Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a fuel cell and a supply assembly to supply the fuel cell is disclosed. The supply assembly comprises a centrifugal compressor to compress a reagent and comprising an impeller having in turn a shaft portion extending along an inlet axis, a circumferential edge extending ringwise around the inlet axis, a connecting portion extending from the shaft portion to the circumferential edge, first and second blades projecting from the connecting portion, of which each of the second blades is arranged between two corresponding blades to form two respective radial flow channels for the reagent, wherein the first and second blades have respective profiles along respective curvilinear abscissae with shapes equal to each other and located uniformly distributed according to a period or angular step around the inlet axis, wherein the profiles of the second blades are shorter than those of the first blades.

Abstract: A propulsion apparatus for a motor vehicle including an electric motor and at least one harmonic oscillator is disclosed. The electric motor emits a rotating magnetic field during operation and the at least one harmonic oscillator is arranged to interact with the rotating magnetic field emitted by the electric motor, wherein the harmonic oscillator comprises at least one support, a magnet with a magnetic pole exposed to the rotating magnetic field emitted by the electric motor, and an elastic element suspending the magnet to the support, such that the magnet oscillates with respect to the support as a function of the rotating magnetic field, thereby inducing a sound pressure wave corresponding to the oscillation of the magnet and the elastic element.

Abstract: A battery pack for an electric road vehicle includes a first electrochemical cell comprising a cathode, an anode and a solid electrolyte electrically connected thereto. The first cell has a first thickness along a direction increasing following the activation of the first cell. A first compensation element cooperates with the first cell along the direction and is subjected to a compression force, which is variable along the direction between a minimum value and a maximum value. The compensation element has a second thickness along the direction, which is variable between a maximum value and a minimum value. The first compensation element plastically deforms itself when it is subjected to a predetermined value of the compression force, which is greater than or equal the minimum value and is smaller than the maximum value, so as to plastically reduce the second thickness for values of the force exceeding the predetermined value.

Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a body delimiting a passenger compartment and comprising a side with a door sill, a door and movable, relative to the body, between a closed position, in which it forbids access to the passenger compartment, and an open position, in which it allows access to/exit from the passenger compartment. The vehicle has an air conditioning system that comprises, an inlet duct designed to convey air to be treated; a treatment unit fluidly connected to said inlet duct and configured to treat the air to be treated; and an outlet duct fluidly connected to the treatment unit and designed to convey the treated air; and an outlet vent fluidly connected to the outlet duct and open towards the inside of the passenger compartment to convey the treated air into the passenger compartment. The outlet duct extends inside the door sill or inside the door.

Abstract: A motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an after-treatment device to treat first exhaust gases produced by the internal combustion engine, a first exhaust line configured to feed the first exhaust gases to the after-treatment device, combustion means configured to produce second exhaust gases with a combustion chamber and an injector device that can be controlled to inject the fuel into the combustion chamber, a second exhaust line configured to feed the second exhaust gases to the after-treatment device, a tank to hold the fuel, and a supply line configured to feed a fuel stream from the tank to the injector device, the supply line comprising a valve that can be controlled according to at least one first control mode and a second control mode, wherein the valve respectively allows and prevents a fuel flow passage to the injector device.

Abstract: A method for controlling a movement of a hood or of an outer body panel of a motor vehicle, includes the steps of acquiring a first input signal relating to a first quantity indicative of a current position of the hood or of the outer body panel, determining a first reference signal corresponding to a target speed for the movement of the hood or of the outer body panel, determining a first control signal as a function of the determined first reference signal, updating the first control signal as a function of the acquired first input signal, thereby obtaining a second control signal for controlling the actuator device, and controlling the actuator device with the second control signal.

Abstract: 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; a cover, which covers the bearing structure; a microphone; and a support element, which is U-shaped, embraces the upper part of the frame, is covered by the bearing structure, and has at its top a housing accommodating, on the inside, the microphone.

