Continental Automotive France

Continental Automotive Gmbh

Vitesco Technologies Gmbh

Jacques Rocher

Yannick Leroy

Benjamin Marconato

Philippe Avian

Frédéric Stuyk

Nicolas Guinart

Thierry Collet

Pascal Barbier

Jean-Luc Boyer

Laurent Cuvelier

Leroy Yannick

Pierre-Emmanuel Maire

A method for automatically detecting a sensor coupled to an electronic computer, including a second step, consisting of passing to a third step when the electronic computer is activated, the third step, consisting of comparing a voltage generated by the sensor coupled to the terminals of the electronic computer with a reference voltage, in the event that the result of the comparison is positive, then passing to a fourth step, and in the event that the result of the comparison is negative, passing to a fifth step, the fourth step, consisting of selecting an impedance matched to the coupling of the voltage-source sensor to the terminals of the electronic computer.

Device for automatically detecting coupling between electronic devices

A device capable of processing a pilot control signal having at least two modes: continuous or alternating PWM, and of generating a binary detection signal, the state of which is an indication of the mode, the device having a voltage doubler and a comparator.

Device for processing a pilot control signal

A method for automatically detecting a sensor coupled to an electronic computer including steps of detecting the sensor and steps of configuring a hardware interface.

Disclosed is a device for controlling a connection between an electrical socket and a battery. The device for controlling a connection includes a first contactor arranged between a first terminal of the battery and a first terminal of the electrical socket, a second contactor arranged between a second terminal of the battery and a second terminal of the electrical socket, a first computer and a second computer. The first computer includes a high-side switch, arranged between a power supply line and the first contactor, and a low-side switch arranged between the second contactor and a ground line, and the second computer includes a low-side switch arranged between the first contactor and the ground line, and a high-side switch arranged between the power supply line and the second contactor.

Method and device for controlling a connection between a battery and a socket of an electric motor vehicle

A method for automatically detecting a sensor coupled to an electronic computer including steps of detecting said sensor and steps of configuring a hardware interface.

A computer including a hardware interface wherein the hardware interface includes a first resistor with a first first resistor pin and a second first resistor pin, a second resistor with a first second resistor pin and a second second resistor pin, a transistor, a comparator; the first first resistor pin being coupled on the one hand to the first hardware interface pin and on the other hand to a first transistor pin.

Device for automatic detection of coupling between electronic devices

A current source sensor delivers detection information in the form of an intermediate signal by selectively applying a low-level or high-level current to a communication bus depending on the passage of a mobile target, the sensor including a sensitive portion detecting the passage of a of the mobile target, an electronic module controlling and shape signals coming from the sensitive portion, an embedded intelligence module designed, inter alia, to receive information from another sensor through a first signal present on the communication bus, the first signal being the sum of the abovementioned intermediate signal generated by the sensor and of another intermediate signal generated by the other sensor, wherein the embedded intelligence module is adapted to modify a first low level and a first high level of the intermediate signal, respectively, into a second low level and into a second high level depending on a the first signal.

Device and method for determining the state of rotation of a camshaft of an engine

A method for inspecting and maintaining a motor vehicle including at least one actuator controlled by at least one electronic computer, and a supervision computer. The inspection and maintenance method including: a) coupling the supervision computer, b) interrogating the electronic computer, if an anomaly is present on at least one actuator, then the method includes: c) identifying the defective actuator, d) launching a test campaign involving: 1) reading predefined values, 2) applying a control signal to the actuator, 3) measuring actuation parameters of the actuator, 4) analyzing the results, e) proposing new parameters, f) applying the control signal with the new parameters, and g) recording the new parameters in the electronic computer.

Method for inspecting and for maintaining an automotive vehicle

Sensor delivering detection information in the form of a variation of a current, including a sensitive portion adapted to detecting the passage of a mobile target, an electronic module able to control and shape signals coming from the sensitive portion, an embedded intelligence module adapted, inter alia, to receive information from an electronic computer and to process and generate information intended for the electronic computer, characterized in that the sensor includes a random-number generation module able to generate a random number.

Synchronization of an internal combustion engine

The aim of the present invention is a method for synchronizing an engine comprising at least one movable piston of a four-stroke internal combustion engine, said method comprising a first step (e) involving initializing a second memory space, a second step (e) involving waiting for an edge on a fourth signal (CAM_TOT), a fourth step (e) involving testing the value of a counter (CPT), an eighth step (e) involving selecting the theoretical angular positions of the slots of the second signal (CAM_IN) relative to the edges of a first signal (CRK) and of the slots of a third signal (CAM_EX) relative to the edges of the first signal (CRK).

Method for synchronizing an internal combustion engine

A current sensor including a sensitive portion with a first detection line and a second detection line; the sensitive portion is suitable for detecting the passage of a moving target, a connection device suitable for delivering a detection signal arising from the sensitive portion. The current sensor further includes a duplication device suitable for duplicating the first detection line to make a duplicate first detection line and for duplicating the second detection line to make a duplicate second detection line.

Sensor having duplicate detection lines

A device for protecting an electronic computer against a short circuit. The electronic computer including a shunt resistor, a first computer pin and being coupled to at least one sensor comprising a first sensor pin and a second sensor pin. Furthermore including a transistor driving module having a first driving pin coupled to a first shunt pin, a second driving pin coupled to a positive power supply, a second shunt pin being coupled firstly to a first sensor pin and secondly to a first comparator pin of a comparator module and designed to no longer supply electric power to the sensor through the first sensor pin when a short circuit is detected at the sensor.

Device for protecting an electronic computer against a short circuit

Temperature measuring device for measuring the temperature of a member, the member including a component controlled by a control signal, active at most during at least one limited activity interval, and transmitted to the component via two wires, a temperature probe connected to the two wires, in parallel with the component, and a diode, connected between a terminal of the component and a terminal of the probe connected to the same wire, in order to allow the passage of a current in the component only in a first direction, the temperature measurement being performed by a current flowing in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, outside of the activity interval.

Temperature measuring device

Disclosed is a method for detecting an inclination, relative to the ground, of a wheel of a motor vehicle which includes: &#x2014;measuring two accelerations by using two accelerometers mounted on the wheel and suitable for measuring the acceleration of the wheel along a first axis and along a second axis, respectively, the first axis and the second axis being in the plane of the wheel and orthogonal, and &#x2014;calculating the components of a gravity vector in a reference frame formed by the first axis and the second axis from the measurements of acceleration, &#x2014;determining a modulus of the gravity vector from the calculated components, and &#x2014;determining a position of inclination of the wheel relative to the ground by comparing the value of the modulus of the gravity vector with a predetermined value.

Method for detecting an inclination of a wheel relative to the horizontal

A vehicle electronic computer, including a first microcontroller and a second microcontroller including respective FlexRay&#x2122; communication controllers that are linked to one another by connections, the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller being configured to exchange data with one another by way of the FlexRay&#x2122; communication controllers. Furthermore, the second microcontroller includes a CAN-FD communication controller by way of which the electronic computer is able to be linked to a communication bus of the vehicle in order to exchange data with a remote device, and the CAN-FD communication controller is linked to the FlexRay&#x2122; communication controller of the second microcontroller.

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Saint Orens de Gameville, France

Jacques Rocher