Patents Assigned to Valeo
  • Patent number: 11787259
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating, ventilation and/or air-conditioning device (10) for a motor vehicle, which device comprises a housing (26), a cold air region (84), a hot air region (86), an evaporator (36) which is configured to provide a cold air stream (50) in the cold air region (84), and a heating element (34) which is configured to provide a hot air stream (48) in the hot air region (86). Furthermore, the device (10) has a one-piece cross-flow deflection device (38), which is covered by the housing (26) and comprises a mixing device (40) and a cover (42), wherein the mixing device (40) has a plurality of mixing chambers (52), each of which is provided for mixing a part of the cold air stream (50) and a part of the hot air stream (48). The cover (42) here separates the cold air region (84) and the hot air region (86) from each other at least in portions. Furthermore, the cover (42) has a fixing device (74) which is provided for fixing the heating element (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO KLIMASYSTEME GMBH
    Inventors: Albert Gwosdek, Wolfgang Hopf, Guido Mueller, Andreas Schulz, Ales Vlachynsky
  • Patent number: 11791686
    Abstract: The invention mainly concerns a rotating electrical machine, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a bearing (15) comprising a recess (17) for receiving a shaft bearing guiding the rotation of the shaft, characterised in that the bearing (15) comprises: —a first part (15. I) produced from a first material comprising: —the recess (17) for receiving the shaft bearing, —an interface (51) for mounting a bearing (50) of a pinion (49) external to the rotating electrical machine, and —a second part (15.2) produced from a second material comprising: —a transverse wall (53), and —a skirt (54) extending from the transverse wall (53) at least partially surrounding the stator (11), —the second part (15.2) being overmoulded on the first part (15.1) so as to form a strong bearing (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Cédric Ledieu, Jean-Claude Labrosse
  • Patent number: 11788766
    Abstract: A HVAC unit includes a housing, at least one flap and an actuator corresponding to the flap. The housing includes a first and a second portion and defining an enclosure “E”. The flap is received inside the housing with a first extreme end thereof engaging with the first portion and a second extreme end thereof engaging with the second portion of the housing via an intermediate lever. The actuator disposed outside the enclosure “E” is connected to and drives the flap via the intermediate lever. The intermediate lever includes a stopper radially extending from at least a portion of a periphery thereof. The stopper is disposed between the second portion of the housing and the flap to limit axial movement of the intermediate lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO CLIMATE CONTROL CORP.
    Inventors: Jason Kreucher, Gregory Rademacher, Heather Hartman
  • Patent number: 11788701
    Abstract: Lighting device, in particular for a motor vehicle, including at least two lighting modules and at least one support member supporting the lighting modules. Each lighting module includes at least one light source capable of emitting light rays and an optical system arranged, on a specific optical axis of the lighting module, across the light rays and configured to project a light beam. The support member supporting the different lighting modules is, on the one hand, rigidly connected to a closing element incorporating at least two optical systems and, on the other hand, connected to at least a first adjustment system enabling one of the lighting modules to move independently relative to at least the other lighting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Colombel, Michel Hermitte, Sylvain Giraud
  • Publication number: 20230327512
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling module for a motor vehicle, including at least one heat exchanger, at least one tangential turbomachine, a housing having a first suction opening and an exhaust opening between which flows a first air stream passing through the at least one heat exchanger and at least one electric motor for controlling the rotation of the at least one tangential-flow turbomachine, the electric motor being arranged on the outer wall of the housing, the electric motor including at least one air inlet and one air outlet. The housing includes a second suction opening, the air outlet of the motor being in fluid connection with the second suction opening so as to allow a second air stream to flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Amrid MAMMERI, Erwan ETIENNE, Gael DURBECQ, Kamel AZZOUZ
  • Publication number: 20230322188
    Abstract: A connection device for a wiper system for wiping a glazed surface of a vehicle is disclosed. The wiper system includes at least one wiper, and at least one wiper arm designed to drive the rotation of the wiper. The connection device connects the wiper to the wiper arm and further includes at least one connector configured to be secured to the wiper and at least one adapter mounted with the ability to pivot on the connector. The wiper arm extends between a first end designed to be connected to a motor and a second end designed to be secured to the adapter. The adapter and the connector define a closed-section housing for receiving at least part of the second end of the wiper arm. This part of the second end of the wiper arm is configured to contribute to holding the adapter on the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Gerald Caillot, Vincent Izabel