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 motor vehicle includes a body comprising a chassis, walls delimiting a passenger compartment, at least one actuator applied to a corresponding wall between said walls and controllable through a control input signal to transmit a vibration corresponding to the control input signal to the corresponding wall, thereby producing a corresponding sound inside the passenger compartment, an error sensor configured to detect a quantity indicative of a residual sound produced by a superposition of said sound with an interior noise inside the passenger compartment and to generate a related error signal, and a control unit coupled to the error sensor to receive the error signal, configured to execute an active noise cancellation algorithm based on the error signal, so as to determine the control input signal adapted to minimize or reduce the residual sound, and further configured to control the actuator with the determined control input signal.

Abstract: A control method to control a vehicle driving along a main road having a plurality of detours. The control method exhibits the steps of: recognising a road surface marking present on a surface of the main road; recognising a road sign present beside the main road in order to determine possible speed limits set by the road sign; establishing whether a speed limit set by a road sign refers to the main road or to a detour which is located ahead of the vehicle and has been signalled by a satellite positioning system equipped with georeferenced mapping; establishing whether the driver is going to take the detour; warning the driver of the speed limit set by the road sign and related to the main road for as long as the driver does not intend to take the detour; and warning the driver of the speed limit set by the road sign and related to the detour only when the driver is going to take the detour.

Abstract: A system for moving a device displaying contents of a road vehicle has a ball joint provided with a fixed coupling portion configured to be connected to a dashboard mounted inside a passenger compartment of the road vehicle and a movable coupling portion coupled to the fixed coupling portion in a rotary manner and configured to be connected to a screen of the content displaying device; the ball joint being configured so as to have a rotation centre coinciding with a centre of gravity of the assembly defined by the screen and by the movable coupling portion.

Abstract: A vehicle comprising a body, a seat assembly comprising, in turn, a seat for a driver, and a guide coupled to the body and to the seat assembly so as to constrain the seat assembly relative to the body allowing for a translation movement of the seat assembly along a moving direction, characterized in that the moving direction is lateral relative to a driving direction of the vehicle.

Abstract: A container, in particular for housing battery cells, includes at least one multi-layered wall having two faces parallel to and opposite one another and defined by respective layers arranged on opposite sides of a core, which comprises at least one portion defined by a gyroid structure so as to channel a heat exchange fluid from an inlet mouth to an outlet mouth.

Abstract: A door for a motor vehicle comprising: a lock available in a closed configuration and in an open configuration; a support body comprising a first portion and a second portion, which are integral to one another, when said door is in a normal operating condition; a ratchet supported by the first portion of the support body; a Bowden cable, which is interposed between the ratchet and the lock, can be operated by said ratchet to cause the lock to shift from the closed configuration to the open configuration and is at least partly housed in a first seat defined by the first portion of the support body; the support body comprises a preferential breaking area designed to break, in use, due a predetermined load in case of impact of the door, so as to determine the separation of the first portion carrying the Bowden cable and the ratchet from the second portion of the support body.

Abstract: A driving engine for vehicles has at least two cylinders aligned with one another and engaged by respective pistons in a sliding manner, each of which is connected with a crankshaft by means of the interposition of a connecting rod, and is delimited by a free face having a first width, measured parallel to a rotation axis of the crankshaft, smaller than a second width measured transverse to the first width.

Abstract: A braking system for a vehicle is disclosed. The braking system includes friction members operable to provoke braking of the vehicle, a cooling duct extending between an air inlet for the intake of outside air and an outlet opening for discharging the air, wherein at least one of the friction members is arranged in the cooling duct, a filter duct extending between an inlet communicating with the outlet opening and an outlet to the external environment with a first and a second branch arranged in parallel, a valve comprising an element and controllable according to a first configuration in which the element at least partially obstructs the first branch and clears the second branch, and a second configuration in which the element at least partially obstructs the second branch and clears the first branch, and an actuator configured to drive the valve in response to the braking of the vehicle.