Patents Assigned to Valeo
  • Publication number: 20160135283
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling device for a printed circuit board, comprising a printed circuit board equipped with at least one face or first face and at least one heat sink (9) brazed to said at least one face of the printed circuit, in which said at least one heat sink (9) can be disposed in a flow of coolant. The invention is suitable for motor vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventors: Karen Chauvin, Xavier Goumain, Friedbald Kiel
  • Publication number: 20160131050
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electrical compressor (11) forming part of an assembly comprising an internal combustion engine and an electric machine (15), the compressor (11) being configured to compress the intake air of the internal combustion engine, the electrical compressor being capable of being powered with electricity by:—first electrical energy provided by an electrical energy storage unit (10), and—second electrical energy coming from the electric machine (15) when it is driven in rotation, said method involving:—imposing a setpoint value on at least one electrical or mechanical variable of the assembly, and—at least temporarily supplying the electrical compressor (11) with the first and second electrical energy in such a way that the value of said variable approaches the setpoint value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES DE CONTROLE MOTEUR
    Inventors: Yiming Wu, Sylvain Decoster
  • Patent number: 9337686
    Abstract: A synchronous rectification alternator for a motor vehicle is disclosed. The alternator includes a stator, a rotor, and a synchronous rectification system for rectifying into a DC voltage the alternating voltages supplied by the stator, and a voltage regulator for regulating the DC voltage. The alternator also includes fault detection for detecting faults in the synchronous rectification and supplying fault detection information to the voltage regulator. In one version, the fault information is supplied to the voltage regulator at fault inputs also receiving phase signals representing the alternating voltages supplied by the stator. At least one of the items of fault information is used to cause, in the voltage regulator, opening of an excitation circuit supplying current to an excitation coil of the rotor so as to produce, in the voltage regulator, a fault indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Marc Tunzini, Olivier Grammont, Guillaume Duthilleul, Victor Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 9338911
    Abstract: An electronic enclosure device including an enclosure, an electric circuit device, and a sealing device is disclosed. The sealing device is provided as one, continuous gasket having a first gasket section configured to seal a first sealing area, a second gasket section configured to seal the second sealing area, and a third gasket section configured to seal the third sealing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: Valeo Powertrain Energy Conversion AS
    Inventor: Erik Spangberg
  • Patent number: 9335099
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heat exchanger (10) comprising a heat-exchange core (12) and a housing (14) inside which the core (12) is housed, the core (12) comprises a stack of plates (16) and the housing (14) comprises a body in at least one first and one second portions. According to the invention, at least one of the portions is in contact with one end of each of the plates (16) of the stack of the core (12). The core (12) is brazed to the housing (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Paul Garret, Philippe Faille
  • Publication number: 20160123675
    Abstract: A connection module of a heat exchanger, in particular for a motor vehicle, is configured to connect the heat exchanger to a component of a fluid circuit and to carry a sensor suitable for measuring a quantity of the fluid. The connection module includes at least two fixing parts and complementary assembly means. The two fixing parts include a first fixing part arranged on a defined axis and configured to form a mechanical support for the component and a second fixing part configured to carry the sensor. The complementary assembly means is carried on the one hand by the first fixing part and on the other hand by the second fixing part and is configured to allow assembly of the second part on the first part in at least two orientations of the second part with respect to the defined axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventor: Christophe Denoual
  • Publication number: 20160121854
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for washing a motor vehicle wind shield (10) using a washing device (1) comprising reservoirs (2, 3) of first and second fluids, a channel (5) connecting the reservoirs (2, 3) to orifices (15) for ejecting the fluids onto the wind shield, at least one pump (20) intended to circulate the fluids in the channel (5), and at least one wiper blade (30), characterized in that, when the channel contains the first fluid, the method comprises the following steps: a) activating the pump system (20) so as to cause the second fluid to circulate in the channel system (5) so as to purge the channel of the first fluid, and b) deactivating the pump system (20) when the second fluid reaches the orifices (15).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Giuseppe Grasso, Grégory Kolanowski, Pierre-Emmanuel Negre, Marcel Trebouet
