Ford Global Technologies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

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Stuart C Salter

Paul Kenneth Dellock

David Brian Glickman

Pietro Buttolo

James J Surman

Annette Lynn Huebner

Cornel Lewis Gardner

John Robert Van Wiemeersch

Aaron Bradley Johnson

Hussein H Berry

Michael Musleh

Brendan F Diamond

James Stewart Rankin, Ii

Kristopher Karl Brown

Stephen Kenneth Helwig

Ryan J O'Gorman

Talat Karmo

Jeffrey Singer

Harry Lobo

Katherine Howard-Cone

Peter Phung

Richard Gall

Zeljko Deljevic

Kristin Ann Hellman

Chester Stanislaus Walawender

Scott Holmes Dunham

Satyanarayana Raju Vemulapati

Venkatesh Krishnan

Keith Weston

Mahendra Somasara Dassanayake

David Celinske

Erick Michael Lavoie

Gary Steven Strumolo

Ross Dykstra Pursifull

Michael John Harmon

Benjamin Yilma

Ryan Welch

Ryan Edwin Hanson

Joshua R Wheeler

Michael James Whitens

Johnathan Andrew Line

Kosta Papanikolaou

Wei Xu

Linsheng Chen

Hanyang B Chen

Vivekanandh Elangovan

Bhavani Thota

Michael Musa Azzouz

Jesse R Diephuis

Sean Bayle West

Matthew B Rutman

Thomas Joseph Hermann

Robert J Gelardi

Aaron Peter Klop

Michael Irby

Gregory Paul Thomas

Michael Alan Mcnees

Chi Li

Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam

Ali Hassani

Kevin Wayne Preuss

Manfred Koberstein

Adrian Nania

Linh Ngoc Doan

Brian Joseph Robert

Gary D Mullen

Darrel Alan Recker

John Shutko

Howard Paul Tsvi Linden

Patrick Kevin Holub

Richard William Kautz

Michael Lozano

Mandeep Singh Sidhu

Alan George Dry

Brian Bennie

Daniel Ferretti

Larry Dean Elie

Hamid M Golgiri

Joshua Robert Hemphill

Yifan Chen

William David Treharne

Andrew D Niedert

Steven Yellin Schondorf

Segundo Baldovino

Eric L Reed

Andrew Denis Lewandowski

David James Tippy

Jayanthi Rao

Michael Steven Medoro

Jordan Barrett

Kevin Thomas Hille

Arun Kumar

Jeroen Lem

Scott Culver Anderson

Hussain Zoher Tajmahal

John Anthony DeMarco

Peter Simeon Lazarevski

Michael Hrecznyj

Scott Alan Watkins

Ryan A Olsson

A vehicle flow control system includes an active grille shutter assembly of a vehicle. The active grille shutter assembly has shutters and a lighting assembly configured to emit light that passes between the shutters. A vehicle lighting method includes emitting light from a lighting assembly through a plurality of shutters of an active grille shutter assembly.

Vehicle flow control system with lighting assembly

A vehicle cargo storage system configured to be located in a floor of a vehicle is provided. The vehicle cargo storage system includes a chamber configured to extend into and below the floor of the vehicle, and a cargo holding structure configured to hold one or more cargo items and configured to move between a stowed position within the chamber and a deployed position outside the chamber. The vehicle cargo system also including a cover to a pivot mechanism to pivot the cover between a first closed position covering the one or more cargo items in the chamber and a second position to expose the one or more cargo items outside the chamber, and a locking mechanism configured to be actuated to lock the cover in the first closed position.

Vehicle cargo storage system

One or more controllers may, after activation of a vehicle, sequentially pulse field effect transistors of a power distribution module of the vehicle that are connected to inputs of an upfitter power module, and preclude operation of the upfitter power module responsive to, for at least two of the field effect transistors, electrical parameters resulting from the corresponding pulses being reported for a same one of the inputs.

Vehicle upfitter power connection management strategies

A vehicle including a detection unit and a processor is disclosed. The detection unit may be configured to capture inputs associated with an external light being illuminated in proximity to the vehicle. The processor may be configured to obtain the inputs from the detection unit, and determine an illumination characteristic associated with the external light based on the inputs obtained from the detection unit. The processor may further actuate a vehicle light to illuminate based on the illumination characteristic.

Systems and methods for actuating vehicle lights based on external light show

A vehicle console system includes a body having first and second sidewalls. Each of the first and second sidewalls defines a rail along an inner surface thereof. A support bar slidably engages the rails. The support bar defines a track. A cover assembly is operably coupled to the support bar. The cover assembly includes a base panel coupled to the support bar via a connector assembly and a deployable panel rotatably coupled to the base panel. The cover assembly is configured to translate along a first movement path with the support bar along the rails and a second movement path along the track of the support bar. The cover assembly is configured to rotate along a third movement path between a first side position and a second side position.

