Ford Global Technologies, LLC

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Keith Weston

Brendan F Diamond

Andrew Denis Lewandowski

Jordan Barrett

Michael Alan Mcnees

Stuart C Salter

Joshua Sharpe

Matthew Johnson

John Robert Van Wiemeersch

Andrew Thomas Cunningham

Anthony J Maraldo

David Michael Russell

Jonathan Hair

Lars Niklas Pettersson

Matthew Arthur Titus

Andrew Monticello

Ryan O'Rourke

Andrew Arthur Brown

Lorne Forsythe

Victor Martinez

Jim Stevens

Andrew Brown

Ryan Orourke

Aed M Dudar

Andrew D Niedert

Aaron Lewis Mills

David Douglas Friske

Mark Thomas Weston

Jeffrey John Ley

James Gerard Cullen

Zackary Swisher

Jonathan Michael Graves

Brian Gabel

Trystan Magnuson

Pietro Buttolo

Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam

Aaron Bradley Johnson

Ryan J O'Gorman

Ryan Edwin Hanson

Mark Meinhart

Filip Tomik

Jonathan Sullivan

Hani Mohammad Ayesh

James Trent

Shehan Haputhanthri

Rohit Hippalgaonkar

Lucian Lippok

Ray A Sackett

Kenneth J Boyd

Daniel Joseph Dunn

Nicholas Anthony Quatrano

Brent Alan Hall

Grant Patrick Mayer

Jorge Rivas

Nolen Thomas Barnes, Iii

Charles Richard Drake

Joshua Walters

David Guglielmo

Alexander Ferencz

Kenneth Mchugh

Trenton Lee McMillion

Michael Joseph Niksa

Ian George Eickholdt

Tim Beck

Brandon Roberts

Enzo Campagnolo

Justin DeSordi

Brent Clark

Edwin Ho

Michael A McNees

Jennifer Bloedow

Francis Aroyehun

Nikhil Subramaniam

James Ethan Jones

Derek Bier

A vehicle includes a front axle having left and right front wheels and a rear axle having left and right rear wheels. A steering-wheel assembly is used to control at least the front wheels. Left and right driver-actuatable inputs are supported by the steering wheel assembly. A vehicle controller is programmed to, responsive to actuation of the driver-actuatable inputs, place the vehicle in one or more operating modes such as tank turn, trail turn assist, or diagonal driving mode.

Limited use driving operations for vehicles

A vehicle control system may include a sensor network sensing vehicle attitude information and a controller operably coupled to the sensor network to determine, based on the vehicle attitude information, movement of a center of gravity of the vehicle relative to an axis of rotation of the vehicle. The controller may further determine a modification to a torque application of the vehicle based on the movement of the center of gravity of the vehicle relative to the axis of rotation of the vehicle.

BEV powertrain/steering controls for enhanced stability on inclined surfaces

A vehicle includes one or more sensors configured to generate sensor data; and a controller programmed to: responsive to receiving the sensor data indicative of rocks being propelled off the ground, perform a vehicle operation to protect the vehicle from the propelled rocks.

Rock kick up recognition system

The suspension assembly may include a suspension element operably coupling a chassis to a wheel assembly of the vehicle, and a coating operably coupled to an exposed portion of the suspension element that is compressed or displaced responsive to a suspension event. The coating when powered may emit light to illuminate the suspension element and an area proximate to the suspension element.

Illuminating coating for an element of a suspension assembly

A vehicle including a detection unit and a processor is disclosed. The detection unit may be configured to capture inputs associated with an external light being illuminated in proximity to the vehicle. The processor may be configured to obtain the inputs from the detection unit, and determine an illumination characteristic associated with the external light based on the inputs obtained from the detection unit. The processor may further actuate a vehicle light to illuminate based on the illumination characteristic.

Systems and methods for actuating vehicle lights based on external light show

A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to, in response to one of a vehicle feature of a vehicle being active or the vehicle being in a preset geographic area, control acceleration and braking of the vehicle based on input from an input device of the vehicle according to a low-speed mode; and in response to the low-speed mode being inactive, control acceleration and braking of the vehicle not according to the low-speed mode. In the low-speed mode, acceleration occurs upon receiving input from the input device. In the low-speed mode, braking occurs upon not receiving input from the input device.

