Patents by Inventor Carlo Rossi
Carlo Rossi 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).
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Patent number: 8887710Abstract: The present invention provides a cooking gas burner assembly including a distributor (30), a gas manifold (50) and a cup (40), the cup (40) being located between the gas manifold (50) and the distributor (30). The gas manifold is spaced from the cup. The invention provides a burner assembly having at least a cap (220) and a distributor (30) on which the cap (220) is mounted, the distributor (30) including an internal and an external crown of flame ports, and at least one cross lighting passage (37) there between. The cap (220) includes an aperture (222) there through, which is adapted to be positioned over the cross lighting passage (37) when the cap (220) and distributor (30) are assembled.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2005Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Aktiebolaget ElectroluxInventors: Carlo Rossi, Marco Rossi
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Patent number: 8701651Abstract: A modular trivet arrangement includes trivet members including a first bar, a first footing at a first end of the first bar, a second footing at the second end of the first bar, and one or more transverse bars, each transverse bar being transverse to the first bar and intersecting therewith, the second bar having a third footing at a first end of the second bar and a fourth footing at the second end of the second bar. The intersection between the first and second bars can support a cooking utensil. The modular trivet members include one or more engaging slots adapted to enable engagement with a cooperating modular trivet member.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2009Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Aktiebolaget ElectroluxInventors: Scott King, Lyndon Craig, Lars Erikson, Carlo Rossi, Stephen Wise
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Patent number: 8641008Abstract: Method for controlling the position of an electromechanical actuator for reciprocating compressor valves. The actuator includes a member (302) movable in a direction parallel to the direction for opening and closing the obturator of the valve (12), between a position corresponding to the closed position and a position corresponding to the open position of the obturator (11). The member (302) is provided with a mechanism (322) able to act on the obturator (11) and with a magnetizable portion (312) co-operating with two electromagnets (102, 202) and being arranged in equilibrium between the latter via a suitable mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2009Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Assignee: Dott. Ing. Mario Cozzani S.r.l.Inventors: Massimo Schiavone, Andrea Raggi, Carlo Rossi
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Publication number: 20130275190Abstract: A method provides real-time mobile supplier-to-customer communications and transactions based on client and business applications installed onto respective client user equipment and business user equipment. The method includes: starting a business query by the client application based on geolocalization of the client user equipment; inserting a business query by a customer through the client application; sending the business query criteria to a central server to establish a query result including suppliers meeting the business query criteria; sending the query result to the client application; selecting a supplier by the customer through the client application; sending business transaction data to the central server which pushes the business transaction data to the business application; and receiving an immediate reply from the business application toward the central server which pushes the reply to the client application, to allow the business transactions to be immediately confirmed, denied or changed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: TAKEALL SAInventors: Marco Carlo Rossi, Maurizio Micale
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Patent number: 8462796Abstract: Method for exchanging information among digital units in a distributed system, with digital units being defined by at least a master node and slave nodes, involves transferring information references from a master node to slave nodes, the information references being sampled with sampling time corresponding to a cycle time period defined by a clock value of the master node. The method also involves estimating the number of the information references sampled arrived to the slave node from the master nodes during a periodic reference time interval, and using the number to recalculate the master clock value, so that the slave nodes are able to reconstruct master node information references during a following reference time interval.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2006Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Ima Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A.Inventors: Leonardo Potenza, Graziano Mazzuchetti, Carlo Rossi, Andrea Tilli, Pierantonio Ragazzini
