Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Hassen Hammoud

Jianbo Lu

Todd Nelson Clark

Otto Hofmann

Jason Shomsky

Gilberto Burgio

Roland Schaefer

Shweta M Farmer

Stephen Thomas Kozak

Mohsen Lakehal-Ayat

Randall Ray Roth

Shawn Michael Morgans

Donald Paul Iacovoni

Paul L Heirtzler, Jr

Jeffrey Dan Rupp

Krishnakanth E Aekbote

Michael E Reibling

Steve William Gallagher

Erica Klampfl

Ryan John Craig

Corey John Jarocki

Nanxin Wang

Gregory Allen Kaepp

Brent Zapczynski

Jon A Wilcox

Chi-Chin Wu

Steven William Gallagher

Han C Wang

Beverly Joyce Becker

Brent Michael White

Christian Johan Owen Handley

Cathy Bingfeng Xi

Shyam Pittala

Keming Chen

Mohsen Lakehal-ayat

Daniel Reich

Michelle Duan

Kevin Alexander Gardner

Prakash Basavarajaiah

Benjamen David McClain

Ellen Barnes

An exemplary traction battery assembly includes, among other things, a battery pack and a securing assembly. The securing assembly secures the battery pack to a structure of the vehicle. The securing assembly is disposed along a horizontally facing side of the battery pack and is configured to move from a first position to a second position in response to a load to permit movement of the battery pack relative to the vehicle structure.

Traction battery securing assembly and method

A chassis brace includes a body having a first end and a second end, a chassis structure abutment at the first end and a body structure abutment at the second end. Together, the chassis brace, the chassis component secured the chassis structure abutment of the chassis brace and the body component secured to the body structure abutment of the chassis brace form a small offset rigid barrier reinforcement assembly. A method of reinforcing a vehicle is also disclosed.

Chassis brace and small offset rigid barrier reinforcement assembly

A vehicle is provided. The vehicle may include a detachable roof assembly that includes an upper B-pillar extending from a longitudinal roof rail that extends between a pair of transverse roof bows. The vehicle may also include a frame assembly. The frame assembly may include a lower B-pillar that extends from a rocker panel to a beltline of the vehicle. The lower B-pillar may include an upper end that defines a receptacle that may receive at least 50% of the upper B-pillar when the roof assembly is assembled to the frame assembly.

Removable roof structure

A vehicle underbody including a rear underbody structure, a rear differential, a sub-frame, and a traction battery is provided. The rear differential is mounted to the rear underbody structure. The sub-frame is mounted to the rear underbody structure rearward of the rear differential. The traction battery is mounted between the rear underbody structure and the sub-frame. A base portion of the traction battery defines a base portion plane that does not extend through the rear differential. The sub-frame may include at least two reinforcement members each having a ramp-shaped end extending toward the rear differential. The sub-frame may include a rear lateral member and a trailer hitch mount extending rearwardly therefrom. One of the reinforcement members and the trailer hitch mount may be aligned in parallel with a central longitudinal axis defined by the rear underbody structure.

Vehicle Traction Battery Sub-Frame Assembly

A method of controlling a vehicle includes providing a vehicle having a brake system configured to operate according to a nominal mode in which applied braking pressure is based on a driver braking request, a first active braking mode in which applied braking pressure is based on maximum ABS braking pressure and decreased in response to a driver brake pedal release, and a second active braking mode in which applied braking pressure is based on maximum braking pressure. In response to a detected collision, the system is controlled according to the first active braking mode. In response to the first active braking mode being active and no driver braking request being anticipated, the system is controlled according to the second active braking mode. In response to the first or second active braking modes being active and a termination criterion being satisfied, the system is controlled according to the nominal mode.

Method and device for autonomous braking of a vehicle following collision

A method for controlling a vehicle braking system includes commanding vehicle brakes to provide braking torque based on a driver braking request in response to a detected collision and an anticipated application of a driver-actuated brake pedal after the collision. The method additionally includes activating the vehicle brakes in the absence of application of the brake pedal in response to a subsequent application and release of the brake pedal while a motion sensor reading exceeds a predefined threshold.

A method of controlling a vehicle braking system, includes: (i) detecting whether a collision has occurred; (ii) detecting whether a predetermined condition follows the collision; (iii) determining whether a driver has applied the brakes; and (iv) when a driver has not applied the brakes, autonomously initiating braking.

A deflector is attached to a frame on a vehicle in front of a front wheel which cooperates with the front wheel to glance a vehicle past a laterally offset impacting object. The deflector acts as a first boundary against the impacting object and the deflector turns the front wheel inboard to an inwardly turned position to act as a second deflecting boundary against the impacting object. The deflector and inwardly turned front wheel cooperate to deflect the vehicle past the object, such that the object passes outboard of a rocker member on the vehicle.

Apparatus for deflecting a vehicle away from an object during an offset frontal impact

A method () for cascading system level target to component level design objectives using machine learning and design synthesis techniques. The method () of the present invention uses machine learning techniques to build () surrogate models from given system targets (). The method then employs design synthesis methods to determine () a range of component level design objectives for the given system level targets using the surrogate models. The range of component level design objectives is fed back () to one of the surrogate models to determine () the component design objectives.

Method for cascading vehicle system targets to component level design objectives

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