Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Other

Metronom U.s., Inc.

Kelly Michael Kohlstrand

Stephen Lewis Bruford

Donald G Mikolai

Stanley Liu

David Brian Glickman

Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam

Venkatesh Krishnan

Jeffrey Singer

Kip Alan Ewing

James Hugh Fowler

Bari W Brown

Jason Falenski

James Joseph Loschiavo

Venky Krishnan

Marcus Edward Merideth

Muhammed Ayub

Tad J Siedlecki

Mark Edward Porter

Heidi Ann Dibble

Matthew Carey

Ingobert Schmadel

Xiang Dong Yu

Stefan Obenauer

Todd Joseph DeSantis

Roger Hayden

A system includes a processor configured to receive settings for one or more vehicle ambient lighting activation sequences. The processor is further configured to receive a signal relating to a notification for which an audio sound could be played. The processor is additionally configured to recognize that an ambient light activation has been enabled. Also, the processor is configured to output a sequence of activated ambient lights within a vehicle, based on the settings and responsive to the received signal.

Method and apparatus for ambient lighting incoming message alert

A system and method to polarize a reflective layer on a vehicle mirror to reveal a convex mirror to view objects in a vehicle blindspot includes a primary mirror having first and second surfaces, an electrically polarizable reflective coating on at least a portion of the first surface reflective in a depolarized state and clear when polarized by an applied electric current, a blind zone viewing convex mirror adjacent to the second surface and proximal to the polarizable coating of the first surface; and a blind spot detection system electrically connected to the primary mirror and a power source to automatically apply current to the first surface when an object is detected in a blind spot and change the reflectivity polarizable coating on the first surface and expose the concave mirror and discontinuing current to the reflective coating once an object has passed out of the blind spot.

Active blindspot/lane departure detection mirror system

An automotive vehicle includes one or more swinging doors which may be immobilized in a number of positions, so as to allow the doors to be used to assist passengers upon entering and leaving the vehicle. The motion of the door may be damped, or stopped entirely, either at the discretion of a vehicle occupant, or automatically, in the event that the door is driven by external forces to swing at a high rate.

Automotive door with hydraulically locking repositionable immobilizer

A multi-mode load bed cover for an automotive vehicle includes first and second cover sectors which are deployable laterally from within a housing associated with a bodyside of a load bed.

Multi-mode load bed cover for automotive vehicle

A seat integrated tether system for use in a vehicle for the secure placement of an article on a vehicle seat. One or more retractable or extendable tethers are adapted for attachment to the side of the vehicle seat. By use of the system with the front passenger seat of a vehicle the driver may have ready access to the contents of the retained article, which may be an item storage article such as an open top bag, case or storage net.

Seat integrated tether system

A door latch system for an automotive vehicle uses a push-pull cable linked to a lock cylinder and to a latch to move the latch assembly into the locked position while simultaneously blocking the latch's lock/unlock lever from moving into the unlocked position.

Door latch system for automotive vehicle

In one embodiment, an automotive vehicle is disclosed having a vehicle body with a first pillar, a second pillar, a roof member and a floor member defining a door opening therebetween. A lateral side entry door is pivotally connected to the vehicle body for enclosing the door opening. The side entry door moves along an operating path having a closed position and an open position. The vehicle has a motor and a lead screw mounted in the side entry door and connected to the motor to be driven by the motor. The vehicle has a link connected to the lead screw and connected to the vehicle body adjacent to the door opening. The motor drives the lead screw to translate the link to open and close the side entry door.

Power door for a passenger vehicle

A blocking apparatus is cooperable with the latch lever of a vehicle door latching mechanism to prevent the latch lever from moving during a crash event, which prevents the latching mechanism from allowing the vehicle door to open. The blocking apparatus includes a housing supporting a linearly movable plunger engagable with a cam surface on the latch lever and a blocking member pivotally mounted for movement between a normal position and a blocking position. The blocking member moves into the blocking position due to the imposition of crash forces on the blocking member during a crash event. A centering spring mechanism biases the blocking member into the normal position and can return the blocking member into the normal position to permit movement of the latch lever after the crash event has occurred. The plunger is biased into engagement with the latch lever so as to move with the cam surface.

Apparatus for blocking the movement of an inertially activated component

A method and an assemblyfor identifying the existence and the size of a gap. Particularly, the assembly, in one embodiment, includes a member, which forcibly engages a staring gaugeas two members or portions abuttingly engage. The force is representative of the amount of space between the two members or portions and this information is wirelessly transmitted to a receiver and display assembly

Method and an assembly for determining the existence and the size of a gap

A vehicleis provided having a vehicle bodywith an openinghaving first and second ends. The vehicle bodyhas a first door. A second doorhas a latched connectionwith the vehicle body between the openingfirst and second ends. The second doorhas a window regulatorto move a window panein and out of a window opening

Vehicle door arrangement

The vehicular door hinge of the present invention facilitates both forward and rearward swinging door motion. The present invention achieves this objective by reversing the orientation of the door component portion of the hinge within the body component portion of the hinge. An integrated door stop is incorporated into the body component. The integrated door stop further includes non-parallel stop surfaces that abut the door component's geometry in both the conventional and reversed configurations to give the desired opening angles. As a result, the present invention allows for different uses from the same components where a first predetermined angle may be achieved or a second predetermined angle may be achieved with different swing directions.

Reversible door hinge

A method and an assembly for determining the presence of gaps located between a first portion of a partially assembled apparatus and a second portion . The existence and size of the gap may be discerned by use of a wireless gap sensor which is engaged by the portion as it abuts or comes into close proximity with the portion . Other methods and may be respectively used to respectively discern the existence and the size of a gap within an assembled vehicle and to measure the deflection of a portion of an apparatus, such as a vehicle.

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Wyandotte, MI, United States of America

Kelly Michael Kohlstrand