Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Robert Ralph Armitage, Jr

Anna Miller Hill

Paul Alan Forgette

Amy Marie Boardman

Diego Fabricio Villacres Mesias

Jeffrey Charles Paddock

Alfredo Cuevas Vega

Hector Hernandez Hernandez

Brian Robert Spahn

Benjamin Yilma

Michael Musa Azzouz

Wei Xu

Michael Steven Medoro

Tau Tyan

Siddharthan Selvasekar

John Andrew Stakoe

Andres Almeida Senatore

Todd Jared Konet

Yun Shin Lee

Daniel Weckstein

Nial James Wykes

Otis Allen

Raj Jayachandran

Christopher Robert Tilli

Wan-San Chiu

Michael Timothy Feiten

Hector Hernandez

An assembly for a vehicle includes a vehicle roof and a headliner supported by the vehicle roof. The assembly includes an energy absorber between the headliner and the vehicle roof. The energy absorber includes a wall extending transversely to the headliner and the vehicle roof. The wall includes a lattice structure including a repeating pattern of strips and open cells.

Energy absorber between vehicle roof and headliner

A headliner system includes a plurality of segments connected together and outlining a central opening and a central section received in the central opening. The central section is selected from a group of central sections consisting of a multisection panel incorporating an overhead airbag grid system, a panel incorporating a fold down display panel and a panel incorporating a pull down divider.

Headliner system and method

A vehicle includes a roof. The vehicle includes a first row and a second row of airbags supported by the roof and elongated along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. The vehicle includes a third row and a fourth row of airbags supported by the roof, elongated along a vehicle-lateral axis, and intersecting the first row and the second row of airbags.

Vehicle airbag

A side pillar air curtain guide includes a main body having a ramp receiver and an air curtain ramp insert connected to the main body. The air curtain ramp receiver insert includes a plurality of ribs projecting from the main body at an acute included angle with the main body.

Side pillar air curtain guide with air curtain insert having a plurality of ribs

A vehicle includes a floor and a seat supported by the floor. The vehicle includes a roof. The vehicle includes a base supported by the roof and movable relative to the roof. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the base.

A strengthening structure of a vehicle is provided herein and includes a base having cutouts. Relief members are disposed across the base and each include a cross section having twelve or fourteen corners, a distal end, and an open proximal end in communication with a corresponding cutout.

Strengthening structure of a vehicle

This disclosure details accessory rail systems for securing various accessory devices to vehicles that are equipped with either standard roofs or roofs with one or more roof openings. An exemplary accessory rail system includes an accessory rail that is configured to simultaneously mount one or more interior accessories and/or one or more exterior accessories relative to the vehicle. A trim piece may be secured to the accessory rail, and an airbag curtain may be secured to either the accessory rail, the trim piece, or a roof frame rail.

Vehicle multi-function accessory rail systems

A side pillar air curtain guide includes a main body having a ramp receiver and an air curtain ramp insert connected to the main body. The air curtain ramp insert is of honeycomb construction.

Side pillar air curtain guide with air curtain insert of honeycomb construction

An apparatus includes a motor vehicle component having a receiver and a portable utility light that is releasably held in that receiver. The portable utility light includes a housing having a lens and an external reflector and a light source held in the housing. A method of providing a motor vehicle with a multi function light source is also disclosed.

Multifunction portable utility light

A side pillar air curtain guide includes a main body having a ramp receiver and an air curtain ramp insert connected to the ramp receiver. The main body is made from a first material having a strength Sand a ductility Dwhile the air curtain ramp insert is made from a second material having a strength Sand a ductility Dwhere S&#x3e;Sand D&#x3c;D.

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Howell, MI, United States of America

Robert Ralph Armitage, Jr