Patents Assigned to Piaggio & C. S.p.A.
  • Patent number: 11708125
    Abstract: Shock absorber having a main sheath and a main piston sliding inside the main sheath in a sliding direction (X-X), the main piston including a main rod coming out of the main sheath and a main head contained inside the main sheath, the main sheath being filled with hydraulic fluid, a secondary sheath fluidically connected to the main sheath and provided with at least one damping valve, where the secondary sheath is connected to the main sheath by a first and a second passage placed at opposite ends to the main head of the main piston, along the sliding direction (X-X), the secondary sheath including a control valve movable, according to a regulation stroke, between an unlocking position, in which it does not interfere with the first and second passages, and a blocking position, where it occludes the first and second passages so as to realize a selective two-way block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A
    Inventor: Andrea Raffaelli
  • Patent number: 11650092
    Abstract: A method (100) for estimating a volume of fuel available in a fuel tank (6) of a transport vehicle (1), the tank (6) comprising a tank wall inside which a space is defined for containing fuel, the method (100) comprising, in sequence, the steps of: a) exciting (101) a vibration of the tank (6); b) acquiring (102) a response signal correlated to a frequency response produced by the tank (6) due the excited vibration; c) processing (103) the acquired response signal to obtain an estimate of the initial volume of fuel available in the tank (6); d) gradually taking (104) fuel from the tank (6) with the transport vehicle (1) in use; e) estimating (105) a quantity of fuel taken gradually from the tank (6); f) estimating (106) the volume of fuel available in the tank (6) based on the initial volume and quantity estimate of fuel taken gradually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A
    Inventors: Mario Santucci, Paolo Badalassi
  • Patent number: 11572133
    Abstract: An electric drive motorcycle (100), comprises: a front portion comprising one or more front wheels (103) and a handlebar (104); a rear portion comprising a saddle (101), a shell body (107) arranged below said saddle (101), and a rear wheel (105) arranged below said shell body (105); an intermediate portion (108) extending as a connection between said front portion and said rear portion; an electric drive unit (8) connected to said rear wheel (105); a power supply unit feeding said electric drive unit (8); and a helmet carrying compartment (11) placed in the shell body (107) below the saddle (101), wherein said power supply unit is arranged in a position below said helmet carrying compartment (11), so that said saddle (101), said helmet carrying compartment (11) and said power supply unit are substantially stacked on each other, being said helmet carrying compartment (11) and said power supply unit arranged inside the shell body (107), wherein said supply unit comprises a battery unit (15) or a battery unit (1
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Luca Carmignani, Alessio Sisi, Emiliano Guidi, Paolo Capozzella, Jury Cantini, Walter Mariotti
  • Patent number: 11505026
    Abstract: Suspension assembly including a body associable to the chassis of the tilting vehicle and two junction devices opposite with respect to the body; the junction devices being articulated to the body by means of connecting elements, wherein each junction device includes a first structural junction portion rotationally coupled in a first coupling site to a first connecting element and a second structural joint portion rotationally coupled in a second coupling site to a second connecting element; and wherein the suspension assembly further includes elasto-damping elements associated with the hinge devices and adapted to damp the stresses transmitted by the wheels; and wherein each hinge device includes a dynamic junction portion rotationally coupled to a elasto-damping element in a dynamic junction coupling site; and wherein the junction device rigidly determines the relative positioning and spatial orientation of the first structural joint portion, the second structural joint portion and the dynamic joint portion
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Onorino Di Tanna, Stefano Bartolozzi, Mario Donato Santucci
  • Patent number: 11492062
    Abstract: A shock absorber assembly including a first sheath slidingly housing inside it a first piston which is filled with hydraulic fluid, the first piston having a first stem extending from the first sheath and a first head contained inside the first sheath, a second sheath slidingly housing inside it a second piston which is filled with hydraulic fluid, the second piston having a second stem extending from the second sheath and a second head contained inside the second sheath. The first and second sheaths are fluidly connected to each other by means of at least one upper duct and a first interconnection duct passing through a control body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventor: Andrea Raffaelli
  • Patent number: 11479320
