公开(公告)号：US20210284183A1

公开(公告)日：2021-09-16

申请号：US16498624

申请日：2019-03-06

Applicant: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI

Inventor： Silvano MARENCO ,  Stefano MANGOSIO ,  Massimo FOSSANETTI ,  Andrea SAROLDI

IPC: B60W50/06 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/18 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W50/14 ,  B60R16/023 ,  B60W60/00 ,  G01C21/34 ,  B60W30/18

Abstract: An automotive autonomous driving system comprising automotive on-board systems comprising a propulsion system, a braking system, a steering system, and a sensor), system, an automotive user interface, and an automotive electronic control unit connected to, via an automotive on-board communications network, and configured to cooperate with, the automotive on-board systems and the automotive user interface to provide an automotive autonomous driving system. The automotive electronic control unit is further configured to store and populate a database of recurrent low speed manoeuvres and cause recurrent low speed manoeuvres stored in the database of recurrent low speed manoeuvres to be repeated in autonomous driving mode.

公开(公告)号：US20210221370A1

公开(公告)日：2021-07-22

申请号：US16760823

申请日：2018-11-09

Applicant: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI

Inventor： Claudio LANFRANCO

IPC: B60W30/16 ,  B60W30/18 ,  G06K9/00 ,  B60W40/08 ,  B60W30/14 ,  B60W50/16 ,  G06F17/11 ,  B60W50/14

Abstract: An automotive adaptive cruise control system for a host motor vehicle configured to operate in at least two different operating modes comprising a first operating mode, in which a current speed of the host vehicle is controlled to maintain a cruise speed, and a second operating mode, in which the current speed of the host vehicle is controlled to maintain a cruise distance to a leading vehicle, wherein the system is configured to: detect approaching to a traffic light and determine a light signal emitted thereby, signal to the driver the presence of the detected traffic light and the determined light signal, if the traffic light emits a red or amber light signal, estimating a driver reaction time, determining a higher threshold distance and a lower threshold distance from the traffic light, and warning the driver of the host vehicle of the need to slow it down if, after the driver reaction time has elapsed: i) the host motor vehicle has not decreased its speed by more than a calibratable threshold, ii) the current speed of the host vehicle is higher than a minimum speed, iii) either the distance of the host vehicle from the traffic light is lower than the higher threshold distance and the light signal emitted by the traffic light is red, or the distance of the host vehicle from the traffic light is between the higher and lower threshold distances and the light signal emitted by the traffic light is amber, and iv) a service brake of the host vehicle is unoperated.

公开(公告)号：US20210046941A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-18

申请号：US17041508

申请日：2019-09-24

Applicant: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI

Inventor： Filippo VISINTAINER ,  Andrea STECCANELLA ,  Paolo DENTI ,  Marco DARIN ,  Luciano ALTOMARE ,  Alessandro MARCHETTO

IPC: B60W50/00 ,  G08G1/0967 ,  H04W4/46 ,  G08G1/16 ,  B60R16/023 ,  B60W30/095 ,  B60W50/14 ,  B60W40/04

Abstract: An advanced driver assistance system configured to implement one or more automotive V2V applications designed to assist a driver in driving a Host Motor-Vehicle. The advanced driver assistance system is configured to be connectable to an automotive on-board communication network to communicate with automotive on-board systems to implement one or different automotive functionalities aimed at assisting the driver in driving the Host Motor-Vehicle, controlling the Host Motor-Vehicle, and informing the driver of the Host Motor-Vehicle of the presence of Relevant Motor-Vehicles deemed to be relevant to the driving safety of the Host Motor-Vehicle. The advanced driver assistance system comprises an automotive V2V communication system operable to communicate with automotive V2V communication systems of Remote Motor-Vehicles via V2V messages containing motor-vehicle position-related, motion-related, and state-related data. The advanced driver assistance system is further configured to receive V2V messages transmitted by V2V communications systems of Remote Motor-Vehicles; identify from among the Remote Motor-Vehicles in communication with the Host Motor-Vehicle, Nearby Motor-Vehicles that may represent potential threats to the driving safety of the Host Motor-Vehicle, based on motor-vehicle position-related, motion-related, and state-related data in received V2V messages and on motor-vehicle position-related, motion-related, and state-related data of the Host Motor-Vehicle; and process the data contained in the V2V messages received from the Nearby Motor-Vehicles to identify from among the Nearby Motor-Vehicles Relevant Motor-Vehicles that may be relevant to the automotive functionalities aimed at assisting the driver in driving the Host Motor-Vehicle, controlling the Host Motor-Vehicle, at informing the driver of the Host Motor-Vehicle of the presence of Relevant Motor-Vehicles deemed to be relevant to the driving safety, and dispatch on the automotive on-board communication network a list of virtual objects containing information on the Host Motor-Vehicle and on the Relevant Motor-Vehicles, for exploitation by one or more of the functionalities aimed at assisting the driver in driving the Host Motor-Vehicle, controlling the Host Motor-Vehicle, and informing the driver of the Host Motor-Vehicle of the presence of the Relevant Motor-Vehicles deemed to be relevant to the driving safety of the Host Motor-Vehicle, or exploit the information on the Host Motor-Vehicle and on the Relevant Motor-Vehicles in the implementation of one or more of the automotive functionalities aimed at assisting the driver in driving the Host Motor-Vehicle, controlling the Host Motor-Vehicle, and informing the driver of the Host Motor-Vehicle of the presence of the Relevant Motor-Vehicles and of relevant events deemed to be relevant to the driving safety of the Host Motor-Vehicle.

