Bright Automotive, Inc.

Johnson Controls Technology Company

Prince Corporation

Echo Automotive, Inc.

Johnson Contols Interiors Technology Corporation

Rollin E Nothwehr

David B Busch

John E Waters

David J Spykerman

Nels R Smith

Herbert Gruber

Emery Jay Zadina

Jonathan Peter Cansfield

James Theodore Wilkinson

David J Phillips

Mark E Adomeit

Sean Conway

Lyle Shuey

Daniel A Friedman

David Lauzun

Hadrian Rori

William Blair

Peter LaDuke

Michael Henderson

Ruskin J Lhamon

Roland Knoepke

Martin Goldman

Michael Churchill

Nathan Wills

Hadrian A Rori

Kevin J Fellows

John Clarke

Dale Frye

Timothy D Bindon

Philip P Cannon

A cargo van includes an integral structural bulkhead to separate a passenger compartment from a cargo area. The cargo van is designed such that the bulkhead wall contributes to the structural rigidity of the vehicle for purposes of meeting National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) requirements. That is, without the bulkhead, the cargo van would not meet NHTSA requirements. By designing the vehicle in this way, the overall vehicle weight is reduced as compared to vehicles in which bulkheads are optional add-ons.

Integral structural bulkhead for cargo vans

An automotive seat has a seat back and a seat bottom that are movable between a seating configuration and a work desk configuration. When moving from the seating configuration to the work desk configuration, the seat bottom pivots forwardly into a generally vertical orientation and the seat back pivots downwardly into a generally horizontal orientation. The seat bottom supports an end of the seat back when the seat bottom and the seat back are in the work desk configuration. The back surface of the seat back faces upwardly to provide a work surface when the seat bottom and the seat back are in the work desk configuration. Sufficient space is provided beneath the seat back when in the work desk configuration to accommodate a person's legs underneath the seat back.

Automotive seat reconfigurable to work desk

Vehicle

A window control system including at least one operator actuator and a housing, the operator actuator mounted and movable in the housing, and where the relative position of the operator actuator in the housing generates a position command signal to a window control circuit for moving the window in response to the position command.

Window control apparatus

A storage system in which a base is preferably blow-molded of a lightweight polymeric material and includes a peripheral raised edge including integral sockets for receiving pivoted front and rear walls, as well as end walls and dividers. The end walls of the preferred embodiment are made of a foldable material, such that they collapse integrally with the front and rear walls, while the dividers snap-fit into the base and interlock with the front and rear walls for use. Each of the front, rear and end walls, as well as the dividers, can be folded flat for compact storage of the divider unit.

Vehicle storage divider

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Holland, MI, United States of America

Rollin E Nothwehr