Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ray Kurlonko

Macit Aktas

Joseph Michael Kish

Robert Clayton Caldwell

Glenn Scott

Cung K Chieu

Johnathan Andrew Line

Alan George Dry

Joshua Gauthier

Changwei Xie

Eric Morse

Matthew Schwope

Arya Sabeti

A vehicle track assembly includes a conductive rail coupled to the track assembly. The conductive rail includes an electrically insulative substrate and one or more conductive strips attached to the substrate. The vehicle track assembly further includes a track-mounted component electrically coupled to the conductive rail. The track-mounted component includes a cantilevered biasing member and one or more electrical contacts. The cantilevered biasing member biases the one or more electrical contacts toward the one or more conductive strips to maintain an electrical connection between the one or more electrical contacts and the one or more conductive strips as the track-mounted component is moved along the conductive rail.

Track assembly with electrical connection system

A rail assembly includes a track assembly defining an interior channel, a shuttle assembly received within the interior channel, and a carriage assembly coupled to the track assembly. The shuttle assembly includes a lock assembly. The carriage assembly includes a trigger assembly. The trigger assembly includes a trigger cam and an actuator cam coupled to the trigger cam. The actuator cam actuates the carriage assembly between locked and unlocked configurations relative to the track assembly.

Rail assembly for a vehicle

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