Patents Assigned to Valeo
  • Optical module for a motor vehicle lighting device
    Patent number: 7722233
    Abstract: An optical module for a motor vehicle lighting device, capable of emitting at least one type of light beam having a cut-off and comprising: a light source disposed in a reflector; a dioptric element, in particular a convergent lens, disposed in front of the reflector; a shield disposed between said light source and said dioptric element; and an additional optical element is disposed between the light source and the shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Meyrenaud
  • Method for controlling the temperature of gases entering an engine of an automotive vehicle, heat exchanger and device for managing the temperature of these gases
    Patent number: 7717097
    Abstract: According to the method, the gases are circulated in a liquid/gas heat exchanger (2, 12) prior to their entering the internal combustion engine (58) and a high temperature liquid and/or a low temperature liquid is circulated in the liquid/gas heat exchanger (2, 12) in order to heat and/or cool the gases (84) as required. The liquid/gas heat exchanger may comprise a single stage or two stages, that is a high temperature stage and a low temperature stage. It can also be used to cool the recirculating exhaust gases prior to their entering the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Thermique Moteur
    Inventor: Pascal Guerrero
  • Wiper device comprising a flat wiper blade and wiper arm
    Patent number: 7716780
    Abstract: A wiper device for wiping a vehicle windscreen, including a drivable wiper arm and a flat wiper blade arranged on the wiper arm. The flat wiper blade includes a wiper blade rubber, a support for supporting the wiper blade rubber, and a connection for connecting a free end of the wiper arm. The support is in the form of band-like elongate spring blades. The connection includes a support element fixedly arranged on the support and a connecting element that partially pivots the support element. The connecting element is releasably connected to the free end of the wiper arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Wolfgang Scholl, Andreas Fink, Gerhard Schremmer, Heiko Ernstmeier
  • DEVICE FOR CONVERTING A PIVOTING MOVEMENT OF A PINION INTO A TRANSLATIONAL MOVEMENT OF A SLIDE, AND VALVE COMPRISING SUCH A DEVICE
    Publication number: 20100117013
    Abstract: A device, and a valve including such a device, for converting a pivoting movement of a pinion into a translational movement of a slide. The pinion is mounted to pivot relative to a slide mounting member including a fixed tubular wall. The tubular wall is provided with at least one cam surface acting on a follower roller mounted on a mounting part connected to the pinion in rotation and to the slide in translation. The pinion is carried by the mounting member coaxially with the tubular wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES DE CONTROLE MOTEUR
    Inventors: Albert Laurent, Stephane Peyzarat
  • DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD FOR MOTOR VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20100114445
    Abstract: A driving assistance method for a motor vehicle is disclosed. It is characterised in that the method comprises the steps of detecting an obstacle located in proximity to the motor vehicle, calculating the slope of a road on which the motor vehicle is capable of travelling, determining, depending on the calculated slope of the road, a speed limit beyond which the motor vehicle will strike the obstacle, and if an obstacle is detected, automatically reducing the speed of the motor vehicle if this is greater than the speed limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Valeo Vision
    Inventor: Xavier Groult
  • Method for the automatic adaptation of a light beam of a headlight device
    Patent number: 7708434
    Abstract: A proposed method to illuminate optimally, or at least in an improved fashion compared with existing solutions, a road taken by a vehicle in question implementing the method whilst ensuring that other vehicles are not dazzled. To this end, it is not proposed in the invention to detect the distance between the vehicle in question and the first vehicle liable to be dazzled by the vehicle in question, and to generate accordingly a light beam optimized in terms of range on the road, and advantageously light intensity; according to the invention, the optimization of the light beam produced is achieved by the use of the motorway function available on the vehicle in question. The use of this function in this context also ensures a gradual transition between the function of the dipped type and the function of the main-beam type in the context of automatic switching operations between these functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Julien Moizard, Benoît Reiss, Pierre Albou, David Bourdin
  • Hydrokinetic coupling device intended, in particular, for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7708126
