Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Visteon Global Technolgoies, Inc.

Frederick Andrew Drapala

Cornel Lewis Gardner

Megan Lovejoy

Shannon Carloni

Latasha Nicole Smith

Timothy B Jackson

Robert A Chanko

Gary John Burns

A vehicle compartment has a housing defining a space and an access door pivotally coupled to the housing for pivoting between an open position and a closed position. Included is a light source for illuminating the space and a tilt switch provided on a circuit board coupled to the access door. The tilt switch is configured to have a first switch position when the access door is in the closed position and a second switch position when the access door is in the open position. The light source is activated when tilt switch is in the second switch position. The compartment may include a storage compartment, such as a glove box. The compartment may include an engine compartment.

Tilt switch and lighting assembly for a vehicle compartment

A cockpit system of interchangeable modules for a first vehicle having a left-hand-drive arrangement and for a second vehicle having a right-hand-drive arrangement, including a driver-side module, a passenger-side module, a center module fastenable between the driver-side module and the passenger-side module, a left-hand-drive top module, and right-hand-drive top module. Alternatively, a cockpit system of interchangeable modules for a first vehicle having a narrow cockpit width and for a second vehicle having a wide cockpit width including a driver-side module, a passenger-side module, a narrow center module, a wide center module, a narrow top module, and a wide top module.

Cockpit system of interchangeable modules

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Canton, MI, United States of America

Frederick Andrew Drapala