Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Edward Thomas Kozak

Chester Stanislaus Walawender

James A O'Brien, Ii

Randall Walter Lomako

Lori Spalding

Douglas L Wilson

Joshua M Myers

Jim Yoos

Robert Mercieca

A motor vehicle window regulator in which a matrix coating is applied to a metal blank. The matrix coating is comprised of particles of a fluoropolymer (such as polytetrafluoroethylene) carried in an organic polymer binder. The coated metal blank is cold-formed to the shape of a guide rail with a longitudinal track disposed along an edge of the guide rail. A window slider is mounted onto the guide rail to slide along the longitudinal track, so that the fluoropolymer particles lubricate the sliding of the window slider on the longitudinal track.

Motor vehicle window regulator with low friction guide rails

A system and method for designing components through the use of a computer having a computer aided design (CAD) software enables a reduction in the occurrence of infinite looping. The method includes the step of identifying common areas between the components, wherein the components have a three-dimensional relationship through the use of the computer. Another step includes traversing the common areas with at least one parallel division plane through the use of the computer and trimming the component to the at least one parallel division plane. Yet another step includes storing the component in the computer memory as a first product layout and a second product layout. The method further includes integrating the first and second product layouts through the use of an architectural layout function thereby reducing the occurrence of infinite looping by the CAD software.

Computer aided design associative design process

A reverse opening vehicle door is provided ( ), including a door body ( ) having a fore portion ( ) and an aft portion ( ), a catch mechanism ( ), and a hinge mechanism ( ). The catch mechanism ( ) and the hinge mechanism ( ) permit the door body ( ) to move between at least three positions including a closed position ( ) having a fore closed position ( ) and an aft closed position ( ), an intermediate position ( ) having an aft intermediate position ( ) located outboard and rearward of the aft closed position ( ) and a fore intermediate position ( ) located rearward of the fore closed position ( ), and an open position ( ) in which the fore portion ( ) is rotated rearward about the aft intermediate position ( ).

Reverse opening vehicle door

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Troy, MI, United States of America

Edward Thomas Kozak