Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Deployable flexible panel for vehicle door opening
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Application No.: US15995856Application Date: 2018-06-01
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Publication No.: US10682972B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Mohammad Omar Faruque , S. M. Iskander Farooq , Dean M. Jaradi
- Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Dearborn
- Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Dearborn
- Agency: Bejin Bieneman PLC
- Agent Frank A. MacKenzie
- Main IPC: B60R21/08
- IPC: B60R21/08 ; B60R21/232 ; B60R21/231 ; B60R21/02

Abstract:
A vehicle includes a door opening shaped to receive a removable door, a flexible panel deployable to a position extending across the door opening, and a controller programmed to deploy the flexible panel in response to an impact based on an absence of the removable door from the door opening. The vehicle may include a track elongated along the door opening, and the flexible panel may be deployable along the track.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190366967A1 DEPLOYABLE FLEXIBLE PANEL FOR VEHICLE DOOR OPENING Public/Granted day:2019-12-05
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