Ballard Power Systems Corporation

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Trw Limited

Dumitru Raceu

Kent Michael Harmon

Ronald Hugh Miller

Aric David Shaffer

Doug D Deng

Duo Deng

Gurpreet Aulakh

William J Fleming

A vehicle including a center high mount stop lamp (CHMSL). The vehicle includes a vehicle body panel formed of a light emitting material of a predetermined color, including a first surface area, and coated with a paint of a predetermined color. A CHMSL housing may be mounted on one side of the vehicle body panel, and one or more light sources may be disposable adjacent or within the CHMSL housing for emitting light through a second surface area of the vehicle body panel when the light source is turned on, with the second surface area being smaller than the first surface area.

Concealed illuminated center high mount stop lamp (CHMSL)

A power conversion system which comprises a controller and conversion assemblies which selectively rectify and invert an electrical signal. Conversion assemblies comprise a plurality of integrated gate bipolar transistor assemblies. The power conversion system is effective to convert DC current to AC current, to convert AC current to DC current, and to control the output frequency of a received electrical signal to a conventional operating range.

Power converter system

A power conversion system which comprises a controller and conversion assemblies which selectively rectify and invert an electrical signal. Conversion assemblies respectively comprise a plurality of integrated gate bipolar transistor assemblies. The power conversion system is effective to convert DC current to AC current, convert AC current to DC current, and to control the output frequency of a received electrical signal to a conventional operating range.

A noncontact torque sensor for measuring torsional loading of a shaft the magnetic permeability of which changes in response to changes in torsion loading of the shaft. The sensor includes an excitation coil for generating a magnetic field passing through the shaft, and sensing coils for detecting changes in the magnetic field caused by changes in the permeability of the shaft. At least one pole is disposed adjacent the shaft, separated by an air gap, for coupling magnetic flux into or out of the shaft. The shaft has a radially extending surface adjacent to which the pole is disposed, and the air gap is represented by the axial spacing between the pole and the radially extending surface. The air gap is thus axial, and does not vary with radial movements of the shaft. In some of the embodiments described, plural poles are arranged symmetrically around the shaft such that other translational movements of the shaft produce offsetting changes in the sizes of various pole air gaps. The sensor is therefore relatively insensitive to vibrations and other translational movements of the shaft relative to the poles.

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Dumitru Raceu