Patents by Inventor Andrea Fortunato

Andrea Fortunato has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method of diagnosing a motor vehicle battery based on parameters related to an electric quantity supplied by the battery
    Patent number: 7148653
    Abstract: There is described a method of diagnosing a motor vehicle battery, wherein, at each start-up of the vehicle engine, a number of parameters, related to the pattern of an electric quantity supplied by the battery during a transient start-up state of the engine, are recorded; and the recorded parameters are then memorized to create a database which is used to determine the charge status of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societá Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Andrea Fortunato, Mario Gambera
  • Method of diagnosing a vehicle engine cooling system
    Patent number: 6829530
    Abstract: A method of diagnosing a cooling system of a vehicle engine, including the steps of: acquiring operating data relative to operation of the cooling system (cooling system radiator water temperature/fan rotation speed) during a trip time between turn-on of the engine and subsequent turn-off of the engine; processing the acquired data, and accumulating the data for each trip to create a database; and examining the location of the data within the database to determine malfunction and/or potential malfunction situations of the cooling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Mario Gambera, Andrea Fortunato
  • Method of diagnosing a vehicle engine cooling system
    Publication number: 20040129067
    Abstract: A method of diagnosing a cooling system of a vehicle engine, including the steps of: acquiring operating data relative to operation of the cooling system (cooling system radiator water temperature/fan rotation speed) during a trip time between turn-on of the engine and subsequent turn-off of the engine; processing the acquired data, and accumulating the data for each trip to create a database; and examining the location of the data within the database to determine malfunction and/or potential malfunction situations of the cooling system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Mario Gambera, Andrea Fortunato
  • Method of diagnosing a motor vehicle battery
    Publication number: 20040130325
    Abstract: There is described a method of diagnosing a motor vehicle battery, wherein, at each start-up of the vehicle engine, a number of parameters, related to the pattern of an electric quantity supplied by the battery during a transient start-up state of the engine, are recorded; and the recorded parameters are then memorized to create a database which is used to determine the charge status of the battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Andrea Fortunato, Mario Gambera
  • Method of diagnosing a vehicle compressed-air generating system
    Publication number: 20040117080
    Abstract: A method of diagnosing a vehicle compressed-air generating system, the method including the steps of: acquiring a number of operating data items associated with operation of the compressed-air generating system between turn-on of the system and subsequent turn-off of the system; processing the acquired operating data items and accumulating the data items to create at least one database; and examining the location of the data items in the database to determine malfunction and/or potential malfunction situations of the compressed-air generating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2003
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Marco Mauro, Maria Paola Bianconi, Andrea Fortunato, Mario Gambera