Patents Assigned to Valeo
  • Publication number: 20230063910
    Abstract: An adapter (1) for securing a wiper on an arm of a wiper system, the adapter (1) extending in a longitudinal direction (L), the adapter (1) being configured to be fitted such as to rotate on a connector of the wiper around an axis of rotation transverse to the longitudinal direction (L), the adapter (1) comprising at least one lateral wall (10) and one upper wall (12), the lateral wall (10) and the upper wall (12) participating in defining an inner volume of the adapter (1), the adapter (1) comprising an inner wall (20) extending at least partly into the inner volume of the adapter (1), the adapter (1) comprises a locking device (22) which is designed to render the adapter integral longitudinally relative to the arm of the wiper system, the locking device being fitted such as to pivot on the upper wall around an axis of pivoting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Systèmes d'Essuyage
    Inventors: Vincent Gaucher, Stéphane Houssat, Eric Poton, Olivier Jomard
  • Publication number: 20230068695
    Abstract: An optical device for a lighting module. The invention relates to an optical device and a lighting module including a light source provided with a plurality of emitting elements and with said optical device. One face of a lens of the device comprises an array of recessed patterns, each of which is organized with a specific profile so as to produce an optimized light distribution. The profile in particular has a rotational symmetry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Vision
    Inventor: Pierre ALBOU
  • Publication number: 20230061262
    Abstract: The invention relates to a thermal management device for the thermal management of an electrical and/or electronic component liable to release heat during its operation, said device including a casing, said casing having a main compartment defining at least one housing able to accept said electrical and/or electronic component, said housing being designed to receive a dielectric fluid and being delimited by at least one wall. The wall includes a partition defining within the housing a first and a second chamber of dielectric fluid, said partition including an opening that is arranged in such a way that, when the electrical and/or electronic component is placed in the housing, this electrical and/or electronic component extends on both sides of said partition so that this electrical and/or electronic component extends into both of the two chambers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES THERMIQUES
    Inventors: Sergio DA COSTA PITO, Bastien JOVET, Quentin NAVARRE
  • Patent number: 11594995
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system 1 for controlling a voltage converter comprising a plurality of high-side switches forming a high group and a plurality of low-side switches forming a low group, the control system 1 comprising: a module 10 for measuring a voltage V of the DC voltage source B, a module 11 for comparing the measured voltage V with a first safety threshold OV1, a control module 12 for controlling a first group of switches so as to close chosen from the high group or the low group, if the comparison module 11 indicates that the measured voltage V is higher than the first safety threshold OV1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Equipements Electriques Moteur
    Inventors: Mathieu Bertrand, Yann Lecocq, Hicham Lahbil
  • Patent number: 11592078
    Abstract: A damper for a torque converter is disclosed. The damper includes an outer spring and an inner spring coaxial with the outer spring; and a retaining plate to retain the outer spring and the inner spring. The retaining plate includes an upper spring guide, a lower spring guide, an outer spring support, and an inner spring support, wherein the upper spring guide extends substantially around an outer periphery of the retaining plate, the lower spring guide extends around an inner periphery of the retaining plate, the outer spring support directly contacts axial ends of the outer spring and the inner spring, and the inner spring support directly contacts the axial ends of the outer spring and the inner spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO KAPEC CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kyungryol Lee
  • Publication number: 20230057122
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wiping device for a detection system of a vehicle, including a wiper blade, a wiper arm, a motor unit and a drive unit. The drive unit includes a guidance block which carries the wiper arm, and which is inserted in a guidance frame, and a plurality of belt wheels. At least one drive belt wheel is driven in a rotational motion by the motor unit. The drive unit further includes a belt which is driven by the belt wheels and moves the guidance block according to a rectilinear motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES D'ESSUYAGE
    Inventor: Siegfried STEFANI
  • Publication number: 20230057046
    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: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Antoine DE LAMBERTERIE
  • Publication number: 20230055368
