Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Williams International

Other

Robert Hornblower Meyer

Neil Robert Burrows

Robert Alex Mitchell

Jeffrey Paul Luther

Michael Thomas Kramer

Patrick Michael Brennan

Ronald C Pampreen

Valerie Jean Allan

Daniel Joseph Styles

Eric Myers

John W Hoard

Syed K Ali

Julia Giuliano

Kenneth W Sawyer

This invention is constructed of strong lightweight durable material like synthetic thermoplastic resin 5 mm thick or another material with similar characteristics. The material is cut into panels of a specific shape and dimension and bonded together with a proprietary adhesive process. The worktable surface is rectangular. Underneath the work table are two rectangular panels, each attached vertically at a 50&#xb0; opposing angle, apart 6&#xbd;&#x2033; at the top and 15.5&#x2033; at the bottom. These are referred as the angled gravity studs. Underneath and 14&#x2033; from the top is a rectangular panel, which is attached horizontally from side to side. This is the stabilizing bar. At the bottom top side of the worktable is a rectangular panel, attached horizontally and from side to side. This is the shelf panel. The work table is grasped by two hands and lifted up and over the crown of the steering wheel. As the work table is directed toward the windshield and then down until the angled gravity studs each come in contact with the steering wheel on either side at approximately 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock thereby securing the table from side to side movement and preventing downward movement. The stabilizing bar contacts the steering wheel at two points on either side of the lower semicircle at approximately 5 o'clock and 7 o'clock. This bar prevents its work table from rocking and in addition serves to lift up the bottom of the work table causing the angled panels to tilt upward creating an angle at the point of contact with the steering wheel which serves to provide a more secure grip on the steering wheel. The work table is now very stable and secure on the steering wheel. The shelf panel or bar serves as a lip or shelf to hold work supplies and work tools. The rectangular tab located underneath at top of the work table between the gravity studs facilitates transport.

Portable motor vehicle work table supported by the steering wheel

A continuously variable transmission includes an input disk and output disk rotatable about a disk axis of rotation. An input ring member rotatable about an input axis of rotation engages the input disk at an input contact patch. An output ring member rotatable about an output axis of rotation engages the output disk at an output contact patch. A sum of a length of a first input contact patch vector extending from the input contact patch to the disk axis of rotation and a length of a first output contact patch vector extending from the output contact patch to the disk axis of rotation is greater than a length of at least one of a second input contact patch vector extending from the input contact patch to the input axis of rotation and a second output contact patch vector extending from the output contact patch to the output axis of rotation.

Continuously variable transmission

A drive mechanism includes an input member rotatable about an input axis of rotation. The input member includes a partial spheroid-shaped input traction surface. The drive mechanism further includes an output member rotatable about an output axis of rotation. The output member includes a partial spheroid-shaped output traction surface. A ring member overlays the input and output members. The ring member is rotatable in a rotational plane and includes a ring traction surface that engages the input traction surface of the input member and the output traction surface of the output member to rotatably couple the input member to the output member.

Continuously variable drive mechanism

A battery pack includes at least one serpentine fluid circulation tube that extends around part of the periphery of a plurality of electric cells. First and second segments of the tube are disposed adjacent a first and a second edge of a first set of the plurality of electric cells. The sets of electric cells are disposed in an alternating arrangement. A first fin and a second fin are provided between each of the electric cells. The fins have a reverse turn wrapped around the segments of the tube. The fins have internal ends that are disposed between the electric cells and the tube segments. The battery pack may be assembled by folding the fins around the electric cells and the tube or by preforming folded sheets that define thermal fins and assembling the folded sheets over segments of the tube from opposite sides of the electric cells.

Apparatus and method for manufacturing a modular battery pack with fluid circulation tube and interleaved fins

A system for an engine is provided herein. The system includes a primary passage, a suction passage, and an outer casing coupling the primary and suction passages such that a primary axis is orthogonal to a suction axis. The system further includes a jet pump assembly coupled to the primary passage forming an annular channel between the outer casing and the jet pump assembly. Further, the jet pump assembly includes a flow divider positioned opposite from the suction passage within the annular channel.

Jet pump assembly

Systems and methods for a charge-air-cooler are provided. The system may include an engine air passage, a charge-air-cooler including a plurality of heat exchange passages, and a condensate collector positioned within an interior of the charge-air-cooler, wherein the condensate collector is in fluid communication with at least one heat exchange passage and the engine air passage.

System for a charge-air-cooler

A system for cooling an engine is described. The system includes a heat exchanger having a first heat exchange portion that removes heat energy from coolant fluid flowing therein, and a second heat exchange portion that removes heat energy from coolant fluid flowing therein; a first thermostat integral to the heat exchanger and fluidically and mechanically coupled to at least one of the first and second heat exchange portions; and a second thermostat, integral to the heat exchanger and fluidically and mechanically coupled to at least one of the first and second heat exchange portions.

Heat exchanger with integral thermostats

An EGR cooling system is provided. The EGR cooling system comprising a plurality of EGR coolers configured to cool the EGR to a plurality of successively lower temperatures, where at least one of the plurality of EGR coolers includes a finned EGR cooler that comprises a plurality of channels for dissipating heat in the EGR, the plurality of channels increasing heat transfer surface area while having sufficient fin spacing to avoid clogging. The EGR cooling system may further comprise a catalyst configured to remove particle matters and/or hydrocarbons from the EGR, the catalyst positioned upstream of at least one of the plurality of EGR coolers.

EGR Cooling System with Multiple EGR Coolers

A reflexive fuel heating system for fuel entering the fuel filter of an engine comprises a heat exchanger disposed between a fuel tank and the fuel filter for transferring heat generated in a gear type fuel pump to the fuel.

Reflexive fuel heating system

A rotatable regenerator of toroidal configuration is frictionally driven by a single roller disposed internally of the toroid.

Friction drive toroidal regenerator

A method of making a turbine nozzle comprises the steps of forming a destructible mold in the configuration of a fluid passage through said nozzle, coating the mold with a succession of layers of different materials, removing the mold so as to form a hollow vane segment, assembling a plurality of hollow vane segments in a circumferential array, and bonding the vane segments to one another to form the nozzle.

Method of making a turbine nozzle

A rotatable toroidal regenerator has a pair of circumferentially spaced annular seals disposed thereabout that separate the hot and cold sections of the regenerator from one another.

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West Bloomfield, MI, United States of America

Robert Hornblower Meyer