Patents by Inventor Cristiano Boero

Cristiano Boero 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).

  • Patent number: 10065363
    Abstract: A welding apparatus for making an automotive light including light guides having an inlet which receives the fibers the laser beam produced by the laser emitting device and an outlet which propagates/transmits the laser beam collimated by said guides. The light guide has respective free ends mechanically separated from each other, wherein the light guides are configured so as to direct collimated light beams on adjacent and locally continuous portions of welding interface so as to obtain a homogeneous and uniform distribution of the light beams along the welding interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Fabio Leone
  • Patent number: 9874329
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an automotive light including the steps of: providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile; providing a lenticular body delimited by a second perimetral profile; associating the profiles, with a contact surface therebetween defining a welding interface; providing a laser emission device emitting radiation, operatively connected to a first light guide with an output to distribute radiation via a spatial distribution including with lobes; providing a second light guide inside the lenticular body adapted to obtain a light guide of radiation inside the lenticular body, having walls defined by a first lobe; arranging the guides to route a first lobe of radiation from the output towards the second guide, to propagate at least one lobe of radiation inside the second light guide towards the welding interface; wherein the container body acts as an absorbing member and the lenticular body acts as a transmissive member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico
    Inventors: Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Nicola Schiccheri, Fabio Leone, Alessandro Buzzurro
  • Patent number: 9757896
    Abstract: Method of manufacture of an automotive light comprising the steps of providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile, providing a lenticular body, internally delimited by a second perimetral profile and externally by an outer edge corresponding to said second perimetral profile, wherein the container body acts as an absorbent element of the light beam and the lenticular body acts as a transmission element of the light beam, providing optical devices for changing the divergence of the portions of laser beams in output from the fibers, so as to collimate them overall along at least one predetermined optical axis. The method further comprises the steps of directing on a critical portion of the welding interface at least a first laser beam emitted by a respective fiber lying on an optical plane incident with said critical portion of the welding interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Fabio Leone
  • Patent number: 9482403
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an automotive light including the steps of: providing at least one laser diode emitting a light beam with a characteristic emission spectrum; providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile; providing a molded lenticular body delimited by a second perimetral profile and having at least first and second overlapping integral layers with different transmittance values in relation to the laser emission spectrum; at least partially associating the perimetral profiles; and at least partially welding at the perimetral profiles with the laser, wherein the laser beam is routed towards the perimetral profiles so as to reach the first perimetral profile after passing through at least one of the layers of the lenticular body, and wherein the container body acts as an absorbing member in relation to the light beam and the lenticular body acts as a transmissive member of the light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Italia S.p.A. a Socio Unico
    Inventors: Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Nicola Schiccheri, Fabio Leone, Alessandro Buzzurro
  • Publication number: 20160236403
    Abstract: A welding apparatus for making an automotive light including light guides having an inlet which receives the fibres the laser beam produced by the laser emitting device and an outlet which propagates/transmits the laser beam collimated by said guides. The light guide has respective free ends mechanically separated from each other, wherein the light guides are configured so as to direct collimated light beams on adjacent and locally continuous portions of welding interface so as to obtain a homogeneous and uniform distribution of the light beams along the welding interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2015
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Fabio Leone
  • Publication number: 20150343701
    Abstract: Method of manufacture of an automotive light comprising the steps of providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile, providing a lenticular body, internally delimited by a second perimetral profile and externally by an outer edge corresponding to said second perimetral profile, wherein the container body acts as an absorbent element of the light beam and the lenticular body acts as a transmission element of the light beam, providing optical devices for changing the divergence of the portions of laser beams in output from the fibres, so as to collimate them overall along at least one predetermined optical axis. The method further comprises the steps of directing on a critical portion of the welding interface at least a first laser beam emitted by a respective fibre lying on an optical plane incident with said critical portion of the welding interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Nicola Schiccheri, Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Fabio Leone
  • Publication number: 20150276158
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an automotive light including the steps of: providing at least one laser diode emitting a light beam with a characteristic emission spectrum; providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile; providing a molded lenticular body delimited by a second perimetral profile and having at least first and second overlapping integral layers with different transmittance values in relation to the laser emission spectrum; at least partially associating the perimetral profiles; and at least partially welding at the perimetral profiles with the laser, wherein the laser beam is routed towards the perimetral profiles so as to reach the first perimetral profile after passing through at least one of the layers of the lenticular body, and wherein the container body acts as an absorbing member in relation to the light beam and the lenticular body acts as a transmissive member of the light beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Nicola Schiccheri, Fabio Leone, Alessandro Buzzurro
  • Publication number: 20150276159
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an automotive light including the steps of: providing a container body delimited by a first perimetral profile; providing a lenticular body delimited by a second perimetral profile; associating the profiles, with a contact surface therebetween defining a welding interface; providing a laser emission device emitting radiation, operatively connected to a first light guide with an output to distribute radiation via a spatial distribution including with lobes; providing a second light guide inside the lenticular body adapted to obtain a light guide of radiation inside the lenticular body, having walls defined by a first lobe; arranging the guides to route a first lobe of radiation from the output towards the second guide, to propagate at least one lobe of radiation inside the second light guide towards the welding interface; wherein the container body acts as an absorbing member and the lenticular body acts as a transmissive member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Cristiano Boero, Domenico Ferigo, Nicola Schiccheri, Fabio Leone, Alessandro Buzzurro