Patents Assigned to Marelli Corporation
  • Patent number: 12472795
    Abstract: A temperature control system for a vehicle includes a refrigeration cycle circuit and a cooling water circuit. The refrigeration cycle circuit includes a compressor, a radiator, and a first heat exchanger that exchanges heat between refrigerant and cooling water. The cooling water circuit includes a first cooling water circuit including the first heat exchanger, a storage battery heat exchanger, and a first pump; a second cooling water circuit including an external heat exchanger, a drive system heat exchanger that exchanges heat with a drive system component, and a second pump; a first thermal coupler that switches the cooling water circulating through the first cooling water circuit and the cooling water circulating through the second cooling water circuit between thermal coupling and separation; and a bypass circuit that includes an on-off valve connected to upstream and downstream of the external heat exchanger, provided in parallel with the first cooling water circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohiro Maruyama, Tooru Kawamata, Kouji Hirono
  • Patent number: 12447911
    Abstract: An operation panel includes a touch position sensor configured to output an electrical signal corresponding to a contact area between a finger of a user and a switch and a controller to which an electrical signal is input from the touch position sensor. The controller is configured to: determine that the finger of the user and the touch position sensor are in contact with each other when the calculation value calculated based on the electrical signal input from the touch position sensor exceeds the preset first threshold value, and set, based on the calculation value, the second threshold value larger than the first threshold value in accordance with a magnitude of the calculation value; and determine that the touch position sensor is in the operation state of being operated when the calculation value exceeds the second threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2025
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Hideto Ujiie, Yuuma Tasai
  • Patent number: 12392273
    Abstract: A support member includes: a pair of first support members provided to sandwich and support an attachment portion, one of the first support members being in contact with a vehicle side; and a second support member provided between the pair of first support members, formed separately from the first support members, and configured to support an inner peripheral side of a through hole. An attachment portion is provided at the other end portion of a plate spring member having one end portion fixed to a catalyst converter, and vibration applied to the catalyst converter is absorbed by elastic deformation of the plate spring member. Vibration in a thickness direction of the plate spring member is absorbed by elastic deformation of the first support members, and vibration in a longitudinal direction of the plate spring member is absorbed by elastic deformation of the second support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Takaharu Yamamoto, Suguru Yatsuzuka
  • Patent number: 12319238
    Abstract: A drawer-type storage box mounted on a vehicle V includes a box-shaped resin container having on a top thereof an opening portion, a slide rail that inclines relative to a width direction Y of the container, a bracket that connects the slide rail to the container, and a cover that stores the container and to which the slide rail is directly or indirectly attached, wherein the container has a contact surface that contacts the bracket and the contact surface is substantially parallel to a width direction Y of the container, wherein a fastening member mounted from the opening portion side of the container fastens the container and the bracket by the contact surface, and the container is movable in a width direction Y relative to the bracket by loosening a fastening force of the fastening member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventor: Yousuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12291084
    Abstract: A ventilator includes a first louver, second louvers, side walls, a first inclined member, and a convex part. The first inclined member is inclined so that an opening area widens from the upstream side to a downstream side. The first inclined member has a vertex of inclination in a cross-sectional view that is positioned at the upstream side. The convex part is arranged adjacent at the upstream side in the airflow direction to the vertex. In a maximum angle state in which the first louver is rotated so that an upstream end part of the first louver is closest to the first inclined member, the upstream end part is positioned further to the downstream side in the airflow direction than the vertex. The convex part projects further to an inside of the flow path than the vertex, and extends across the second louvers when seen along the airflow direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventor: Masami Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12240403
    Abstract: An airbag attachment structure includes a door portion and an opening, and further includes an attachment portion, a hinge portion, and a flap. The door portion is provided with a through hole which penetrates from an inner side to an outer side of the door portion at an inclination of an acute angle from a hinge portion side to an one end portion side of the door portion, the flap has, at a tip portion thereof, a projection portion inserted into the through hole, and in the flap, in a state where the projection portion is inserted into the through hole, a gap is formed between a back surface of an instrument panel and the projection portion, and a gap is formed between a position, which is the tip portion of the flap and at which the projection portion is not formed, and the inner side of the door portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventor: Yousuke Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20250027439
