Patents by Inventor Luca Marini

Luca Marini 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: 11346269
    Abstract: A vehicle tank for receiving a liquid medium, encompassing: a tank body having a tank wall; a heat exchanger arranged in an interior of the tank body, the heat exchanger having a first heat-exchanger heat delivery surface that faces toward the tank wall and is spaced away from the tank wall; and an electric heating apparatus that is arranged in the interior of the tank body, the electric heating apparatus being arranged between the first heat-exchanger heat delivery surface and the tank wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stefano Dalpez, Davide Monsorno, Ivan De Metri, Francesca Brunori, Fabrizio Chini, Luca Marini, Francesca Sartori
  • Publication number: 20210148274
    Abstract: A vehicle tank for receiving a liquid medium, encompassing: a tank body having a tank wall; a heat exchanger arranged in an interior of the tank body, the heat exchanger having a first heat-exchanger heat delivery surface that faces toward the tank wall and is spaced away from the tank wall; and an electric heating apparatus that is arranged in the interior of the tank body, the electric heating apparatus being arranged between the first heat-exchanger heat delivery surface and the tank wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Stefano Dalpez, Davide Monsorno, Ivan De Metri, Francesca Brunori, Fabrizio Chini, Luca Marini, Francesca Sartori
  • Patent number: 10892073
    Abstract: A motor vehicle operating liquid tank, in particular for storing aqueous urea solution, with a tank shell surrounding a tank volume and with a tank opening extending through the tank shell, a planar heating device in the tank volume is provided with an electrical resistance heating track arranged sandwiched between two plastic films that oppose one another in a planar manner and encase the resistance heating track, the plastic films opposing one another in a planar manner and each have a layer of compatible, thermoplastic plastics at least on their surfaces facing one another which are connected to one another locally at least along a seam track surrounding the electrical resistance heating track, slot areas are provided inside this seam track in which plastic film sections lie opposite one another in an unconnected manner without the intermediate arrangement of a section of a resistance heating track between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Ivan De Metri, Luca Marini, Francesca Brunori
  • Patent number: 10767531
    Abstract: An operating liquid tank for a motor vehicle, comprising a tank wall enclosing a tank volume that can be filled with an operating liquid, a filling arrangement designed for introducing operating liquid into the tank volume, and a removal arrangement designed for the removal of operating liquid from the tank volume, wherein the removal arrangement comprises a pump assembly with a pump and a pump drive, the pump assembly comprises at least two assembly components that are formed separately from one another and are or can be coupled magnetically to one another, and of which a first assembly component as drive component comprises at least one part of the pump drive and a second assembly component as conveying component comprises a conveying part of the pump that can be driven by the pump drive relative to a conveying component housing for movement, wherein the tank wall extends between the drive component and the conveying component and physically separates the conveying component located on the inner face of the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Luca Marini, Ivan De Metri, Fabrizio Chini
  • Patent number: 10690418
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (10) for arrangement inside a service-liquid tank (12), in particular inside a motor-vehicle service-liquid tank (12), comprising: a heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14) for receiving a supply of liquid (22), an electric heating device (20) which is constructed and arranged for the transfer of heat into the heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14), and a heat-exchanger line (24) which originates at least from the heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14) and which is designed for the transfer of heat from the liquid flowing in the heat-exchanger line (24) to an area (26) outside the heat-exchanger line (24), characterized in that the heat-exchanger line (24), as a circulation line, discharges into the heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Luca Marini, Ivan De Metri, Francesca Brunori, Stefano Dalpez
  • Patent number: 10641151
    Abstract: A liquid container for a motor vehicle, especially an urea solution container, comprising, as a container component, a tank surrounding an uptake volume, and, as a further container component, a filling line, which, in flow-mechanics terms, connects an admission location placed outside the tank at a distance from it, with the uptake volume, wherein at least a main section of the tank and at least a main section of the filling line are configured to be rigid so that they in essence remain free of deformity when the liquid container is used as directed, wherein on the tank and/or on the filling line at least one auxiliary tank or auxiliary filling line body surrounded by the filling line that expands the intake volume or the filling line volume, is formed, or is able to be formed by increasing the pressure in the interior of the liquid container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Luca Marini, Enrico Merzari, Manuel Pezzi
  • Patent number: 10352221
    Abstract: Heating device (10), in particular for heating an operating fluid tank of a motor vehicle, preferably a tank for storage of aqueous urea solution, the heating device (10) comprising an electrical resistance heating trace (14) with a heating side (14b), on which, in intended operation, heat is emitted to a fluid to be heated, and the heating side (14b) opposing a carrier side (14a), on which the resistance heating trace (14) faces a mounting supporting it, wherein the resistance heating trace (14) is disposed between a flexible film (16) on its heating side (14b) and a substrate (12), rigid in comparison with the flexible film (16), as the supporting mounting on the carrier side (14a), which is characterized in that the resistance heating trace (14a) is connected to the rigid substrate (12) on the carrier side (14a) without intermediate arrangement of a further film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: RÖCHLING AUTOMOTIVE SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Luca Marini, Ivan De Metri, Francesca Brunori, Stefano Dalpez
