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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2024
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2020
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Stuart C. Salter, White Lake, MI (US);
Annette Lynn Huebner, White Lake, MI (US);
Kristin Ann Hellman, Walled Lake, MI (US);
Paul Kenneth Dellock, Northville, MI (US);
Peter Phung, Windsor, CA;
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A vehicle includes a storage compartment having a door panel movable between closed and open positions allowing access to the storage compartment, a user input device located within the storage compartment, and a latch assembly for latching the door panel in the closed position. The latch assembly includes a first release stage in the closed position allowing the door panel to move to an intermediate position between the open and closed positions and a second release stage allowing the door panel to move to the open position. The vehicle also includes a vehicle speed sensor sensing vehicle speed and a controller monitoring the sensed vehicle speed and detecting a user input to the user input device and controlling the latch assembly to selectively allow the door panel to move to one of the intermediate and open positions based on the sensed vehicle speed and the detected user input.