Abstract: The invention relates to an antitheft device (2) for the steering column of a vehicle, comprising: a locking portion including a bolt for locking the steering column, and a mobile member capable of controlling the locking-in-position of the bolt; and an access portion including a latch, wherein said device includes a rocker arm for converting a movement of the mobile control member into the release of a super-lockout element.

Abstract: A device for positioning and holding a key in a container including a cover and a casing. The device includes an opening/closing mechanism enabling the cover and the casing to be mobile in relation to each other at least in rotation, about a rotational axis, between an open position providing access to a housing of the container and a closed position. The device also includes a locking/unlocking mechanism of the cover and the casing, at least in a closed position, comprising a locking/unlocking control device which is mobile in translation following a translation axis.

Abstract: The invention provides a windscreen wiper blade (10) for a motor vehicle, comprising a support frame (12) which comprises a longitudinal tubular body (18); a structural element (14) in the form of a longitudinal horizontal strip, which is accommodated inside the tubular body (18); and an element (16) for linking the blade (10) with a drive arm, which is mounted on the support frame (12), and the linking element (16) being installed on the support frame (12) by means of two lateral vertical longitudinal tabs (34), characterized in that the lateral tabs (34) comprise lugs (40) that cooperate with recesses (42) made in the lateral edges (14a) of the structural element (14), to provide the blocking of the structural element (14) in the tubular body (18).

Abstract: An under travel actuator, particularly intended for an automobile clutch, including an engine (12) for the translation movement of a mobile gear (14) acting on a push stem (16) for the opening and closing of the clutch, the mobile gear including screw-nut means (22, 24) cooperating with two combined means of unidirectional driving in order to regulate the length of the push stem (16) according to the wear of the clutch surfaces subject to friction.

Abstract: A wiper blade assembly for a windshield wiper. In one embodiment, the wiper blade assembly includes a connector mounted on a blade support element. The connector has a receiving portion shaped to receive a first part of the end portion of a wiper arm and further has a securing portion shaped to secure a second part of the end portion of the wiper arm.

Abstract: The device according to the invention for charging a first electrical energy storage element (1), in particular an ultracapacitor, from a second electrical energy storage element (2), in particular a battery, is of the type of those comprising a reversible DC/DC converter (3) arranged between the first and second elements (1,2). In accordance with the invention, the device moreover comprises a stepdown voltage converter (4) arranged between the DC/DC converter (3) and the first element (1). Advantageously, the device comprises means controlled (11,12,23) so as to charge with a low current the first element (1) from the second element (2), in particular a battery in a poor state of charge, so as to allow the starting of an engine of a motor vehicle even from a battery in a poor state of charge.

Abstract: A method implemented in a vehicle, using information representative of an operational state of the vehicle being provided by sensors and a data communication bus. The information is representative of the engagement and disengagement of an exploitation assistance brake (EAB) and a speed of the vehicle and of a pressure on a brake pedal of the vehicle. A cut-off condition (C3) for the thermal engine can be validated when the speed is lower than a predetermined threshold and in the case where pressure is applied on the brake pedal or when the exploitation assistance brake is activated. The system includes at least one sensor for the condition of the exploitation assistance brake.

Abstract: An auxiliary electrical socket for automobile vehicles that includes a unitary body having a connecting tongue and a barrel adapted to receive a plug. This socket also includes a one-piece assembly that has a connecting member and a ring. The ring receives the barrel and constitutes a member for joining the socket and a structural element of the vehicle. The unitary body and the one-piece assembly include integral nesting-type assembly and positioning means.

Abstract: The invention relates to a driver assistance system for a vehicle (1), wherein the driver assistance system has at least one controller (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14) installed in the vehicle (1) and/or at least one sensor device (16, 17, 18, 19) installed in the vehicle (1), wherein the at least one controller (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14) and/or the at least one sensor device (16, 17, 18, 19) has a communication interface (21) which can be used to transmit data directly between the controller (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14) and/or the sensor device (16, 17, 18, 19) and a portable communication appliance (22) at least in one direction by bypassing a data transmission system (20) inside the vehicle, wherein the data transmission causes the portable communication appliance (22) and the controller (2, 4, 6, 9, 11, 14) and/or the sensor device (16, 17, 18, 19) to interact such that at least one function can be performed which assists a driver in driving the vehicle (1).

