Patents Assigned to Valeo
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Publication number: 20240191774Abstract: The present invention relates to a shock absorber with mechanical stop for torque converter that has a simplified manufacturing process and also prevents the exterior springs from reaching the solid length. To achieve the foregoing, a shock absorber with mechanical buffer stop is implemented which comprises a drive plate; at least one exterior spring; and a driven plate, wherein the driven plate additionally comprises at least one mechanical stop which is configured to make contact with the drive plate when the drive plate compresses each exterior spring, and each mechanical stop is located such that it prevents each exterior spring from reaching a solid-length condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: VALEO KAPEC CO., LTD.Inventors: Caleb GARCIA RUIZ, Juan Antonio RIVERA MORENO
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Publication number: 20240194974Abstract: The invention concerns a heat management device for at least one battery cell, including at least one rigid support part, a fluid recovery plate and a fluid distribution plate, the plates being arranged on either side of the rigid support part in a vertical direction of the rigid support part. The rigid support part includes at least one cavity for receiving the at least one battery cell and at least one channel formed parallel with the receiving cavity in the vertical direction and participating in forming a thermal regulation component.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Cedric DE VAULX, Kamel AZZOUZ, Jeremy BLANDIN, Yolanda BRAVO
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Publication number: 20240195095Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device includes a casing that includes a first part and a second part. The electronic device also includes a shield part as well as a printed circuit board that is placed between the shield part and the first part of the casing. The electronic device also includes at least one connecting element that is connected to the printed circuit board. The connecting element includes a connecting head that cooperates with a complementary fastening means that is formed on the shield part so that the connecting element is fixed on the shield part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCEInventors: Yingfan Hou, Jan Krikava, Robert Stedry
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Publication number: 20240194077Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a driver assistance system (110).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBHInventors: Ludovic Mosnier-Thoumas, Markus Heimberger, Niko Moritz Scholz, Jean-Francois Bariant
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Publication number: 20240194975Abstract: The present invention relates to an electronic system module that includes a plurality of electrical and/or electronic components, at least one temperature control element configured so as to adjust a temperature of at least one first electrical and/or electronic component and placed opposite a portion of the first electrical and/or electronic component, the temperature control element being placed between the first electrical and/or electronic component and a second electrical and/or electronic component adjacent to the first electrical and/or electronic component. The module includes at least one protective component in which the temperature control element is at least partially embedded, the protective component being at least partially in contact with the plurality of electrical and/or electronic components.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Cedric DE VAULX, Kamel AZZOUZ, Jeremy BLANDIN, Yolanda BRAVO
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Publication number: 20240191857Abstract: The invention relates to a lighting device for a vehicle, with the lighting device being configured to carry out at least one lighting function and including at least one optical module, and a screen arranged facing the optical module, with the screen including at least two elements that are arranged relative to one another to form an upper part and a lower part of the screen, the upper part being configured to mask the ambient light coming from outside the vehicle, and the lower part being configured to transmit the ambient light.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Kostadin BEEV, Anthony LOZANO, Stephanie BERGERAT, Hui JIN, Thomas DUFILS
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Publication number: 20240190388Abstract: A rain sensor system for measuring a quantity of rain on a window of a vehicle is provided. The rain sensor system comprises a camera device configured to capture images of an area surrounding the vehicle using camera optics; and a rain sensor including a transmitter and a receiver, the transmitter being configured to emit or transmit light and the receiver being configured to receive measurement light that is emitted or transmitted by the transmitter and guided to the receiver by the window. The transmitter and the receiver are arranged at a distance (d) from each another, and the receiver and the camera optics of the camera device are different components.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBHInventors: Donald Peyrot, Vit Kadubec, Juraj Fajta, Michal Hejduk
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Publication number: 20240190205Abstract: The main subject matter of the invention is a ventilation device including at least one duct intended to channel an air flow in an air flow direction inside the duct, the ventilation device including at least one acoustic attenuation member at least partially arranged around the duct and made up of a network of resonators, each resonator having at least one cavity and one neck connecting the cavity to the duct, the resonators that make up the network of resonators being distributed at least parallel to the air flow direction. A distance separating two necks varies along a direction parallel to the air flow direction and in that a volume of the cavities varies along the direction parallel to the air flow direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Sébastien GOUDE, Thibaud MATHARAN, Charlie BRICAULT, Renan LEON
