Patents by Inventor Danilo Caratto

Danilo Caratto 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: 9045102
    Abstract: A system for passive entry and/or passive start for a motor vehicle is described, which includes an antenna group and an electronic control unit designed to be coupled to the vehicle, the electronic control unit for controlling the antenna group to cooperate with a portable recognition device carried by a user to enable the entry and/or start of the vehicle. The antenna group has at least a first antenna and a second antenna, designed to operate within the frequency range, and according to the communication protocol, of the Bluetooth standard, and having a respective radiation lobe; wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are arranged so that their radiation lobes are arranged on opposite sides with respect to a longitudinal symmetry axis of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Danilo Caratto, Carlo Piazzano, Samuele Ginevro
  • Publication number: 20140188309
    Abstract: A system for passive entry and/or passive start for a motor vehicle is described, which includes an antenna group and an electronic control unit designed to be coupled to the vehicle, the electronic control unit for controlling the antenna group to cooperate with a portable recognition device carried by a user to enable the entry and/or start of the vehicle. The antenna group has at least a first antenna and a second antenna, designed to operate within the frequency range, and according to the communication protocol, of the Bluetooth standard, and having a respective radiation lobe; wherein the first antenna and the second antenna are arranged so that their radiation lobes are arranged on opposite sides with respect to a longitudinal symmetry axis of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Danilo CARATTO, Carlo PIAZZANO, Samuele GINEVRO
  • Patent number: 6226569
    Abstract: A rotary transmitter for registration of the steering angle of a motor vehicle, with a transmitter component (49) on which is provided a coding (51) of a predetermined number n of locally sequentially digital words (Wi) with a width of m bits (b1, b2, . . , Bm) in m adjacent to each other tracks, at least one detector (55) for essentially simultaneous registration of the individual bits (b1, b2, . . . , Bm) of a digital word (Wi), whereby the transmitter component (49) and at least the one detector (55) are movable relative to each other, and with an evaluation unit (11) to which is conducted the signal of at least the one detector (55). The evaluation unit (11) ascertains the absolute position of the transmitter component (49) relative to at least the one detector (55), at least one time, by evaluation of a predetermined number (p) of sequentially detected digital words (Wi), whereby the evaluation unit (11) assigns to a detected p-measure (Wi, Wi+1, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2001
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Electronics & Components GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Cornelius Peter, Wolfgang Huber, Trevor Stewart, Zdenek Pavlis, Danilo Caratto