Low-speed vehicle control

A computer for a vehicle has a processor and memory storing instructions executable by the processor to apply rotational power to one wheel of a vehicle and apply brake to three other wheels of the vehicle in response to activation of one-wheel dig mode of the vehicle by a human operator of the vehicle. The instructions include instruction to, in response to detection of completion of a hole in ground under the one wheel in the one-wheel dig mode, cease application of rotational power to the one wheel of the vehicle.

Vehicle operation in one-wheel dig mode

A vehicle includes receives a remote start request from a user, responsive to the request, engage at least one vehicle sensor to determine whether at least an animal or person are within at least a predefined distance from an exhaust or external sounder of the vehicle. Additionally, the vehicle, responsive to determining that the animal or person are withing the predefined distance, delays execution of a remote start, requested by the request, for at least a predefined period of time.

Adaptive exhaust control for remote start

Parking settings and map data indicative of parking locations in proximity to a structure that are available for the vehicle are maintained to a memory of a vehicle, the parking settings indicating a first time at which the vehicle is to enter an automatic parking mode in which the vehicle moves among the parking locations in proximity to the structure, and a second time at which the vehicle is to exit the automatic parking mode. In the automatic parking mode, responsive to the parking settings indicating an automated parking movement, the parking locations are selected from to determine a parking location into which to move the vehicle and the automated parking movement is performed using a virtual drive system of the vehicle to move the vehicle from a current parked location in proximity to the structure to the determined parking location in proximity to the structure.

Coordinated vehicle movement for presence simulation

A component for a vehicle includes a skid plate configured to attach to an underbody of the vehicle, a plurality of cooling channels extending in a longitudinal direction between the skid plate and the underbody of the vehicle, and a structural reinforcement extending outward from the skid plate. The skid plate, the plurality of cooling channels, and the structural reinforcement are additively manufactured in a unitary construction.

Integrated skid plate heat dissipator

A vehicle includes a transmission and a controller. The transmission is configured to transition between automatic and manual modes. The controller is programmed to, in response to the transmission operating in the manual mode and an absence of receiving a manual command to shift the transmission for a predetermined period of time, transition the operation of the transmission from the manual mode to the automatic mode. The controller is further programmed to, in response to the transmission operating in the manual mode, an absence of receiving the manual command to shift the transmission for the predetermined period of time, and a condition flagged to suppress an upshift in the transmission, remain in the manual mode.

Vehicle transmission control system

Access to a vehicle is controlled by detecting gestures pointing to a virtual keypad. A setup mode preconfigures a sequence of touchpoints as a security key, wherein an administrant performs a timed series of distinct gestures according to a chosen number and location of touchpoints which are detected by the vehicle using captured real-time images. Touchpoints during a plurality of repetition trials provide respective sets of datapoints for each one of the distinct gestures in the series. A respective deviation contour is determined for each respective set and then expanded to represent regions of validity for respective touchpoints corresponding to the sequence of touchpoints. The expanded deviation contours are accepted as defining the sequence of touchpoints for the security key if there is no overlap between any expanded deviation contours to complete the setup mode.

Gesture-based vehicle entry system with virtual keypad

A tire chain assembly may include a peripheral chain assembly, a chain positioning assembly, and a retention ring. The peripheral chain assembly may extend around tire treads of a tire having an outer sidewall that extends in a radial direction to be operably coupled to a wheel rim. The chain positioning assembly may extend from the peripheral chain assembly over the outer sidewall toward an outer peripheral edge of the wheel rim. The retention ring may attach the chain positioning assembly to the outer peripheral edge of the wheel rim.

Bead lock snow chain integration

Orientations of a vehicle with an attached trailer can be specified for obtaining respective images of the trailer. Respective images of the trailer captured by a vehicle camera at the specified orientations can then be received. The images can be input to a machine learning program trained to output trailer size metrics. The vehicle can then be controlled according to the trailer size metrics output from the machine learning program.

Lane assistance for vehicles with trailers

Methods and apparatus to control a vehicle trailer using torque vectoring are disclosed. An example apparatus to control a trailer of a vehicle includes condition determination circuitry to determine, based on data from sensors on at least one of the trailer or the vehicle, whether a condition associated with the vehicle is satisfied, and torque control circuitry to adjust, in response to the condition being satisfied, a first torque of a first motor and a second torque of a second motor, the first motor operatively coupled to a first wheel of the trailer, the second motor operatively coupled to a second wheel of the trailer.

Methods and apparatus to control a vehicle trailer using torque vectoring

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Canton, MI, United States of America

Keith Weston