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Patent number: 12005915Abstract: A multi-lane scenario driving support is provided for an ego vehicle in a traffic situation. Traffic surroundings are measured by an environment sensor system. The traffic surroundings include data about traffic and free space within an ego lane of the ego vehicle and an adjacent lane, and data about front proximity area and rear proximity area of the ego vehicle. A decision device evaluates the measured traffic surroundings and decides a driving operation to be executed by the ego vehicle based on at least one strategy. In the decision device, a cost function is used for choosing one of at least six strategies. The cost function is based on at least a core priority to avoid collision of the ego vehicle and not cause collision of the ego vehicle with a third party vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBHInventors: Dimitrios Tzempetzis, Ornella Nath, Ivan Surovtcev
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Patent number: 12007765Abstract: A method for assisting a user in the remote control of a motor vehicle by a remote-control device is disclosed. Depending on sensor data provided by means of at least one environment sensor of the motor vehicle, a first surroundings image of at least one part of the surroundings of the motor vehicle from a determined perspective is provided and displayed by means of the remote-control device. In this case, the determined perspective is selected from a number of selectable perspectives as a perspective that is independent of a position of the at least one environment sensor, depending on a user input effected by the user and detected by means of the remote-control device.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBHInventors: Johannes Petzold, Joerg Schrepfer, Stefan Milz
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Publication number: 20240183932Abstract: The invention relates to a method implemented by a vehicle UWB system including at least two UWB sensors, with a view to determining a zone in which a UWB device is located among a predetermined set of zones, by applying a function dependent on a set of physical quantities. The function comprises one or more generalized linear models. The method comprises, by each respective UWB sensor, a measurement with a view to obtaining a measured value of the respective physical quantity. The method comprises, for each generalized linear model comprising at least one physical quantity for which the measurement failed, and for each physical quantity for which the measurement failed, determination of a replacement value of the physical quantity for application of the generalized linear model. The method improves localization of the UWB device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: VALEO COMFORT AND DRIVING ASSISTANCEInventors: Eloi Desbazeilles, Onur Oguz, Kawtar Es-Saghir, Georges Djokic
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Publication number: 20240181995Abstract: The invention relates to a device (5) comprising an optical surface (10) and a cleaning device (15) for cleaning the optical surface comprising:— a wave transducer (25) acoustically coupled with the optical surface and configured to synthesize an ultrasound wave (W) propagating within the optical surface, and— a spraying unit (20) for dispensing a washing liquid (L) onto the optical surface, the device being shaped so that the ultrasound wave displaces the washing liquid on the optical surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicants: UNIVERSITE DE LILLE, CENTRALE LILLE INSTITUT, UNIVERSITE POLYTECHNIQUE HAUTS-DE-FRANCE, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Valeo Systèmes d'EssuyageInventors: Michaël Baudoin, Ravinder Chutani, Olivier Bou Matar-Lacaze, Frederic Bretagnol, Vincent Izabel, Gérald Caillot, Alexandre Filloux
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Publication number: 20240181960Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle, including an illuminated screen having a plurality of light sources arranged in a matrix on a substrate having a plurality of electrical interconnecting tracks that extend between the light sources. The substrate includes a first protective layer which is disposed between the light sources and has a first albedo, and a second protective layer which is disposed between the light sources and has a second albedo that is greater than the first albedo, the second layer defining a logo.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Antoine DE-LAMBERTERIE, Samuel DAROUSSIN, Alexandre VAL, Zdravko ZOJCESKI
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Publication number: 20240181956Abstract: A method for controlling a light pattern provided by an automotive lighting device of an automotive vehicle. The method includes providing a road profile, extracting road features from the road profile, dividing the matrix arrangement in row groups, assigning a different shifting value for each row group, each shifting value depending on the road features and dividing each row group in at least a first portion and a second portion. Each portion includes at least a boundary pixel which is in contact with the boundary pixel of an adjacent portion. The method further includes modifying the width of the first portion and the width of the second portion by shifting the position of the boundary pixels in each row group according to the corresponding shifting value and interpolating the luminous intensity values of the pixels belonging to the first and second portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Ali KANJ, Constantin PRAT, Matthieu DREZET, Hafid EL IDRISSI
