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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 16, 2019
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);
David Brian Glickman, Southfield, MI (US);
Paul Kenneth Dellock, Northville, MI (US);
Joshua Wheeler, Trenton, MI (US);
Kristopher Karl Brown, Dearborn, MI (US);
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
An apparatus includes a vehicle body panel, a mount surface associated with the vehicle body panel, and at least one exciter mounted to the mount surface. The mount surface has a first stiffness and the vehicle body panel has a second stiffness that is less than the first stiffness such that sound is effectively transmitted to a surrounding environment via the mount surface and sound transmission back to a vehicle interior is dampened via the vehicle body panel.