Pirelli Tyre S.p.a.

Pirelli & C. Eco Technology S.p.a.

Matteo Accorra'

Maurizio Marchini

Gianni Mancini

Cristiano Puppi

Ivan Gildo Boscaino

Albert Berenguer

Luca Giannini

Alfredo Balini

Erika Vaniglia

Antonio Monterosso

Gabriele Arrigoni

Davide Fedeli

Lorenzo Avanzini

Dario Rattazzi

Giorgio Zuliani

A tyre monitoring device with an electronic unit enclosed in an encapsulation material. The encapsulation material forms a single body with an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion encloses and protects the electronic unit and the lower portion has a base surface aimed at fixing said device to the inner surface of the tyre.

Tyre monitoring device comprising an electronic unit and tyre comprising said device

A method and a related station for applying a sensing device to a tyre are described. A tape-shaped support with removably fixed sensing devices is advanced, to feed the sensing devices in sequence. A handling device is then rigidly coupled to a sensing device, maintaining at least a portion of an adhesion surface of the sensing device removably fixed to a support. The sensing device is then completely separated from the support, taken away by the handling device, and applied to an inner surface of a tyre by the handling device.

Method and station for applying a sensing device to a tyre

A method for inducing the regeneration of a particulate filter associated with an exhaust gas emitting engine while being operated in a vehicle in variable driving conditions. The method includes turning on, for a time period, a heating device in physical contact with the filter subject to the following conditions: i) an average pressure of the exhaust gas at the entrance of the filter is greater than a predetermined value; and ii) an instantaneous pressure of the exhaust gas at the entrance of the filter is at a high improbable value. The time period for such heating device to stay turned on is sufficiently long to reach the particulate ignition temperature and for such instantaneous pressure to get from such high improbable value to a significantly lower value. The average pressure is obtained by averaging a plurality of pressure data sensed at the entrance of the filter.

Control of the regeneration of a particulate filter

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Milan, Italy

Matteo Accorra'