Patents Assigned to Valeo
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Publication number: 20190039504Abstract: A lighting module includes at least one heatsink configured to dissipate heat generated by a light source, the heatsink including at least a base and a dissipation member, the dissipation member including a series of fins projecting from the base, each fin being defined by a summit that defines the length of that fin, and by two end edges extending between the summit and the base. The lighting module is configured to pivot about two pivot axes, and the series of fins includes eccentric fins the length of which is less than the lengths of the fins at the centre of the dissipation member, at least one fin further having at least one bevel at the junction between the summit and an end edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Valeo VisionInventors: Remi LETOUMELIN, Pascal GARIN, Stephane ANDRE, Thibaut MENN
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Publication number: 20190039452Abstract: The present invention relates to a sealing device (1) for the front-end air intake of a motor vehicle, including: a supporting frame (5) comprising two longitudinal crossmembers (5a), parallel to one another, and two side posts (5b), perpendicular to said longitudinal crossmembers (5a) and connecting said longitudinal crossmembers (5a); at least one flap (3), pivotably mounted about an axis (A) for pivoting between a sealing position and an open position, said at least one flap (3) being installed within the supporting frame (5); at least one electric control element (13) that controls the positioning of the flap(s) (3) and is capable of being connected to the electric system of the motor vehicle by at least one electricity supply cable (20), the supporting frame (5) comprising at least one device (15) for snap-fit attachment of the electricity supply cable(s) (20), said snap-fit device (15) being integral with said supporting frame (5).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Jean-Paul Herlem, Jean-Nicolas Guyomard
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Publication number: 20190041141Abstract: The present invention consists in a thermal module (1) for a motor vehicle, comprising a main radiator (2) and at least one auxiliary heat exchanger (3, 4) mounted on the main radiator (2) by means of a junction member (13) disposed between the main radiator (2) and at least one first auxiliary heat exchanger (3), The junction member (13) is principally formed of at least two shaft bearings (14, 15) attached to the first auxiliary heat exchanger (3) and nested inside respective open flanges (16, 17) formed on one of the lateral sides (7, 8) of the main radiator (2). Secondarily, the junction member (13) carries a plurality of auxiliary heat exchangers (3, 4) fixed to one another in staggered succession and composing a thermal submodule mounted on the main radiator (2) by means of the junction member (13).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Daniel Pereira, Fernando Pereira, Dinh-Luyen Nguyen, Nathalie Girard, Karim Arab
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Patent number: 10195982Abstract: A device for assisting with driving an automotive vehicle, the vehicle being equipped with at least one illuminating device able to emit a beam for illuminating a road scene (SR) in front of the vehicle, the assisting device comprising a variable transmission screen that is intended to be placed between the road scene (SR) and a driver of the vehicle, the assisting device being configured to, when active, control a light emission of at least one light source of the illuminating device and a transmission coefficient of the variable transmission screen, in relation to each other, with a pulsed signal, characterized in that the assisting device is configured to detect a vehicle equipped with a device of the same type via inter-vehicle communication and to modify the pulsed signal so as to avoid antiphase and/or phase effects, when the device detects such a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: VALEO VISIONInventors: David Hue, Hafid El Idrissi, Etienne Monchy
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Patent number: 10196046Abstract: The present invention concerns an elongated elastic support element 16 for a wiper blade 10 intended to be inserted in a support 14 for a wiper blade 10, the elongated elastic support element 16 being formed integrally between two longitudinal ends 16a and through which passes a median longitudinal plane P1, the elongated elastic support element comprising locking means 50 each intended to cooperate with a complementary locking member 56 carried by the wiper blade 10, and of which at least one locking means 50 is arranged at each longitudinal end 16a of the elongated elastic support element 16, characterized in that the locking means 50 comprise a single locking notch 50 per longitudinal end 16a, a first locking notch 50b extending from one side of the median longitudinal plane P1 and a second locking notch 50c extending from the other side of the median longitudinal plane P1. The invention also concerns a wiper blade 10 and a windscreen wiper 1 of a motor vehicle comprising said blade.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Valeo Systèmes d'EssuyageInventors: Stéphane Houssat, Vincent Gaucher, Eric Poton, Olivier Jomard
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Patent number: 10199191Abstract: The present invention refers to a cover (17) of a contactor (1) of a starter for motor vehicle, comprising —a plastic portion (18) delimiting a contact chamber (15) volume, —two plugs (43, 45) in an electrical conductor material which cross the plastic portion, each of the two plugs (43, 45) having an end in the contact chamber (15), —a seal (37) which is arranged on the plastic portion (18) to isolate the contact chamber (15) when the cover (17) is assembled with a coil casing (5) of the contactor (1), the seal (37) being assembled in a fixed manner to the cover (17).Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques MoteurInventor: Sébastian Balzam
