公开(公告)号：US10773323B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-15

申请号：US16107116

申请日：2018-08-21

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Michael Habel ,  Ethan Hughey ,  Shibu Philipose ,  David Stephenson

IPC: B23G5/06 ,  B23G5/00 ,  B23Q11/10

Abstract: A thread tap includes a shaft and teeth. The shaft includes helical passages from the threading end to the base end of the shaft. Each passage opens through an aperture in the threading end. A second tap includes a cap and the shaft includes an axially extending passage. The cap is coupled to the threading end and at least partially defines apertures in fluid communication with the passage and the exterior of the tap. A third tap includes teeth spaced apart by a plurality of linear flutes. The shaft includes a central passage and a plurality of flute passages. Each flute passage extends radially outward from a common location in the central passage to a corresponding one of the flutes. The central passage is closed to a terminal end of the threading end.

公开(公告)号：US20200262116A1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-20

申请号：US16275974

申请日：2019-02-14

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Christopher William Coyne ,  Samuel Jeffrey Tomlinson

IPC: B29C45/14

Abstract: A tool for driving a threaded fastener includes a driver head, a motor, and an injector. The driver head includes a spindle rotatable about an axis. A distal end of the spindle defines a plurality of drive surfaces configured to engage mating drive surfaces on the fastener to rotate the fastener about the axis. The driver head defines a fluid passage having an outlet proximate to the distal end of the spindle. The motor is drivingly coupled to the spindle to rotate the spindle about the axis. The injector is coupled to an inlet of the fluid passage and configured to feed a liquid insulator through the fluid passage.

公开(公告)号：US10746128B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-18

申请号：US16686962

申请日：2019-11-18

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Clifford E Maki ,  Larry Dean Elie ,  Timothy George Beyer ,  Arup Kumar Gangopadhyay ,  Hamed Ghaednia ,  James Maurice Boileau

IPC: F02F1/00 ,  C23C4/02 ,  C23C4/08 ,  C23C4/131 ,  C23C4/129 ,  B05D1/08

Abstract: Engine blocks and methods of forming the same are disclosed. The engine block may comprise a body including at least one cylindrical engine bore wall having a longitudinal axis and including a coating extending along the longitudinal axis and having a coating thickness. The coating may have a middle region and first and second end regions, and a plurality of pores may be dispersed within the coating thickness. The middle region may have a different average porosity than one or both of the end regions. The method may include spraying a first porosity coating in a middle longitudinal region of the bore and spraying a second porosity coating in one or more end regions of the bore. The first porosity may be greater than the second porosity and the first and second porosities may be formed during the spraying steps. The pores may act as wells for lubricant.

公开(公告)号：US10739754B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-11

申请号：US15977072

申请日：2018-05-11

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Chandra Jalluri ,  Himanshu Rajoria ,  David Paul Low ,  Annette Januszczak ,  Paul Frederick Krotke ,  Stephen John Hermiller

IPC: G05B19/4065 ,  G01M99/00

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a method for monitoring health of a machining tool operable in a machining state to form a workpiece and a non-machining state. The method includes determining whether a machine health routine is to be performed based on a machine health record stored by the control system, and retrieving a non-machining cyclic schedule, in response to the machine health routine having to be performed, where the non-machining cyclic schedule defines a timetable for performing one or more maintenance routines. The method further includes identifying a primary maintenance routine from among the one or more maintenance routines based on the non-machining cyclic schedule, and scheduling the machine health routine with the primary maintenance routine.

公开(公告)号：US10731978B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-04

申请号：US15828952

申请日：2017-12-01

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Hossein J Sadri ,  Steve Juszczyk

IPC: G01B13/12 ,  G01M3/02 ,  B60J10/80 ,  G01B3/20 ,  G01B5/00 ,  B60J10/18

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a method for measuring a seal gap between a closing member and a fixed member. The method includes applying a liquid agent having transferable properties along one or more regions of a stamping member to form one or more base marks. The stamping member is one of the closing member or the fixed member. The method further includes engaging the closing member with the fixed member, disengaging the closing member from the fixed member, and assessing a seal gap between the closing member and the fixed member based on one or more remnant patterns formed on an imprinted member. The imprinted member is the other one of the closing member and the fixed member, and the remnant patterns are formed by the transfer of the liquid agent from the base marks.

