Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

Steven Angus

William Moore Sherwood

Tom F Boettger

Tadeusz Joseph Siedlecki

Jeffrey Comfort

Matthew Richard Partsch

Jeffrey R Rowland

Yishak Habtemichael

Stephanie Ross

Roger Jones

A vehicle windshield includes a glass sheet and an overlay extending around a periphery of the glass sheet. The overlay includes a plurality of optical windows defined therein. A seal extends along a path delineated by the plurality of optical windows. The optical windows are sized to allow light to pass through the overlay.

Windshield with optical windows for seal application

An exemplary motor vehicle includes a first door on a first side of the motor vehicle including a first pad adjacent a rear edge of the first door, and a second door on the first side of the motor vehicle including a second pad adjacent a front edge of the second door. Further, the first pad and second pad are arranged such that, in a first condition, the first pad and second pad are spaced-apart from one another and, in a second condition, the first pad and second pad contact one another to prevent overlap of the first door and second door.

Vehicle door arrangement configured to prevent overlap

A weather strip for use between a closure panel and the body of a vehicle includes a foundation bulb extending about the periphery of an opening in the body and a contactor bulb supported entirely by the foundation bulb and having a compliance which is less than the compliance of the foundation bulb such that the configuration of the contactor bulb remains relatively invariant as sidewalls of the foundation bulb deform in response to a compressive load imposed by the closure panel and the body opening panel.

Vehicular weather strip

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