公开(公告)号：US10365633B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-30

申请号：US15622382

申请日：2017-06-14

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Chandra Sekhar Jalluri ,  Himanshu Rajoria ,  Jon Guske ,  Michael Allen Schmitz

IPC: G05B19/4063 ,  G05B19/19 ,  G01K1/14

Abstract: The present disclosure generally describes a method for processing a workpiece in a machine, where the method determines an offset of the machine and adjusts for the offset during production operation. In one form, the method includes logging offset data of the machine over a period of operational time having varying thermal conditions, and comparing the logged offset data against a thermal model, where the thermal model is generated based on a probing routine and dry cycling for a plurality of test cycles on a calibration artifact. Based on the comparing, the method estimates offsets for the machine and adjusts offsets of the machine during operation.

公开(公告)号：US20190225289A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-25

申请号：US15878528

申请日：2018-01-24

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Joshua Magill ,  Matt Roosen ,  Albert Ekladyous

IPC: B62D65/00 ,  B60Q1/04 ,  G01B11/06

CPC classification number: B62D65/005 ,  B60Q1/04 ,  G01B11/0608

Abstract: A headlamp aiming method for a vehicle includes measuring, by a height measurement instrument, at least two reference heights of at least two reference areas along a body of the vehicle. The height measurement instrument is positioned external of the vehicle, and one of the at least two reference heights is indicative of a height of a headlamp of the vehicle. The method further includes determining a vehicle pitch and a headlamp height variation of the vehicle based on the measured reference heights, calculating a modified headlamp position based on the vehicle pitch, the headlamp height variation, and a standard headlamp position, and aiming a headlamp of the vehicle based on the modified headlamp position.

公开(公告)号：US20190210174A1

公开(公告)日：2019-07-11

申请号：US15864031

申请日：2018-01-08

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： David Stephenson ,  Timothy G. Beyer ,  Michael A. Kopmanis ,  David Ozog ,  William E. Dowling, JR.

IPC: B23Q11/10 ,  B23Q3/155

CPC classification number: B23Q11/10 ,  B23Q3/1552 ,  B23Q11/1023

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward a tooling assembly for a machine having an automatic tool changing system. The tooling assembly includes a holder, a tool body, and an internal passage defined within and extending through the holder and the tool body. The holder includes a machine interface configured to engage with a spindle of the machine. The internal passage is operable to have a coolant fluid flow within, and has a stem channel and a curved channel extending from the stem channel.

公开(公告)号：US10279384B2

公开(公告)日：2019-05-07

申请号：US14807089

申请日：2015-07-23

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Timothy George Beyer

IPC: B08B7/00 ,  B08B1/02 ,  B21C43/04 ,  C23C4/12

Abstract: A device and related method for removing debris from a metal wire formed by a process utilizing a lubricant is provided. The device includes at least two segments forming a passage through which the wire passes, each having a leading edge for stripping debris from the wire, and a resilient member positioned around the at least two segments and applying a force to the segments sufficient to cause contact between the leading edges and the wire passing through the passage. The method broadly includes the steps of moving the metal wire through a passage formed by a plurality of segments, contacting the wire moving through the passage using a leading edge of each of the plurality of segments, and applying a force to the plurality of segments to cause contact between the leading edge of each of the plurality of segments and the wire passing through the passage.

公开(公告)号：US10274303B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-30

申请号：US15619898

申请日：2017-06-12

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Jason Richard Savage ,  Robert Thomas Kraus ,  Jay Kupiszewski

IPC: G01B5/20 ,  H01R39/58 ,  G01M13/027 ,  G01B3/46

Abstract: A device and method for measuring dimensional variation of a part, particularly total runout, is provided. The device includes an indicator check body, a clamping device within the indicator check body and an end cap that engages the indicator check body and the clamping device. When the indicator check body and the clamping device are engaged, the device is secured to the part allowing dimensional variations to be measured along the surface of the indicator check body.