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Publication number: 20110095146Abstract: A modular trivet arrangement includes trivet members including a first bar 1.004, a first footing 1.008 at a first end of the first bar, a second footing at the second end of the first bar 1.010, and one or more transverse bars 1.006, each transverse bar being transverse to the first bar and intersecting therewith, the second bar having a third footing 1.012 at a first end of the second bar and a fourth footing 1.014 at the second end of the second bar. The intersection 1.026 between the first and second bars can support a cooking utensil. The modular trivet members include one or more engaging slots 1.016, 1.020 adapted to enable engagement with a cooperating modular trivet member.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2009Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: AKTIEBOLAGET ELECTROLUXInventors: Scott King, Lyndon Craig, Lars Erikson, Carlo Rossi, Stephen Wise
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Publication number: 20110079739Abstract: Method for controlling the position of an electromechanical actuator for reciprocating compressor valves. The actuator includes a member (302) movable in a direction parallel to the direction for opening and closing the obturator of the valve (12), between a position corresponding to the closed position and a position corresponding to the open position of the obturator (11). The member (302) is provided with a mechanism (322) able to act on the obturator (11) and with a magnetisable portion (312) co-operating with two electromagnets (102, 202) and being arranged in equilibrium between the latter via a suitable mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2009Publication date: April 7, 2011Inventors: Massimo Schiavone, Andrea Raggi, Carlo Rossi
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Publication number: 20090097504Abstract: Method for exchanging information among digital units in a distributed system, with digital units being defined by at least a master node and slave nodes, comprising the step of transferring information references from said master node to said slave nodes, said information references being sampled with sampling time corresponding to a cycle time period defined by clock value of said master node; wherein the method comprises further steps of estimating the number of said information references sampled arrived to said slave node from said master node during a periodic reference time interval, and using said number to recalculate the master clock value, so that said slave nodes are able to reconstruct master node information reference during a following reference time interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2006Publication date: April 16, 2009Applicant: IMA INDUSTRIA MACCHINEInventors: Leonardo Potenza, Graziano Mazzuchetti, Carlo Rossi, Andrea Tilli, Pierantonio Ragazzini
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Publication number: 20080210216Abstract: The present invention provides a cooking gas burner assembly including a distributor (30), a gas manifold (50) and a cup (40), said cup (40) being located between said gas manifold (50) and said distributor (30). The invention also provides a method of assembling a distributor (30) and a cup (40) in a cooking gas burner assembly, said method including the steps of providing: said distributor (30) with downwardly extending spigots (32), providing said cup (40) with recesses (48) to receive said spigots (32), said recesses (48) including a base surface (246), said recesses (48) being sized and or shaped whereby thermal expansion of said distributor (30) results in substantially no increase in the contact surface between said cup (40) and distributor (30), when said distributor (30) is hot compared to when it is cold.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2005Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: AKTIEBOLAGET ELECTROLUXInventors: Carlo Rossi, Marco Rossi
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Patent number: 6683775Abstract: A control method for an electromagnetic actuator for the control of an engine valve in which at least one electromagnet displaces an actuator body under the action of the force of magnetic attraction generated by the electromagnet, the electrical supply of the electromagnet being controlled as a function of an objective value of the magnetic flux circulating in the magnetic circuit formed by the electromagnet and the actuator body.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2001Date of Patent: January 27, 2004Assignee: Magneti Marelli Powertrain S.p.A.Inventors: Carlo Rossi, Gianni Padroni, Riccardo Nanni
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Patent number: 6591204Abstract: A method and device for estimating magnetic flux in an electromagnetic actuator for controlling an engine valve, whereby the actuating body, made at least partly of ferromagnetic material, is moved towards at least one electromagnet by the force of magnetic attraction generated by the electromagnet; and the value of the magnetic flux through a magnetic circuit defined by the electromagnet and by the actuating body is estimated by measuring the values assumed by various electric quantities of an electric circuit connected to the magnetic circuit, calculating the time derivative of the magnetic flux as a linear combination of the values of the electric quantities, and integrating in time the derivative of the magnetic flux.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.Inventors: Carlo Rossi, Alberto Tonielli
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Patent number: 6571823Abstract: Method and device for estimating the position of an actuator body in an electromagnetic actuator to control a valve of an engine, according to which the actuator body, which is at least partly made of ferromagnetic material, is displaced towards at least one electromagnet, by the effect of the force of electromagnetic attraction generated by the electromagnet itself; the position of the actuator body relative to the electromagnet is determined on the basis of the value assumed by the reluctance of a magnetic circuit constituted by the electromagnet and by the actuator body.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.Inventors: Carlo Rossi, Alberto Tonielli
