Patents Assigned to Valeo
  • Publication number: 20240107645
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a pixelated light source for a motor vehicle. The method makes it possible to prevent thermal runaway and premature ageing of the elementary pixels of the source independently of the projected light levels. By dynamically adapting the electric current intensities at the elementary light sources, the control method provides protection for the semiconductor junctions of the pixels of the pixelated light source in order to increase their lifespan and avoid visible defects in a beam projected onto the road due to thermal runaway or premature ageing of the semiconductor junctions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Sidahmed BEDDAR
  • Publication number: 20240101145
    Abstract: According to a method for road marking detection, a sensor datasets depicting a road marking (7) at a first and a second measurement instance are generated by an environmental sensor system (4) and a parameter characterizing a motion of the environmental sensor system (4) is determined. A first and a second observed state vector describing the road marking (17) at the first and the second measurement instance, respectively, are generated based on the sensor datasets. A predicted state vector for the second measurement instance is computed depending on the at least one motion parameter and the first observed state vector and a corrected state vector for the second measurement instance is generated depending on the predicted state vector and the second observed state vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Rojas Quinones, Marc Huber, Viktor Trusov
  • Publication number: 20240107672
    Abstract: A light source support assembly for an automotive vehicle, the light source support assembly includes at least two rigid Printed Circuit Board (PCB) parts having a first rigid PCB part and a second rigid PCB part. The first rigid PCB part is mounted with a plurality of first components that are heat generating components and the second rigid PCB part is mounted with a plurality of second components that are components not generating heat or components generating less heat compared to the plurality of first components. A flexible connecting part interconnecting the first rigid PCB part and the second rigid PCB part, and includes at least one bendable portion configured to bend the light source support assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Sebastian KRICK
  • Patent number: 11938786
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system (1) for managing the thermal comfort of a person, in particular on board a motor vehicle, this system being designed to use at least one state characteristic of the person and/or of their thermal environment, this characteristic being able to adopt a plurality of values, this system being designed to: acquire, using a sensor, data relating to the person and/or to their thermal environment, this sensor being in particular a camera designed to acquire an image of the person and/or of their thermal environment, evaluate, on the basis of these acquired data, the probability of the state characteristic adopting a first value by associating a first confidence level with this first value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Daniel Neveu, Jeremie Zoubairi
  • Patent number: 11942850
    Abstract: The invention specifies an electrical machine (1, 1a . . . 1c) which comprises a housing (8), a stator (5) which is arranged in the housing (8) and a rotor (3) which is rotatably mounted in the housing (8). At least one first coolant duct (9) of a first cooling circuit (15) and at least one second coolant duct (10, 10a, 10b) of a second cooling circuit (16) are arranged in the region of the stator (5) in the housing (8). In this case, the coolant ducts (9, 10, 10a, 10b) and the housing (8) form a heat exchanger between the first cooling circuit (15) and the second cooling circuit (16). In addition, the invention specifies a gear motor comprising the electrical machine (1, 1a . . . 1c), in which gear motor the transmission is hydraulically connected to the at least one second coolant duct (10, 10a, 10b) of the second cooling circuit (16). The invention also specifies a vehicle (27) which is driven by the said electrical machine (1, 1a . . . 1c) or by the said gear motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Haas, Burkhard Pollak
  • Patent number: 11939976
    Abstract: A scroll compressor has a drive shaft which drives a scroll compression mechanism housed in a housing and a drive shaft support member which supports the drive shaft. The drive shaft support member includes a plate portion having a predetermined thickness in an axial direction of the drive shaft. One side end surface of the plate portion has thereon a sliding support surface which supports the sliding movement of an orbiting scroll. Another side end surface of the plate portion has formed thereon a protruding portion which, protruding toward the other side in the axial direction, is fitted onto an inner peripheral surface of the housing. The protruding portion is interference fitted onto the inner peripheral surface of the housing, and thereby the drive shaft support member is fixed to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Takama, Hironobu Deguchi, Shinsuke Miyamae, Toshiki Maruyama, Imed Guitari, Shunichiro Motohashi
  • Patent number: 11940046
    Abstract: An actuator for the actuation of at least one movable member of a motor vehicle transmission. The actuator includes a housing and a cover defining an internal volume in which are received at least one electric motor having a stator and a rotor mounted on a rotor shaft extending along an axis X1, a motor pinion fixed to the opposite end of the shaft from the rotor, a circuit board for supplying power to the stator and controlling the electric motor, and a reduction mechanism driven by the motor pinion. The housing or the cover includes an electrical connector which incorporates a semipermeable membrane allowing an exchange of gas between the inside of the actuator and the external surroundings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES DE CONTROLE MOTEUR
