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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2017
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
S.M. Iskander Farooq, Novi, MI (US);
Nirmal Muralidharan, Birmingham, MI (US);
Srinivasan Sundararajan, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Marwan Ahmad Elbkaily, Canton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60D 1/18 (2006.01); B60D 1/48 (2006.01); B60D 1/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60D 1/185 (2013.01); B60D 1/488 (2013.01); B60D 1/54 (2013.01);
Abstract
A retractable tow-hook assembly may include a vehicle frame and a bumper arranged thereon, a cable attached to the vehicle frame, and a tow-hook arranged at an end of the cable and stored within the bumper during non-use and removed from the bumper and extendable via the cable during use.