  • Patent number: 10224845
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining an operational readiness state of an electric motor, a pump motor for pumping an operating fluid, for example, an aqueous urea solution, in a vehicle. The method includes applying an electric drive voltage to the electric motor according to a prescribed drive voltage curve in order to drive a rotor of the electric motor to rotate through a prescribed angle of rotation, detecting a response behavior of the electric motor, and determining the state of the electric motor based on the results determined in step b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Luca Marini, Stefano Dalpez
  • Patent number: 10173522
    Abstract: A filling head for an operating liquid tank, in particular of a motor vehicle, comprising a filling tube with an inlet end, which lies farther away from the tank, and an outlet end, which lies nearer to the tank, the filling tube for conducting operating liquid in a filling direction from the inlet end to the outlet end, a venting arrangement with an inflow end, which lies nearer to the tank and an outflow end which lies farther away from the tank, which end is provided for passing of gas in a counter-flow direction with respect to liquid flowing in the filling direction, in a venting direction extending from the inlet to the outflow end, the venting arrangement is provided, at least in the area of its outflow end, separate from the filling tube, the venting arrangement has a valve with a gas valve body, which is movable between a closed position, in which a gas flow in a valve passage is prevented, and a passage position, in which the gas may flow in the valve passage past the gas valve body, the valve havin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Luca Marini, Ivan De Metri, Fabrizio Chini
  • Patent number: 10086692
    Abstract: A tank filler neck including a filling line having an insertion end further away from the tank, designed to temporarily insert a breather pipe into the end region of the filling line further away from the tank, a passage line end closer to the tank, designed for passing through liquid in the direction away from the insertion end, a ventilation volume designed for through-flowing gas while passing liquid through the end of the passage line, a ventilation line which ends at a distance from the filling line and which can be blocked or released by a ventilation valve for through-flowing gas, a detecting device designed to detect a passage-ready state and/or a passage state of the filling line, and an operating device designed to adjust, as a function of the detection result of the detecting device, the ventilation valve between the blocking position and the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Luca Marini, Matteo D'Amato
  • Patent number: 10024214
    Abstract: An SCR device for a motor vehicle, comprising a tank for storing reducing liquid, an injection device for injection of the reducing liquid into an exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle, a liquid conduit for delivering reducing liquid from the tank to the injection device, a feed pump for conveying reducing liquid in the conduit, and a valve arrangement in the conduit, the valve arrangement designed to interrupt an injection flow in the conduit when the tank-side pressure is greater, than the injection device-side pressure in the conduit by less than an injection threshold value, and to allow the injection flow to pass when the tank-side pressure is greater by at least the injection threshold, the valve arrangement designed to interrupt a return flow in the conduit from the injection device to the tank when the injection device-side pressure is greater than the tank-side pressure by less than a return threshold value, and to allow the return flow to pass through when the injection device-side pressure is great
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: RÖCHLING AUTOMOTIVE SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Luca Marini
  • Publication number: 20170368927
    Abstract: A filling head for an operating liquid tank, in particular of a motor vehicle, comprising a filling tube with an inlet end, which lies farther away from the tank, and an outlet end, which lies nearer to the tank, the filling tube for conducting operating liquid in a filling direction from the inlet end to the outlet end, a venting arrangement with an inflow end, which lies nearer to the tank and an outflow end which lies farther away from the tank, which end is provided for passing of gas in a counter-flow direction with respect to liquid flowing in the filling direction, in a venting direction extending from the inlet to the outflow end, the venting arrangement is provided, at least in the area of its outflow end, separate from the filling tube, the venting arrangement has a valve with a gas valve body, which is movable between a closed position, in which a gas flow in a valve passage is prevented, and a passage position, in which the gas may flow in the valve passage past the gas valve body, the valve havin
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Luca Marini, Ivan De Metri, Fabrizio Chini
  • Publication number: 20170350297
    Abstract: An operating liquid tank for a motor vehicle, comprising a tank wall enclosing a tank volume that can be filled with an operating liquid, a filling arrangement designed for introducing operating liquid into the tank volume, and a removal arrangement designed for the removal of operating liquid from the tank volume, wherein the removal arrangement comprises a pump assembly with a pump and a pump drive, the pump assembly comprises at least two assembly components that are formed separately from one another and are or can be coupled magnetically to one another, and of which a first assembly component as drive component comprises at least one part of the pump drive and a second assembly component as conveying component comprises a conveying part of the pump that can be driven by the pump drive relative to a conveying component housing for movement, wherein the tank wall extends between the drive component and the conveying component and physically separates the conveying component located on the inner face of the
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Luca Marini, Ivan De Metri, Fabrizio Chini
  • Publication number: 20170284259
