Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Cathy Bingfeng Xi

Evangelos Liasi

Ryan John Craig

Hassen Hammoud

Jing Wu

Shyam Pittala

Prakash Basavarajaiah

A vehicle is provided. The vehicle may include a detachable roof assembly that includes an upper B-pillar extending from a longitudinal roof rail that extends between a pair of transverse roof bows. The vehicle may also include a frame assembly. The frame assembly may include a lower B-pillar that extends from a rocker panel to a beltline of the vehicle. The lower B-pillar may include an upper end that defines a receptacle that may receive at least 50% of the upper B-pillar when the roof assembly is assembled to the frame assembly.

Removable roof structure

Apparatus and method useful in the process of making a forming tool, such as metal stamping tool. The apparatus ( ) performs a method of scanning a working surface ( ) of a tool part ( ) with an optical shape measurement camera ( ) to obtain electronic images from different views of the working surface, and then processing the electronic images to develop a first set of data defining the three-dimensional shape of the working surface. The first set of data is then processed with a second set of data having a correlation with the shape of the working surface to develop a third set of data defining differences between the first and second sets of data. The second set of data may define the shape of a part formed by the tool or the master shape of the part.

Apparatus and method for correlating part design geometry, manufacturing tool geometry, and manufactured part geometry

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Cathy Bingfeng Xi