Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Chi Li

John Andrew Stakoe

Stuart C Salter

Cornel Lewis Gardner

Jeffrey Singer

Denis Patrick Igoe

Justin Lee Healy

Joseph W Holubka

Bhavani Thota

Ray A Dickie

Todd Jared Konet

Guillermo Alanis

Sara E Veyo

Fred G Oblinger

Ray Alexander Dickie

Adam W Hellar

Andrew Patrick Thomas

Jesus Miranda Lujan

Changhong Chen

Haibo Wang

A vehicle sun visor is provided that includes a visor body having a first side and a second side, and a vanity and lighting assembly located on the visor body. The assembly includes a lighting device located on the visor body. The lighting device is configured to provide a vanity light for a vanity mirror and is further configured to provide a dome light.

Vehicle visor and light assembly

A vanity mirror and light assembly is provided for use on a vehicle visor. The vanity assembly includes a clear frame molded to a reflective film to define a reflector portion and a partially transmissive portion. The assembly also includes a lighting device located behind the partially transmissive portion of the reflective film to provide a vanity light passing through the partially transmissive portion. A method of forming the vanity assembly in a mold is also provided.

Method of manufacturing a vanity assembly

An interior grab handle and lamp assembly for a vehicle including a bracket configured for attachment by fasteners to a structural roof member. The bracket is disposed on an back side surface of a headliner. An elongate handle is operably connected to the bracket via first and second mounting members disposed on an visible surface of the headliner. A light source is operably connected with an intermediate portion of the bracket. The light source is disposed on the visible surface of the headliner between the first and second mounting members.

Modular grab handle with integral lamp attaching system

Vehicle vanity and light assembly

A method for making a vehicle interior panel including positioning a slipsheet on a film or fabric liner. The liner is placed on a substrate board. The liner and substrate board are formed into an interior panel. A cavity is formed by removing a portion of the substrate board from the interior panel adjacent to the slipsheet position. A lamp is positioned in the cavity.

Hidden lamp manufacture process

A vehicle trim and microphone assembly includes a headliner having a substrate, a foam layer, and a surface cover covering the substrate and foam layer. The substrate has a hole that is covered by the surface cover. A bracket is secured to the substrate and a microphone installed in the bracket so that acoustic sound waves pass through the surface cover within the hole to be detected by the microphone.

Vehicle microphone assembly in trim panel

A vehicle interior panel having a substrate with a receiving slot. A support lens is disposed in the receiving slot and includes a light source. A sensor is operably connected to the light source and disposed proximate the support lens. A connector operably links the sensor to the light source through the support lens. A decorative layer extends over the support lens and the sensor.

Automotive interior hidden switching

A vehicle visor is provided that includes a mirror assembly. The visor body has a first side and a second side and pivots between a stowed position and a downward use position. The visor body further includes a mirror assembly located on the visor body. The mirror assembly includes a conversation mirror that is extendable from a first side of the visor body for viewing from the first side of the visor body, and is stowable within the visor body for viewing through an aperture from the second side of the visor body. The mirror may serve as a vanity mirror.

Vehicle visor having mirror assembly

Vehicle vanity and light assembly and visor having vanity and dome lighting

A vehicle interior panel is provided that includes an interior panel substrate defining an aperture for a light source to extend through the interior panel substrate, a lens attached to the interior panel substrate, wherein the lens extends over at least a portion of the aperture for the light source, an at least partially transparent material that extends over the lens, and a plurality of positioning holes defined by the interior panel substrate, such that at least a portion of the plurality of positioning holes are configured to correspond to a plurality of positioning pins of an interior panel mold.

Vehicle interior panel and method to manufacture

Molded vanity assembly and method

A sun visor assembly includes a sun visor in which the corners associated with one of the longer edges are rotatably mounted to an automotive vehicle, one corner of which is fixed and the other corner being removable from a mount affixed to the vehicle. The removable corner has a cutout with a cylindrical pin coupled to the cutout at both ends of the pin. The mount has an arcuate cradle to engage the pin over less than half of its circumference. The opening to gain access to the cradle faces generally downward when installed and the pin is held in the mount by magnetic attraction.

Sun visor

A trim cover () fabricated of synthetic material that has a temperature-sensitive fragmentation characteristic fractures as a passenger restraint is deployed through a wall of the trim cover. A laminated backing () disposed on a back face of the trim cover wall contains fragments of the wall resulting from its fracturing by the deploying restraint. The laminated backing has a stretchable foam layer () having a front face adhered to the back of the wall and a non-tearable layer () that has a front face adhered in covering relation to a back face of the stretchable foam layer and that does not tear as a result of the fracturing of the wall by the deploying restraint.

Laminated backing for containing fragments of a fractured trim cover during deployment of a passenger restraint

The present invention relates to a method of removably adhering a non-conductive member to a conductive member comprising the steps of placing an electrode on the non-conductive member. The electrode overlies matting surfaces of the conductive and non-conductive members. A reheatable adhesive is applied between matting surfaces of the conductive and non-conductive members and a high frequency electric field is applied between said electrode and said conductive member sufficient to cure the adhesive. The non-conductive member may be removed from the conductive member by applying a high frequency electric field between the electrode and said conductive member sufficient to soften the adhesive and removing the non-conductive member from the conductive member.

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Farmington Hills, MI, United States of America

Chi Li