Patents Assigned to ITW Automotive Italia S.R.L.
  • Patent number: 7904994
    Abstract: Mounting device for connecting a fastening system selected from a number of available standard fastening systems to an automotive finishing element like e.g. a door inner panel, a dashboard, etc designed to be fixed to a vehicle body; the mounting device consists in: a standardized mounting tower provided integral with or fixable to said automotive finishing element; and in an intermediate, shallow mounting element designed to be interposed between the fastening system and the mounting tower, having first and second coupling means; said first coupling means being designed to mate with first coupling means of the fastening system designed to provide anchorage with the mounting tower; and said second coupling means being of the snap-on kind and being designed to mate with an attachment seat of prefixed shape for said shallow mounting element provided in said mounting tower, on a side thereof opposite to the automotive finishing element to be mounted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2011
    Assignee: ITW Automotive Italia S.r.L. Con Unico Socio
    Inventors: Franco Girodo, Calogero Serrone
  • Patent number: 7793381
    Abstract: A blade-mountable windshield wiper spray device including a body formed by a first upper member, arranged in use distant from the blade and a second lower member, arranged in use in contact with the support part of the blade; the first member integrally in one piece carries a plurality of fluid-dynamic sprayers and snapping fastening means to the blade so that the second member is sandwiched in use between the first member and the blade, closing respective internal cup-shaped cavities open towards the second member of the first member; the first and the second members reciprocally and fluid-tightly couple so that the second member defines along with the internal cavities of the first member respective feeding chambers of the sprayers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: ITW Automotive Italia S.R.L. con unico socio
    Inventor: Fulvio Yon
  • Patent number: 7559511
    Abstract: A clamp-type retention element for an axisymmetrical component for vehicles, such as a cable or a tube for oil or fuel, has an axis of symmetry; the retention element has at least one through seat, which has an insertion opening and is designed to house a portion of the axisymmetrical component, a snap-action closing element of the insertion opening, hooking elements designed to co-operate with a support, elastic elements designed to co-operate with the portion of the axisymmetrical component within the seat, and a guide element of the portion of the axisyrumetrical component within the seat for identifying a housing position of the portion of the axisymmetrical component under the action of the elastic elements. The elastic elements are flexible in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of symmetry when the portion of the axisymmetrical component is in the housing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2009
    Assignee: ITW Automotive Italia S.R.L.
    Inventor: Fulvio Yon
  • Publication number: 20080260454
    Abstract: Mounting device for connecting a fastening system selected from a number of available standard fastening systems to an automotive finishing element like e.g. a door inner panel, a dashboard, etc designed to be fixed to a vehicle body; the mounting device consists in: a standardized mounting tower provided integral with or fixable to said automotive finishing element; and in an intermediate, shallow mounting element designed to be interposed between the fastening system and the mounting tower, having first and second coupling means; said first coupling means being designed to mate with first coupling means of the fastening system designed to provide anchorage with the mounting tower; and said second coupling means being of the snap-on kind and being designed to mate with an attachment seat of prefixed shape for said shallow mounting element provided in said mounting tower, on a side thereof opposite to the automotive finishing element to be mounted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: ITW AUTOMOTIVE ITALIA S.R.L. CON UNICO SOCIO
    Inventors: Franco Girodo, Calogero Serrone
  • Publication number: 20070226938
    Abstract: A blade-mountable windshield wiper spray device including a body formed by a first upper member, arranged in use distant from the blade and a second lower member, arranged in use in contact with the support part of the blade; the first member integrally in one piece carries a plurality of fluid-dynamic sprayers and snapping fastening means to the blade so that the second member is sandwiched in use between the first member and the blade, closing respective internal cup-shaped cavities open towards the second member of the first member; the first and the second members reciprocally and fluid-tightly couple so that the second member defines along with the internal cavities of the first member respective feeding chambers of the sprayers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2007
    Publication date: October 4, 2007
    Applicant: ITW AUTOMOTIVE ITALIA S.R.L. CON UNICO SOCIO
    Inventor: Fulvio YON
  • Patent number: 7204432
    Abstract: A window-washer sprayer is configured to provide an orientable jet by substitution of a cylindrical nipple installed within a seat of an enbloc sprayer body. The sprayer body defines the seat, an internal duct for passage of a detergent fluid, and a side window made in a position corresponding to the seat and partially occupied in use by the cylindrical nipple. The internal duct, the seat, and the nipple have a geometry such that when a flow of detergent fluid is fed into the internal duct it splits by fluid-dynamic effect into a number of separate flows that simultaneously reach the seat and are expelled through a through radial slit or a plurality of through radial holes selectively made in the cylindrical nipple in a position corresponding to the side window of the sprayer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: ITW Automotive Italia S.R.L.
    Inventor: Fulvio Yon
  • Publication number: 20050178930
    Abstract: A clamp-type retention element for an axisymmetrical component for vehicles, such as a cable or a tube for oil or fuel, has an axis of symmetry; the retention element has at least one through seat, which has an insertion opening and is designed to house a portion of the axisymmetrical component, a snap-action closing element of the insertion opening, hooking elements designed to co-operate with a support, elastic elements designed to co-operate with the portion of the axisymmetrical component within the seat, and a guide element of the portion of the axisymmetrical component within the seat for identifying a housing position of the portion of the axisymmetrical component under the action of the elastic elements. The elastic elements are flexible in a direction substantially parallel to the axis of symmetry when the portion of the axisymmetrical component is in the housing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: ITW AUTOMOTIVE ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventor: Fulvio Yon
  • Publication number: 20050178852
    Abstract: A window-washer sprayer is configured to provide an orientable jet by substitution of a cylindrical nipple installed within a seat of an enbloc sprayer body. The sprayer body defines the seat, an internal duct for passage of a detergent fluid, and a side window made in a position corresponding to the seat and partially occupied in use by the cylindrical nipple. The internal duct, the seat, and the nipple have a geometry such that when a flow of detergent fluid is fed into the internal duct it splits by fluid-dynamic effect into a number of separate flows that simultaneously reach the seat and are expelled through a through radial slit or a plurality of through radial holes selectively made in the cylindrical nipple in a position corresponding to the side window of the sprayer body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: ITW AUTOMOTIVE ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventor: Fulvio Yon
  • Patent number: 6708933
    Abstract: A clamp includes a locking element (4) and an element (6) for hooking to a support (3). The hooking element (6) is made integral with the locking element and is equipped with first hooking means (14) and second hooking means (16), which are of different types and are located on opposite sides of the hooking element (6). The locking element (4) includes a pair of jaws (18) that are arranged to mate together and are made integral, on either side, with the hooking element, as well as detachable locking means (26, 27, 28) for connecting the jaws (18) together in a working position in which the jaws (18) lie essentially parallel and abut one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: ITW Automotive Italia S.R.L.
    Inventor: Franco Girodo