Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Parakrama Valentine Weerappuli

Brian Robert Spahn

Richard Edward Ruthinowski

Ian Brewster Hall

Raed Essa El-Jawahri

Kevin Siasoco

Mohammad Omar Faruque

James Chih Cheng

Saeed David Barbat

Srinivasan Sundararajan

Kevin Michael Pline

Mangala Ambalangodage Jayasuriya

Derek Board

A pet restraint system includes a vehicle floor and a vehicle seat supported by the vehicle floor. The vehicle seat defines a seat-rearward direction. A pet restraint device includes a frame having a lower portion disposed on the vehicle floor and an upper portion supported by the lower portion. The pet restraint device includes a partition supported by the upper portion and is elongated in the seat-rearward direction from the upper portion to the vehicle seat. The partition is telescopic in the seat-rearward direction.

Pet restraint system

A method includes receiving data including 3-dimensional scans of a plurality of torsos, dividing each scan into a plurality of cross-sections, calculating an area for each cross-section, and calculating a torso volume based on the calculated areas. The method may include fitting a curve defined by parameters to each cross-section. The area for each cross-section may be an area enclosed by the curve. The method may include receiving a desired torso volume percentile, and determining values for the parameters of the curves corresponding to the desired percentile.

Method and system for anthropomorphic testing device

A jacket includes a ventral piece; left and right inferior dorsal pieces shaped to cover a left and a right inferior dorsal torso, respectively; and a posterior piece shaped to cover a posterior. The ventral piece includes a ventral portion shaped to cover a ventral torso, a superior dorsal portion connected to the ventral portion and shaped to cover a superior dorsal torso, and a detachably attachable seam splitting the superior dorsal portion. The inferior dorsal pieces are each attachable to the ventral portion and detachably attachable to each other. The posterior piece is detachably attachable to the inferior dorsal pieces.

Jacket for anthropomorphic testing device

An airbag assembly for a vehicle that includes a housing, an airbag supported by the housing, a deflector pivotally coupled to the housing, and a lock between the deflector and the housing. The lock is moveable relative to the deflector and the housing from an unlocked position disengaged with at least one of the deflector and the housing to a locked position engaged with both the deflector and the housing. The deflector may allow the airbag to deploy, without deflecting the airbag in response to one type of sensed impact, e.g., a full-width frontal impact, and may deflect the airbag in response to another type of sensed impact, e.g., oblique frontal impact.

Airbag assembly including a deflector

A seat belt retractor includes a housing and a spool supported by the housing. Webbing is wound around the spool. A webbing engagement member is supported by the housing and is movable to a locked position engaged with the webbing for preventing movement of the webbing relative to webbing engagement member. An activating device is slideably supported by the housing and is slideably engageable with the webbing engagement member for moving the webbing locking device to the locked position. In the locked position, the webbing locking device prevents the webbing from being fed from the spool, thus preventing any slack in the webbing on the spool from being fed out when the webbing locking device is in the locked position.

Seat belt retractor including pretensioner and slack remover

A passenger protection system includes a rotatable arm, a rotation mechanism rotatably attached to the rotatable arm, and a flexible sheet connected to the rotatable arm and connectable to a vehicle roof.

Passenger protection system

A passenger protection system includes a rotatable attachment mountable in a vehicle seat back, a first frame member rotatably connected to the rotatable attachment, and a flexible sheet having an upper edge connected to the first frame member.

A passenger protection device includes a panel trim that is fittable to a vehicle instrument panel and a flexible sheet attached to each of at least a portion of the panel trim and at least a portion of an edge of the instrument panel.

Deployable instrument panel trim

A dynamic energy management restraint anchor device interfaces with a child seat in a vehicle, engaging common child seat attachment clip features. A device restraint anchor is operable to dynamically extract and permit distortion of load bearing deformable member(s) in order to manage the displacement of, and load transferred through, an anchor connected to a child seat. The device may be further operable to limit or prevent restraint anchor displacement and the distortion of said deformable member(s) under quasi-static load conditions in order to meet motor vehicle static load/displacement anchorage performance requirements applicable to certain anchors. Anchor retraction capability and various interlocking configurations for securing the position of an anchor, before or after having extracted, may be incorporated relative to the energy management device interfacing with both a vehicle and a child seat. An indicator may further be provided to identify the functional state of the restraint device.

Dynamic displacement energy management device

An energy management load limiting vehicle seat member or construction is shown with collision energy absorbing and anti-submarining features.

Energy management load limiting vehicle seat member

An inertial lock system for use with an anchorage system for at least one vehicle child seat, the inertial lock system. The inertial lock system includes a retainer; an anchor movably connected to the retainer; at least one energy managing component connected between the retainer and the anchor biasing the anchor in a first direction capable of managing energy transmitted between the anchor and the retainer when the anchor is displaced in the direction opposite the first direction; a retention switch component selectively engageable with the anchor to limit the movement of the anchor in the first direction; and an inertial switch selectively operable in response to a predetermined deceleration of the retainer in the first direction to selectively release the retention switch and to thereby permit the at least one energy managing device to be displaced in the first direction.

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Parakrama Valentine Weerappuli