    Abstract: Wiper blade for a wiping system, in particular for wiping a camera of a motor vehicle, the wiper blade comprising a connection device suitable for releasable connection to a drive shaft of the wiper blade, said connection device comprising a first orientation which allows mounting/dismounting relative to a drive shaft, and a second orientation which does not allow such mounting/dismounting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO SYSTEMES D'ESSUYAGE
    Inventors: Vincent IZABEL, Jean-Michel JARASSON, Gerald CAILLOT, Frederic GIRAUD, Marcel TREBOUET, Alexandre PASCHUTINE, Mehdi BELHAJ
  • Publication number: 20230055821
    Abstract: A lighting system for a motor vehicle with a pixelated light source having a plurality of selectively activatable elementary light sources is described. The activation of each elementary light source being controlled exclusively by a switch assigned to the elementary light source. A power converter designed to supply an electrical power to the pixelated light source and a controller designed to control the voltage supplied by the power converter and to control the switches controlling the activation of the elementary light sources. The lighting system also includes an electrical current sensor designed to measure the electrical current supplied by the power converter to the pixelated light source and to transmit information relating to said measured current to the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Hafid EL IDRISSI, Guillaume ZANTE, Olivier VALORGE, Thomas GIRAUD-SAUVEUR, Marjaneh KAZEMI, Sebastian KRICK
  • Publication number: 20230059258
    Abstract: The invention relates to a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning device for a motor vehicle, having an air inlet box with a plurality of walls and a spiral box arranged downstream of the air inlet box with respect to the flow of an air flow. The air inlet box further includes at least one first air inlet for the entry of a first air flow and at least one second air inlet for the entry of a second air flow. The air inlet box has a first internal duct made of porous material arranged to connect the first air inlet to the inlet of the spiral box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Systemes Thermiques
    Inventor: Sebastien GOUDE
  • Patent number: 11587329
    Abstract: Techniques are described for estimating intentions of pedestrians and other road users in vicinity of a vehicle. In certain embodiments, the techniques comprise obtaining, by a computer system of a vehicle equipped with one or more sensors, a sequence of video frames corresponding to a scene external to the vehicle, detecting one or more vulnerable road users (VRUs) in the sequence of video frames, wherein the detecting comprises estimating pose of each of the detected one or more VRUs. The techniques further include generating a segmentation map of the scene using one or more of the video frames; estimating one or more intention probabilities using estimated pose of the one or more VRUs and the segmentation map, each intention probability corresponding to one of the detected one or more VRUs, and adjusting one or more automated driving actions based on the estimated one or more intention probabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Adithya Ranga, Jagdish Bhanushali
  • Patent number: 11584291
    Abstract: A method comprising: (a) heating a light module of a vehicle with a heater; (b) monitoring a temperature of the light module; (c) activating a communication sequence; and (d) performing the communication sequence so that a message is conveyed between a controller of the light module and a controller of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Clifford Federle, Monji Moumen
  • Patent number: 11585510
    Abstract: A light system of a vehicle comprising: (a) a connector housing; (b) a reflector housing connected to the connector housing and being movable relative to the connector housing; (c) one or more adjustment assemblies comprising: (i) a socket in the connector housing; and (ii) a rod in the reflector housing that extends into the socket and is rotatable relative to the socket so that the reflector housing is adjustable relative to the connector housing; and wherein the rod has a length and a width with the length being greater than the width and the rod being rotatable around an axis of the length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Kearns, Mark Singleton, Gaurav Bhutani
  • Patent number: 11585509
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lighting system for a motor vehicle. The lighting system comprises at least one first light emitting device mounted on a front right side of the vehicle and adapted to project in front of the vehicle a first pixelated light beam. The lighting system further comprises at least one second light emitting device mounted on a front left side of the vehicle and adapted to project in front of the vehicle a second pixelated light beam. One of the first pixelated light beam and second pixelated light beam, called high resolution beam, has a number of pixels greater than or equal to at least five times, in particular greater than or equal to at least ten times, the number of pixels of the other of said pixelated light beams, called low resolution beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Valeo Vision
    Inventors: Pierre Albou, Sophie Clade, Taro Nishio
  • Patent number: 11588383