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a muffler with a simple structure and a low cost. The muffler is formed by an exhaust pipe. The exhaust pipe has an extension direction and a radial direction, an exhaust gas is discharged through the exhaust pipe. At least a partial region of an interior of the exhaust pipe is divided into a muffling chamber and an exhaust passage portion by a partition plate arranged along the extension direction. A cross-sectional area of the exhaust passage portion is larger than that of the muffling chamber. At a downstream end portion of the muffling chamber in a flow direction of the exhaust gas, a peripheral wall of the exhaust pipe on the muffler chamber side is engaged with the partition plate, thereby closing a downstream opening of the muffling chamber in the flow direction of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Kenta WATANABE, Nobuhiro SAITOU, Masamichi SHIMIZU
  • Patent number: 12151280
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes: flat tubes; a plate attached to the flat tubes; a medium tank configured to form a medium flow path by covering openings of flat tubes; and a reinforcing member to reinforce the openings. The reinforcing member includes a pair of leg portions and a connection portion that connects the leg portions. An insertion amount of the leg portions into the opening is larger than a sum of a gap between the connection portion and an inner surface and a length from the opening to a position corresponding to a brazed portion between the flat tube and the plate, or when a protruding portion protruding in a direction opposite an insertion direction is provided in the connection portion, larger than a sum of a gap between the protruding portion and the inner surface and a length from the opening to the position corresponding to the brazed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Masahiro Kato, Takashi Kaneda, Fumihiro Kawashima
  • Patent number: 12117492
    Abstract: A system identification method executed by a system identification device that estimates a response of a system having a current flowing in a battery as input and an overvoltage of the battery as output, comprises: a first step of identifying the system by applying a model of the battery including a FIR model and an ARX model to the system, based on time series data of each of the current flowing in the battery and the overvoltage of the battery in a predetermined period; and a second step of estimating, based on the model of the battery, the overvoltage of the battery output from the system at an estimation target time after an input start time in the case where no current is input before the input start time and the current is input to the system from the input start time onwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Kensuke Osamura, Junpei Katashiba, Shuichi Adachi, Risako Sasaki, Ichiro Maruta, Takahiro Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 12043215
    Abstract: A vehicle article storage structure includes an article storage box (13) provided with an opening (33a) on the upper side forgetting articles in and out, a housing unit (15) provided on the lower side of an instrument panel (3) to house the article storage box (13), and links (35, 37, and 39) configured to movably support the article storage box (13) along a range from a housed position at which the article storage box (13) is housed in the housing unit (15) to a drawn position at which the article storage box (13) is drawn in a vehicle compartment rearward direction from the housed position via an intermediate position at which the article storage box (13) is located between the housed position and the drawn position, the intermediate position being located below the housed position and the drawn position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Nishimura, Shota Watase, Tomohiro Watanabe, Masato Abe, Masami Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 12025043
    Abstract: An exhaust gas processing device includes: a manifold configured to change a travelling direction of exhaust gas from a first direction to a second direction; a first catalyst carrier into which the exhaust gas that has been guided from the manifold flows, the first catalyst carrier being configured to purify the exhaust gas that is flowing in the second direction; a heater provided on the upstream of the first catalyst carrier in the flowing direction of the exhaust gas, the heater being configured to heat the exhaust gas that has entered from the manifold; and a case accommodating the first catalyst carrier and the heater, wherein an inlet-side opening portion of the case is inserted into the manifold to a position facing an inlet of the manifold, and the inlet-side opening portion is formed with an inlet-side cut-out portion configured to allow passage of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Kouhei Kuroki, Shunichi Mitsuishi, Hiroaki Masubuchi, Toru Hisanaga, Toru Iijima, Yoshihiro Shiga, Takaharu Yamamoto, Masayuki Hara
  • Patent number: 12024113
    Abstract: An airbag attachment structure includes: a door portion whose one end portion is opened when an airbag is deployed; an attachment portion to which an airbag case for storing the airbag is attached, and which has an opening at which the door portion is opened and brought into an opened state when the airbag is deployed; a hinge portion configured to turnably hold the door portion; a guide portion protruding from the attachment portion to narrow a deployment passage between the airbag and the door portion, and configured to guide deployment of the airbag; and a flap connected to the guide portion, interposed between the airbag and the hinge portion, and configured to turn together with the door portion when being biased by the airbag during deployment of the airbag, and the guide portion has higher rigidity than the flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventor: Yousuke Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 11963011
    Abstract: A strength meter in a relay attack determination device is disposed on a portable device and measures a reception strength by a plurality of times in each of a request signal and a request signal received from an in-vehicle device. A comparator executes a comparative process of the request signal and the request signal by using average values of the reception strength measured by the strength meter. A variation calculator calculates variation in the reception strength measured by a plurality of times in the strength meter regarding the request signal. The comparator, in a case where the variation in the reception strength exceeds a threshold value indicating a communication failure in the request signal, determines the relay attack regardless of a result of the comparative process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventor: Yuki Mori
