Robert F Mccoy

US Patent:

7386384, Jun 10, 2008

Filed:

Apr 8, 2005

Appl. No.:

10/907626

Inventors:

Jerry Jialiang Le - Canton MI, US
Robert McCoy - Ann Arbor MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60R 22/00
G06F 19/00

US Classification:

701 70, 701 45, 701301, 280735, 180282

Abstract:

A system and method for predicting a vehicle rollover. A vehicle rollover is predicted when a vehicle impact has not occurred and first and second threshold values indicative of vehicle motion and vehicle kinetic energy are exceeded.

US Patent:

8430424, Apr 30, 2013

Filed:

Dec 15, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/326567

Inventors:

Stephen W. Rouhana - Plymouth MI, US
Brian R. Spahn - Ann Arbor MI, US
Robert W. McCoy - Ann Arbor MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60R 21/16

US Classification:

2807302, 280735, 2807432

Abstract:

A transportation vehicle has an inflatable restraint mounted proximate to a passenger seating location which is configured to inflate in an appropriate manner to interact with a passenger during an impact. The inflatable restraint is of a type not inflated in response to a frontal impact when the passenger seating location is empty. For enhanced protection of a driver, a restraint controller detects a far side impact that initiates at the side of the vehicle opposite from the driver, detects that the passenger seating location is empty, and causes inflation of the inflatable restraint to interact with the driver in response to the far side impact and the passenger seating location being empty.

US Patent:

20220340095, Oct 27, 2022

Filed:

Apr 22, 2021

Appl. No.:

17/237108

Inventors:

- Dearborn MI, US
Huipeng Chen - Canton MI, US
Agnes S. Kim - Dearborn MI, US
Robert William McCoy - Ann Arbor MI, US
James Chih Cheng - Troy MI, US
Raed Essa EL-Jawahri - Northville MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60R 21/207
B60R 21/2338
B60R 21/239

Abstract:

An assembly for a vehicle includes a dash. The assembly includes a seat having a seatback and a head restraint extending upwardly from the seatback. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the seatback. The airbag is inflatable from the seatback toward the dash in a seat-rearward direction to an inflated position. The airbag includes an upper portion adjacent the head restraint and pair of lobes extending from the upper portion along the head restraint in a seat-forward direction in the inflated position. The head restraint is between the lobes in the inflated position.

US Patent:

20200384936, Dec 10, 2020

Filed:

Jun 4, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/431357

Inventors:

- Dearborn MI, US
S. M. ISKANDER FAROOQ - Novi MI, US
MOHAMMAD OMAR FARUQUE - Ann Arbor MI, US
ZHENYAN GAO - Northville MI, US
ROBERT WILLIAM MCCOY - Ann Arbor MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60R 21/18
B60R 22/24
B60R 21/26
B60R 21/2338
B60R 21/235
B60R 21/2165

Abstract:

A seatbelt assembly includes a D-ring, a clip spaced from the D-ring, a webbing slideably engaged with the D-ring and the clip, and an airbag slideably receiving the webbing between the D-ring and the clip. The airbag includes a first portion, a second portion, and an intermediate portion therebetween. The first portion and the second portion are inflatable to an inflated position and the intermediate portion is uninflatable.

US Patent:

20200339063, Oct 29, 2020

Filed:

Apr 24, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/392689

Inventors:

- Dearborn MI, US
HUIPENG CHEN - Canton MI, US
MOHAMMAD OMAR FARUQUE - Ann Arbor MI, US
S. M. ISKANDER FAROOQ - Novi MI, US
ZHENYAN GAO - Northville MI, US
ROBERT WILLIAM MCCOY - Ann Arbor MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60R 22/20
B60R 21/013

Abstract:

A seatbelt height adjuster includes a track elongated along an axis and including a plurality of holes spaced from each other along the axis, a slider slideably coupled to the track, a D-ring supported by the slider, a pin supported by the slider and releasably engageable with one respective hole, and a pyrotechnic actuator supported by the slider and engaged with the pin.

US Patent:

20190256032, Aug 22, 2019

Filed:

Feb 21, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/900900

Inventors:

- Dearborn MI, US
DEAN M. JARADI - Macomb MI, US
S.M. ISKANDER FAROOQ - Novi MI, US
ROBERT WILLIAM MCCOY - Ann Arbor MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60R 21/203
B60R 21/205
B60R 21/2165
B60R 21/231
B60R 21/2338
B60R 21/013

Abstract:

An airbag system includes a center airbag, a first side-wing airbag, a second side-wing airbag, and a tether. The center airbag is disposed in a steering wheel of a vehicle. The first side-wing airbag is disposed on a first side of a support housing disposed between the steering wheel and an instrument panel of the vehicle. The second side-wing airbag is disposed on a second side of the support housing. The tether connects the side-wing airbags and is disposed above the support housing.

US Patent:

20180326940, Nov 15, 2018

Filed:

May 15, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/594877

Inventors:

- Dearborn MI, US
Dean M. Jaradi - Macomb MI, US
Saeed David Barbat - Novi MI, US
James Chih Cheng - Troy MI, US
Robert William McCoy - Ann Arbor MI, US
Mohamed Ridha Baccouche - Ann Arbor MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60R 22/28
F16F 9/53
B60R 22/00

Abstract:

A restraint system includes a housing, a spool rotatably coupled to the housing, a pinion fixed to the spool, a rack engaged with the pinion, and a piston attached to the rack and the housing. The piston is filled with a resilient material. The resilient material may be a heterogeneous mixture of a liquid and hydrophobic, nanoporous particles.

US Patent:

20180319295, Nov 8, 2018

Filed:

May 3, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/585681

Inventors:

- Dearborn MI, US
James Chih Cheng - Troy MI, US
Robert William McCoy - Ann Arbor MI, US
Saeed David Barbat - Novi MI, US

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60N 2/427
B60N 2/42

Abstract:

A seat including a seat bottom, a seatback, and a device. The device supports the seatback on the seat bottom. The device includes a housing supported on the seat bottom and a rotor supported on the housing. The device includes a helical interface between the housing and the rotor. The rotor is moveable relative to the housing along the helical interface. The housing and the rotor define a cavity therebetween, and a resilient material is disposed in the cavity. During a vehicle impact, the rotor may move relative to the housing and compress the resilient material in the cavity. In this situation, the resilient material may absorb energy from the vehicle impact.