公开(公告)号：US20200156638A1

公开(公告)日：2020-05-21

申请号：US16688414

申请日：2019-11-19

Applicant: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI

Inventor： Claudio REI ,  Enrico RAFFONE ,  Massimo FOSSANETTI

IPC: B60W30/14 ,  B60W40/072

Abstract: An automotive electronic preventive active safety system designed to improve driving stability of a motor-vehicle and to: receive data indicative of a current position of the motor-vehicle, and of roads and their characteristics comprising a road curvature, and of potential driving routes of the motor-vehicle from a current position up to an electronic horizon thereof; identify the most driving-safety-critical road bend along the driving route of the motor-vehicle; backwards compute, from the most driving-safety-critical road bend and up to the current position of the motor-vehicle, a driving speed profile that the motor-vehicle should follow from its current position up to the identified most driving-safety-critical road bend to result in the latter being driven through at a driving speed that satisfies a driving safety criterion; compare the current and backwards-computed speeds of the motor-vehicle in the current position thereof; and, if the current speed of the motor-vehicle in its current position is greater than or equal to the backwards computed speed of the motor-vehicle in its current position, cause the motor-vehicle to decelerate to such an extent as to result in the most driving-safety-critical road bend being driven through at a driving speed that satisfies the driving safety criterion.

公开(公告)号：US20190184861A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-20

申请号：US16227164

申请日：2018-12-20

Applicant: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI

Inventor： Tiziana VIRDIS

IPC: B60N2/26 ,  B60N2/32

Abstract: A motor vehicle seat is provided with a backrest and a seat portion having a fixed element and at least one body which can be moved between a lowered configuration, in which it forms with the backrest a place for an adult passenger, and a raised configuration, in which it forms a booster seat suitable for supporting a child; the body is releasably fixed in the raised configuration by means of a fastening device and carries a side support element, which is arranged next to the body and is movable between an operating configuration, in which it protrudes upwards with respect to an upper surface of the body, and a rest configuration, in which it is arranged lower or flush with respect to said upper surface.

公开(公告)号：US10272750B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-30

申请号：US15618220

申请日：2017-06-09

Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni

Inventor： Nadia Costa ,  Fabrizio Tribolo ,  Claudio Cantarale ,  Antonio Moda ,  Francesco Chiaffoni ,  Giuseppe Crisafi

IPC: B60J5/10 ,  B60J1/18 ,  B60Q1/00 ,  B60Q1/30 ,  B60S1/04 ,  B60S1/52 ,  B62D35/00 ,  F21V3/00 ,  F21Y113/10 ,  B60J5/04

Abstract: A hatchback door includes a load-bearing inner panel made of composite plastic material, a plastic top outer panel glued on a top portion of the inner panel, and a plastic bottom outer panel glued on a bottom portion of the inner panel. The top panel includes a first layer of transparent plastic material and a second layer of opaque plastic material or opaque paint. The opaque layer covers only some of the transparent layer such that the top panel is transparent in a central part overlying a rear-window opening of the inner panel and in its peripheral portions that function as transparent elements for two lateral sets of lights and a third top set of lights. The light sets are without a front transparent element and are connected to a rear side of the top panel. The transparent peripheral portions constitute the front transparent elements of the light sets.