  • Publication number: 20230324024
    Abstract: A light system comprising: (a) a plurality of light sources configured to be located on a vehicle and project light outboard of a width of a vehicle; (b) one or more reflectors that are angled in a first direction relative to the plurality of light sources; and (c) one or more static bending light reflectors that are angled in a second direction relative to the plurality of light sources and the one or more reflectors
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Brant POTTER
  • Publication number: 20230322187
    Abstract: A connector for a wiper blade, comprising at least a main body and a rotating cap, comprising at least one cover wall, a reinforcing wall, a hinge and an attachment device for rigidly connecting the rotating cap relative to an end wall of the main body, the hinge being arranged at one of the longitudinal ends of the cover wall and ensuring a rotation of the rotating cap about an axis, the reinforcing wall extending from the cover wall towards the end wall of the main body, the rotating cap further comprising a device for supporting the rotating cap on the end wall of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES D'ESSUYAGE
    Inventors: Vincent GAUCHER, Guillaume MOULEYRE, Stephane HOUSSAT
  • Publication number: 20230324513
    Abstract: An active sensor system (1) has a first and a second emitter unit (2, 2?), as well as a detector unit (3, 3?) and a computing unit (4). The emitter units (2, 2?) are configured to emit respective measurement signals into corresponding emission spatial regions (A1, A2). The detector unit (3, 3?) is configured to generate at least one detector signal on the basis of reflected portions of the measurement signals, and the computing unit (4) is configured to generate a measurement data set on the basis of the at least one detector signal. The computing unit (4) is configured to identify at least one section (T1, T1?, T2) that is shaded with respect to at least one of the emitter units (2, 2?). The computing unit (4) is configured to generate the measurement data set taking into account the section (T1, T1?, T2) and/or to generate correction data for correcting the measurement data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Beuth, Christoph Parl
  • Patent number: 11781467
    Abstract: A fan shroud for a vehicle heat-exchange module, includes a wall configured to at least partially block the air flow through the fan shroud between a front and a back thereof, with a first opening for enabling air flow through the fan shroud between a front and a back thereof, and fasteners adapted to mount the fan shroud in an inclined position with respect to the ground. The fan shroud further includes a first drainage opening for a fluid, arranged at a bottom of the fan shroud, and a first gutter arranged at the bottom and connected fluidically with the first drainage opening to evacuate the fluid remotely with respect to the first drainage opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventors: Roy Riski, Davide Molinari, Catalino Loredo Guzman
  • Patent number: 11780321
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling module (22) for a motor vehicle (10), comprising: —at least one heat exchanger (301-303) delimiting a surface, referred to as the working surface, —at least one first tangential-flow turbomachine (28-1) and a second tangential-flow turbomachine (28-2), each of said turbomachines (28-1, 28-2) being capable of creating an air flow in contact with said working surface, each of said turbomachines comprising a rotor rotating about an axis and a volute for housing the rotor, comprising an air guiding portion and an air outlet outside the turbomachine, said turbomachines (28-1, 28-2) being arranged such that the air outlet of the first turbomachine (28-1) is arranged opposite the guiding portion of the second turbomachine (28-2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventors: Kamel Azzouz, Sébastien Garnier, Michael Lissner, Amrid Mammeri
  • Patent number: 11781727
    Abstract: A light guide extending in a main direction and including an inlet face for the light emitted by a light source, the inlet face being contoured to form a collimator. The light guide includes a face for guiding the light, a light outlet face, and a face for decoupling the light towards the outlet face, the decoupling face being transversely opposite to the outlet face. At least one portion of the profile of the inlet face is constant in a transverse direction so as not to collimate the light in a longitudinal plane including the transverse direction but in a longitudinal plane perpendicular to the transverse direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO VISION BELGIQUE
    Inventor: Christophe Valois
  • Patent number: 11781641
    Abstract: Arrangement (1) comprising an electric machine (2), a gearbox (3), a shaft (9) coupling the electric machine (2) with the gearbox (3) and having an axial blind bore (18) extending from a machine-side end (19) of the shaft (9) into the gearbox (3), a coolant insertion element (21) configured to supply a coolant into the bore (18) and a coolant conduction element (22) extending inside the bore (18) from the machine-side end (19) into the gearbox (3) and defining a flow path (23) for the inserted coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Arnim-Sebastian Rottach
