Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Brian Robert Spahn

Benjamin Yilma

Johnathan Andrew Line

Alan George Dry

S M Akbar Berry

Richard Edward Ruthinowski

Marcos Silva Kondrad

Ian Brewster Hall

Kevin Wayne Preuss

Pattrick Loew

Daniel Ferretti

Parakrama Valentine Weerappuli

Dean M Jaradi

Mohammad Omar Faruque

Manoharprasad K Rao

Srinivasan Sundararajan

Jeffrey Charles Paddock

Jeffrey Tien Vo

Kevin Siasoco

S M Iskander Farooq

James Chih Cheng

Mangala Ambalangodage Jayasuriya

Fubang Wu

Derek Board

Edward Joseph DeSmet

John Pinkerton

Eric D Veggian

Zhibing Deng

Deepak Patel

Sean Bayle West

Alex Maurice Miller

Gerald H Engelman

Levasseur Tellis

Sean Timothy Ryan

Joseph Robert Brown

Timothy D Zwicky

Yijung Chen

Anna Miller Hill

Robert Ralph Armitage, Jr

Jerry R Brown

Travis Justin Raines

Paul Alan Forgette

Richard Lee Stephenson

Mark Anthony Cuddihy

Joseph Edward Abramczyk

Robert William McCoy

Nicholas Andrew Mazzocchi

Stacey H Raines

Edward Joseph Abramoski

James Robert Chascsa, Ii

David A Brown

Clifford C Chou

Stephen William Rouhana

Timothy Owen Hamlin

William Jerome Olsen

Curtis David Kalina

A Mangala M Jayasuriya

Mangala M Jayasuriya

Michael Joseph Dean

Joseph Porcari

James Zheng Peng

Thomas J Joseph

Karl Michael Siebertz

Manoj Desai

Michael James Stiyer

Kurt L Ewing

James R Feustel

Shane A Goodhall

Robin J Stiyer

Rich Ruthinowski

Jeff Chickola

A Mangala Jayasuriya

Kevin Bayle Pline

Adnan Dubaisi

Chris M Bowser

Michael G Hobig

Rao Manoharprasad

Joseph Brown

An assembly for a vehicle includes a vehicle floor. The assembly includes a pair of vehicle doors spaced cross-vehicle from each other. The vehicle floor is between the vehicle doors. The assembly includes a vehicle seat between the vehicle doors and having a seat bottom supported by the vehicle floor. The assembly includes a pair of inflatable devices that are thermoplastic elastomer and inflatable to inflated positions. The pair of inflatable devices are supported by the vehicle floor and spaced from each other. One of the inflatable devices is between the seat bottom and one of the vehicle doors in the inflated position and the other of the inflatable devices is between the seat bottom and the other of the vehicle doors in the inflated position. The seat bottom is elongated from one of the inflatable devices to the other of the inflatable devices.

Inflatable devices between vehicle seat and vehicle doors

A condensation management system includes a vehicle lighting assembly with an interior vented to an ambient environment through a conduit, a moisture control assembly with a desiccant assembly positioned such that air passing through the conduit passes through the desiccant assembly, and a heater for heating the desiccant assembly in response to a difference between the interior and the ambient environment.

Vehicle lighting assembly condensation management system and method

A wheel assembly includes an attachment module, a motor module, a battery module, and a wheel. The wheel is rotatably coupled to the attachment module about a rotational axis of the wheel. The attachment module has a plurality of coupling elements, and the motor module and the battery module each releasably couple to one of the coupling elements. The wheel extends around the attachment, motor, and battery modules. The motor and battery modules are identically shaped in a direction along the rotational axis.

Wheel assembly

A vehicle seat assembly includes a seatback including a left lateral panel and a right lateral panel opposite the left lateral panel, a left airbag inflatable from the left lateral panel to an inflated position, a right airbag inflatable from the right lateral panel to an inflated position, a tether extending from the left lateral panel to the right lateral panel, and a sheet connected to the left airbag and the right airbag. The tether is connected to the left and right airbags.

Vehicle including inflatable assembly supported by seat

An assembly includes a seatback. The assembly includes a first airbag and a second airbag, each inflatable to an inflated position spaced from each other at the seatback and abutting each other in front of and spaced from the seatback. The assembly includes a sheet extending from the first airbag to the second airbag in front of where the first airbag abuts the second airbag in the inflated positions.

Seat airbag

A method for operating an airbag carrier is provided herein. The method includes the steps of moving carrier containing an airbag along a guide-channel of a seating assembly from a stowed position to a use position, and deploying the airbag into an occupant space of the seating assembly.

Vehicle seating assembly with airbag carrier

A vehicle includes a roof. The vehicle includes a first row and a second row of airbags supported by the roof and elongated along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. The vehicle includes a third row and a fourth row of airbags supported by the roof, elongated along a vehicle-lateral axis, and intersecting the first row and the second row of airbags.

Vehicle airbag

An assembly includes a base. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the base. The assembly includes an airbag guide supported by the base. The assembly includes a linchpin securing the airbag guide to the base. The linchpin includes a first marking and one of the base or the airbag guide includes a second marking, the first marking and the second marking align to collectively be a readable indicium.

Linchpin verification

An assembly includes a seat and an armrest moveable relative to the seat. A first arm and a second arm each include a first hinge and a second hinge. The first hinges are spaced from each other and fixed relative to the seat. The second hinges are spaced from each other and fixed relative to the armrest.

Adjustable armrest assembly

A vehicle seating arrangement includes at least one seating assembly. The at least one seating assembly includes a seat-base and an armrest. The armrest is operably coupled to the seat-base and configured for articulation in at least one of a forward, rearward, upward, and downward direction relative to the seat-base. The armrest enables the seating assembly to transition between captains' chair, loveseat, and bed configurations.

Vehicle seating arrangement

A vehicle includes a floor and a seat supported by the floor. The vehicle includes a roof. The vehicle includes a base supported by the roof and movable relative to the roof. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the base.

A vehicle seating assembly is provided herein. The vehicle includes a seat-base. A seatback is coupled to the seat-base. An airbag assembly is coupled to the seatback and configured to deploy therefrom. A tether is coupled to the airbag assembly and at least one of the seatback and the seat-base. The tether is configured to bias the airbag assembly seating-assembly-downward when the airbag assembly is in a deployed position.

Vehicle seating assembly with airbag tethers

A vehicle seat assembly includes a seatback including a left lateral panel and a right lateral panel opposite the left lateral panel, a left airbag inflatable from the left lateral panel to an inflated position, a right airbag inflatable from the right lateral panel to an inflated position, and a tether extending from the left lateral panel to the right lateral panel. The tether is connected to the airbags.

A vehicle seating assembly is provided herein. The vehicle seating assembly includes a seatback coupled to a seat-base. An airbag assembly is coupled to the seatback and configured to deploy therefrom. A tether is coupled to the airbag assembly and at least one of the seatback and the seat-base. An anchoring feature is coupled to at least one of the seatback and the seat-base and is configured to restrain seating-assembly-upward movement of the tether.

Vehicle seating assembly with anchored airbag tethers

A vehicle seat assembly includes a seat, an arm connected to the seat, a carrier supported by the arm, and an airbag supported by the carrier. The arm is moveable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The carrier is spaceable from the seat when the arm is in the deployed position. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position in a direction toward the seat.

Carrier for airbag

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