Ferrari S.p.a.

Fabrizio Favaretto

Franco Cimatti

Giovanni Stefani

Andrea Pezzati

Renaud Marlier

Massimo Medda

Francesco Crotti

Michele Di Sacco

Alessandro Marchetti

A car having: two front wheels; two rear drive wheels; an internal combustion engine, which is powered by hydrogen, is provided with a plurality of cylinders, inside which respective pistons slide, and with a drive shaft connected to the pistons, and is longitudinally arranged in a central or rear position; a transmission system, which connects the drive shaft of the internal combustion engine to the rear drive wheels; and two tanks, which are arranged beside an engine block of the internal combustion engine on the two opposite sides of the internal combustion engine.

Car provided with a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine

A car having: two front wheels; two rear wheels; an internal combustion engine, which is provided with a plurality of cylinders, where respective pistons slide on the inside, and with a crankshaft connected to the pistons; an engine compartment, where the internal combustion engine is arranged; and a bottom, which is the lowest part of the car and, in use, faces a road surface on which the car moves. The body has no openable hood allowing access to the engine compartment.

Car provided with an internal combustion engine

A car having: two front wheels; two rear drive wheels; a passenger compartment which is arranged between the two front wheels and the two rear wheels; a body delimiting the passenger compartment and having two sidewalls wherein at least two doors are obtained; a bottom forming the lowest part of the car and in use facing a road surface on which the car moves; an internal combustion engine which is provided with a plurality of cylinders within which respective pistons slide and with a drive shaft connected to the pistons; and at least one exhaust duct which originates from the cylinders and ends in a silencer provided with at least one outlet opening. The outlet opening of the silencer is arranged in an asymmetrical manner on only one side of the car and is located between a rear wheel and a door.

Car provided with an internal combustion engine having a side exhaust

A propulsion assembly for a motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine comprising at least one movable member according to an operating regime of said engine, and a turbocharger comprising a turbine adapted to expand exhaust gases of said engine by generating work and a compressor adapted to compress air by work generated by the turbine to supercharge said engine, the compressor comprising a compressor shaft coupled to the turbine in such a manner as to be driven into a rotation by the work generated by the turbine and being configured to compress air via the rotation of the compressor shaft, characterized by further comprising mechanical transmission means configured to couple the movable member to the compressor shaft, thereby establishing a transmission of motion between the movable member and the compressor shaft.

Propulsion assembly for a motor vehicle

A motor vehicle includes a structural element and a seat having at least two separate and independent seat portions, each of the seat portions being configured to support a part of a user's body and being independently coupled to the structural element in a movable manner relative to the structural element with three degrees of freedom including two translations in a plane along respective orthogonal axes and a rotation around a further axis orthogonal to said plane.

Motor vehicle with seat assembly divided into several, singulary adjustable portions

Car having: a first axle having two first drive wheels; a second axle having two second drive wheels; an internal combustion engine provided with a drive shaft; a transmission shaft configured to transmit the motion from the internal combustion engine to the first wheels; a gearbox provided with at least one primary shaft, which receives the motion from a drive shaft, and with at least one secondary shaft; a first epicyclic differential, which receives the motion from the secondary shaft of the gearbox and transmits the motion to the first wheels through the transmission shaft and to the second wheels; and a second epicyclic differential, which is coaxial to the two second wheels, is interposed between the first epicyclic differential and the second wheels, receives the motion from the first epicyclic differential and transmits the motion to the second wheels.

Four-wheel drive car

A car having: two front wheels; two rear wheels; an internal combustion engine, which is provided with: a plurality of cylinders, where respective pistons slide on the inside, a drive shaft connected to the pistons, a plurality of intake valves and of exhaust valves operated by respective camshafts, and a cylinder head, where the camshafts are arranged; at least one lubrication pump configured to cause a lubricant oil to circulate; and at least one cooling pump configured to cause a coolant liquid to circulate. A camshaft axially projects out of the cylinder head on at least one side, and the lubrication pump is coaxial to the camshaft and is directly connected to the camshaft so as to be caused to rotate by the camshaft.

Car provided with an internal combustion engine in which the pumps are operated by the camshafts

A vehicle comprising a body, a seat assembly comprising, in turn, a seat for a driver, and a guide coupled to the body and to the seat assembly so as to constrain the seat assembly relative to the body allowing for a translation movement of the seat assembly along a moving direction, characterized in that the moving direction is lateral relative to a driving direction of the vehicle.

