Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Colin Christopher Nitroy

David Brian Glickman

Kosta Papanikolaou

Aaron Peter Klop

Michael Williams

A vehicle compartment system includes a tub establishing a storage compartment and a closure panel movable between a closed position and an open position for accessing the storage compartment. The closure panel is maintained below a vehicle down vision line in the open position. The closure panel may be raised from the closed position to a position above the storage compartment and then may be automatically slid rearward to the open position.

Vehicle compartment systems

An exemplary flow control assembly includes, among other things, a grille member and a flow control device having a plurality of bowed shutters adjacent the grille member. The bowed shutters are configured to move back and forth between a flow permitting position and a flow restricting position. An exemplary flow control method includes, among other things, moving a plurality of bowed shutters back and forth between a flow permitting position and a flow restricting position. The flow permitting position permitting more flow through apertures in a grille member than the flow restricting position.

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Colin Christopher Nitroy