  • Publication number: 20240083364
    Abstract: A vehicle article storage structure includes an article storage box (13) provided with an opening (33a) on the upper side forgetting articles in and out, a housing unit (15) provided on the lower side of an instrument panel (3) to house the article storage box (13), and links (35, 37, and 39) configured to movably support the article storage box (13) along a range from a housed position at which the article storage box (13) is housed in the housing unit (15) to a drawn position at which the article storage box (13) is drawn in a vehicle compartment rearward direction from the housed position via an intermediate position at which the article storage box (13) is located between the housed position and the drawn position, the intermediate position being located below the housed position and the drawn position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicants: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Nishimura, Shota Watase, Tomohiro Watanabe, Masato Abe, Masami Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 11863176
    Abstract: An operation panel provided on a vehicle is provided with: a panel member exposed to an interior of a vehicle cabin of the vehicle; an operation part provided on the panel member; and a load sensor provided so as to face a back surface of the panel member, the a load sensor being configured to detect that the operation part has been operated based on a load caused by a displacement of the panel member, wherein the load sensor is provided at a position where the displacement of the panel member is greater than a displaced amount of the operation part when the operation part is operated, the panel member has a projected portion projecting out from the back surface such that a tip end portion faces the load sensor, and the projected portion is formed of divided projected portions, the divided projected portions being provided by being divided into a plurality of parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Kondo, Yuuichi Fukumitsu, Hideto Ujiie
  • Patent number: 11806748
    Abstract: To prevent generation of a loud impact sound, a tactile generation apparatus is provided with a vibration generator on a back surface of a vibration member. The vibration generator is a solenoid including a movable core and a coil. The movable core is capable of moving close to and away from the vibration member. The coil displaces the movable core toward the vibration member to deform the vibration member when energized, and moves the movable core away from the vibration member when deenergized, so as to vibrate the vibration member due to an elastic restoring force of the vibration member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Kondou
  • Patent number: 11790823
    Abstract: An image display device includes an imaging unit, a color temperature detection unit, a color temperature sensor, a white balance adjustment unit and a display unit. The imaging unit is configured to capture an image of a rear of a vehicle. The color temperature detection unit is configured to detect a color temperature of a captured image. The color temperature sensor is installed at a front of the vehicle to detect a color temperature of incident light. When a difference between the color temperature of the captured image and the color temperature of the incident light is a color temperature threshold value or greater, the white balance adjustment unit is configured to switch from a first white balance adjustment based on the color temperature of the captured image to a second white balance adjustment based on the color temperature of the incident light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventor: Toshifumi Takita
  • Patent number: 11758102
    Abstract: A display device is mounted on a vehicle. The display device comprises a display unit and a control unit A virtual screen is a two-dimensional plane at a predetermined distance away from an origin of a XYZ coordinate system along a Y coordinate axis, and is approximately parallel to an XZ plane defined by an X coordinate axis and a Z coordinate axis. The control unit is configured to calculate coordinates of a second point obtained as a result of projecting a first point in the XYZ coordinate system onto the virtual screen, convert the calculated coordinates of the second point into coordinates according to a display mode of the display unit, and cause the display unit to display an image corresponding to the second point at the converted coordinates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Hirotomo Ishii, Norihiro Nagashima, Saori Koeda, Hirofumi Nishiyama
  • Patent number: 11707869
    Abstract: A foam molding method includes: sealing a core material and a skin material with a sealing part; and molding a foam layer on the inside of the sealing part. The sealing of the core material and the skin material with the sealing part includes sealing the core material and the skin material so that the sealing part includes a self sealing part for which an edge part of the skin material is housed in a recess provided in the core material, a clamp sealing part sealed by clamping the core material and the edge part of the skin material by foam molding molds, and a crimp sealing part arranged in a switchover part between the clamp sealing part and the self sealing part, and sealed by crimping the edge part of the skin material to the core material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Mai Inoue, Masaharu Nagatsuka, Hisatsugu Satou, Akira Saitou, Norio Emori, Yuuta Igarashi, Ryou Sogawa, Takashi Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11708776
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas processing device, an air-fuel ratio sensor is provided such that a measuring portion is located in a region surrounded by a downstream-side end surface of a TWC, an upstream-side end surface of a GPF, and an inner wall surface of a case against which the exhaust gas G that has passed through the TWC flows, that is the region a region on the GPF side of the center of the TWC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Marelli Corporation
    Inventors: Daisuke Sugaya, Shunichi Mitsuishi, Takaharu Yamamoto, Satoru Yokoshima, Tooru Hisanaga, Daisuke Shimamura