  • Patent number: 9328947
    Abstract: Plate evaporator (14), in particular for a refrigerant circuit, having a pre-evaporator (18), a low temperature evaporator (28), and a post-evaporator (24) for refrigerant, all of which are integrated into a singular component, and furthermore having an inlet and an outlet for a heat transfer medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: VALEO KLIMASYSTEME GMBH
    Inventor: Roland Haussmann
  • Patent number: 9328888
    Abstract: A lens for a motor vehicle optical module, wherein it comprises a series of patterns on an optical surface, said patterns extending in a preferred direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Antoine de Lamberterie, Paul Racine
  • Publication number: 20160114766
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wiping system (1; 1?) for a glazed vehicle surface comprising a wiper (2) having a wiper blade (4) provided with at least one channel (6) in which a washing fluid (7) is intended to circulate, said channel (6) extending along the longitudinal axis (L) of the wiper blade (4) and emerging laterally from the wiper blade (4) through at least one spraying orifice (8), and a connector (3; 3?) linked to the wiper (2) and intended to be linked to a wiper arm of a vehicle, characterized in that the connector (3; 3?) has at least one opening (15; 16) formed facing at least one spraying orifice (8) of the wiper blade (4). The present invention relates also to a method for manufacturing a wiping system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Guillaume Barret, Denis Thebault
  • Publication number: 20160114648
    Abstract: A vehicle air conditioning apparatus in which a noise caused by burble is reduced is provided. The vehicle air conditioning apparatus includes: a case having an air channel in an interior thereof; a blower configured to supply blown air to the air channel, the case includes a cylindrical portion and an enlarged portion continued from the cylindrical portion on a downstream side and having a cross-sectional area larger than a cross-sectional area of the cylindrical portion, the enlarged portion includes a projecting wall having a wall surface projecting outward of the air channel, the projecting wall includes at least one projection projecting inward of the air channel, and a top portion of the projection is in contact with a side surface of an virtual cylinder, which is formed by extending the inner wall surface of the cylindrical portion in the virtually extended toward the downstream, or is provided on the projecting wall side with respect to the side surface of the virtual cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: VALEO JAPAN CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shota Ueno
  • Patent number: 9321324
    Abstract: Preventing high-voltage components which constitute an electric instrument stored in a case from being exposed, dropping out, or scattering to an outside from the case even when the case of an air-conditioning unit has a significant impact. Therefore, a vehicle air-conditioning unit is provided with a protecting structure for preventing the electric instrument from scattering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignees: VALEO JAPAN CO. LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Omi, Takafumi Uehara, Fujio Arai, Takuya Furutani
  • Patent number: 9322463
    Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque coupling device comprises a turbine, a driven plate non-rotatably attached to the turbine, circumferentially oriented torque transmitting elastic elements, and a friction disc including peripheral, axially extending driving tabs. The driven plate includes circumferentially oriented centering slots such that the axially extending driving tabs of the friction disc protrude into the centering slots and engage the elastic elements. A method for assembling a hydrokinetic torque converter involves providing a driven plate including circumferentially oriented centering slots, elastic elements and a friction disc including peripheral axially extending driving tabs, mounting the friction disc and the elastic elements to the driven plate so that the driving tabs of the friction disc and the driven plate engage the elastic elements, and centering the friction disc with respect to the driven plate by protruding the driving tabs into the centering slots of the driven plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Valeo Embrayages
    Inventors: Alfonso Medellin, Sungchul Lee, Francois Baert, Alexandre Depraete, Rabah Arhab
  • Patent number: 9322438
    Abstract: A device (10) for damping torsion between a clutch element (16) and a transmission shaft, comprising: an input washer (12A, 12B) that is rotationally integral with the clutch element (16); two output webs (18A, 18B) that are rotationally integral with the transmission shaft by means of a central hub (20); a pair of circumferentially acting elastic members (42) that are interposed circumferentially in series between the input washer (12A, 12B) and the output web (18A, 18B); a phase washer (44) that is interposed circumferentially between the two elastic members (42) of said pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Valeo Embrayages
