Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Jim Michael Weinfurther

Ronald Patrick Brombach

John Robert Van Wiemeersch

Robert Bruce Kleve

John Thomas Ricks

Lisa Therese Boran

Kosta Papanikolaou

Howard Paul Tsvi Linden

Laura Viviana Hazebrouck

Noah Barlow Mass

Daniel Carl Bejune

H Paul Tsvi Linden

Dilip B Patel

Thomas Michael McQuade

Karl Wojcik

Greg Swadling

Brian Tian

A powered latch system for motor vehicles includes at least one powered latch that can be controlled based, at least in part, on vehicle operating conditions. The system may be configured to control unlatching of the vehicle doors utilizing data relating to the vehicle speed and/or the existence of a crash event. The powered latch system can be configured as required for various vehicles, and to accommodate specific operating requirements with respect to child locks in various geographic jurisdictions.

Electronic safe door unlatching operations

A latch system for vehicle doors includes a powered latch including a powered actuator that is configured to unlatch the powered latch. An interior unlatch input feature such as an unlatch switch can be actuated by a user to provide an unlatch request. The system may include a controller that is operably connected to the powered actuator of the powered latch. The controller is configured such that it does not unlatch the powered latch if a vehicle speed is greater than a predefined value unless the interior latch feature is actuated at least two times according to predefined criteria.

Powered latch system for vehicle doors and control system therefor

A method for setting a warm placard tire pressure threshold for a motor vehicle tire pressure monitoring system that initiates a learn mode in the tire pressure monitoring system, starts a timer upon determining a vehicle speed is greater than a predetermined speed threshold, stops the timer upon determining the vehicle speed is less than or equal to the predetermined speed threshold or a predetermined period of time has expired, detects a plurality of tire pressures for a tire location while the timer is timing, stores the plurality of tire pressures, averages the plurality of tire pressures to determine a warm placard tire pressure threshold upon the predetermined period of time expiring, and sets the warm placard tire pressure threshold in the tire pressure monitoring system.

Method for learning and setting warm placard pressure threshold for a direct tire pressure monitoring system

A FET monitoring and protecting system () that includes a FET switch device (). The FET switch device () includes a FET (), a logic device (), and a feedback status output (). The logic device () is electrically coupled to the FET () and generates a feedback status signal. A counter () is incremented in response to an actual short circuit condition of the FET switch device (). A controller () is electrically coupled to the feedback status output (). The controller () permits the activation of the FET () in response to the feedback status signal and a value of the counter ().

FET monitoring and protecting system

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Jim Michael Weinfurther