Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Visteon Global Technolgoies, Inc.

Gary D Mullen

Anthony Ligi, Jr

Nicholas Andrew Mazzocchi

Dan G Busuioc

Bhavani Thota

Stephen Neal Jacobsen

Li Lu

Glenn Biddinger

Dennis Sartorello

Manjil M Kale

Shivraj Karthik Ranganathan

Robert Michael Coury

Linh Ngoc Doan

Juergen Koehler

Steven Nicholas Fidh

Peter Zhang

Stuart C Salter

Daniel Ferretti

Wei Xu

Satyanarayana Raju Vemulapati

Michael James Whitens

Bernard Gerard Marchetti

Francis Raymond Gillis

Scott A Clark

Jeff Webb

Yoyo Ma

Daniel Morin

Vic Kong

Johnathan Andrew Line

James J Surman

Manfred Koberstein

Peter Joseph Bejin

Matthew Anthony Majkowski

Kenneth S Laird

Kalyanaraman Bharathan

William C Bauer

Adrian Nicholas Alexander Elliott

Tom Xu

Keith Brown

Alan Perelli

Junko Pauken

Michael Williams

Eric Jay MacLean

Yi Yang Tay

Scott Christopher Sterbenz

Timothy James Hallifax

Brian Charles Slane

Steven Paul Sic

Mitali Chakrabarti

Paul Finch

Leo Chen

John A Shinska

Michael Alan Samluk

Gregory Pfirman

James Grace

Frank Hu

Kevin Murphy

Jeffrey Kloberdanz

Paul Schmidt

Martin Arthur Trapp

Tim Rush

Wojciech Mariusz Wyrwa

Denis Gerald O'Shannessy

Stephen Zhou

Iain Raymond Jones

Matthew L Gabrielli

Norman Haidous

Robert S Parsons

Chris Richardson

Andrew James Harley

James Daniel Grace

Jim Harley

Mike Ford Motor Company Limited Samluk

An air flow control system includes a plenum having an air inlet, a first air outlet, a second air outlet and a third air outlet, a vent door, an air guide, carried on the vent door, and an actuator. The actuator displaces the vent door between a first position closing the first air outlet and a second position opening the first air outlet. A climate control method for an autonomous vehicle is also provided.

Method of climate control for an autonomous vehicle

A ventilation system and method of purging volatile organic compounds from an interior space of the vehicle. The ventilation space including an air extractor connected to a vehicle wall and having an interior side within the interior space defined by the vehicle wall, a fan attached to the interior side, and a controller configured to operate in a shipping mode to activate the fan to generate ventilation flow through the air extractor.

Automatic ventilation system and method for purging an interior space of a vehicle during shipping

A vehicle air purging system includes a vehicle body that defines an interior. A support member is coupled to the vehicle body. The support member defines a receiving cavity. The support member defines an aperture proximate the receiving cavity. A one-way valve is coupled to the support member and is disposed within the aperture. A fan is coupled to the support member. The fan includes an outlet aligned with the aperture. A controller is operably coupled to the fan. The controller is configured to activate the fan to blow air from the interior to an area external to the vehicle body through the one-way valve.

Air purging system

Air flow control system and method of climate control for an autonomous vehicle

A method of forming a cross-car beam is provided. A composite is melted to form a viscous polymer. The polymer is injected into a mold. Pressurized fluid is injected into the mold to evacuate a portion of the viscous polymer from the mold and to form a channel therethrough. The remaining viscous polymer is cooled within the mold to form a cross-car beam.

Water-assisted injection molded cross-car beam

A vehicle door includes a first interlock coupled to an inner frame panel. A second interlock coupled to an inner trim panel. The first and second interlocks are separated to define a ready state. During an impact condition, the first and second interlocks selectively engage one another to define an impact state that resists deflection of the inner trim panel away from the inner frame panel.

Vehicle trim panel interlock for limiting trim panel separation during an impact condition

A apparatus includes a trim panel and a displaceable face pane. The trim panel includes a storage compartment and a guideway having a latching slot and a positioning rack. The displaceable face panel has a trunnion received for sliding movement along the guideway.

Trim panel and displaceable face panel providing enhanced storage function

An apparatus for an interior vehicle compartment includes a seat adapted for moving in a travel direction and a movable console. The movable console includes a holder for removably receiving and holding a mobile computer having a display. The holder may be displaced between a stowed position and a deployed position. The display is presented for viewing by a vehicle passenger seated in the seat in both of those positions.

Vehicle console with coupled motion and enhanced storage capabilities

A unitary defroster system for a motor vehicle windshield comprises an instrument panel substrate, an HVAC supply source, and an air supply plenum in fluid communication with the HVAC supply source and terminating in a plurality of individually configured defroster nozzle ducts conjoined with the instrument panel substrate and aligned in a substantially linear row parallel to and proximate an interior surface of the windshield. The unitary defroster system is formed by an additive manufacturing process and at least two of the ducts are configured and arranged to deliver a different air flow to the interior surface of the windshield.

Defroster system for a motor vehicle

A footwell assembly for a vehicle is disposed herein. The footwell assembly includes at least one foot pedal disposed in the footwell and operable between a use position and a stowed position. A receiving member is positioned within the footwell and is defining a recess, wherein the at least one foot pedal is configured to nest within the recess while in the stowed position. A cover feature is operably coupled to the receiving member and is configured to cover the at least one foot pedal when the at least one foot pedal is nested within the recess of the receiving member in the stowed position.

Vehicle foot pedal stowage and concealment system

A handle device includes: a housing, a handle unit including a base portion and a handle portion. The base portion includes a first track and is pivotably connected to the housing. The handle portion includes a slider movable along the first track and a retractable first locking unit connected to a first side portion of the housing. The first locking unit is positioned at least partially within the first track in a locking position and positioned outside of the first track in an unlocking position.

Handle device and a trunk carpet assembly

A motor vehicle console comprises a mount and a pair of exposed parallel tubular members. Each of the tubular members has a forward section, an intermediate section extending rearwardly, and a rearward section, wherein at least one of the forward horizontal section, intermediate section, and rearward section is disposed at an elevation horizontally above the other of the forward section, intermediate section, and rearward section and each forward section is operatively coupled with the mount.

Tubular console

A cross car beam assembly is provided herein. A composite beam structure extends transversely across a vehicle. A vehicle floor bracket is disposed below the composite beam. A composite reinforcement has a first portion fixedly engaged to the beam structure and a second portion engaged to the vehicle floor bracket.

Cross car beam assembly with composite beam structure and reinforcement

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Plymouth, MI, United States of America

Gary D Mullen