C.r.f. Societa Consortile Per Azioni

S.i.sv El Societa' Italinana Per Lo Sviluppo Dell' Elettronica S.p.a.

Cosimo Carvignese

Roberto Finizio

Piermario Repetto

Piero Perlo

Denis Bollea

Luca Liotti

Stefano Bernard

Davide Capello

Gianfranco Innocenti

Nereo Pallaro

Bartolomeo Pairetti

Marco Pizzi

Elena Balocco

Daniele Pullini

Giorgio Luigi Masoero

Fabio Borean

Pietro Perlo

Rossella Monferino

Marco Cuniberti

Stefano Alacqua

Vito Guido Lambertini

Marco Biasiotto

Diego Marzorati

Gianluca Bollito

Alessandro Zanella

Nello Li Pira

Mauro Brignone

Andrea Perosino

Marzia Paderi

Mauro Sgroi

Marco Ottella

Marie Marguerite Dugand

Giovanni Brusco

Mario Repetto

Giorgio Masoero

Andrea Pipino

Davide Liotti Luca

A motor vehicle provided with an internal combustion engine having a system for variable actuation of the intake valves has a phase of activation of an operating mode with the engine off and the vehicle moving, in which the fuel supply to the engine is cut-off. After the cut-off of the fuel supply to the engine, the system for variable actuation of the intake valves is controlled to vary the opening time and/or closing time and/or the lift of the intake valves so as to control the losses due to the pumping effect which occur within the engine in cut-off condition.

Method for controlling a motor-vehicle provided with an internal combustion engine having a system for variable actuation of the intake valves

In a vehicle provided with a power propulsion system of the mild-hybrid type, a BAS unit&#x2014;including an electric machine connected through a belt transmission to the shaft of an internal combustion engine&#x2014;is exploited as the only propulsion engine of the vehicle in given operating conditions. The internal combustion engine is provided with a system for variable actuation of the intake valves which is controlled to reduce the pumping losses of the internal combustion engine in the phase in which such engine is in cut-off condition and it is driven by the aforementioned BAS unit. It is also provided for that the system for variable actuation of the intake valves be controlled to temporarily increase the pumping losses of the internal combustion engine in a phase in which it is required to accelerate the switching off of the engine.

Method for controlling a motor-vehicle provided with a propulsion system of the 'mild-hybrid' type

A substantial portion of the peripheral edges of two panels forming a component of a motor-vehicle body, in particular a front bonnet of a motor-vehicle, is joined by interposing a thermosetting adhesive. Polymerization of the adhesive is obtained by heating, without introducing the structure into an oven, by means of one or more induction heating coil, which are shaped and arranged in proximity and along the peripheral edges of the two panels. The quality of the induction heating process is controlled according to signals output by a thermographic detection camera which is positioned adjustable at a point from which it can acquire a thermographic image of the entire extension of said peripheral edges of the panels to be joined, so as to allow simultaneously controlling the temperature reached by each portion of the peripheral edges of the panels.

Method and apparatus for joining panels constituting components of motor-vehicle bodies, with quality control

A user-interface device comprises a plurality of indication elements (), each provided with a visual indication (), mounted on a structure (). Operatively associated to at least one indication element () is a lighting system () comprising light-generating means () in position set at the back of the body of the indication element (). The lighting system also comprises an optical module () made of transparent material associated to the light-generating means () and configured for changing the direction of rays of light emitted by the generating means ().

Reconfigurable user-interface device

An optical detection system per motor-vehicles, suitable to detect the condition of the road surface on which the vehicle is travelling, comprising a photodetector unit composed of a camera having a matrix of pixels composed of photodetectors based on a photosensitive material suitable to detect both radiations in the visible and near infrared, i.e. having a wavelength comprised between 380 and 900 nanometres, and radiations in the short wavelength infrared, i.e. having a wavelength comprised between 900 and 1700 nanometres.

Optical detection system for motor-vehicles having multiple functions, including detection of the condition of the road surface

A user-interface device comprises a plurality of indication elements (), each provided with a visual indication (), mounted on a structure (). The indication elements () comprise identification means (') adapted for co-operating with detection means () of the device (), for unique identification the indication elements (). The identification means (&#x2032;) comprise an electrically conductive layer () on a respective side face () of the indication element () and an electrically insulating layer () superimposed on the electrically conductive layer. The detection means () comprise one or more contact elements () set up against a respective a side face () of the indication element (). The electrically insulating layer () has one or more windows () for exposure of respective local portions of the underlying electrically conductive layer (), each window () being made in a position substantially corresponding to a respective contact element ().