公开(公告)号：US10240524B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-26

申请号：US15353068

申请日：2016-11-16

Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni

Inventor： Marco Lucatello ,  Francesco Vattaneo ,  Vittorio Doria

IPC: F01L1/34 ,  F02B69/06 ,  F01L1/245 ,  F01L9/02 ,  F02B75/02

Abstract: Described herein is a system for variable actuation of an engine valve of an internal-combustion engine, where the system is able to actuate the engine valves, selectively, in a four-stroke operating mode and in a two-stroke operating mode, on the basis of the operating conditions of the engine.

公开(公告)号：US09970397B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-15

申请号：US14518626

申请日：2014-10-20

Applicant: C.R.F. Societa' Consortile per Azioni

Inventor： Sergio Stucchi ,  Onofrio De Michele ,  Raffaele Ricco ,  Marcello Gargano ,  Carlo Mazzarella

IPC: B05B1/08 ,  F02M51/06 ,  F02M61/08 ,  F02M61/12 ,  F02M63/00

CPC classification number: F02M51/0603 ,  F02M61/08 ,  F02M61/12 ,  F02M63/0073 ,  F02M2200/703 ,  F02M2200/705

Abstract: A fuel electro-injector for a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine, having an atomizer equipped with a nozzle and a valve needle defining a discharge section that is annular and has a width that continuously increases as the opening stroke of the valve needle proceeds. The opening stroke is directed outwards and is caused, in a proportional manner, by the operation of an electric actuator. The electro-injector has a high-pressure environment with an annular passageway around the lateral outer surface of the valve needle to supply fuel to the discharge section, and a low-pressure environment, which communicates with a fuel outlet and is separated from the high-pressure environment by a dynamic seal between the valve needle and the nozzle. The electro-injector is provided with a hydraulic connection between the electric actuator and the valve needle, with a pressure chamber axially delimited, on one side, by the valve needle and, in use, is filled with fuel that, once compressed, axially pushes the valve needle along the opening stroke. The hydraulic connection is placed in the low-pressure environment, so that the pressure chamber only communicates with this environment.

公开(公告)号：US09821365B2

公开(公告)日：2017-11-21

申请号：US14599665

申请日：2015-01-19

Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni

Inventor： Marco Colosseo ,  Daniele Bassan

IPC: B21D53/84 ,  B21D26/047

CPC classification number: B21D53/845 ,  B21D26/033 ,  B21D26/047 ,  Y10T29/49293

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a camshaft for an internal combustion engine a metal tubular element is expanded within a mold with the aid of a fluid at high pressure fed into the tubular element and with a simultaneous axial compression of the tubular element. The cams of the camshaft are formed in subsequent steps, starting from intermediate cams and ending with end cams. In a first step of the method, the intermediate cams are formed in a first mold. In a subsequent step, the end cams are formed within auxiliary molds which surround, only throughout a predetermined length, end portions of the tubular element which project from the mold which surrounds the already formed intermediate cams. In this subsequent step, the tubular element is compressed axially by axially displacing two clamp members, which grip and surround completely, throughout a predetermined length, the end portions of the tubular element which project outwardly from the auxiliary molds.

公开(公告)号：US20170133570A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-11

申请号：US15338571

申请日：2016-10-31

Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni

Inventor： Alex RINALDI ,  Silvano SANDRI ,  Andrea PEROSINO

IPC: H01L35/30 ,  H01L35/32 ,  F28F9/12 ,  F28F9/02 ,  F28F9/00 ,  F28F13/06

CPC classification number: H01L35/30 ,  F01N5/025 ,  F02G5/02 ,  F02G5/04 ,  F28F9/001 ,  F28F9/0226 ,  F28F9/12 ,  F28F13/06 ,  F28F2250/102 ,  H01L35/32 ,  Y02T10/16 ,  Y02T10/166

Abstract: Described herein is a unit for conversion of thermal energy including:—a first heat-exchange unit defining a first flow path for a first thermovector fluid; and—a second heat-exchange unit defining a second flow path for a second thermovector fluid. The second flow path is obtained by a plurality of cartridge elements each including at least one element made of thermoelectric material. The second heat-exchange unit includes a first manifold element and a second manifold element, each including a connection interface to said plurality of cartridge elements, which is configured for providing a hydraulic connection with inlet orifices and outlet orifices of the cartridge elements, and an electrical connection to first electrodes and second electrodes of said plurality of cartridge elements electrically connected to the elements made of thermoelectric material.