Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Nathan Kristofor Tardif

Joseph Edward Abramczyk

Abdelmonaam Sassi

Peyman Aghssa

Amar Marpu

Anil Reddy Pullalarevu

Joseph David Hyde

Djamal Eddine Midoun

Matthew Brian Makowski

Jamil M Alwan

Sudip Sankar Bhattacharjee

Dylan Erb

Baocheng Sun

Jacob Wiles

Alexander Bartlett

Bikram Singh

Adam Denlinger

Jeff Steven Vinton

Petros Frantzeskakis

Juanito Yu Co

GaRam Jun

A hybrid structural assembly for a motor vehicle includes a casting and a structural inlay. The casting includes a plurality of structural components joined together in a casting process to form structural load paths and extending in a plurality of directions in a 3D space. The casting includes a cast-allowable alloy material. The structural inlay is secured to at least one of the structural components. The structural inlay includes a material having at least one of a higher ductility and a higher toughness than the cast-allowable alloy material.

Hybrid cast vehicle assembly with structural reinforcements

An apparatus includes a door frame, a carriage movable along a path relative to the door frame, a window, a bolt fixing the window to the carriage, a housing fixed to the window by the bolt, a striker mounted in the housing, and a pyrotechnic charge positioned to drive the striker into the window.

Vehicle window-breaking apparatus

A vehicle includes a window and a striker positioned to strike the window. The vehicle includes an actuator positioned to drive the striker. The vehicle includes a temperature sensor in communication with the actuator.

Window striker

An exemplary battery assembly includes an enclosure having a first portion interfacing with a separate, second portion along an interface. A seal is at the interface, and a shear cord is configured to rupture the seal when moved from a first position to a second position. An exemplary battery accessing method includes moving a shear cord from a first to a second position to rupture a seal. The seal is at an interface between a first and a second portion of an enclosure.

Battery assembly having a shear cord and battery accessing method using the shear cord

A battery pack according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a tray, a cover mounted to the tray and a beam system including a first beam attached to the tray and a second beam attached to the cover.

Beam system for electrified vehicle battery packs

An exemplary electrified vehicle assembly includes, among other things, a lower wall of a battery enclosure and an upper wall of the battery enclosure. The upper wall includes an upper wall deformation area that is configured to deform in response to a load applied to the battery enclosure prior to other areas of the upper wall.

Deformable battery pack enclosure

An exemplary passenger airbag for a vehicle passenger restraint system may include an inflatable cushion having an upper rear portion with a convex surface and a lower rear portion with a concave surface when the airbag is deployed. The airbag may further include a longitudinal tether secured to the lower rear portion to limit longitudinal expansion of the inflatable cushion and form the concave surface in the lower rear portion.

Airbag and vehicle passenger restraint system

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Ferndale, MI, United States of America

Nathan Kristofor Tardif