  • Patent number: 11781740
    Abstract: Lighting device for a motor vehicle including a light source and/or an optical part. A substrate including electrical tracks, the light source and/or optical part being fastened to the substrate, and a part forming an electrical ground for the electrical tracks. The substrate includes a cut-out forming a tab, electrical tracks of the substrate extending onto the tab, at least one of the tracks on the tab making electrical contact with the ground-forming part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Franck Dinant, Dirkie Sacchet
  • Patent number: 11782076
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical device comprising a support comprising a holding member, and an electrical circuit (12) housed at least partially in the support and comprising an array of electrical tracks (122) and a receiving portion (121) designed to receive a magnetic field sensor. The electrical circuit (12) is configured so as to create an electrical link between the magnetic field sensor, on the one hand, and an electronic board external to the electrical device, on the other hand. The holding member comprises at least one bearing portion forming a stop so as to create a mechanical link between the support and the electronic board. Said receiving portion (121) forms an exposed surface configured so as to create an electrical connection with said magnetic field sensor through plane-to-plane contact between the receiving portion (121) and a face of the magnetic field sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive France SAS
    Inventors: Alexandre Legendre, Aurelien Pouilly
  • Publication number: 20230317338
    Abstract: A winding support includes a tube for receiving one of the legs of a ferromagnetic core of a magnetic component such that half-legs of the leg face each other in the tube. The magnetic component further includes windings which correspond to the leg and which are wound on the tube. The winding support includes a wedging protrusion and at least one spacing wall. The wedging protrusion is formed on an inner surface of the tube so as to define an air gap between the opposing half-legs. The at least one spacing wall, which is formed opposite the wedging protrusion and on an outer surface of the tube, is configured to keep at least one of the windings away from the air gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Norway AS
    Inventors: Yannick SOHIER, Boris BOUCHEZ, Stephane FONTAINE
  • Publication number: 20230314250
    Abstract: A torque sensor device for detecting a torque applied to a shaft is disclosed. The torque sensor device has a magnetic arrangement, a stator arrangement and a flux guide arrangement, wherein the flux guide arrangement has a first flux guide and a second flux guide, and the first flux guide and the second flux guide each have a first collection surface and each have at least one transmission surface. The second flux guide has a second collection surface which is magnetically conductively coupled to the at least one transmission surface of the second flux guide. The first flux guide and the second flux guide are arranged relative to one another such that, if the torque sensor device is surrounded by a magnetic interference field, a first interference flux component a second interference flux component at least partially cancel one another out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Ekkehart Fröhlich, Jens Thom, Sageesh Pachakkil
  • Publication number: 20230319381
    Abstract: (Camera, A-pillar arrangement having the camera and vehicle) Camera (3, 103, 203) for a vehicle (1), which camera is designed: to be mounted at least partially inside an A-pillar (7, 107, 207) of the vehicle (1), to record image data for an area in front of the vehicle (1), and to be arranged in the A-pillar (7, 107, 207) in such a way that a space (24, 124, 224) taken up by the camera (3, 103, 203) inside the A-pillar (7, 107, 207) has a smaller maximum dimension (A1, A3, A5) parallel to a line of sight (14, 114, 228) of the camera (3, 103, 203) than its maximum dimension (A2, A4, A6) parallel to a longitudinal direction (L) of the A-pillar (7, 107, 207).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Meyer, Bernd Biehlman
  • Publication number: 20230314601
    Abstract: The invention relates to a radar detection system for a vehicle, with radar detection system including a radar sensor configured to emit/receive a plurality of radar waves, a lighting element arranged facing the radar sensor and including at least one light source configured to emit light rays, and a plurality of layers including a transparent layer configured to propagate the light rays, with the layers have substantially equal dielectric permittivities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Christophe GRARD
  • Publication number: 20230311612
    Abstract: Heat-energy exchange device having a first and a second plat heat exchanger, each plate heat exchanger being configured to allow exchanges of heat energy between at least two heat-transfer fluids at different temperatures. The exchange device further includes a distribution member sandwiched between the first and second plate heat exchangers, said distribution member including a series of channels made within it, said channels connecting inlets and outlets of heat-transfer fluid of the first and second plate heat exchangers to connection orifices positioned on said distribution member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Christophe DENOUAL, Julien VERON