Patents by Inventor Marco Mauro
Marco Mauro 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).
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Patent number: 9522423Abstract: Crystallizer for the continuous casting of long metal products such as blooms or billets, of the type cooled by an external cooling jacket, in which, at least in the zone of maximum thermal peak, positioned around the zone of the meniscus or immediately below it, there are means present, made on the walls of the crystallizer, to condition the heat exchange between the walls of the crystallizer and the cast steel. The means to condition the heat exchange comprise concavities or depressions made on the internal wall of the crystallizer, made around the zone of maximum thermal peak, and having a distribution that, in terms of the overall area occupied by them per surface unit, is reduced until it is canceled toward the bottom at a certain distance from said zone of maximum thermal peak.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 20, 2016Assignee: DANIELI & C. OFFICINE MECCANICHE SPAInventors: Marco Rinaldi, Marco Mauro Motta
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Publication number: 20140374971Abstract: Crystallizer for the continuous casting of long metal products such as blooms or billets, of the type cooled by an external cooling jacket, in which, at least in the zone of maximum thermal peak, positioned around the zone of the meniscus or immediately below it, there are means present, made on the walls of the crystallizer, to condition the heat exchange between the walls of the crystallizer and the cast steel. The means to condition the heat exchange comprise concavities or depressions made on the internal wall of the crystallizer, made around the zone of maximum thermal peak, and having a distribution that, in terms of the overall area occupied by them per surface unit, is reduced until it is canceled toward the bottom at a certain distance from said zone of maximum thermal peak.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Marco Rinaldi, Marco Mauro Motta
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Patent number: 8502661Abstract: A container tracking system comprising a mobile unit configured to be coupled to a container to be tracked and to communicate with a remote control unit through of a communication system. The mobile unit comprising a positioning module, an alarm module adapted to detect alarm conditions related to said container, and a communication module generating a tracking signal containing positioning data of the mobile unit and/or alarm information associated with one or more alarm conditions related to the container. Furthermore, the mobile unit is configured to evolve to a temporary deactivation state whenever a communication unavailability condition of the tracking signal through the communication system occurs.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2010Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: C.R.F. Societá Consortile per AzioniInventors: Marco Mauro, Stefano Cosenza, Paolo Capano
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Publication number: 20100214092Abstract: A container tracking system comprising a mobile unit configured to be coupled to a container to be tracked and to communicate with a remote control unit through of a communication system. The mobile unit comprising a positioning module, an alarm module adapted to detect alarm conditions related to said container, and a communication module generating a tracking signal containing positioning data of the mobile unit and/or alarm information associated with one or more alarm conditions related to the container. Furthermore, the mobile unit is configured to evolve to a temporary deactivation state whenever a communication unavailability condition of the tracking signal through the communication system occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2010Publication date: August 26, 2010Inventors: Marco Mauro, Stefano Cosenza, Paolo Capano
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Patent number: 7148653Abstract: There is described a method of diagnosing a motor vehicle battery, wherein, at each start-up of the vehicle engine, a number of parameters, related to the pattern of an electric quantity supplied by the battery during a transient start-up state of the engine, are recorded; and the recorded parameters are then memorized to create a database which is used to determine the charge status of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2003Date of Patent: December 12, 2006Assignee: C.R.F. Societá Consortile per AzioniInventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Andrea Fortunato, Mario Gambera
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Patent number: 6829530Abstract: A method of diagnosing a cooling system of a vehicle engine, including the steps of: acquiring operating data relative to operation of the cooling system (cooling system radiator water temperature/fan rotation speed) during a trip time between turn-on of the engine and subsequent turn-off of the engine; processing the acquired data, and accumulating the data for each trip to create a database; and examining the location of the data within the database to determine malfunction and/or potential malfunction situations of the cooling system.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2003Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per AzioniInventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Mario Gambera, Andrea Fortunato
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Publication number: 20040129067Abstract: A method of diagnosing a cooling system of a vehicle engine, including the steps of: acquiring operating data relative to operation of the cooling system (cooling system radiator water temperature/fan rotation speed) during a trip time between turn-on of the engine and subsequent turn-off of the engine; processing the acquired data, and accumulating the data for each trip to create a database; and examining the location of the data within the database to determine malfunction and/or potential malfunction situations of the cooling system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per AzioniInventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Mario Gambera, Andrea Fortunato
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Publication number: 20040130325Abstract: There is described a method of diagnosing a motor vehicle battery, wherein, at each start-up of the vehicle engine, a number of parameters, related to the pattern of an electric quantity supplied by the battery during a transient start-up state of the engine, are recorded; and the recorded parameters are then memorized to create a database which is used to determine the charge status of the battery.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2003Publication date: July 8, 2004Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per AzioniInventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Andrea Fortunato, Mario Gambera
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Publication number: 20040117080Abstract: A method of diagnosing a vehicle compressed-air generating system, the method including the steps of: acquiring a number of operating data items associated with operation of the compressed-air generating system between turn-on of the system and subsequent turn-off of the system; processing the acquired operating data items and accumulating the data items to create at least one database; and examining the location of the data items in the database to determine malfunction and/or potential malfunction situations of the compressed-air generating system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per AzioniInventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Andrea Fortunato, Mario Gambera
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Patent number: 6279559Abstract: A control method for controlling injection of an engine having an oxygen concentration sensor generating a composition signal as a function of the oxygen difference in the exhaust gases with respect to the stoichiometric condition of the burnt air/fuel mixture, and a number of injectors for injecting fuel for an operating injection time in each operating state of the engine, and each of which is assigned, in each operating state of the engine, a respective calibration injection time determined at an initial engine calibration stage using a reference fuel.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: C.R.F. Soiteà Consortile per AzioniInventors: Marco Mauro, Stefano Ciuti, Enrico Fornatto, Alessandro Volpin, Claudio Zanet
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Patent number: 6279560Abstract: A method of controlling injection of an engine having an oxygen concentration sensor generating a composition signal correlated to the composition of the exhaust gases, and a number of injectors for injecting fuel for an operating injection time in each operating state of the engine, and each of which is assigned, in each operating state of the engine, a respective calibration injection time determined at an initial engine calibration stage using a reference fuel.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1999Date of Patent: August 28, 2001Assignee: C.R.F. Societá Consortile per AzioniInventors: Marco Mauro, Ugo Bolla, Francesco Pastorelli, Nelson Santamaria, Marco Ciasullo
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Patent number: 5666926Abstract: An internal combustion engine is provided with a methane feed system including a plurality of methane injection devices respectively associated with the various cylinders of the engine. The methane injection devices are mounted within respective seats communicating with a distributing conduit or rail for feeding methane. The seats for the injection devices in the rail are formed in an auxiliary body separate from the intake manifold and the head of the engine. An electronic control unit provides for the control of the injection devices on the basis of signals indicative of the parameters of operation of the engine so as to carry out the methane injection at each cylinder when the rotational speed of the engine is lower than a predetermined threshold when the intake valve of the cylinder is open.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1996Date of Patent: September 16, 1997Assignee: Centro Ricerche Fiat Societa' Consortile per AzioniInventors: Massimo Ferrera, Pietro Gianotti, Marco Mauro, Riccardo Gozzelino, Filippo Audisio, Gianpiero Borello