公开(公告)号：US20190120676A1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-25

申请号：US15793493

申请日：2017-10-25

Applicant: FORD MOTOR COMPANY

Inventor： Brian HOFMANN ,  John William SCHMOTZER ,  Richard GORDON ,  Darcy SALMAN

IPC: G01F9/00 ,  G06Q50/30 ,  G01F15/06 ,  G06T11/20

CPC classification number: G01F9/008 ,  G01F15/068 ,  G06Q50/30 ,  G06T11/206

Abstract: A powertrain controller of a vehicle provides a fuel pump actuator signal indicative of fuel flow to a vehicle bus. A processor is configured to receive data from the vehicle bus. The processor performs an integration of the actuator signal to accumulate fuel usage of the vehicle, and periodically sends the accumulated fuel usage, vehicle speed, engine speed, engine status, and vehicle location to a remote server. A subset of accumulated fuel usage is retrieved for a set of the vehicles of a fleet traversing a route during a timeframe, the accumulated fuel usage compiled from fuel pump actuator signals. Fuel waste is computed for identified idle time periods within the accumulated fuel usage. Monetary waste is computed from the fuel waste. A report is generated including the monetary waste.

公开(公告)号：US10254219B1

公开(公告)日：2019-04-09

申请号：US15795297

申请日：2017-10-27

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Scott Adams ,  Tony Misovski ,  Mark Edward Nichols ,  Marina Menendez Baker

IPC: G01N21/3581 ,  H01L27/146 ,  G01J3/10 ,  G01J3/42

Abstract: A system for measuring a coating thickness on a target surface includes a terahertz spectroscopy device and a reference image projector. The terahertz spectroscopy device includes a radiation head that is operable to project a terahertz radiation beam onto the target surface and receive a reflected beam. The reference image projector includes a visible light device and is operable to project a reference image using the visible light device onto the target surface. A visual characteristic of the reference image indicates at least one of distance, rotational alignment, and angular alignment of the radiation head relative to the target surface.

公开(公告)号：US20190084171A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-21

申请号：US16188462

申请日：2018-11-13

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： William Edmunds Dowling, JR. ,  David Alan Stephenson ,  Timothy George Beyer

IPC: B26D3/06 ,  C23C30/00 ,  B23B41/12 ,  B23C5/10 ,  B23C3/34

Abstract: An interpolated roughening cutting tool includes a body having at least first and second cutting elements coupled thereto. The first cutting element includes rectangular cutting teeth. The second cutting element includes non-rectangular cutting teeth. The first and second cutting elements are configured to create grooves in a surface that have a top portion with blunt edge surfaces.

公开(公告)号：US20190076877A1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-14

申请号：US15703171

申请日：2017-09-13

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Nicholas Kalweit ,  John Michael Fritz ,  Joseph Yarnevich ,  Andrey M. Ilinich ,  Tom Kandow ,  Christopher Taylor

IPC: B05D7/14 ,  B21D35/00 ,  B21D22/02

Abstract: A system and method for applying a marking to a part in a stamping die is provided by the present disclosure. The system includes a mechanical application device having a controlled volume of a marking medium that is coupled to movement of the stamping die. In one form, the controlled volume of the marking medium is not regulated by either an external pneumatic source of an external electrical source.

公开(公告)号：US10203032B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-12

申请号：US15464984

申请日：2017-03-21

Applicant: Ford Motor Company

Inventor： Charles Ernest Gray ,  Donald G. Levens ,  Gurjeet Singh ,  Douglas Ryan Cecil ,  Matthew Thomas Trent

IPC: F16H61/02

Abstract: A computer having a processor and memory that stores instructions executable by the processor, wherein the computer is programmed to: receive adaptive transmission clutch data from a plurality of first vehicles, the data from each first vehicle including a modified shifting profile; determine, using the received data, an updated initial shifting profile; and provide the updated initial profile to a plurality of second vehicles.