Vehicle with movable driver's station

A car having two front wheels; two rear drive wheels; a supercharged internal combustion engine which is provided with a plurality of cylinders with which respective pistons slide and a drive shaft connected to the pistons; a compressor configured to compress air suited to be sucked by the supercharged internal combustion engine; a transmission which is interposed between the internal combustion engine and the rear drive wheels and has: a drum which is brought into rotation by the drive shaft, at least one clutch contained in the drum to receive the motion from the drum, and a primary shaft connected to the clutch; and an actuating system which connects the drum of the transmission to the first compressor so as to receive the motion from the drum of the transmission to cause the rotation of the first compressor.

Car provided with a supercharged internal combustion engine

A propulsion assembly for a motor vehicle with an internal combustion engine comprising at least one movable member, a turbocharger comprising a turbine adapted to expand exhaust gases to generate work and a first compressor adapted to compress air by means of the work generated by the turbine, an intake line connecting an outlet of the first compressor to an intake manifold of said engine to supply compressed air from the first compressor to said engine, wherein the intake line comprises a second compressor, which in turn comprises a compressor shaft rotatable about a first axis and is configured to further compress the compressed air from the first compressor via a rotation of the compressor shaft. The propulsion assembly further comprises mechanical transmission means configured to couple the movable member to the compressor shaft, thereby determining a transmission of motion from the movable member to the compressor shaft.

A forced induction device for an internal combustion engine includes a compressor operable to provide compressed air, an intake line configured to supply an intake manifold of the internal combustion engine with the compressed air provided by the compressor, a turbine configured to generate mechanical power through expansion of at least a portion of exhaust gases of the internal combustion engine, an exhaust line configured to supply the turbine with the exhaust gas portion coming from an exhaust manifold of the internal combustion engine, characterized by further comprising a hydrostatic transmission configured to drive the compressor by means of the mechanical power generated by the turbine.

Forced induction device for an internal combustion engine

A car having: two front wheels; two rear wheels; a body, which has two front wheel compartments, each housing, on the inside, a corresponding front wheel, and two rear wheel compartments, each housing, on the inside, a corresponding rear wheel; and two covering panels, each arranged in the area of a corresponding wheel compartment to close the wheel compartment. Each covering panel is mounted on the body so as to be movable between a contracted position, in which the covering panel is completely flush with the body, and an expanded position, in which the covering panel is at least partially spaced apart from the body. Two actuator devices are provided, each coupled to a corresponding covering panel so as to move the covering panel between the contracted position and the expanded position.

Car with wheel fairing

A pneumatic windscreen wiper for a transparent element of a vehicle. The pneumatic windscreen wiper has: at least one nozzle, which is arranged at an edge of the transparent element, is oriented towards the transparent element and is capable of emitting a compressed air jet that hits the transparent element to skim the transparent element; a source of compressed air; and a control valve which is interposed between the nozzle and the source of compressed air and is suitable for regulating the flow of compressed air.

Pneumatic windscreen wiper for a transparent element of a vehicle

A turbine assembly for an internal combustion engine having: a first turbine that rotates around a first rotation axis and is configured to rotate due to the thrust exerted by exhaust gases emitted by the internal combustion engine; a second turbine which is independent of and separate from the first turbine, rotates around a second rotation axis parallel to and spaced from the first rotation axis, and is configured to rotate due to the thrust exerted by exhaust gases emitted by the internal combustion engine; an electric generator operated by the first turbine; and a transmission device that connects both the turbines to the same electric generator.

Turbine assembly for an internal combustion engine

Electric vehicle having a chassis, which supports a pair of front wheels and a pair of rear wheels, a passenger compartment, which is arranged between the front wheels and the rear wheels, at least one electric motor connected to drive wheels, an electric energy storage device, an air conditioning system, which is designed to air condition the passenger compartment by heating or cooling the air present in the passenger compartment, and a control unit, which is configured to activate the air conditioning system even when the vehicle is parked and connected to an external charging system, wherein the air conditioning system has at least one thermal device, which is designed to exchange heat directly and only with the chassis and the control unit is configured to activate the thermal device even when the vehicle is parked and connected to an external charging system.

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Formigine, Italy

Fabrizio Favaretto