    Abstract: A stator (1) for an electric motor, including; a plurality of pins (11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24, 31, 32, 33, 34) which are arranged on at least two concentric circles; and an interface (10, 20, 30) with at least one contact face (19, 29, 39), which is connected to two electrically conductive legs (10a, 10b, 20a, 20b, 30a, 30b) and is supported by the legs, wherein the legs are connected to at least one pin on different concentric circles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: VALEO SIEMENS EAUTOMOTIVE GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Mert Ciftcioglu, Dieter Sonnack
  • Publication number: 20230051036
    Abstract: Method for controlling a lighting system with the lighting system including a plurality of light sources, wherein each light source is capable of emitting an elementary light beam with the vertical angular aperture of which is less than 1°. The method includes detecting a target object, determining a relative distance between a given point of the host vehicle sensor system and a detected point of the target object and determining a gradient of the road on which the target object is located, determining a lower angle and an upper angle between a given point of the host vehicle lighting system and a high cut-off point and a low cut-off point, controlling the light sources of the host vehicle lighting system in order to emit a pixelated light beam of the driving beam type in order to generate a dark zone extending substantially between the high and low cut-off points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventor: Fatima BENAMAR
  • Publication number: 20230048569
    Abstract: The invention is related to an automotive lighting device (10) comprising a light source (1) configured to emit light in a light direction (dl), a sensor (2) and a cover (3). The sensor (2) is configured to acquire information outside the lighting device by emitting a wave in a sensor direction (d2), the wavelength of the wave being comprised between 1 mm and 1 cm. The cover (3) comprises a first portion (31) located in the light direction and a second portion (32) located in the sensor direction, the second portion (32) comprising a sensor region (33) having a refractive index and a thickness which is comprised between 0.8 and 1.2 times an ideal thickness, the ideal thickness being equal to a natural number multiplied by the wavelength and divided by two times the refractive index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: VALEO VISION
    Inventors: Pierre RENAUD, Alexandre JOERG
  • Publication number: 20230050543
    Abstract: Cooling device (15) for cooling semiconductor switching elements (10, 11), comprising a first wall (17) having a first side (18) for carrying the semiconductor switching elements (10, 11) and having a second side (19) being opposite the first side (18), a second wall (20) having a first side (21) that forms a main cooling channel (22) together with the second side (19) of the first wall (17) and having a second side (25) being opposite to the first side (21) of the second wall (20), and a third wall (23) that forms an auxiliary cooling channel (24) together with the second side (25) of the second wall (20), wherein the second wall (20) comprises a connection means (26) that connects the auxiliary cooling channel (24) with the main cooling channel (22) in a fluid-conductive manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Huck, Monzer Rayya, Dirk Trodler
  • Publication number: 20230048674
    Abstract: The resonant tank circuit (102) comprises: a transformer (T); a primary circuit (M1); and a secondary circuit (M2); wherein the transformer (T) and the primary and secondary circuits (M1, M2) are designed to operate in a forward mode and in a reverse mode; and wherein the transformer (T) and the primary and secondary circuits (M1, M2) have, at a resonant frequency (FR), a forward gain (GF(FR)), respectively a reverse gain (GR (FR)), essentially independent of the load, when operating in the forward mode, respectively the reverse mode. The primary and secondary circuits (M1, M2) are different one from another and the forward gain (GF(FR)) and the reverse gain (GR(FR)) at the resonant frequency (FR) are essentially equal to one another, notably to within 5%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Siemens eAutomotive (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen He, Gang Yang
  • Publication number: 20230052549
    Abstract: A method for operating a first vehicle (100) with a parking assistance system (110) is proposed, comprising: a) sensing an obstructing parked position (BP) of the first vehicle (100) by means of the parking assistance system (110), wherein the obstructing parked position (BP) is a parked position which adjoins a parking space (PP) occupied by a parked second vehicle (150), b) reception of a sensor signal, acquired by a sensor apparatus (120, 130) of the vehicle (100), by means of the parking assistance system (110), c) detecting a request to exit a parking space of the parked second vehicle (150) in accordance with the received sensor signal by means of the parking assistance system (110), and d) autonomously driving the first vehicle (100) from the obstructing parked position (BP) into a position which is different from the obstructing parked position (BP) in accordance with the detected request to exit a parking space by means of the parking assistance system (110).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventor: Marco Heimberger