    Abstract: An SCR device for a motor vehicle, comprising a tank for storing reducing liquid, an injection device for injection of the reducing liquid into an exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle, a liquid conduit for delivering reducing liquid from the tank to the injection device, a feed pump for conveying reducing liquid in the conduit, and a valve arrangement in the conduit, the valve arrangement designed to interrupt an injection flow in the conduit when the tank-side pressure is greater, than the injection device-side pressure in the conduit by less than an injection threshold value, and to allow the injection flow to pass when the tank-side pressure is greater by at least the injection threshold, the valve arrangement designed to interrupt a return flow in the conduit from the injection device to the tank when the injection device-side pressure is greater than the tank-side pressure by less than a return threshold value, and to allow the return flow to pass through when the injection device-side pressure is great
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Luca Marini
  • Publication number: 20170254247
    Abstract: Heating device (10), in particular for heating an operating fluid tank of a motor vehicle, preferably a tank for storage of aqueous urea solution, the heating device (10) comprising an electrical resistance heating trace (14) with a heating side (14b), on which, in intended operation, heat is emitted to a fluid to be heated, and the heating side (14b) opposing a carrier side (14a), on which the resistance heating trace (14) faces a mounting supporting it, wherein the resistance heating trace (14) is disposed between a flexible film (16) on its heating side (14b) and a substrate (12), rigid in comparison with the flexible film (16), as the supporting mounting on the carrier side (14a), which is characterized in that the resistance heating trace (14a) is connected to the rigid substrate (12) on the carrier side (14a) without intermediate arrangement of a further film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Francesca BRUNORI, Stefano DALPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170257911
    Abstract: An electrical heating device (14) for an operating fluid tank (10) of a motor vehicle, in particular for a tank (10) for storing aqueous urea solution, having at least one PTC element (34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44), that is disposed connecting two electrical conductors (24, 26, 28, 29), characterized in that the electrical heating device (14) comprises a multitude of PTC elements (34, 36, 28, 40, 42, 44), of which each is connectively arranged to two electrical conductors (24, 26, 28, 29), wherein at least one of the electrical conductors (24, 26, 28, 29) is configured as a laminar conductor component and forms a heat conductor for transferring the heat produced in the PTC element (34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44) to a volume portion of the outside environment (18) of the electrical heating device (14), which is adjacent to the electrical heating device (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Francesca BRUNORI, Stefano DALPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170254246
    Abstract: A heating device (10) for a motor vehicle operating fluid tank, in particular for storing aqueous urea solution, wherein the heating device (10) has two electrical conductors (12, 14), an element (16) made from PTC plastic, which is electrically arranged between the two electrical conductors (12, 14) and is in electrical contact with the two electrical conductors (12, 14), and a shell (18, 20), which protects the electrical conductors and the PTC plastic element (16) from the outside environment (22) at least in some sections, which is characterized in that at least one electrical conductor (12, 14) is made at least in some sections from a metal foil (12, 14), in particular aluminum foil, and that the shell (18, 20) is an insulating surface, in particular a plastic film (18, 20) that is preferably bonded to the metal foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Francesca BRUNORI, Stefano DALPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170254594
    Abstract: A heat exchanger (10) for arrangement inside a service-liquid tank (12), in particular inside a motor-vehicle service-liquid tank (12), comprising: a heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14) for receiving a supply of liquid (22), an electric heating device (20) which is constructed and arranged for the transfer of heat into the heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14), and a heat-exchanger line (24) which originates at least from the heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14) and which is designed for the transfer of heat from the liquid flowing in the heat-exchanger line (24) to an area (26) outside the heat-exchanger line (24), characterized in that the heat-exchanger line (24), as a circulation line, discharges into the heat-exchanger liquid reservoir (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Francesca BRUNORI, Stefano DALPEZ
  • Publication number: 20170163186
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining an operational readiness state of an electric motor, a pump motor for pumping an operating fluid, for example, an aqueous urea solution, in a vehicle. The method includes applying an electric drive voltage to the electric motor according to a prescribed drive voltage curve in order to drive a rotor of the electric motor to rotate through a prescribed angle of rotation, detecting a response behavior of the electric motor, and determining the state of the electric motor based on the results determined in step b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Luca MARINI, Stefano Dalpez
  • Publication number: 20170074257
    Abstract: A tank for motor vehicle includes a tank wall, a fill opening, an outlet opening, a plurality of functional components, and a plurality of attachment formations. The tank wall forms an outermost casing of the tank. The fill opening passes through the tank wall for inlet of operating fluid into the tank. The outlet opening passes through the tank wall for outlet of the operating fluid. The plurality of functional components are designed for pumping and/or for cleaning and/or for detecting a property and/or for changing a property of the operating fluid. The plurality of attachment formations are designed as being integral with the tank wall for positioning of a plurality of functional components on the tank wall. The functional components are disposed on segments of the tank wall, which are arranged at an incline to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio CHINI, Luca MARINI, Ivan DE METRI, Mirco BRUSCO