Protective cover system and related method
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsAdrian Romero Regalado, Jorge Jara Zambrano, Mauricio Ivan Valadez Torres, Sergio Alberto Vega Velazquez
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Abstract
A protective cover system for a motor vehicle includes a first roller, a first cover wound onto the first roller, a second roller and a second cover wound onto the second roller. The protective cover system also includes a control module for displacing the covers between stowed and deployed positions covering one or both of the motor vehicle bumper and an interior cargo floor of the motor vehicle.
Claims20
A protective cover system for a bumper of a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a first cover displaceable between a stowed position and a deployed position;
- a bumper surface condition sensor;
- a presence sensor;
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- a control module responsive to said bumper surface condition sensor and said presence sensor to deploy said first cover over said bumper.
A protective cover system for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a first roller;
- a first cover wound onto said first roller;
- a second roller;
- and
- a second cover wound onto said second roller;
- wherein said first cover is displaceable between a first stowed position wound onto said first roller and a first deployed position covering a bumper of the motor vehicle and the second cover is displaceable between a second stowed position wound onto said second roller and a second deployed position overlying an interior cargo floor of the motor vehicle.
A method of protecting an operator's clothing and an interior cargo floor of a motor vehicle from dirt, comprising:
- detecting, by a first device, a substance deposited on a bumper of the motor vehicle;
- detecting, by a second device, a presence of an operator near the bumper;
- deploying, by a control module, a first cover over the bumper;
- and
- deploying by said control module, a second cover over the interior cargo area of the motor vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.