    Abstract: An electric drive motorcycle (100) allows a suitable configuration of all the components deputed to the electric supply of the motorcycle electric drive, and comprises: a front portion comprising one or more front wheels (103) and a handlebar (104); a rear portion comprising a saddle (101), a shell body (107) arranged below said saddle (101), and a rear wheel (105) arranged below said shell body (107); an intermediate portion (108) extending as a connection between said front portion and said rear portion; an electric drive unit (8) connected to said rear wheel (105); and a hybrid supply unit supplying said electric drive unit (8), comprising at least a battery unit (115) and a combustion engine (116) actuating an electric generator (120) apt to supply said battery unit (115) and/or said electric drive unit (8), wherein said shell body (107) defines a housing space apt to receive at least said battery unit (115) and said combustion engine (116), with the related electric generator (120), placed side by side t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Luca Carmignani, Paolo Capozzella, Jury Cantini, Walter Mariotti
  • Patent number: 11458832
    Abstract: A cooling system of an internal combustion engine of a motorcycle, which has a suction side guard (4), enables a high ratio between the open surface of the guard and its overall surface, ensuring an improved penetration of the air through the radiator and thus avoiding oversizing of the suction fan, wherein: said guard (4), having a lower edge (6), an upper edge (7), a front edge (8) and a rear edge (9) with respect to a running direction (F) of the vehicle, has a grate mesh structure extending on a plane whereby a deviation space (12) of motion of the air sucked by the fan is defined behind the guard (4); said grate mesh structure being surrounded by a rib (13) having, at the front edge (8), a lower height than that at the rear edge (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventor: Stefano Doveri
  • Patent number: 11433971
    Abstract: A high performance synchronous transmission to be used aboard a motorcycle for transmitting the motion generated by an engine to a driving wheel, between a crankshaft and a hub shaft parallel therebetween and perpendicular to the median plane of the motorcycle, comprising on the crankshaft a centrifugal clutch, for the automatic engagement of the first speed above a predetermined rotation regime, and a driving pulley apt to transmit the motion through a subsequent kinematic chain, is provided with a coupling between crankshaft and driving pulley which connects them directly, by determining with its own engagement the exclusion of said centrifugal clutch, said coupling being controlled in disengagement when a control lever is in active position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Walter Mariotti, Luca Nuti
  • Patent number: 11420702
    Abstract: Forecarriage of a rolling motor vehicle including a forecarriage frame, a pair of front wheels, a roll control system comprising a rod having including a first damper device for dampening rotation movements of the rod, and including a kinematic connecting rod-crank connected to the rod and to a first anchoring portion to define an articulated quadrilateral, an actuator for imparting a shift movement to the rod-crank and to vary the configuration of the rod-crank between: a damped rolling configuration and a rolling configuration, where the first damper device further includes release means to assist the actuator in the passage from the damped rolling configuration to the free rolling configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventor: Andrea Raffaelli
  • Patent number: 11421757
    Abstract: A synchronous transmission (1) for a motorcycle comprises a primary shaft (51) of mechanical gearbox, and a pair of secondary shafts (52, 53) equipped with one or more secondary gearwheels for transmitting the motion to a hub shaft (75), wherein a desmodromic drum (70) actuates a pair of coupling forks (67, 68) selectively defining the position of respective sliding couplings (65, 66) between primary (51) and secondary shafts (52, 53) to select all speeds of the transmission, the desmodromic drum (70) being in phase with a device (80) for actuating the gearwheels, and wherein the coupling forks (67, 68) are equipped with a cam follower end (69) maneuvered by said desmodromic drum (70) having a cylindrical surface (79) whereon a single desmodromic track (19) is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Walter Mariotti, Luca Nuti
  • Patent number: 11420704
    Abstract: Steering group of a motor vehicle including a front frame provided with a steering tube that rotatably houses a steering shaft or pin, which rotates about a steering axis, the front frame being provided with an upright integral with the steering tube, the front frame having a steering bracket (36), integral in rotation with the steering shaft where, the steering group includes elastic return means which elastically influence the steering shaft to position itself symmetrically with respect to the front frame, the elastic return means being interposed between the upright and the steering bracket so as to be compressed when the steering shaft rotates with respect to the central symmetrical position, wherein the elastic return means have a regressive trend elastic response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Francesco Marchetta, Luca Balduino, Daniele Torriani