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Patent number: 10197341Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (1), especially an exchanger for the air-conditioning system of a vehicle, allowing heat exchange between first (F1) and second (F2) fluids, said exchanger (1) comprising a plurality of tubes (3) for the circulation of the first fluid (F1), which are stacked one on top of the other, and at least one collector (5) comprising a collector plate (7), said collector plate (7) comprising openings (13) for inserting the ends (3a) of tubes (3), characterized in that said ends (3a) of said (3) are assembled at least two by two in the insertion openings of the collector plate (7).Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventors: Isabelle Citti, Sébastien Jacope, Anne-Sylvie Magnier-Cathenod, Carlos Martins
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Patent number: 10197143Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque coupling device includes a turbine wheel (3), an impeller wheel (2) able to hydrokinetically drive the turbine wheel (3), a cover (5) non-rotatably attached to the impeller wheel (2) so as to define an internal volume (6) accommodating the turbine wheel (3), and a seal (18) mounted to a radially external periphery of the turbine wheel (3). The turbine wheel (3) being able to be axially moved between an engaged position and a disengaged position. The seal (18) configured to engage one of a matching sealing surface (22) of the impeller wheel (2) positioned radially outside the turbine wheel (3) and the cover (5) in the engaged position and to be disengaged from one of the matching sealing surface (22) the impeller wheel (2) and the cover (5) in the disengaged position.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: VALEO EMRAYAGESInventor: Roel Verhoog
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Publication number: 20190035998Abstract: Electrical connector (13) configured for connecting two same outer faces (8) of a first thermoelectric element (4) and of a second thermoelectric element (5), said two thermoelectric elements (4, 5) each consisting of a ring having an outer periphery forming the outer face (8) and an inner periphery forming an inner face (9), and being arranged side by side in the same plane P.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2016Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Valeo Systemes ThermiquesInventor: Cédric De Vaulx
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Publication number: 20190031147Abstract: The subject of the present invention is a device (3) for protecting an optical sensor (13) of a driver-assistance system (1) for a motor vehicle, the optical sensor (13) comprising an optic (14), and the protecting device (3) including: an optical element (9) that is configured to be positioned upstream of the optic (14) of the optical sensor (13) and mounted so as to be movable about an axis of rotation (A1); and an actuator (5) that is configured to rotate the optical element (9), characterized in that the protecting device (3) further includes: at least one heating component (7) that is configured to heat the optical element (9) so as to defog or defrost this optical element (9); and an induction system (8) that is configured to supply power to the heating component (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'EssuyageInventors: Thierry Cheng, Marcel Trebouet
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Publication number: 20190031154Abstract: The invention concerns a device (15) for conveying and heating a liquid, intended to be installed between a means for circulating the liquid and a wiper blade of a wiper system, comprising a wall (21) delimiting at least one conduit (22, 23) for circulating the liquid and an electrical circuit intended to connect two terminals set to different potentials and comprising a heating element embedded in said wall (21), characterised in that at least one portion of said electrical circuit is formed by a self-regulating cable (30) arranged to limit a current flowing through the electrical circuit depending on an increase in temperature. Said invention can be used for motor vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'EssuyageInventors: Geoffrey Bayard, Nadia Berthon
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Publication number: 20190032884Abstract: A light assembly for a vehicle including a light source that provides an incident light, a pair of bezels adjacent to the light source, and a light guide. The light guide has an entrance face that receives the incident light, an exit face from which the incident light exits the light guide, an outboard face that joins the entrance face and the exit face, an inboard face opposite to the outboard face, and a side cut that joins the inboard face to the exit face, wherein the side cut deviates the incident light to spread the exiting light between a maximum inboard angle and a maximum outboard angle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Cameron MARTUS, Colby Darlage, Todd Cleavenger
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Publication number: 20190031151Abstract: The invention proposes an adapter (26) for a windscreen wiper, having a body (25) which is delimited by two external lateral faces (29a, 29b) and which is configured to be mounted in a complementary yoke (28) of a wiper arm having a pair of front locking pegs (44a) and an abutment surface (39) which cooperate with associated parts of the adapter, each of the lateral faces of the adapter (26) having a front locking notch (59) which receives a front locking peg (44b), and wherein the adapter (26) is provided with a resilient branch (62) bearing an unlocking button (64) which cooperates with the abutment surface (39), characterized in that the resilient branch (62) extends longitudinally beyond a transverse end face (27b) of the body (25) of the adapter (26).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'EssuyageInventors: Patrick Moneyron, Philippe Espinasse, William Terrasse
