Abstract: An acquisition system for detecting the angular position of a gas knob of a motorcycle; the acquisition system is provided with: a fixed supporting body; a mobile element, which is mounted mobile in the supporting body; a transmission device, mechanically connected to the gas knob and to the mobile element for transmitting the motion from the gas knob to the mobile element itself; and a main position sensor, which is carried by the supporting body, is coupled to the mobile element for determining the angular position of the mobile element, and is designed to provide two mutually redundant measurements of the angular position of the mobile element.

Abstract: A method for detecting the angular position of a gas knob of a motorcycle; the method presents the steps of: detecting simultaneously four mutually redundant measurements of the angular position of the gas knob by means of two mutually independent angular-position sensors forming part of an acquisition system; making a cross comparison two by two between the four measurements for diagnosing any possible malfunctioning of the angular-position sensors; and determining the angular position of the gas knob, using at least one measurement supplied by an angular-position sensor operating properly.

Abstract: An acquisition system for detecting the angular position of a gas knob of a motorcycle; the acquisition system is provided with: a fixed supporting body; a mobile element, which is mounted mobile in the supporting body; a transmission device, mechanically connected to the gas knob and to the mobile element for transmitting the motion from the gas knob to the mobile element itself; and a main position sensor, which is carried by the supporting body, is coupled to the mobile element for determining the angular position of the mobile element, and is designed to provide two mutually redundant measurements of the angular position of the mobile element.

Abstract: A system for acquiring the angular position of a gas twist grip in a motorcycle; the acquisition system is provided with a fixed supporting body; a rotating shaft turnable mounted in the supporting body; a transmission device mechanically connected to the gas twist grip and to the revolving shaft to transmit the motion of the gas twist grip to the revolving shaft itself; a main angular position sensor, which is carried by the supporting body, is coupled to the revolving shaft to determine the angular position of revolving shaft, and is adapted to provide two reciprocally redundant measures of the angular position of the revolving shaft; and an angular control position sensor, which is carried by the supporting body, is coupled to the revolving shaft to determine the angular position of the revolving shaft, and is adapted to provide two reciprocally redundant measures of the angular position of the revolving shaft.

Abstract: A method for detecting the angular position of a gas knob of a motorcycle; the method presents the steps of: detecting simultaneously four mutually redundant measurements of the angular position of the gas knob by means of two mutually independent angular-position sensors forming part of an acquisition system; making a cross comparison two by two between the four measurements for diagnosing any possible malfunctioning of the angular-position sensors; and determining the angular position of the gas knob, using at least one measurement supplied by an angular-position sensor operating properly.

Abstract: A system for acquiring the angular position of a gas twist grip in a motorcycle; the acquisition system is provided with a fixed supporting body; a rotating shaft turnable mounted in the supporting body; a transmission device mechanically connected to the gas twist grip and to the revolving shaft to transmit the motion of the gas twist grip to the revolving shaft itself; a main angular position sensor, which is carried by the supporting body, is coupled to the revolving shaft to determine the angular position of revolving shaft, and is adapted to provide two reciprocally redundant measures of the angular position of the revolving shaft; and an angular control position sensor, which is carried by the supporting body, is coupled to the revolving shaft to determine the angular position of the revolving shaft, and is adapted to provide two reciprocally redundant measures of the angular position of the revolving shaft.

Abstract: A regulating device for regulating the air intake of an internal combustion engine, and comprising at least one throttled body having at least one air feed conduit connectable to the engine, and a first and second throttle housed in said at least one feed conduit to regulate air intake of the engine on command; the regulating device comprises a manually operated accelerator control device connected mechanically to the first throttle to rotate the first throttle about a first axis of rotation into an operating angular position related to the engine torque demanded by the user operating the accelerator control device; and electric control means for rotating the second throttle about a second axis of rotation into a target angular position determined as a function of the operating angular position of the first throttle.

Abstract: A regulating device for regulating the air intake of an internal combustion engine, and comprising at least one throttled body having at least one air feed conduit connectable to the engine, and a first and second throttle housed in said at least one feed conduit to regulate air intake of the engine on command; the regulating device comprises a manually operated accelerator control device connected mechanically to the first throttle to rotate the first throttle about a first axis of rotation into an operating angular position related to the engine torque demanded by the user operating the accelerator control device; and electric control means for rotating the second throttle about a second axis of rotation into a target angular position determined as a function of the operating angular position of the first throttle.

Abstract: A member for controlling airflow to an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, the member having a throttled body, which has a throttle valve for regulating airflow to the engine on command, and is designed to house an electronic central control unit, which in turn has an engine control module for performing a number of main engine control functions, and a security system control module which receives a control signal containing an identity code of a user of the motor vehicle, determines whether or not the identity code conforms with a predetermined authorization condition, and accordingly commands enabling or disabling of ignition of the engine of the motor vehicle by the engine control module.

Abstract: Described herein is a method for creating indices of forecasts of performance regarding financial markets, in which a number (p) of performances for each element of a number (m) of markets and/or financial tools are considered as unknown variables; the method comprising the following steps: definition of an objective function (FO) as the sum of the squares of the differences of the homologous elements of the correlation matrix calculated on the variables and of the correlation matrix supplied as forecast, and minimization of said objective function (FO) using a non-linear programming algorithm for identification of global optima so as to obtain said indices of forecasts of performance regarding financial markets.

Abstract: This describes a method of processing data relating to historical performance series (A1, A2, . . . , Am) of markets and/or of financial tools to obtain a synthetic index (PROXYNTETICA) constituted of a plurality of historical performance series (Ax1, Ax2, . . . , Axn) representative of various economical and financial scenarios, which exhibits the particularity of being highly correlated with the last rolling of the market and of therefore maintaining a high representativity of the conditions relating to the covariances between the markets and/or the financial tools.