  • Patent number: 11396342
    Abstract: A front suspension (4) of the telescopic type with anti-dive effect, comprising at least one sheath (32) and at least one stem (36), housed and guided telescopically inside said sheath (32) according to a direction of the fork axis Z-Z, the suspension (4) comprising a foot (44) associated to the sheath (32) or to the stem (36) that rotatably supports a wheel spindle (44) of an associable front wheel (12) defining a rotation axis X-X, a braking device (52) for the associable front wheel (12), having a support (56) rotatably mounted with respect to the wheel spindle (44) so as to be able to oscillate about the rotation axis X-X. Between the support (56) of the braking device (52) and the foot (44) of the suspension (4) are interposed transfer means (64) of the braking force, exerted by the braking device (52), on an element (32, 36) between the sheath (32) and the stem (36) that does not support the foot (44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventor: Paolo Angelin
  • Patent number: 11391330
    Abstract: A high performance synchronous transmission to be used aboard a motorcycle for transmitting the motion generated by an engine to a driving wheel, between a crankshaft and a hub shaft parallel therebetween and perpendicular to the median plane of the motorcycle, having a primary shaft of mechanical gearbox equipped with a primary gearwheel, and a pair of secondary gearwheels equipped with one or more secondary shafts for transmitting the motion to a hub shaft, wherein the primary shaft receives the motion through a driven pulley which receives the motion by a driving pulley connected to the crankshaft, an input clutch being provided on the primary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Walter Mariotti, Luca Nuti
  • Patent number: 11390352
    Abstract: Motorcycle including at least one rear wheel, at least two front steering wheels, a handlebar, the front wheels being rotatable about respective lateral steering axes, according to lateral steering angles; the handlebar being rotatable according to a central steering angle about a central steering axis, the front wheels being kinematically connected to the steering handlebar by transmission means that realize a transmission ratio defined by the ratio between the lateral steering angles and the central steering angle, where the transmission means has a steering bar, kinematically connected to the handlebar, which directly links the front wheels together, wherein the transmission ratio between the front wheels and the steering handlebar is variable as the central steering angle of the handlebar varies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventor: Andrea Raffaelli
  • Patent number: 11359711
    Abstract: A continuously variable transmission device (1) for a two-wheel, three-wheel or four-wheel motorcycle includes a cam system (20, 22; 32a, 32b) operating between a fixed bushing (11) and a mobile bushing (9). The device is configured to obstruct the approach between the active surfaces (8a, 10a) or to facilitate the approach of the active surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.p.A.
    Inventors: Walter Mariotti, Giacomo Freschi, Paolo Nesti
  • Patent number: 11358672
    Abstract: This invention relates to a rolling motor vehicle with three or four wheels, comprising a frame 6 that extends from a forecarriage 8, which supports at least two front wheels 10?,10?, to a rear 12 which supports one or more rear wheels 14. The frame 6 defines an accommodating area 15 for a driver P.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventor: Andrea Raffaelli
  • Patent number: 11358667
    Abstract: A safety windscreen assembly including a windscreen panel, a support arm to support the windscreen panel, the support arm having a first arm portion configured to be attached to a motor vehicle, and a second arm portion attached to the windscreen panel, the motor vehicle being a vehicle provided with a steering handlebar and with a seat astride which a driver may sit, where at least one sacrificial coupling element is provided, to couple the second arm portion with the first arm portion so that the second arm portion is adapted to pass in a breaking configuration with respect to the first arm portion when the windscreen panel is hit by a predetermined impact force higher than a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Francesco Maffe′, Stefano Baracco
  • Patent number: D969930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S.P.A.
    Inventors: Marco Lambri, Marco Di Gregorio
  • Patent number: D975596
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C S.p.A.
    Inventors: Marco Lambri, Davide Cattaneo
  • Patent number: D985428
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: PIAGGIO & C. S. P. A.
    Inventors: Marco Lambri, Marco Canepa