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Publication number: 20020100439Abstract: A control method for an electromagnetic actuator for the control of an engine valve in which at least one electromagnet displaces an actuator body under the action of the force of magnetic attraction generated by the electromagnet, the electrical supply of the electromagnet being controlled as a function of an objective value of the magnetic flux circulating in the magnetic circuit formed by the electromagnet and the actuator body.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2001Publication date: August 1, 2002Inventors: Carlo Rossi, Gianni Padroni, Riccardo Nanni
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Publication number: 20020084777Abstract: A method and device for estimating magnetic flux in an electromagnetic actuator for controlling an engine valve, whereby the actuating body, made at least partly of ferromagnetic material, is moved towards at least one electromagnet by the force of magnetic attraction generated by the electromagnet; and the value of the magnetic flux through a magnetic circuit defined by the electromagnet and by the actuating body is estimated by measuring the values assumed by various electric quantities of an electric circuit connected to the magnetic circuit, calculating the time derivative of the magnetic flux as a linear combination of the values of the electric quantities, and integrating in time the derivative of the magnetic flux.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2001Publication date: July 4, 2002Inventors: Carlo Rossi, Alberto Tonielli
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Publication number: 20020014269Abstract: Method and device for estimating the position of an actuator body in an electromagnetic actuator to control a valve of an engine, according to which the actuator body, which is at least partly made of ferromagnetic material, is displaced towards at least one electromagnet, by the effect of the force of electromagnetic attraction generated by the electromagnet itself; the position of the actuator body relative to the electromagnet is determined on the basis of the value assumed by the reluctance of a magnetic circuit constituted by the electromagnet and by the actuator body.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Inventors: Carlo Rossi, Alberto Tonielli
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Patent number: 6188952Abstract: Method for determining the progress of internal pressure of a cylinder in an internal combustion engine, defining for each combustion cycle of the engine, the phases of defining the effective operating point of the engine according to the value assumed by a number of operational parameters of the engine; recording the progress of immediate angular speed of the engine shaft; calculating a transfer function involving the angular speed and the internal pressure of the cylinder at the effective defined operational point, on the basis of a plurality of reference transfer functions between internal pressure and angular speed relative to reference operating points of the engine; and deriving the progress of internal pressure at the cylinder of the transfer function at the actual operating point and of the progress of angular speed.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1999Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.Inventors: Gabriele Serra, Carlo Rossi, Giorgio Minelli, Piero Azzoni, Davide Moro
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Patent number: 5068937Abstract: This invention relates to a device for the activation of perborate in washing machines, said device comprising a cup (2, 8) for activating perborate which is fed by a perborate metering device (1) or may also lack such device, and is connected to the washing tub (6) through a conduit (7) and is supplied with water through the conduit (9) for the supply of water from the water main, or a conduit (18) arranged as a by-pass in said conduit that supplies water from the water main, or through a conduit (19) connected to the bottom of the washing tub (6); said device also comprising an electric resistance (3) for heating water contained in said cup (2, 8) or at a point upstream said cup, and means (4) that detect the temperature inside said cup (2, 8).Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 1989Date of Patent: December 3, 1991Assignee: Enea - Comitato Nazionale per la Ricerca e per lo Sviluppo Dell'Energia Nucleare e Delle Energie AlternativeInventors: Stefano Meloni, Carlo Rossi
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Patent number: D625145Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2008Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignees: Electrolux Home Products Pty Limited, Aktiebolaget ElectroluxInventors: Scott King, Lyndon Craig, Lars Erikson, Carlo Rossi, Stephen Wise
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Patent number: D637040Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Pty LimitedInventors: Scott King, Alex Gray, Carlo Rossi
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Patent number: D648597Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Electrolux Home Products Pty LimitedInventors: Scott King, Alex Gray, Carlo Rossi