Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Eric Robert Krieger

Brian Bennie

Jonathan Diedrich

Nicholas Alexander Scheufler

William Stewart Johnston

Mark Gehrke

Sheran Anthony Alles

Jake S Schwartz

Mario Domonick Iaquinta

Martin Van Hoeckel

Jonathan Franklin Iaquinto

Electrical control and power supply systems are provided for powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs). An exemplary electrical control system for a PAPR may be adapted to control the supply of power between a battery and a blower motor of a filtration unit of the PAPR. The electrical control system may include a plurality of integrated circuits that are capable of meeting minimum operating times while balancing power usage of various 'off-the-shelf' components of the filtration unit.

Electrical control systems for powered air-purifying respirators

A vehicle characterizes a sunload on the vehicle using an imaging system including at least one camera capturing image data (e.g., without using an ambient light sensor). The image data includes at least a portion of a passenger cabin. A region of interest (ROI) overlay receives the image data and extracts selected image data according to predetermined scene elements of the vehicle environment. An occupant overlay is configured to detect a vehicle occupant represented in the selected image data and configured to generate truncated image data by subtracting image data corresponding to the vehicle occupant from the selected image data. An ambient light model uses environmental parameters including a sun position to estimate an expected sunload range. A mapper generates a sunload map comprising respective sunload values for a plurality of locations on the vehicle according to the truncated image data and the expected sunload range.

Camera-based vehicle sunload mapping

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Eric Robert Krieger