Rivian IP Holdings, LLC

Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Mark Taylor

Rajinder Pal Singh

Richard Maciejewski

Shun Yi Jin

Venkatesh Krishnan

Eric Stoddard

Aditya Narayan

Jason Castriota

Barry Lett

Henning Wigger

Philipp Josef Wolf

Martyn Swain

Revathi Krishnamoorthy

Tina Thompson

Geoff John Cooper

Ted Gilligan

Nick Malachowski

Giancarlo Foschetti

James Dowle

Kevin Wheldon

Andres Meana

Shanmugha Kuppuraj

Robert McPhail

A storage tunnel assembly for the bed of a pickup truck or other vehicle. The storage tunnel assembly generally includes a deployable vertical wall separated from a bulkhead of the bed and disposed across a width of the bed and a deployable cover separated from a floor of the bed between the vertical wall and the bulkhead and disposed across the width of the bed. The vertical wall, the cover, the bulkhead, and the floor define a storage space within a space defined by the bed. The vertical wall and the cover may be fixed components, separate components, and/or hinged components in various assemblies. One or both side walls of the bed define a storage tunnel access opening coincident with the storage space defined by the vertical wall, the cover, the bulkhead, and the floor and may include a door adapted to selectively open and close the associated storage tunnel access opening.

Storage tunnel assembly for the bed of a pickup truck or other vehicle

Methods and systems for preventing serious injury or vehicle damage resulting from collisions between automotive vehicles and people, animals, or other objects are described. In some instances, the system may comprise an object detection system configured to detect a human prior to impact with an automotive vehicle comprising the object detection system, and further configured to send a first activation signal upon detection of the human; a first actuator attached to the automotive vehicle; and a protection plate operatively connected to the first actuator and mounted on a structural component of the automotive vehicle; where upon receipt of the first activation signal by the first actuator, the protection plate is deployed from a non-vertical orientation into a vertical orientation and is vertically-positioned between a level of a front bumper of the automotive vehicle and a surface on which the automotive vehicle is traveling.

Deployable protection plate

A vehicle window system includes a vehicle door that has a window region. The system includes a fixed window having an exterior surface and an interior surface, a division bar, and a movable window. The fixed window is arranged in a first portion of the window region, and the division bar is arranged along a first region of the interior surface. The movable window is arranged in a second portion of the window region and is configured to close against the division bar. The division bar is not directly visible from outside of the vehicle door when viewed at an elevation of the fixed window. To illustrate, the movable window can be configured to move vertically within the first portion of the window region and the fixed window arranged at the top of the window region and the division bar is arranged substantially horizontally along the interior surface.

Hidden division bar for a vehicle window

A vehicle assembly includes a vehicle body including two roof rails spaced from one another. The vehicle assembly further includes a roof panel which is releasably attached to the vehicle body. The roof panel extends from one roof rail to the other roof rail. The roof panel defines a sensor window. An object-detection sensor is aligned with the sensor window.

Releasably attachable roof panel

An exemplary flow control assembly includes, among other things, shutters each having at least one aperture. The shutters are configured to move back and forth between a first position and a second position to influence a flow through the at least one aperture. A flow control method includes, among other things, moving a shutters back and forth between a first position and a second position. The first position permits more flow through at least one aperture within each of the shutters than the second position.

Flow control assembly and method utilizing apertured shutters

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