Daniel J Mccarthy

US Patent:

20210070364, Mar 11, 2021

Filed:

Sep 6, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/563177

Inventors:

- Dearborn MI, US
Tushar B. Kamble - Farmington MI, US
Juyoung Lee - West Bloomfield MI, US
Gargi Tandra - Canton MI, US
Daniel Joseph McCarthy - Northville MI, US
Jeremiah James Smith - Tupperville, CA

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B62D 21/03
B62D 25/08
B62D 24/00
B60R 19/24

Abstract:

An assembly includes a pair of frame rails, each of the frame rails elongated along a vehicle-longitudinal axis and having a front portion, a rear portion, and an elevated portion above and between the front portion and the rear portion. The assembly includes a cross-support fixed to at least one of the frame rails at the elevated portion and extending along a cross-vehicle axis from one of the frame rails toward the other of the frame rails. The assembly includes a bracket fixed to the frame rail at the elevated portion and fixed to the cross-support.

US Patent:

20180015796, Jan 18, 2018

Filed:

Jul 18, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/212382

Inventors:

- Dearborn MI, US
Douglas Lee Howe - Grosse Ile MI, US
Daniel J. McCarthy - Northville MI, US
Chih Yu Lin - Canton MI, US
Andre Kunynetz - Windsor, CA

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC - Dearborn MI

International Classification:

B60D 1/155
B60D 1/06

Abstract:

The disclosed inventive concept provides a trailer hitch arrangement for use with a drawbar that is adaptable to universally use a high strength conventional hitch pin. Particularly, a reducing pin sleeve is fitted into the hitch pin hole of the drawbar. The inner diameter of the reducing pin sleeve is less than the hitch pin hole conventionally formed in the drawbar while the inner diameter of the reducing pin sleeve is the same as that of the receiver. When the drawbar is fitted into the receiver, the reducing pin sleeve is captured therein, thus preventing side-to-side movement relative to the drawbar. The disclosed inventive concept allows vehicle owners having a standard 3″ receiver trailer hitch which conventionally includes a ⅝″ hitch pin hole to safely and effectively handle above 20,000 lbs. trailer rating by insertion of the hitch pin sleeve into the ″ hitch pin hole provided in the drawbar.