C.r.f. Societa Consortile Per Azioni

Cnh America LLC

Renzo Cicilloni

Maurizio Miglietta

Andrea Saroldi

John Henry Posselius

Riccardo Morselli

Silvano Marenco

Vincenzo Murdocco

Sebastiano Campo

Alessandro Gallione

Domenico Albero

Pier Claudio Antonello

Angela Chinu

Silvia Citelli

Valter Quenda

Patrizio Turco

A system for determining and/or controlling the relative position of two relatively movable elements, comprising a vehicle container combination, a utility vehicle including an unloading apparatus and at least three transmitting devices intended to be fitted, in use, in a predetermined spatial arrangement to one of the two relatively elements and configured to transmit respective signals; a single sensor device intended to be fitted, in use, to the other of the two relatively movable elements and configured to receive, and to determine the source direction (&#x3c8;, &#x3a6;) of, the signals transmitted by the transmitting devices; and an electronic processing unit connected to the sensor device and configured to determine the relative position of the two relatively movable elements based on the source direction (&#x3c8;, &#x3a6;) of the signals transmitted by the transmitting devices, and on the spatial arrangement of the transmitting devices.

Determination of relative position of two relatively movable elements

The system comprises: The signaling device comprises an electrically operated actuator associated with the accelerator pedal of the motor vehicle and able, when activated, to apply to said pedal a stress with predefined characteristics, which is perceivable by the driver's foot.

Motor vehicle signalling system incorporating a haptic accelerator pedal

The system comprises: detector devices () operable to provide electrical signals indicative of the relative distance and relative speed of the motor vehicle (V) with respect to a fixed or moving obstacle (O) ahead, and a processing and control unit (ECU) connected to such detector devices () as well as to brake actuators () and arranged to cause activation of the brake actuators () to effect automatic emergency braking of the motor vehicle (V) when the relative distance between the motor vehicle (V) and an obstacle (O) ahead lies between a first predetermined limit value (d) equal to the minimum value at which it is still possible to avoid collision by braking and a preselected intermediate value (d) comprised between said first limit value (d) and a second limit value (d) which is less than the said first limit value (d) and is equal to the minimum relative distance value at which it is still possible to follow a path which avoids the obstacle (O), or when the relative distance (d) becomes less than said second limit value (d).

Motor vehicle driving aid system

Growing community of inventors

Brussels, Belgium

Renzo Cicilloni