Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Vari-form, Inc.

Parameswararao Pothuraju

Michael Musa Azzouz

Ari Garo Caliskan

Xiaoming Chen

David Anthony Wagner

John Edward Huber

Yuksel Gur

Sunil K Kasaragod

Aref Vandadi

Arnold Kadiu

Jeffery Wallace

Mohammad Omar Faruque

Shawn Michael Morgans

Ridha Baccouche

Dean A Gericke

Thierry Guimberteau

Tim Alan Mouch

Jeffrey A Wallace

Daniel Szalay

Viktor Kostrominov

Everett Kuo

Raj Mehta

Louis Ratsos

Ari Garo Callskan

Omar Faruque

Dean Gericke

A vehicle includes a vehicle frame elongated along a longitudinal axis. The vehicle frame includes a first rail and a second rail spaced from each other and each elongated along the longitudinal axis. The vehicle frame includes a longitudinal beam between the first and second rails and elongated along the longitudinal axis. The vehicle includes a vehicle body. The vehicle body includes a cross-beam directly connected to the longitudinal beam and to the first and second rails.

Vehicle platform

A mounting rail assembly for mounting a seat to a vehicle is provided. The mounting rail assembly includes a substrate positioned between a first U-shaped track and a second U-shaped track in addition to one or more attachment members configured to couple the first and second U-shaped tracks and provide a clamping pressure to the substrate. The first and second U-shaped tracks include a plurality of apertures to receive the one or more attachment members.

Mounting hardware for vehicle structures

The present disclosure relates to various vehicle frame assemblies and methods of manufacturing the same. The vehicle frame assemblies have rails composed of dissimilar materials.

Vehicle support frames with interlocking features for joining members of dissimilar materials

The present disclosure relates to methods of manufacturing vehicle frame assemblies. Some of the disclosed methods include forming a key and receptor arrangement between an interconnecting member, having a first material composition, and a cross-member, having a second material composition; attaching the interconnecting member and cross-member via the key and receptor arrangement at one location; inserting the interconnecting member and cross-member in a side rail; and welding the interconnecting member to the side rail at another location.

An aluminum tubular beam is assembled to a steel box frame rail with a steel sleeve. The sleeve is connected by a crimp joint or by a hem flange to the tubular beam. The steel sleeve may be effectively welded to the steel box frame rail to which it is assembled. An adhesive may be provided between the sleeve and the beam.

Tubular beam with a crimped sleeve

A pillar to rocker joint assembly comprising a tubular pillar having a pinched flange near a lower end of the pillar is joined to a rocker assembly including a side sill and rocker reinforcement. A method of making a pillar to rocker joint assembly that comprises a vehicle structural support is formed by welding a structural support pillar to an outer body panel through an access opening in the pillar and welding a rocker reinforcement to a side sill. The rocker reinforcement is welded to the pillar through an access opening in the side sill, an access hole in the body outer panel, and an access opening in the pillar that is vertically spaced relative to the first access opening. A bottom flange of the B-pillar is welded to a lower edge flange of the rocker reinforcement and a lower edge flange of the side sill.

Tubular B-pillar to stamped rocker joint and method of assembling the same

A structural joint is formed between the upper frame rail, which bends downwardly to define a generally vertically extending portion, and a generally fore-and-aft extending lower frame rail that can increase bending resistance without sacrificing crash energy management of the horn section of the lower frame rail. The structural joint is reinforced with a crushable tubular reinforcement member formed in a clamshell configuration that includes a forwardly extending support arm positioned beneath the horn section to lower the center of gravity of a downwardly angled horn section to prevent premature bending thereof when encountering crash energy from a frontal impact. The horn section is formed in a pre-folded configuration to enhance the crash energy management of the horn section. The tubular reinforcement provides a double cell structural configuration adjacent the structural joint to provide a crushable structural joint that enables an effective management of crash energy.

Double cell crushable joint for automotive front end

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Parameswararao Pothuraju