    Inventors: Sylvain Gautier, Dominique Gilet, Vincent Bazin
  • Patent number: 11940298
    Abstract: The invention relates to a magnet assembly (10) for a sensor device for detecting a measurement variable characterizing a rotation state of a steering shaft of a motor vehicle, to a sensor device and to a motor vehicle, wherein the magnet assembly (10) has a sleeve (11) and a magnetic element (12), which is connected in a form-fitting manner to the sleeve (11), wherein the sleeve (11) is designed for connecting the magnet assembly (10) to a first part of the steering shaft and has at least one stop flange (11C), which extends outwards in the radial direction in a radial plane, for axially securing the magnetic element (12) in a first axial direction (A1), wherein the magnetic element (12) is arranged concentrically with respect to the sleeve (11) and, with its first end side (S1), is at least partially supported axially on the stop flange (11C) and is thereby secured in the first axial direction (A1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH
    Inventors: Ekkehart Froehlich, David Nemere
  • Patent number: 11938860
    Abstract: Lighting device for a motor vehicle with a first plurality of selectively activatable light sources and a second plurality of light sources. The first and second pluralities of light sources being arranged on a common substrate and each light source of the first plurality being positioned at a distance from the other light sources of the first plurality of less than 1 mm. The lighting device includes an optical element having a first region positioned facing the first plurality of light sources and a second region positioned facing the second plurality of light sources, with the second region being provided with optical patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventor: Antoine De Lamberterie
  • Patent number: 11942616
    Abstract: Structure (1) for the heat treatment of an electrical storage device (2) for a motor vehicle, the structure (1) including at least one heat exchange plate (10, 11, 12) intended to be in contact with the electrical storage device (2) and having a thickness (5) defined by two external surfaces (3, 4), the heat exchange plate (10, 11, 12) comprising at least one channel (6, 61, 62) formed in its thickness (5) and opening at at least one end (7) into the thickness (5) of the heat exchange plate (10, 11, 12), characterized in that, at the level of the end (7) of the channel (6, 61, 62), the external surfaces (3, 4) of the heat exchange plate (10, 11, 12) are separated from one another by a distance (53) less than the thickness (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventors: Eric Tudeau, Frédéric Tison, Jean Damien Muller, Antonio Figueiredo
  • Patent number: 11938806
    Abstract: The invention is related to an integrated drive system including an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, an inverter configured to control the electric motor, a gearbox configured to transmit a torque provided by the electric motor, and a coolant system, wherein the coolant system includes a cooling fluid, configured to follow one cooling path for cooling the inverter, the rotor, the stator and the gearbox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Finger-Albert, Alexander Frank
  • Patent number: 11938949
    Abstract: An interactive system (1) for interacting with a user is disclosed. The interactive system (1) includes at least one interface (3), a measuring device (5), and a processing unit (7) comprising an interpretation module for receiving a physiological parameter obtained by the measuring device (5) and for defining, based on the physiological parameter, a datum representative of the physiological state of the user (U). The processing unit (7) comprises a data communication module for communicating data with a server (11) storing a library of applications, a data processing module for selecting an application on the basis of the datum representative of the physiological state, an information module for notifying the user (U) of the selected application, and detecting a validation action from the user (U) validating the notified application, and a download module for downloading the validated application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Georges De Pelsemaeker, Antoine Boilevin
  • Publication number: 20240098927
    Abstract: Electrical device including a printed circuit board, a sensor mounted on the printed circuit board and projecting from the PCB, and a sensor protection component including a housing in which is housed the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Valeo eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Alexandros KOURGIALIS, Anna KAISER, Michael NOBEL, Michael TILP
  • Publication number: 20240094337
    Abstract: According to a method for operating a sensor system, radiation is emitted during a first and a second measurement time period in order to generate point clouds, the points of which are described by a spatial position and an energy characteristic. A first sub-quantity of a first point cloud and a second sub-quantity of a second point cloud are identified with an energy characteristic which is greater than or equal to an energy threshold in each case. A third sub-quantity of the first point cloud and a fourth sub-quantity of the second point cloud are identified with positions lying within the spatial surroundings of the first sub-quantity and the second sub-quantity, respectively. The spatial extension of the fourth sub-quantity is compared with that of the third sub-quantity, and the points of the third and/or the fourth sub-quantity are marked as artifacts based on the result of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Sergio Fernandez, Shuyun Guo
