Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

University of Michigan

Mohammad Olfatnia

Yi Zhang

Shorya Awtar

Michael Brett Sovine

Erin Gibb

Michael Thomas Kramer

Sixin Fan

Daniel M Cragel

David Charles Secco

Erik M Weber

Siddharth Sood

Andrew Murphy

An integrated air shroud assembly is provided for a motor vehicle. That air shroud assembly includes a body having a radiator opening, a charge air cooler opening and a cooling fan opening. The charge air cooler opening is offset from the radiator opening and the radiator opening and the charge air cooler opening are in parallel communication with the cooling fan opening.

Integrated cooling air shroud assembly

In one or more embodiments, a vibration-isolating bracket assembly includes an elastic donut including a main aperture, a first bracket including a tongue with at least a portion thereof being received within the main aperture, the tongue including a first through-aperture, a first portion of the elastic donut being received within the first through-aperture, and a second bracket to support the elastic donut.

Vibration-isolating bracket assembly

Flexure bearing systems and configurations guide translational motion along a single-axis in micro and macro applications such as micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) devices including sensors and actuators like electrostatic comb-drive actuators. The flexure bearing systems and configurations described herein provide an improved constraint against movement (i.e., stiffness) of the primary mover in non-motion axes such as a bearing axis.

Single-axis flexure bearing configurations

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Mohammad Olfatnia