    Inventors: Roel Verhoog, Maryse Soirant, Thomas David
  • Publication number: 20160108915
    Abstract: In a scroll compressor, breakage of a spiral end portion of a spiral wall (10c, 11c) of a scrolls is prevented. [Solving means] In a scroll compressor including: a fixed scroll (10) including an end plate (10a) and a spiral wall (10c) extending upright from the end plate (10a); an orbiting scroll (11) including an end plate (11a) and a spiral wall (11c) extending upright from the end plate (11a); and a drive shaft (8) configured to transmit a rotational power to the orbiting scroll (11), and configured to compress a compressed fluid by an orbital motion of the orbiting scroll (11), an extending portion (113) which does not come into contact with the spiral wall (10c) of the fixed scroll (10) is provided so as to extend from a spiral end portion (112), which corresponds to a terminal end of a wall surface (compression forming portion (111)) which forms a compression chamber (15) on a spiral wall (11c) of the orbiting scroll (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu Deguchi, Kyung-Jae Lee
  • Publication number: 20160107614
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is notably a securing device (10) between a wiper blade (12) and a wiper blade support (14) constituting a windscreen wiper, said device (10) comprising a first part (20) suitable for being fixed onto said support (14) and a second part (22) suitable for being fixed onto said blade, said first (20) and second (22) parts being linked by a removable link means (52, 54, 56), said second part (22) comprising a groove (26) for insertion, by translation in a first direction, of a complementary part (18) of said blade (12), said device (10) comprising a means for immobilizing, in translation in said first direction, said blade in said groove, characterized in that said immobilizing means comprises at least one immobilizing element (28) mounted to slide on said second part (22), in translation substantially at right angles to said first direction, between a retracted position allowing the displacement of said complementary part (18) of the blade in said groove (26) and a position of trans
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventor: Xavier Bousset
  • Patent number: 9318022
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting a parking space (20) by means of a parking assistance system (2) of a motor vehicle (1) while the motor vehicle (1) is travelling past the parking space (20). A first sensor (7) acquires a time sequence (26) of measured values (27), and a second sensor (12) likewise acquires a time sequence (31) of measured values (32) while the vehicle is travelling past. The parking space (20) is detected on the basis of the measured values (27, 32) of at least one of the sensors (7, 12). For the detection of the parking space (20), the measured values (27) of the first sensor (7) and the measured values (32) of the second sensor (12) are acquired redundantly, and the plausibility of the time sequence (26) of the measured values (27) of the first sensor (7) is checked on the basis of the measured values (32) of the second sensor (12). The invention also relates to a parking assistance system (2), as well as to a motor vehicle (1) with such a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventor: Harald Barth
  • Patent number: 9316376
    Abstract: An apparatus for producing light signals in a vehicle. The same physical apparatus produces light signals of two different colors. Light emitting diodes (LEDs) of two different colors produce diverging light rays. These rays are captured by a transparent plate and conducted to an edge of the plate, which reflects and collimates the light into parallel beams. The parallel beams then reach an elongated lens running along another edge of the plate, which focuses, or de-focuses, the light and transmits it externally as a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.
    Inventors: John Steven Orisich, Brant James Potter, Matthew James Berry
  • Patent number: 9316181
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fluid valve, in particular for the exhaust gas from a motor vehicle engine, comprising a body (30) defining a main duct (31) and an auxiliary duct (32) for the flow of fluid, which auxiliary duct opens into the main duct (31). The valve also comprises: a flap (1) that can move between a closed position, preventing communication between the two ducts (31, 32), and an open position, allowing communication between said ducts (31, 32); and a gasket (2) against which the flap (1) bears when in the closed position. In addition, the above-mentioned body comprises a housing (37) for a motor for actuating the flap (1). According to the invention, the body (30) is configured to define a fluid lamina (38) between the gasket (2) and the housing (37).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes de Controle Moteur
    Inventors: Sébastien Adenot, Grégory Hodebourg
  • Patent number: D754376
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventor: Christophe Dubosc