C.r.f. Societa Consortile Per Azioni

Cnh Industrial Italia S.p.a.

Massimo Gaido

Maurizio Miglietta

Silvano Marenco

Saverio Zuccotti

Vincenzo Murdocco

Ricccardo Morselli

An automotive accelerator device includes an accelerator member movable in response to driver operation, a position sensor associated with the accelerator member to output a position signal indicating an operation degree of the accelerator member, and signal processing means configured to receive the position signal generated by the position sensor and to generate a command for a motor vehicle engine based on the position signal and a characteristic curve of the accelerator device that defines the command for the motor vehicle engine as a function of the position signal; the signal processing means are further configured to: receive signals indicating a current motor vehicle speed and a target motor vehicle speed, and to dynamically adapt the accelerator device characteristic curve based on the current motor vehicle speed with respect to the target motor vehicle speed.

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Orbassano, Italy

Massimo Gaido