Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Kris Allyn Warmann

Deepak Patel

Edward Joseph Abramoski

Zhibing Deng

Linh Ngoc Doan

Bhavani Thota

Edward Joseph DeSmet

Li Lu

Travis Justin Raines

Christopher Donald Schop

Morteza Tanbakuchi

Hassan Najib Dubaisi

Anderson Luis De Castro Oliveira

A restraint system includes a webbing-guide shell including a guide portion and a sloping portion, and a member reinforcing the sloping portion. The guide portion includes a slot and an opening from the slot through the guide portion, and the sloping portion includes a top surface sloping downwardly in a vehicle-inboard direction. The material of the member is stronger than the material of the webbing-guide shell.

Seatbelt webbing guide

A knee airbag includes a front panel, a rear panel and first and second tethers. The first tether is between the panels and defines an outboard chamber. The second tether is between the panels and defines an inboard chamber. The tethers cooperatively define a center chamber. The chambers, in an inflated position, are substantially vertical and parallel. The inboard chamber is thinner than the other chambers. In the inflated position, the tethers respectively define first and second knee-receiving pockets.

Knee airbag with receiving pockets

A door assembly for a vehicle includes a door panel and a door trim panel comprising a shaped pelvic load path energy-absorbing feature disposed on a door panel-facing surface of the door trim panel. The shaped pelvic load path energy-absorbing feature is defined by a plurality of stepped surfaces, which in turn may define as various cross-sectional shapes for the shaped pelvic load path energy-absorbing feature.

Pelvic load management using integrated collapsible features in door trim panel

A collision management system comprising at least one of a guiding-bracket and a catch configured to inhibit forward movement of an under-hung spare-tire during a collision. The guiding-bracket may connect to and extend downward from a floor, or sprung-mass component, of the vehicle. The spare-tire may contact the guiding-bracket during a collision substantially inhibiting further movement, deflecting it downward away from the vehicle, deflecting it toward a suspension component, and/or deflecting it toward the catch. The catch may be connected to and extend upward from a suspension component. The catch may also inhibit spare-tire forward movement, may puncture the tire of the spare-tire, and may pull the spare-tire downward with the movement of the suspension component to which it is attached during the collision.

Spare-tire collision management system

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Plymouth, MI, United States of America

Kris Allyn Warmann