket is cantilevered to the pull handle and includes a second end with an abutment surface engaging the armrest.

Door trim assembly with bracket joining the armrest and the pull handle of that assembly

A method of operating a vehicle having variable opacity windows that includes customer convenience functions such as transitioning a window to transparent when the vehicle is in use as a ride-sharing vehicle and detects picking up a new passenger; or transitioning the window to transparent when a signal is received from an emergency vehicle.

Vehicle window opacity

An apparatus is provided for holding an article in a motor vehicle. That apparatus includes a motor vehicle storage compartment having a receiver and a reversible insert held in the receiver. A storage system is also disclosed including a left-hand storage compartment including a first receiver, a right-hand storage compartment including a second receiver and a reversible insert configured for receipt in the first receiver and the second receiver.

Apparatus and storage system for storing an article in a motor vehicle

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.

Armrest assembly with engineered lateral bending stiffness

A support for an armrest assembly includes a plurality of interconnected ribs. One or more of those ribs has (a) a first section, having a first proximal end and a first distal end, (b) a second end section, having a second proximal end and a second distal end, and (c) an intermediate section connecting the first distal end and the second distal end. The first end section and the second end section are offset. An armrest assembly includes a body, the support, a cushioning layer overlying the support and a cover layer overlying the cushioning layer.

Armrest and support for an armrest assembly

A vehicle door assembly may include an interior door panel having an armrest, the armrest having a handle defining an opening therein and a receptacle arranged below the armrest and configured to be selectively arranged under the handle to create a repository within the opening to receive objects.

Deployable door panel receptacle for vehicles

A vehicle door includes an inner door liner having a substrate receptacle. An armrest substrate has a plurality of posts extending through the inner door liner at the substrate receptacle. The substrate receptacle has a plurality of one-way apertures that receive the plurality of posts. Integral retaining features positioned at an end of each post maintains engagement of each post within each respective one-way aperture.

Vehicle door armrest substrate having integral high retention fastener

A sun visor for a vehicle includes a visor panel carrying at least one fan or blower adapted to provide an airflow that is directionally adjustable independently of an orientation of the visor panel.

Sun visor with positional cooling/exhausting fan

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