  • Patent number: 11933525
    Abstract: Described is a stopper including a filtering unit housed in an interior of a liquid receiver main body through which a refrigerant passes, a fixed portion that includes a screw portion that is screwed into an inner peripheral face of the liquid receiver main body, a sealing member in contact with the inner peripheral face of the liquid receiver main body, thereby preventing a leakage of a refrigerant to the fixed portion, and a movable connection portion provided between the filtering unit and the fixed portion for linking the filtering unit to the fixed portion in such a way that the filtering unit is not caused to follow a rotation of the fixed portion, and in such a way that the filtering unit is caused to follow an axial direction movement of the fixed portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Japan Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Daisuke Araki, Noriaki Nemoto
  • Patent number: 11936019
    Abstract: The invention relates to a loop (14) for heat transfer liquid (48) for a vehicle comprising a first network (70) and a second network (71), a means (42) for circulating the heat transfer liquid (48), a first heat exchanger (100) configured to be thermally coupled to a first element (40) of an electric drivetrain of the vehicle, a means (72) for moving the heat transfer liquid (48), a second heat exchanger (200) configured to be thermally coupled to a second element (49) and a radiator (51) arranged to be traversed by an external air flow (EF), the radiator (51) comprising a first cooling zone (74) and a second cooling zone (75), a first output (54) of the radiator (51) being connected to the first heat exchanger (100) and a second output (53) of the radiator (51) being connected to the second heat exchanger (200). Application to motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventor: Mohamed Yahia
  • Patent number: 11933469
    Abstract: An assembly for projecting a light beam includes a first sub-assembly for generating light rays, and a second sub-assembly comprising a converging lens. The first sub-assembly is arranged upstream of the second sub-assembly such that the light rays coming from the first sub-assembly are sent to the converging lens and such that the light rays emerging from the converging lens form the light beam. According to the invention, the projection assembly includes at least one connection system connecting the first sub-assembly to the second sub-assembly and allowing at least one translational movement of the first sub-assembly and the second sub-assembly relative to each other in a first longitudinal direction (X). Moreover, the connection system comprises a locking member that is movable between a first position in which the first sub-assembly and the second sub-assembly are motionless with respect to each other and a second position enabling the translational movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Ibrahima Ndiaye, Pascal Garin, Julien Aubert, Clement Olchewsky
  • Patent number: 11933473
    Abstract: The invention relates to an element of a vehicle luminous device, including an element made from a synthetic polymer material and includes an injection space which is formed by a primary space and a secondary space. The element further includes a material injection channel with at least two portions which extend in different directions. A first portion includes an injection location and a second portion is connected to the secondary space, and at least one angled portion with a variable angle connecting the at least two portions and including a protuberance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Romain Menoret, Jean-Marc Gressot, Elie Bosc
  • Patent number: 11936242
    Abstract: Described is an electrical machine (1) which comprises two end shields (6, 7), a stator (5) which is arranged between the two end shields (6, 7) and has a stator laminated core (11, 11a) and stator windings (12) arranged therein, and a rotor (3) which is arranged in the stator (5) and has a rotor shaft (2) mounted rotatably in the two end shields (6, 7). The electrical machine (1) furthermore has cooling channels (13) arranged fully in the stator laminated core (11, 11a) and edged by the latter. Furthermore described are a gear motor (30) comprising such an electrical machine (1), as well as a vehicle (20) comprising such an electrical machine (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Dieterich, Bianca Hofmann
  • Patent number: 11936285
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch system (1) comprising a power line (2) for supplying a charge from a voltage source (+Vbat), said power line having a main switch (Q1) comprising a first main terminal (D) and a second main terminal (S), between which a main current (Ip) is intended to pass, and a control terminal (G) for selectively placing the main switch (Q1) in a closed, open or semi-closed state, the main switch (Q1) in its semi-closed state being equivalent to a variable resistor controlled by the control terminal and connected between the first and the second main terminal, characterized in that the switch system (1) further comprises a current-limiting device (3) designed to, when the main current (Ip) exceeds a maximum current threshold, decrease a control current (Ig) entering the control terminal (G), so as to cause the main switch (Q1) to transition from the closed state to the semi-closed state, so as to limit the main current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Laurent Domenger, Panagiotis Giannikopoulos, Hafid Ihaddaden