Ford Global Technologies, LLC

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S M Iskander Farooq

Mohammad Omar Faruque

Dean M Jaradi

Saeed David Barbat

Srinivasan Sundararajan

James Chih Cheng

Zhenyan Gao

Robert William McCoy

Anil Kalra

Nirmal Muralidharan

Scott Holmes Dunham

Mark Anthony Cuddihy

Sudip Sankar Bhattacharjee

Manoharprasad K Rao

Michael James Whitens

Mohammed Shenaq

Ching-Hung Chuang

Mohamed Ridha Baccouche

Brian Robert Spahn

Rahul Arora

Yali Li

Ninad Trifale

Saied Nusier

Jialiang Le

Marwan Ahmad Elbkaily

Mike James Whitens

Allan Roy Gale

Gary Steven Strumolo

Zhibing Deng

Deepak Patel

Joseph Edward Abramczyk

Mangala Ambalangodage Jayasuriya

Levasseur Tellis

Edgar Edward Donabedian

Peter John Schuster

Cortney Stancato

Greg B Zinn

Huipeng Chen

Michael James Andrus

Luohui Long

Cameron Hein

A vehicle includes a vehicle floor and a post supported by the vehicle floor. The post is translatable relative to the vehicle floor. The vehicle includes a support member mounted to the post. The support member is rotatable relative to the post. The vehicle includes an airbag supported by the support member.

Slidable post with airbag for wheelchair occupants

A trim panel assembly for a vehicle door includes a trim panel having an inboard side and an outboard side. An inflatable device is supported by the trim panel. The inflatable device is inflatable from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The inflatable device includes a deployable device expandable in a direction away from the inboard side of the trim panel and in a direction away from the outboard side of the trim panel from the undeployed position to the deployed position. The deployable device is a thermoplastic elastomer. The inflatable device includes an airbag supported by the deployable device in the inflated position. The airbag is a woven fabric.

Deployable device for vehicle door

A system includes a seatbelt anchor, a seatbelt webbing extending from the seatbelt anchor; and a motor operatively coupled to the seatbelt anchor to move the seatbelt anchor between a first position and an extended position. The system includes a computer having a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to activate the motor to move the seatbelt anchor from the first position to the extended position in response to determining that tension in the seatbelt webbing is above a predetermined threshold in the absence of detection of a vehicle impact.

Extendable seatbelt anchor

A seat system includes a seat having a seatback and an arm supported by the seatback. The arm is extendable from a stowed position to an intermediate position and pivotable in a seat-forward direction from the intermediate position to a deployed position. A webbing guide is fixed to and movable with the arm. The webbing guide is at a top end of the seatback when the arm is at the stowed position and the webbing guide is spaced from the seatback in the seat-forward direction when the arm is at the deployed position. A retractor is supported by the seatback at the top end and a webbing extends from the retractor through the webbing guide.

Seatbelt guide mechanism

A vehicle includes a vehicle frame and a swing arm rotatably coupled to the vehicle frame at a rotatable connection. A track curves along a curved path. The track is fixed relative to the swing arm and spaced from the rotatable connection. An anchor is fixed relative to the vehicle frame. The track is slideably engaged with the anchor along the curved path of the track. A pyrotechnic actuator is between the vehicle frame and the swing arm.

Rotatable wheel deflector

An assembly includes a seat bottom. The assembly includes a seatback supported by and movable relative to the seat bottom between an upright position and a reclined position. The assembly includes an actuator supported by the seat bottom and operatively coupled to the seatback to move the seatback from the reclined position to the upright position. The assembly includes a computer having a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to command the actuator to move the seatback to the upright position in response to detecting a pending vehicle impact.

Vehicle seat assembly

A vehicle body includes a door opening frame including a sill and a front portion and a rear portion each extending upwardly from the sill. The door opening frame has a top portion extending along a vehicle-longitudinal axis from the front portion to the rear portion. An airbag is mounted to the sill. A front cable and a rear cable are each connected to the airbag. At least one cable retractor is mounted to the vehicle body above the top portion of the door opening frame. The front cable in the undeployed position is packaged along the front portion and the top portion of the door opening frame from the airbag to the at least one cable retractor. The rear cable in the undeployed position is packaged along the rear portion and the top portion of the door opening frame from the airbag to the at least one cable retractor.

