Patents by Inventor Claudio Ferrarese

Claudio Ferrarese has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11446977
    Abstract: Described herein is air distributing device for an air conditioning unit of a motor vehicle, the device including: a housing defining an air intake chamber, on the housing there being formed an air inlet, a central air outlet, and two side air outlets. The device also includes a drum flap mounted rotatably about an axis (z) orthogonal to a direction that goes from the air inlet to the central air outlet. The flap is movable between a first position, wherein the air inlet is closed by the flap; a second position, wherein the two side air outlets are closed by the flap and an air flow between the air inlet and the central air outlet is allowed; and a third position, wherein the central air outlet is closed by the flap and an air flow between the air inlet and the side air outlets is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO THERMAL SYSTEMS S.P.A.
    Inventor: Claudio Ferrarese
  • Patent number: 11241938
    Abstract: Described herein is a heating and/or air-conditioning device for a motor vehicle, the device including an inlet duct for the supply of fresh air, an air transmission branch, and an air heating branch, both supplied by the inlet duct and communicating with each other via a mixing zone. A butterfly flap is mounted pivotably around a rotation axis located at the mixing zone. The butterfly flap comprises a first wing associated with a first branch and a second wing associated with a second branch, as well as a wing extension elastically hinged to the first wing according to a hinge axis parallel to the rotation axis of the butterfly flap. Within the first branch are arranged abutment formations suitable to be engaged by the wing extension and to induce, during a rotation of the butterfly flap, a rotation of the wing extension with respect to the first wing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO THERMAL SYSTEMS S.P.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Ferrarese, Andrea Carbone
  • Patent number: 11186140
    Abstract: Described herein is an air intake device for an air conditioning unit of a vehicle, the air intake device including a casing on which there are formed a fresh air inlet, a recirculation air inlet, and an air outlet adapted to be associated to an air inlet of a blower of the air conditioning unit, and a pair of drum flaps mounted to the casing and rotatable about a common rotation axis and movable between a fresh air extreme position and a recirculation extreme position. In the fresh air extreme position, the angular span of the recirculation air inlet is partially covered by one of the drum flaps and partially covered by the other of the drum flaps, and in the recirculation extreme position, the angular span of the fresh air inlet is completely covered by one of the drum flaps, the drum flaps overlapping each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Denso Thermal Systems S.P.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Ferrarese, Andrea Carbone
  • Publication number: 20200108696
    Abstract: Described herein is a heating and/or air-conditioning device for a motor vehicle, the device including an inlet duct for the supply of fresh air, an air transmission branch, and an air heating branch, both supplied by the inlet duct and communicating with each other via a mixing zone. A butterfly flap is mounted pivotably around a rotation axis located at the mixing zone. The butterfly flap comprises a first wing associated with a first branch and a second wing associated with a second branch, as well as a wing extension elastically hinged to the first wing according to a hinge axis parallel to the rotation axis of the butterfly flap. Within the first branch are arranged abutment formations suitable to be engaged by the wing extension and to induce, during a rotation of the butterfly flap, a rotation of the wing extension with respect to the first wing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Claudio Ferrarese, Andrea Carbone
  • Publication number: 20200108685
    Abstract: Described herein is air distributing device for an air conditioning unit of a motor vehicle, the device including: a housing defining an air intake chamber, on the housing there being formed an air inlet, a central air outlet, and two side air outlets. The device also includes a drum flap mounted rotatably about an axis (z) orthogonal to a direction that goes from the air inlet to the central air outlet. The flap is movable between a first position, wherein the air inlet is closed by the flap; a second position, wherein the two side air outlets are closed by the flap and an air flow between the air inlet and the central air outlet is allowed; and a third position, wherein the central air outlet is closed by the flap and an air flow between the air inlet and the side air outlets is allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventor: Claudio Ferrarese
  • Publication number: 20200108695
    Abstract: Described herein is an air intake device for an air conditioning unit of a vehicle, the air intake device including a casing on which there are formed a fresh air inlet, a recirculation air inlet, and an air outlet adapted to be associated to an air inlet of a blower of the air conditioning unit, and a pair of drum flaps mounted to the casing and rotatable about a common rotation axis and movable between a fresh air extreme position and a recirculation extreme position. In the fresh air extreme position, the angular span of the recirculation air inlet is partially covered by one of the drum flaps and partially covered by the other of the drum flaps, and in the recirculation extreme position, the angular span of the fresh air inlet is completely covered by one of the drum flaps, the drum flaps overlapping each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Claudio Ferrarese, Andrea Carbone
  • Patent number: 9080600
    Abstract: Rotating control assembly with double cable, comprising a first and a second actuator device both having a respective rotating pulley and being connected together by two cables both fixed to the pulley of the first actuator device and to the pulley of the second actuator device, wherein the pulley of the first actuator device and the pulley of the second actuator device are identical to each other, each of the pulleys being mounted on a respective base, and wherein each actuator device comprises a guide part having a pair of resilient wings which press on respective sections of the cables in immediate proximity to areas where the cables are wound onto the respective pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Denso Thermal Systems S.P.A.
    Inventors: Fabrizio Nicole', Claudio Ferrarese, Andrea Carbone, Stefano Bonetti
  • Publication number: 20140208885
    Abstract: Rotating control assembly with double cable, comprising a first and a second actuator device both having a respective rotating pulley and being connected together by two cables both fixed to the pulley of the first actuator device and to the pulley of the second actuator device, wherein the pulley of the first actuator device and the pulley of the second actuator device are identical to each other, each of the pulleys being mounted on a respective base, and wherein each actuator device comprises a guide part having a pair of resilient wings which press on respective sections of the cables in immediate proximity to areas where the cables are wound onto the respective pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: DENSO Thermal Systems S.p.A.
    Inventors: Fabrizio NICOLE', Claudio FERRARESE, Andrea CARBONE, Stefano BONETTI
  • Publication number: 20080306714
    Abstract: A three-dimensional component (1) with an external geometry and an internal geometry is digitized in a destructive method. Three-dimensional marking bodies (30) are applied to the outer surface of the body (1). The external geometry of the component (1) with the marking bodies (30) is then digitized using a suitable method and a reference data record is created. The component (1) is disassembled into segments so that all contours of the internal geometry are exposed, after which these segments are digitized. The digital data records of the segments are finally correctly aligned in space and to one another with the aid of the reference data record of the component (1) with the marking geometries (30) and combined. The method is particularly suitable for digitizing components (1) made of materials which are difficult to penetrate with radiation and/or have a high wall thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Applicant: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Claudio Ferrarese, Harald Moehlig, Christopher John Hulme, Markus Dietrich