    Abstract: A hydrokinetic coupling device is intended, in particular, for a motor vehicle. The hydrokinetic coupling device comprises a casing rotationally connecting a driving shaft and an impeller wheel, a turbine wheel fixed to a turbine hub rotationally connected to a driven shaft, a clutch locking the coupling of the driving and driven shafts, and a damping element comprising elastic washers for restricting the essentially-radial circulation of the fluid at least inside a front axial space which is located between a front guide washer and a web, such that the fluid circulates though the lockup clutch of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Embrayages
    Inventors: Rabah Arhab, Norberto Termenon, Daniel Bonnel
  • Heat pipe-equipped cooling device for a rotating electric machine
    Patent number: 7709979
    Abstract: A cooling device comprising a heat pipe (6) which is provided with an electrically-isolating part (15) between the evaporating (8) and condensing (7) parts thereof, such that the hot and cold areas are isolated electrically from one another. The evaporating part (7) of the heat pipe (6, 60, 61) is connected to a voltage regulator (2) or to a current rectifier belonging to a rotating electric machine. The invention is suitable for an alternator or an alternator-starter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Fakes Michel, Claudiu Vasilescu, Daniel Richard
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO-BASED ROAD LANE CURVATURE MEASUREMENT
    Publication number: 20100104139
    Abstract: A method and system for video-based road lane curvature measurement is provided. An image processing system receives roadway scene images from a vehicle-mounted video camera to measure road curvature. Road boundary indicators, such as lane markings, are used for identifying the road boundaries. The road curvature is approximated using a relation between the slope of a line connecting two points on a lane marking, and the average longitudinal distance from the camera to the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Kuehnle, Cathy Boon
  • Lighting device for a vehicle with a reflector compatible with several models of lamp
    Patent number: 7703962
    Abstract: A lighting device usable in a vehicle, the lighting device comprising at least a reflector and a lamp, wherein the reflector further includes an orifice. The lamp may be mounted in a lamp holder, the lamp holder being coupled to the reflector and positioned at least partly in the office. In addition, the orifice located within the reflector may be configured to work with a variety of lamp holders, including at least a discharge bulb lamp holder and a halogen bulb lamp holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Jean-François Delourme, Nicolas Simmet
  • Double-excitation rotating electrical machine for adjustable defluxing
    Patent number: 7701104
    Abstract: The invention concerns a rotating electrical machine comprising a stator enclosing a rotor including permanent excitation magnets (20, 24, 26, 30) capable of producing magnetic fluxes, and excitation coils (22, 28), capable of being excited or not and generating flux constituents which can counter the fluxes generated in the magnets, wherein the number (Na) of magnets and the number (Nb) of excitation coils as well as the mutual arrangement of the coils and the magnets relative to one another from an elementary pattern (me), said numbers Na of magnets, Nb of coils and Nme of elementary patterns capable of being modified depending on the desired basic intensity (Ibase) in the machine, said basic intensity being determined when the coils are not excited and on the desired modulation intensity (Imod) in the machine, said modulation intensity being determined when the coils are excited.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventor: Antoine Dokou Akemakou
  • System for cooling equipment on a motor vehicle with a split heat exchanger
    Patent number: 7699028
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system which is used to cool at least one piece of motor vehicle equipment to a low temperature, comprising a heat transfer fluid circulation loop. According to the invention, a low-temperature heat exchanger (60) and at least one equipment exchanger (102) are mounted to the aforementioned circulation loop. The heat exchange surface of the equipment exchanger (102) is divided into at least first and second heat exchange sections (104, 106). A first flow (Q<SB>1</SB>) of heat-transfer fluid passes through the first heat exchange section (104), while a second smaller flow (Q2) passes through the second section. The invention is suitable for motor vehicle heat exchangers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Systems Thermiques
    Inventors: Pascal Guerrero, Srun-Ngy Ap, Philippe Jouanny
  • Single point direct actuation of two air devices
    Patent number: 7699690
    Abstract: An HVAC unit having a multiple air valve unit comprising two air valve devices sharing at least one common rotation axis is described. Concentric air valve device shafts interface with a common actuation device in such way to allow for rotational motion between the actuation device and the air valve device unit, and to allow to air valve devices to control or distribute air into three or more air outlets of the HVAC unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Climate Control Corp.