Abstract: A wiper blade for cleaning windows of motor vehicles, with an adapter for fastening the wiper blade on a wiper arm, wherein the adapter consists of an adapter element on the wiper arm side and of an adapter element on the wiper blade side, which are arranged so as to be pivotable with respect to each other, and wherein the adapter element on the wiper arm side is connected together with the wiper arm via a detent connection. Provision is made that the adapter has at least one support surface for an auxiliary element, which serves for separating the adapter from the wiper arm.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle handle unlocking control device which includes: a motor vehicle door leaf handle, the handle including a member for receiving a command from outside the device, an output signal electronic processing unit of the member, and a mounting which is over-molded over at least a portion of the receiving member and separate from the unit, whereby the over-molded mounting does not cover any output signal electronic processing unit of the receiving member.

Abstract: An electronic device includes least two electronic components linked electrically to one another using a flexible connector. The flexible connector includes multiple conducting blades, and is interposed between the two electrical components such that longitudinal edges of the flexible connector are held in contact against respective connection pads of each of the electronic components. The flexible connector is ultimately compressed, respectively, against both electronic components. The electronic device is equipped with two additional conducting blades for checking the state of compression of the flexible connector. The two additional conducting blades include an electrical circuit for determining the state of compression of the flexible connector by a resistive measurement and integrating at least one additional conducting blade of the flexible connector.

Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle door handle having a gripping element (21) which can rotate about a pin (30) on a fixed part (10) intended to be fastened to the door and is connected to a vehicle lock, and a stop piece (44, 47) which is part of a rocker arm (40) provided with an inertial mass (43) and hinged to the fixed part so as to pivot about a pin (41) such that during violent pivoting of the rocker arm (40) the stop piece (44, 47) moves along the path of a movable component of the handle and prevents the actuation of the lock connected to the handle, characterized in that the gripping element is a gripping lever plate (20) and the inertial mass is arranged on the handle longitudinally in front of the latter and located in the central third of the length of the gripping lever plate (21), such that the inertial mass is subject to the same inertial forces as the gripping means.

Abstract: The invention relates to an engine control valve (1) which comprises a rotatable actuator (7), a valve (5), and a movement transformation device (9) suitable for transforming the rotation of the actuator (7) into translation of the valve (5). The movement transmission device (9) comprises a helical link with uniform pitch for translating the valve (5).

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for transforming a rotation of a gear (5) into a translation of a slide (2, 8), the device including a supporting member (9) provided with a fixed tubular wall (10) translatably connected to the slide (2, 8) by a cam channel (11), the gear (5) being rotatably mounted on the supporting member (9) and rotatably connected to the slide (2, 8) which is suitable for pivoting about an axis. The gear (5) comprises a ring (15) rotatably mounted on the tubular wall (10) of the supporting member (9).

Abstract: A rotor for an electrical machine that comprises two parallel magnet wheels, each of which comprises axial teeth so that each tooth on a wheel is situated in the space existing between two consecutive teeth on the other wheel, and that comprises magnetic elements, each arranged between two adjacent teeth and partly received in a groove produced in each of the opposite lateral faces of the two adjacent teeth. In one embodiment, each of the two adjacent teeth comprises one groove at a maximum, which emerges at the base of the first tooth.

Abstract: In the case of a wiper blade for cleaning windscreens on vehicles, particularly motor vehicles, with at least one spray duct arranged in the wiper blade with spray orifices for applying a washing or cleaning fluid to the windscreen to be cleaned, with at least one first connection for connection of the spray duct to an external line for supply of the washing or cleaning fluid and with at least one adapter for connecting the wiper blade to a wiper arm, the at least one connection is part of a connection and distribution element provided on the adapter, which is connected by at least a second connection to a duct section of the spray duct extending away from the adapter.

Abstract: A system and method for the anticipated detection of a bend on a portion of road taken by a motor vehicle comprising the following steps: establishing, by means of a first system, called as the navigation system, a first set of information on the bend in question, the first set of information being associated with a first confidence index; establishing, by means of a second system, called as the image processing system, a second set of information on the bend in question, the second set of information being associated with a second confidence index; and establishing, from the first set of information and the second set of information and by taking into account the first confidence index and the second confidence index, a third set of information on the bend in question.

Abstract: In a headlight module for a motor vehicle, a light source having a planar surface, is immersed in a volume of transparent material, which has a refractive index greater than 1. A reflector having a focus is disposed relative to the light source so that the focus of the reflector is at a point of the light source. Accordingly, light rays emitted by light source are refracted by the transparent volume and reflected by the reflector so that such light rays become parallel to a predetermined direction.