Patents Assigned to C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Aziono
  • Patent number: 7954729
    Abstract: A metering servovalve for a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine has an electro-actuator and a fixed valve body, which defines a control chamber communicating with an inlet and with an outlet channel. The outlet channel has at least one calibrated restriction and exits through the lateral surface of an axial stem, on which a sleeve slides, in a substantially fluid-tight manner, to open/close the outlet channel and so vary the pressure in the control chamber. The outlet channel is closed by an end portion of the sleeve that is elastically deformable in a radially outward direction, under the thrust of the fuel pressure, to increase the diameter at which the seal against the valve body is formed, with respect to a non-deformed state, and to generate an axial unbalancing force on the sleeve upon opening when the outlet channel is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Aziono
    Inventors: Mario Ricco, Raffaele Ricco, Sergio Stucchi, Antonio Gravina, Chiara Altamura, Marcello Gargano
  • Publication number: 20080210032
    Abstract: The electro-hydraulic control system comprises a gear shift control device and a hydraulic control circuit. The gear shift control device includes four shift forks, operatively associated each to a respective engagement sleeve of the transmission to cause this latter to move between first and second engagement positions, and an operating unit comprising four double-acting hydraulic actuators arranged to control each the displacement of a respective shift fork. The hydraulic control circuit comprises a supply unit, a distributor valve adapted to select every time one of the four hydraulic actuators and two solenoid valves adapted to control the hydraulic actuator selected by the distributor valve. The distributor valve has four operating positions, each of which corresponds to the selection of a respective hydraulic actuator. The two solenoid valves are arranged to be connected each to a respective pressure chamber of the hydraulic actuator selected by the distributor valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: C,R,F, Societa Consortile per Aziono
    Inventors: Maurizio UBERTI, Valter Pastorello, Carlo Emilio Baret, Gian Luigi Pregnolato, Marco Garabello, Dario Caenazzo
  • Patent number: 7353700
    Abstract: Tire wear monitoring system, including a wearing part (110, 111) to be monitored, said wearing part (110, 111) being associated with magnetic elements (113) and magnetic field sensing means (114), for sensing an intensity of a magnetic field emitted by said magnetic elements (113), associated to said wearing part (113) of said tire. According to the invention, said magnetic field sensing means (114) for sensing an intensity of a magnetic field emitted by said magnetic elements (113) are associated with a wheel to which said tire belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: C.R.F. Società Consortile per Aziono
    Inventors: Daniele Pullini, Piero Perlo
  • Patent number: 7124063
    Abstract: The invention describes a system for monitoring industrial processes, comprising sensor means for detecting one or more process quantities in at least one process station, acquisition means for acquiring measuring signals emitted by said sensor means, processing means operating on signals generated by said acquisition means for obtaining process information, and means for managing the manufacturing flow operating on the basis of said information on process quality. According to the invention, said acquisition means are arranged locally in said at least one process station and comprise means for coding said measuring signals generated by said sensor means into coded signals, said means for managing the manufacturing flow are arranged in remote position with respect to acquisition means and there are wireless transceiver means associated to said acquisition means for sending coded signals generated by said acquisition means to said means for managing the manufacturing flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2006
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Aziono
    Inventors: Giuseppe D'Angelo, Giorgio Pasquettaz, Andrea Terreno