The system allows the generation and distribution of energy on board a motor vehicle provided with a propulsion unit, a tank for fuel at least one distribution network or line for electric energy, electrical energy generation devices connected to the at least one distribution network or line, and a plurality of selectively activatable electrical utilizer devices or apparatus connected or connectable to the at least one distribution network or line. The electrical energy generator devices includes (at least) a microcombustor electricity generator matrix or battery connected to the fuel tank, and a supervision and control unit associated with this generator matrix or battery and coupled to the distribution network or line and arranged to control the operation of the generator matrix or battery in a predetermined manner as a function of the electrical power required or consumed by the network or line.

Innovative architectures for systems for generation and distribution of energy on board motor vehicles

A system for the production of electrical energy, comprising: a combustion chamber () made of material that is able to withstand high temperatures, an injection device () connected to said combustion chamber () by means of an injection conduit (), means () for supplying combustion support substance into the combustion chamber () and means () for the removal of gaseous combustion products, means () for the selective emission of radiation onto the outer surface of the combustion chamber (). The combustion chamber () is enclosed in a conversion chamber () within which are maintained sub-atmospheric pressure conditions, so that a substantial part of the heat developed by the combustion reaction is converted into electromagnetic radiation.

Micro-combustor system for the production of electrical energy

A luminous display for automotive satellite navigation systems includes a panel equipped with light sources, for example made up of LEDs, arranged in a pre-ordered configuration of discrete segments, which can be combined with one another according to paths corresponding to the representation of a plurality of encoded generally arrow-shaped pictograms, each of which indicates a respective direction to follow indicated by the navigation system. The path to follow is highlighted with respect to possible alternative paths represented by the pictograms.

Luminous display for automotive satellite navigation systems

Multifunctional optical sensor, comprising a matrix of photodetectors of the CCD or CMOS type, having a sensitive area divided into sub-areas, each of which, individually or combined with others, is dedicated to a specific function of monitoring the scene or measuring environmental parameters. The optical sensor comprises a matrix of microlenses, each of which is set to focus the radiation coming from a portion of solid angle on the associated photodetector or cluster of mutually contiguous photodetectors. Each function is associated to a single microlens or to a single subgroup of mutually contiguous microlenses or to multiple, not mutually contiguous microlenses or to multiple, not mutually contiguous subgroups of microlenses. The angular separation between the central directions of the portions of solid angle subtended by adjacent photodetectors or adjacent clusters of photodetectors is not constant within the matrix.

Multifunctional optical sensor comprising a photodetectors matrix coupled to a microlenses matrix

An optical system for image projection, particularly for projection devices of the 'head-mounted'type, includes a display, an optical system for focusing an image formed by the display, and a light guide having an extended body, with two opposite, longitudinal, plane and parallel faces, and opposite ends which define first reflecting surface for coupling into the light guide and second reflecting surface for extracting the image from the light guide. Each light ray which propagates through the light guide undergoes at least three internal total reflections on the parallel plane faces of the light guide. At least a surface of the focusing optical system is a portion of a surface free of rotational symmetry axes. Moreover, the two reflecting surfaces of the light guide are portions of surfaces free of rotational symmetry axes. Finally, the inlet pupil of the light guide coincides with the outlet pupil of the focusing system.

Optical system for image transmission, particularly for projection devices of the head-mounted type

The system allows the generation and distribution of energy on board a motor vehicle provided with a propulsion unit, a tank for fuel at least one distribution network or line for electric energy, electrical energy generation devices connected to the at least one distribution network or line, and a plurality of selectively activatable electrical utiliser devices or apparatus connected or connectable to the at least one distribution network or line. The electrical energy generator devices includes (at least) a microcombustor electricity generator matrix or battery connected to the fuel tank, and a supervision and control unit associated with this generator matrix or battery and coupled to the distribution network or line and arranged to control the operation of the said generator matrix or battery in a predetermined manner as a function of the electrical power required or consumed by the said network or line.

Interface system for assisting an operator during a work stage comprising a support structure wearable by the operator, with a transparent screen placed in front of the operator's eyes to permit him to see a portion of a background; a virtual image generator for producing an optical signal directed towards the operator's retina so as to form a virtual image at a predetermined distance from the operator's eyes and superimposed on the background; a recording device integral with the operator's head, to record part of the operator's visual field and make available a signal representative of the visual field; a processing device for processing the signal from the recording device and generating a visual information signal of use to the operator for carrying out the work stage; and a device of reception/transmission for sending the signal from the recording device to the processing device, and rendering the information signal to the virtual image generator.

System for the remote assistance of an operator during a work stage

A light-emitting device comprises a structure defining an orderly and periodic series of cavities of nanometric dimensions, in which a process of catalytic combustion is confined. The dimensions and/or the distance between the micro-cavities are selected to obtain a light emission in the visible and prevent and/or attenuate at the same time emission of infrared radiation.

Combustion light-emitting device and corresponding method of fabrication

An aircraft which is attachable to, for example, a cellular phone. The aircraft is provided with at least four rotors actuated with compressed fluid or by ring-shaped electric motors.

Growing community of inventors

Orbassano, Italy

Cosimo Carvignese