Cable-guided airbag inflatable across door opening

An assembly includes a door panel. The assembly includes a door-trim panel movably supported by the door panel. The assembly includes an actuator between the door panel and the door-trim panel. The door-trim panel is selectively movable relative to the door panel in a cross-vehicle direction by the actuator.

Actuator moving door-trim panel in cross-vehicle direction

A seatbelt retractor includes a frame and a spool rotatably supported by the frame. A ring is coaxial with the spool on a rotational axis and is selectively lockable with the spool. A locking device is operatively coupled between the spool and the ring to rotationally engage the spool with the ring in a locked position and rotationally disengage the spool from the ring in an unlocked position. One of the ring or the frame defines a recess and an arm is fixed to and extends from the other of the ring or the frame into the recess. When the locking device is in the locked position, the arm is elastically bendable relative to the ring and the frame when rotational force on the ring relative to the frame about the rotational axis exceeds a non-zero threshold to allow rotation of the ring relative to the frame.

Load-limiting seatbelt retractor

A vehicle includes a door side panel. An armrest extends from a first end to a second end. The armrest is pivotably supported by the door side panel at the first end and the armrest is releasably connected to the door side panel at the second end. An airbag is inflatable from an uninflated position to an inflated position. The airbag is positioned between the armrest and the door side panel in the uninflated position to pivot the armrest from a lowered position to a raised position as the airbag inflates from the uninflated position to the inflated position.

Armrest pivotably supported by door side panel

A vehicle door interior trim assembly includes a trim panel and an armrest supported by the trim panel. The armrest includes an energy absorbing device. The energy absorbing device includes an inboard panel and an outboard panel. The outboard panel is between the inboard panel and the trim panel. The energy absorbing device has a variable crush resistance based on a temperature of the energy absorbing device. A heater is operatively coupled to the energy absorbing device.

Vehicle energy absorbing device

An assembly includes a vehicle roof and a vehicle floor spaced from the vehicle roof. The assembly includes a seat supported by the vehicle floor. The seat is rotatable about an axis of rotation from a forward-facing position to a rearward-facing position and the seat being movable along a vehicle-longitudinal axis. The assembly includes a post elongated from the vehicle floor to the vehicle roof. The post is slidable along the vehicle roof and the vehicle floor along the vehicle-longitudinal axis adjacent the seat. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the post.

Slidable post adjacent rotatable seat

A battery pack for an electric vehicle includes a battery housing and a pair of rocker structures. The battery housing is configured to house power storage units. The pair of rocker structures are located at opposing sides of the battery housing and are configured to mount the battery pack to a vehicle body structure. Each rocker structure includes a variable width along a length of the rocker structure. The battery housing includes a region that corresponds to a widest portion of each rocker structure.

Battery pack for electric vehicle

An assembly includes a vehicle seat including a seat back, a first track mounted to the seat back, an upper airbag movable along the first track, a second track mounted to the seat back, a lower airbag movable along the second track, and a mechanical assembly configured to simultaneously move the upper airbag along the first track and the lower airbag along the second track in opposite directions.

Adjustable seat airbags

A vehicle includes a vehicle roof and an airbag supported by the vehicle roof. The airbag is inflatable to an inflated position. The airbag defines an inflation chamber in the inflated position. The airbag includes a distal end below the vehicle roof in the inflated position. The vehicle includes an inflatable device supported by the vehicle roof. The inflatable device is a thermoplastic elastomer and inflatable to an inflated position. The inflatable device is in the inflation chamber of the airbag when the inflatable device and the airbag are in the inflated positions. The inflatable device includes a distal end in the inflation chamber of the airbag. The distal end of the inflatable device is below the vehicle roof and above the distal end of the airbag in the inflated position.

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Novi, MI, United States of America

S M Iskander Farooq