公开(公告)号：US10714762B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-14

申请号：US15522030

申请日：2015-10-08

Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD. ,  DAIMLER AG ,  FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Inventor： Shinichi Takahashi ,  Tetsuya Mashio

IPC: H01M4/92 ,  H01M8/1004 ,  H01M8/1032 ,  H01M8/1018 ,  H01M8/1041 ,  H01M4/86 ,  H01M4/88

Abstract: Provided is a catalyst layer for fuel cell which has a high catalytic activity and enables maintaining the high catalytic activity. Disclosed is an electrode catalyst layer for fuel cell including a catalyst containing a catalyst carrier having carbon as a main component and a catalytic metal supported on the catalyst carrier, and a polymer electrolyte having a sulfonic acid group (—SO3H) as an ion exchange group, in which the catalyst has the R′ (D′/G intensity ratio) of 0.6 or less, which is the ratio of D′ band peak intensity (D′ intensity) measured in the vicinity of 1620 cm−1 relative to G band peak intensity (G intensity) measured in the vicinity of 1580 cm−1 by Raman spectroscopy, and has BET specific surface area of 900 m2/g catalyst carrier or more, and mole number of a sulfonic acid group in the polymer electrolyte relative to weight of the catalyst carrier is 0.7 mmol/g or more and 1.0 mmol/g or less.

公开(公告)号：US20200206797A1

公开(公告)日：2020-07-02

申请号：US16812847

申请日：2020-03-09

Applicant: FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Inventor： Varinder Singh Saini

IPC: B21D22/02 ,  B33Y10/00 ,  B33Y80/00 ,  B21D37/16 ,  B22C9/02 ,  B28B1/00

Abstract: A mold assembly for a hot stamping die is provided. The mold assembly includes a mold having a body defining a cavity and a removable channel insert. The removable channel insert is positioned in the cavity and has a curved shape. The removable channel insert also includes a plurality of projections integrating the insert with the body. The removable channel insert is configured to form inlets and outlets for fluid in the hot stamping die upon removal of the insert.

公开(公告)号：US10697035B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-30

申请号：US15723350

申请日：2017-10-03

Applicant: FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Inventor： Raj Sohmshetty ,  Varinder Singh Saini ,  Constantin Chiriac

IPC: C21D9/00 ,  C21D1/673 ,  C21D8/00 ,  C21D9/08

Abstract: A hot stamping die includes a body having a stamping surface, and cooling channels within the body. The cooling channels are positioned to transfer heat from region(s) of the surface to the channels. The hot stamping die also includes a heating element within the body, separate and apart from the channels. The heating element is positioned to heat region(s) of the body different from the region(s) of the surface at a rate greater than heat transfer from the channels to the region(s) of the surface.

公开(公告)号：US20200180290A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16790047

申请日：2020-02-13

Applicant: FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Inventor： Andrey M. ILINICH ,  Alexander MAMUTOV ,  S. George LUCKEY, JR. ,  David John HILL ,  Jason Scott BALZER

IPC: B32B37/06 ,  B32B3/26 ,  B32B27/32 ,  B32B15/085 ,  B32B27/42 ,  B32B27/36 ,  B32B27/28 ,  B32B15/18 ,  B32B7/14 ,  B32B15/082 ,  B32B27/34 ,  B32B27/06 ,  B32B15/09 ,  B32B27/38 ,  B32B15/088 ,  B32B27/40 ,  B32B15/098 ,  B32B27/30 ,  B32B15/092 ,  B32B7/04 ,  B32B1/00 ,  B32B27/08 ,  B32B27/20 ,  B32B5/18 ,  B32B15/095 ,  B32B15/08 ,  B32B15/04 ,  B32B27/18 ,  B32B5/32 ,  B32B15/20 ,  B32B7/12 ,  B32B38/12 ,  B32B38/18 ,  B32B15/00 ,  B29C65/00 ,  B29C51/08 ,  B29C51/14

Abstract: A method of producing a laminated article comprising placing a first metal skin, a core, and a second metal skin freely onto each other as discreet layers to provide a layered component; and forming the layered component into a shaped article via a die prior to producing a laminated article by applying pressure and heat to the shaped article, wherein at least the first skin moves relative to the core and/or second skin during the forming.

公开(公告)号：US10603725B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-31

申请号：US15358448

申请日：2016-11-22

Applicant: FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Inventor： David Alan Stephenson ,  David Garrett Coffman

IPC: B23C3/00 ,  B23C5/10 ,  B23C5/20 ,  C23C4/02 ,  B23C3/34 ,  F02F1/00

Abstract: According to one aspect of this disclosure, a grooving tool is provided. The grooving tool has a body with a plurality of recesses. Plural inserts assembled into each of the recesses. The recesses include a cutting edge for forming grooves in an engine cylinder wall when rotated in one rotational direction. The insert also includes a peening surface extending in the opposite rotational direction from the cutting edge for deforming the upper edges of the grooves when rotated in an opposite rotational direction.