Abstract: The description relates to a drive assembly with an internal combustion engine, a turbocharger designed to supercharge said internal combustion engine and a catalysing system; the drive assembly comprises: a first wastegate duct interposed between the turbine and the catalysing system and a first wastegate valve movable between a first and a second position; the drive assembly comprises a second duct interposed between said exhaust duct and said catalysing system; and a second bypass valve movable between a third position, in which it fluidly connects said exhaust duct and the catalysing system so as to covey said mixture along the second duct bypassing the entire turbine, thus heating said catalysing system, and a fourth position, in which it fluidly isolates said second duct from said exhaust duct.

Abstract: A method for the performance-enhancing driver assistance of a road vehicle driven on a track. The method comprises the steps of defining a dynamic model of the road vehicle, determining the actual position and orientation of the road vehicle, detecting a plurality of space data concerning the structure of the track, detecting a plurality of dynamic data of the vehicle, determining a passing through point of the road vehicle arranged in front of the road vehicle, solving an optimum control problem aimed at optimizing a cost function, taking into account, as boundary conditions, the plurality of environmental data, the actual position and the passing through point, so as to compute a mission optimizing the cost function, and driving the vehicle in an autonomous manner so as to show to the driver the mission optimizing the cost function.

Abstract: A seat for a vehicle and having: a frame; a bearing structure, which is mounted on the frame, is elastically deformable and is divided into a seat, a backrest and a headrest; an upholstery, which covers the bearing structure; a covering shell, which is mounted on a rear wall of the frame and has a rear wall and two side walls, which come into contact with the bearing structure; a side airbag, which is directly fixed to the frame and is arranged in a containing space laterally delimited by an outer side wall of the covering shell and is delimited at the front by an outer portion of the bearing structure; and a deflector plate, which is rigid, is directly mounted on the frame and is arranged behind the side airbag so as to be located between the side airbag and the covering shell.

Abstract: A motor vehicle seat includes a backrest portion, a first body, a second body and a mechanism configured to coupled the backrest portion to the first body in a movable manner between a first position, in which the backrest portion is arranged between the first and the second body, the latter defining a base extending crosswise to the backrest portion in order to support a passenger seating with the back resting against the backrest portion on a first surface of the backrest portion, and a second position, in which the backrest portion has a second surface opposite the first surface and facing the second body; wherein the first surface, in the second position of the backrest portion, defines a wind deflector.

Abstract: A rotor for a rotary electric machine and having: a plurality of permanent magnets, which are axially oriented and are arranged beside one another around a rotations axis so as to form a closed ring; a support cylinder, which has an outer surface, on which the permanent magnets rest, and a central cavity; and two half-shafts, which are independent of and separate from one another and are singularly inserted in opposite ends of the central cavity of the support cylinder so as to form one single block with the support cylinder. The permanent magnets are circumferentially arranged one following the other according to a Halbach array so as to nullify the magnetic field radially on the inside of the permanent magnets and so as to maximize the magnetic field radially on the outside of the permanent magnets.

Abstract: A lighting assembly for a motor vehicle is described, comprising: a first transparent surface, which is configured to transmit, in use, a low beam; and a second transparent surface, which is configured to transmit, in use, a high beam; an opaque element, which is movable between a first operating position, in which it is far from the first and second surfaces, and a second operating position, in which it obstructs at least one of the first and second surfaces.

Abstract: A method for the production of a cylinder head for an internal combustion engine. The production method presentes the steps of: dividing the cylinder head into a main part, where there is the flame deck making up the crown of each cylinder, and an operating part, where there are the housings of the control means of the valves; manufacturing, at first, the sole main part of the cylinder head by means of a casting process in a mould; and manufacturing, subsequently, the operating part of the cylinder head by means of additive manufacturing, which adds layer upon layer starting from the previously manufactured main part of the cylinder head.