Patents by Inventor Claudio De Tommasi

Claudio De Tommasi 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 for calibrating inertial sensor installed in arbitrary position on board vehicle and sensor system of dynamics of vehicle able to be installed on board in arbitrary position
    Patent number: 8825274
    Abstract: A method calibrates an inertial-sensor device installed in an arbitrary position on board a vehicle and adapted to detect at least one entity indicative of vehicle dynamics along at least one direction of a local reference-coordinate system. The method includes steps of: acquiring by the inertial-sensor device at predetermined measuring times real-measured data indicative of the vehicle dynamics in the local reference-coordinate system; acquiring by a calibrating detector different from the inertial-sensor device, at sampling times coinciding with the measuring times, reference-measured data indicative of the vehicle dynamics in a vehicle-coordinate system; and generating a coordinate-transformation matrix adapted to correlate the entity measured in the local reference-coordinate system with a corresponding entity in the vehicle-coordinate system. Also, a sensor system of dynamics of the vehicle is able to be installed on board in an arbitrary position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Magneti Marelli S.p.A.
    Inventor: Claudio De Tommasi
  • METHOD FOR CALIBRATING INERTIAL SENSOR INSTALLED IN ARBITRARY POSITION ON BOARD VEHICLE AND SENSOR SYSTEM OF DYNAMICS OF VEHICLE ABLE TO BE INSTALLED ON BOARD IN ARBITRARY POSITION
    Publication number: 20120330497
    Abstract: A method calibrates an inertial-sensor device installed in an arbitrary position on board a vehicle and adapted to detect at least one entity indicative of vehicle dynamics along at least one direction of a local reference-coordinate system. The method includes steps of: acquiring by the inertial-sensor device at predetermined measuring times real-measured data indicative of the vehicle dynamics in the local reference-coordinate system; acquiring by a calibrating detector different from the inertial-sensor device, at sampling times coinciding with the measuring times, reference-measured data indicative of the vehicle dynamics in a vehicle-coordinate system; and generating a coordinate-transformation matrix adapted to correlate the entity measured in the local reference-coordinate system with a corresponding entity in the vehicle-coordinate system. Also, a sensor system of dynamics of the vehicle is able to be installed on board in an arbitrary position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Inventor: Claudio De Tommasi