Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

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Mark Andre Zielinski

Mark Anthony Cuddihy

Dilip B Patel

Karthikeyan Sadatsharan

Kevin Thomas Hille

Xin Ye

Karl Wojcik

James Martin Lawlis

Robert J Miller

John Russell Bielawski, Jr

Locating systems and methods for wireless seat belt monitoring in vehicles with removable or reconfigurable seats are provided herein. An example remote transceiver can be centrally located on a seat that is configured to be rearranged within a vehicle. The remote transceiver can include a processor and memory for storing instructions that include a unique code identifying the remote transceiver. The processor executes the instructions to receive low power signals from transmitters within an interior of the vehicle, determine received signal strength values of the low power signals. The received signal strength values are used by the vehicle receiver to determine a location of the remote transceiver within the vehicle.

Locating systems and methods for wireless seat belt monitoring in vehicles with removable or reconfigurable seats

Locating systems and methods for wireless seat belt monitoring in vehicles with removable or reconfigurable seats are provided herein. An example device includes a first transceiver associated with a seat belt buckle, the first transceiver having a processor and memory for storing instructions that include a first unique code identifying the first transceiver and a first orientation value of the seat belt buckle to a vehicle receiver, the first orientation value indicating a location of the seat belt buckle on a seat, the processor executes the instructions to transmit the first unique code and the first orientation value to a vehicle receiver.

Method and apparatus are disclosed for remote keyless entry authentication. An example remote keyless entry system includes a key fob and a vehicle. The key fob generates a secured message with a plaintext space and a ciphertext space. The vehicle (i) determines whether the key fob may be authorized based on first information in the plaintext space, (ii) decrypts an encrypted value in the ciphertext space based on a predicted full counter value, and (iii) determines whether the key fob is authorized based on second information in the encrypted value.

Remote keyless entry message authentication

A vehicle includes: receiver(s), a timer counting time, memory, and processor(s) configured to: receive a timestamped signal from a fob; compare the timestamp to a time window; reject the timestamp if the timestamp is outside the time window; expand the time window with the counted time; compute the time window as a trigonometric function of the counted time and a predetermined angle.

Expanding time window for remote commands

In at least one embodiment, an ambient lighting system comprising a lighting module and a controller is provided. The lighting module is configured to drive a light emitting device (LED) arrangement to display a desired ambient color in response to a lighting control signal and to transmit a lighting status signal providing diagnostic information for one of the lighting module and the LED arrangement. The controller is configured to transmit the lighting control signal including first digital data indicative of the desired ambient color and a feed signal for powering the lighting module on a bi-directional data communication bus between the controller and the lighting module. The controller is further configured to receive the lighting status signal on the bi-directional data communication bus.

Ambient LED lighting system and method

The present invention discloses a first embodiment having a straight line apparatus consisting of tubular channels that pass through risers that elevate the channels off the ground. The end risers provide a port on one distal end that allows the user to attach other succeeding lengths of channel to the main structure via couplers that are inserted into the end port . The second embodiment provides a curved apparatus, consisting of main tubular channels that pass through main risers that elevate the channels off the ground. The main end risers of the main structure provide ports on one distal end to allow the user to attach other units, via main couplers , to expand the apparatus to a larger size. The side channels and risers can be removed and snapped together in a stacked fashion for easy storage and transportation of the device. Main end caps are also provided and are attached to the main end riser port when additional stations are not in use.

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Bloomfield Hills, MI, United States of America

Mark Andre Zielinski