    Inventor: Joseph J. Spryshak
  • Fixed light for bends for a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 7699509
    Abstract: The fixed light for bends for a motor vehicle comprises at least two light sources, means sensitive to the path of the vehicle for supplying a signal dependent on the nature of the road followed by the vehicle, and means for controlling successive switching on the sources according to the signal delivered and providing an effect of light sweeping towards the inside of the bend. Each light source consists of one or more modules with light-emitting diodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventor: Joël Leleve
  • Method of bonding a member to a support by addition of material, and device for arranging two elements, one on the other
    Publication number: 20100089879
    Abstract: A method having a step of heating a mass forming a braze. Before the heating step, the method includes steps of arranging the mass and the member on the support. In particular, it includes a step of positioning the mass on the support and a step of applying a first compressive force on the mass so as to compress said mass against the support, the intensity of the first force increasing up to a predetermined first value chosen so as to flatten the mass. Next, the method includes a step of positioning the member on the flattened mass and a step of applying a second compressive force to the member so as to compress said member against the flattened mass and the support, the intensity of the second force increasing up to a second predefined value, the second predefined value being lower than the first predefined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2007
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: VALEO ELECTRONIQUE ET SYSTEMES DE LIAISON
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Morelle, Laurent Vivet, Mathieu Medina, Sandra Dimelli
  • Optical module for a motor vehicle capable of selectively lighting a zone
    Publication number: 20100091514
    Abstract: A headlamp for a motor vehicle, this headlamp comprising at least one optical module capable of emitting a plurality of light beams, including a low beam and at least one additional light beam. The optical module is equipped with a cover plate which can be moved between at least two positions, this movable cover plate being configured along a shaft mounted so as to rotate in the optical module and driven in rotation at least by a motor. The shaft comprises at least one first cut-off member configured as a double-edged cover plate providing an oblique cut-off for emission of the low beam, and at least one second cut-off member configured as a wall of substantially constant height, angularly offset relative to the first cut-off member and providing at least one substantially vertical cut-off line for emission of a high beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre Albou, Jonathan Blandin, David Bourdin, Jean-Francois Le Bars, Boris Wiegand
  • PROJECTING POLE ROTOR COMPRISING COIL END SUPPORT PLATES AND ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE COMPRISING ONE SUCH ROTOR
    Publication number: 20100090561
    Abstract: A rotor of a rotary electric machine comprising a rotor shaft, a stack of laminations, which is coaxial to the rotor shaft and which comprises at least two radially-projecting poles, a field coil which is wound around each pole, such that the ends of the coil project out axially in relation to each external axial end radial face of the lamination stack and two plates for supporting the lamination stack, which are disposed axially on either side of the stack, housings being provided in the internal radial face of each plate for receiving the coil ends. At least one of the housings comprises a contact surface with the external radial face of the associated coil end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: April 15, 2010
    Applicant: VALEO EQUIPEMENTS ELECTRIQUES MOTEUR
    Inventors: Virginie Leroy, Marc Tunzini
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REFLECTION DETECTION IN ROAD VIDEO IMAGES
    Publication number: 20100086211
    Abstract: A method and system for reflection detection in road video images, is provided. One implementation involves detecting road surface reflections, by receiving an image of a road in front of a vehicle from an image capturing device, determining a region of interest in an identified road in the image, and detecting road surface reflections in the region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 8, 2010
    Applicant: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Kuehnle, Cathy Boon
  • Device for detecting obstacles comprising an imaging system for motor vehicles
    Patent number: 7693302
    Abstract: An obstacle detection device comprising an imaging system for a motor vehicle, including at least one optical sensor, integrated in a lighting or signaling device of this vehicle. A field of vision of this at least one optical sensor can be oriented substantially along a longitudinal axis of the vehicle or substantially along a transverse axis of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Jean-Paul Ravier, Jean-François Le Bars, Benoit Reiss, Joël Leleve, Pierre Albou
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR VIDEO-BASED ROAD CHARACTERIZATION, LANE DETECTION AND DEPARTURE PREVENTION
    Publication number: 20100079590
    Abstract: A method and system for video-based road departure warning for a vehicle on a road, is provided. Road departure warning involves receiving an image of a road in front of the vehicle from a video imager, and detecting one or more road markings in the image corresponding to markings on the road. Then, analyzing the characteristics of an image region beyond the detected markings to determine a rating for drivability of the road corresponding to said image region, and detecting the lateral offset of the vehicle relative to the markings on the road based on the detected road markings. A warning signal is generated as function of said lateral offset and said rating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Kuehnle, Cathy Boon