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Publication number: 20240181847Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal conditioning system including a heat-transfer circuit, a refrigerant circuit including successively: a compressor, a first bi-fluid exchanger and a second bi-fluid exchanger arranged jointly on the refrigerant circuit and on a main loop of the heat-transfer circuit, a first expansion valve, a third bi-fluid exchanger arranged jointly on the refrigerant circuit and on a secondary loop of the heat-transfer circuit, a first branch of the heat-transfer circuit being configured so that the heat-transfer liquid leaving the first bi-fluid exchanger returns to the first bi-fluid exchanger without passing through the second bi-fluid exchanger, and including a second heat exchanger configured to exchange with a second air flow. A second branch connects the first branch to the main loop, and includes a third heat exchanger configured to exchange with the second air flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUESInventors: Mohamed YAHIA, Bertrand NICOLAS, Stefan KARL
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Publication number: 20240183506Abstract: The invention relates to an optical module of a motor vehicle lighting system, including at least one light source, a primary optical element comprising at least one primary optical member connected to an exit optical member, the primary optical member including a light entry face and a junction face connecting the primary optical member to the exit optical member, the primary optical element being a one-piece component, and an optical projection system designed to project, onto the ground, using light emitted by the light source and collected by the primary optical member, an image of the junction face, the primary optical member being arranged so that the image of its junction face that is projected onto the ground by the optical projection system is entirely bounded by substantially sharp edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Marine COURCIER, Aleksandra CVETKOVIC, Eric MOISY, Stefan NAMYSLO, Pierre ALBOU
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Publication number: 20240183524Abstract: A heat sink for an electronic component and its manufacturing method by applying a nanopulsed laser. The heat sink includes a body provided with an outer layer, including a surface layer having a radiative exposed surface and a layer immediately underlying the surface layer. The underlying layer is made of a material based on a metal and the surface layer is made of an oxide of said material. The outer layer includes juxtaposed nodules. The heat sink originally combines a surface chemical state promoting heat emission and a structure geometrically promoting heat exchange, in order to synergistically improve its heat dissipation capability.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: VALEO VISIONInventors: Thibaut MENN, Laurent VIVET, Renan LEON, Jean-Francois BISSON, Baptiste DECROUY, Guillaume BONVALLAT
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Patent number: 12003142Abstract: An HVAC blower motor (10) includes a stator (12) and a rotor (14). The stator (12) include electro-magnets (12a) energized at pre-determined energizing frequency. The rotor (14) angularly moves relative to the stator (12) due to pulsating magnetic field between the stator (12) and the rotor (14). The rotor (14) includes an output shaft (24), a magnet holder (14a) and a plurality of permanent magnets (20). The permanent magnets (20) are configured to interact with the cyclically energized electro-magnets (12a) to cause pulsating magnetic field between the stator (12) and the rotor (14) to cause angular movement of the rotor (14) relative to the stator (12). The magnet holder (14a) includes a strip (15) of vibration damping material secured thereto along an outer periphery thereof to change the natural frequency characteristic of the wall portion 14c is subjected to.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Valeo Climate Control CorporationInventor: Darius Kurniawan
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Patent number: 12000555Abstract: An optical assembly and a vehicle lamp are described. The optical assembly has a main exit direction, and includes a light source, a first light guide element and a second light guide element which are arranged in a superposed fashion in the main exit direction. The light source is allocated to the first light guide element, and the first light guide element has a first light in-coupling region and a first light out-coupling surface, the second light guide element has a second light in-coupling surface and a second light out-coupling surface, with the first light out-coupling surface facing the second light in-coupling surface. A light distribution structure is provided on at least a partial segment of at least one of the first light out-coupling surface and the second light in-coupling surface. The vehicle lamp includes the optical assembly described above.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Valeo VisionInventors: Qiang Hu, Piao Zhang, Anna Gu, Liangliang Fei, Fang Fang
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Patent number: 11999301Abstract: A method for aiding the maneuvering of an automotive vehicle. The method includes the steps of projecting a light pattern towards a projection zone of the ground surface, acquiring an image of the automotive vehicle and the light pattern from an image sensor and providing the acquired image to a user of the automotive vehicle. The projection zone includes at least one of a first virtual rectangle, a second virtual rectangle and/or a third virtual rectangle, defined with respect to a rear point of the carbody, a front point of the carbody and the contact points between the wheels and the ground surface. The invention also provides an automotive lighting device for performing the steps of such a method.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: VALEO VISIONInventors: Stefan Namyslo, Eric Martin Claude Moisy, Marine Courcier