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Publication number: 20190033442Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting static objects and broadside objects in a vehicular radar system is presented. Detection data within a field of view for a host vehicle is acquired. A histogram process is used to determine a presence of at least one of a static object and a broadside vehicle. The histogram process includes generating ratios of a relative velocity of an object (Vr) to host velocity (Vh) from acquired detection data and determining a number of detections which occur at an angle ? corresponding to an intersection of two lines with a first line represented by Vr/Vh=0 and a region of a second line within the FOV along which Vr/Vh?0. The detections are filtered to identify only those detection points at a first and second predetermined values of ?, wherein the identified detections indicate a presence of a static object and/or a broadside vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: VALEO RADAR SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Millar, Wilson J. Wimmer, Akram Ahmadi, David Insana
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Publication number: 20190031149Abstract: Fixing device (30) for a windscreen wiper actuation linkage system, this device comprising a plate (32) intended to be fixed onto a vehicle body (36), and at least one locking member (34) intended to cooperate with said body to lock the fixing of the plate onto the body, characterized in that said plate is configured to be displaced in translation in the joint plane with said body, and in that said locking member is mobile, deformable or displaceable from an unlocking position to a locking position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'EssuyageInventors: Nicolas Kuchly, Robin Viard, Pascal Renoux, Frédéric Baud
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Publication number: 20190031152Abstract: The invention proposes an adapter (26) which is delimited by two external lateral faces and which is shaped so as to be mounted in a cap (28) of reverse U-shaped section, comprising a pair of front locking lugs (44a, 44b) which cooperate with the associated notches (59a, 59b) of the adapter (26) in order to fix the cap (28) to the adapter (26) in a dismantlable manner, each of the lateral faces (29a, 29b) of the body (25) of the adapter (26) comprising a front locking notch (59a, 59b), each thereof being capable of receiving an associated front locking lug (44a, 44b) of the cap (28), and the body (25) of the adapter (26) comprising rear locking notches which are arranged at one end of a resilient branch (62a, 62b) of the adapter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'EssuyageInventors: Patrick Moneyron, Philippe Espinasse, William Terrasse
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Patent number: 10189446Abstract: An end piece (100) for a wiper (102) provided with a rigidifying element (110) comprises a channel (120) for receipt of the rigidifying element, as well as first positioning stops (130), and a first means (150) for locking this element. The end piece comprises at least one second positioning stop (140) in order to cooperate equally well with a first or second type of rigidifying element with different dimensions. The first positioning stops (130) are operational when the first type of rigidifying element (110) is inserted in the channel, and at least one second positioning stop (140) is operational when the second type of rigidifying element is inserted in the receipt channel (120).Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Valeo Systémes d'EssuyageInventors: Romain Laurens, Stéphane Chevalier
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Patent number: 10193477Abstract: The present invention has for object a method for estimating the angular position of a rotor in relation to a stator in a rotary electric machine, such as an electric machine of an electric or hybrid motorization system, comprising: estimating the angular position and/or of the rotation speed of the rotor by a method of injecting high frequency signals as long as the absolute value of the rotation speed of the rotor, derived from said angular position, is less than a first predefined threshold; estimating the angular position and/or of the rotation speed of the rotor by a model coming from a learning method as long as the absolute value of the rotation speed of the rotor, derived from said angular position, is greater than a second predefined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive France SASInventors: Keyu Chen, Wided Zine, Lingfei Yu, Zaatar Makni
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Patent number: 10193480Abstract: A regulating loop for a digital regulator of an excitation rotating electric machine for operation as a generator delivering an output voltage tailored by an excitation current. The digital regulator comprises a control device for controlling the excitation current and the regulating loop comprises, at input, a measuring device for measurement by sampling the output voltage generating a measurement signal (Um), an calculation device generating an error signal (e) equal to a difference between the measurement signal (Um) and a setpoint (U0), a processing system for processing of the error signal (e) generating a regulating signal (Ysat) comprising in parallel a first amplifier, an integrator and an anti-saturation system, and comprising, at output, a generation system for generation of a control signal (PWM) controlling the control device as a function of the regulating signal (Ysat). The anti-saturation system is a conditional detection system.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques MoteurInventors: Pierre Chassard, Pierre Tisserand, Laurent Labiste, Geoffrey Massemin
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Patent number: 10190745Abstract: A lamp assembly for mounting in a headlamp comprising a heat sink having a printed circuit board landing area for receiving a printed circuit board and a light source landing area for receiving at least one light source. The lamp assembly also comprises a light guide and a bracket for detachably mounting on the heat sink. The bracket is adapted to engage and secure the light guide in a predetermined position on the heat sink, the at least one light source and the printed circuit board a unsealed in the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.Inventors: Gavin Francis Warner, Julien Hemon, Frederick Allen Roth, Jonathan Michael Blandin, Keith Edward Chesser