Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Scott Ferrier

Johnathan Andrew Line

Dustin Shedlarski

Paul Christopher Mutter

Marcos Silva Kondrad

Kevin Wayne Preuss

Christian J Hosbach

Benjamin Yilma

David Frederick Lyons

Nahshon Francis

Vehicle air bag cover

Vehicle center display

A vehicle seating assembly has a seat having a lower seat and a seatback extending upwardly from the lower seat. The seatback has a lower stationary seatback base portion having a seatback frame assembly, and an upper movable seatback hood module vertically adjustable relative the lower stationary portion. The upper movable seatback hood module has an upper seatback slide bracket, and a plurality of rail guides slidably engaging a rail. An electric motor drive unit engages a driven member to vertically adjust the upper movable seatback hood module relative the lower stationary portion when the electric motor drive unit is actuated.

Adjustable upper seatback module

A seatbelt assembly includes a seatbelt buckle that is disposed along a retractable belt webbing and configured for tethered movement about a vehicle interior. The seatbelt buckle includes a housing which contains a latch mechanism which releasably latches a seatbelt tongue to the seatbelt buckle. The housing further includes one or more light sources powered through the belt webbing or through a power cell in the housing which are used to illuminate the vehicle interior as tethered to the vehicle on the belt webbing and which are further used to facilitate a vehicle occupant in locating the seatbelt tongue when fastening the seatbelt assembly.

Seatbelt and adjustable buckle presenter assembly

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Scott Ferrier