Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Dennis Lowe

Scott Holmes Dunham

Dwayne Pollitt

Ryan Kurrle

Chuck Frank Bartus

Robert Pyle

David Ballheim

Dawn Woodring

Todd Blankenship

Floyd Leon Bergeron

John Felecan

In one or more embodiments, a storage system is provided for use with a vehicle including a side wall and a rear wheel positioned below the side wall; the storage system includes a storage container receivable within an elongated space defined between inboard and outboard panels of the side wall, the storage container including front and rearward portions respectively positioned front and rear to the rearmost point of the rear wheel. The storage system may further include a leg portion for supporting the rearward portion of the storage container. The leg portion may be adjustable in length and may be attached to the elongated space or to the storage container.

Vehicle side wall storage

Methods and systems are provided for a vapor canister couple to a fuel tank of a vehicle. A series of fluidically coupled, variable capacity bleed elements, externally coupled to a sidewall of the vapor canister, capture the bleed emissions resulting from desorption of fuel vapors from an adsorbent material inside the vapor canister. The series of bleed elements may be fluidically coupled through flow paths passing through the vapor canister wall, connecting through a first flow path to a chamber inside the vapor canister and connecting through a second flow path to a vent port of the vapor canister.

Variable capacity, configurable hydrocarbon emissions trap

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Farmington Hills, MI, United States of America

Dennis Lowe