Vehicle console assembly

A refrigerated delivery vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle may include a refrigerated cargo zone configured to store a plurality of delivery packages. The refrigerated cargo zone may include an access door. The vehicle may further include a detection unit configured to detect a user movement in the refrigerated cargo zone and an access door movement when the vehicle may be traversing a delivery route or parked. The vehicle may further include a processor configured to obtain inputs from the detection unit, and determine a user inefficiency parameter based on the inputs. The processor may be further configured to compare the user inefficiency parameter with a threshold inefficiency parameter. The processor may output a notification instructing the user to reduce the user movement or the access door movement when the user inefficiency parameter may be greater than the threshold inefficiency parameter.

Delivery vehicle temperature management systems and methods

A vehicle power system generates alerts prior to discontinuance of power to upfitter loads and vehicle loads according to a user defined priority sequence such that the alerts generated prior to discontinuance of power to the upfitter loads are different than the alerts generated prior to discontinuance of power to the vehicle loads.

Control and management of upfitter and vehicle loads

A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive range data from a range sensor of a vehicle, detect a person in proximity to the vehicle based on the range data, activate a camera of the vehicle upon detecting the person, set a parameter of one of the camera or a facial recognition algorithm based on the range data of the person, and perform the facial recognition algorithm on the person using data from the camera.

Activation of facial recognition

A delivery vehicle is described. The vehicle may include a holding mechanism configured to hold a plurality of containers within the delivery vehicle. The plurality of containers may be configured to store a plurality of packages. The vehicle may further include a memory configured to store a first information including package attributes of each package and a mapping of each package with a container of the plurality of containers. The vehicle may further include a processor configured to obtain the first information from the memory. The processor may be further configured to determine a target location to load a target package or a target container in the delivery vehicle based on the first information. The processor may further activate a vehicle interior visual or audio component to indicate the target location in the delivery vehicle to load the target package or the target container.

Package management system

A system for a vehicle includes a human-machine interface, a microphone that detects sound, a sound source device that emits sound, and a controller that prompts pairing of the sound source device and the microphone, such that the sound source device emits sound corresponding to the sound detected by the microphone. The controller prompts pairing of the sound source device and the microphone in response to at least one of (i) the vehicle entering a reverse mode, and (ii) receiving a user input entered into the human-machine interface via selection of an input option by a user, wherein the input option is made accessible for selection by the user in response to the vehicle entering the reverse mode.

System for a vehicle operable to enter a reverse mode

The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods for securing an item in a vehicle. An example method can include a processor receiving a primary trigger to unlock a gate of the vehicle, followed by unlocking of the gate to allow access to a cargo compartment. A secondary trigger may then be received for unlocking a security lock that is a part of a cargo item holder located in the cargo compartment. The processor may perform an authentication procedure upon the secondary trigger and unlock the security lock, based on a successful authentication of the secondary trigger. In an example implementation, the cargo item holder is a gun rack that includes a security lock, the primary trigger can be a signal produced by activating a pushbutton switch, and the secondary trigger can be a spoken command, a signal generated by a smart tag, or an image of an individual.

Systems and methods to secure items stored in a cargo area of a vehicle

An on-demand security inspection system is provided for dispatching an investigator to a target dwelling. The investigator (e.g., a police officer) carries a video camera (e.g., a body cam). The inspection system comprises a service management server, a requestor interface, and an investigator interface. The requestor interface is configured to link a user to the service management server in order to specify a checklist. The investigator interface is configured to link a mobile unit (e.g., a vehicle control module or a handheld mobile unit) to the service management server in order to (1) communicate a plurality of checklist prompts to the mobile unit, and (2) return video data from the video camera captured according to the checklist prompts.

Guided home security inspection policing service

A rock rail assembly for a vehicle includes a mounting structure, an arm mounted to the mounting structure, a motor bracket coupled to the mounting structure, a motor mounted to the motor bracket, a pivot bar pivotably coupled with the mounting structure, a rail coupled with the pivot bar and operable to move between stowed and deployed positions, and a sector gear coupled to the pivot bar. The motor has a shaft that includes a first end, a second end, and a worm gear portion. Operation of the motor drives rotation of the shaft. The sector gear is operably engaged with the worm gear portion of the shaft, such that rotation of the shaft by the motor drives pivotal movement of the pivot bar relative to the mounting structure, causing movement of the rail coupled thereto between the stowed and deployed positions.

Rock rail assembly

Parking settings and map data indicative of parking locations in proximity to a structure that are available for the vehicle are maintained to a memory of a vehicle, the parking settings indicating a first time at which the vehicle is to enter an automatic parking mode in which the vehicle moves among the parking locations in proximity to the structure, and a second time at which the vehicle is to exit the automatic parking mode. In the automatic parking mode, responsive to the parking settings indicating an automated parking movement, the parking locations are selected from to determine a parking location into which to move the vehicle and the automated parking movement is performed using a virtual drive system of the vehicle to move the vehicle from a current parked location in proximity to the structure to the determined parking location in proximity to the structure.

Coordinated vehicle movement for presence simulation

A vehicle console includes a trim ring disposed over a periphery of a housing. The trim ring includes a polymeric material and is electrically conductive and grounded. A proximity switch assembly is retained in the housing. The proximity switch assembly includes a proximity sensor proximate a sensing pad for generating an activation field. The sensing pad is proximate the trim ring.

Method of fabricating console with grounded trim ring

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White Lake, MI, United States of America

Stuart C Salter