Patents by Inventor Gianluca Puleo

Gianluca Puleo 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: 8777309
    Abstract: A lumbar support for a vehicle backrest has a rest member with a front surface shaped to support an area of a user's back, and an elastic member behind the rest member; the elastic member has an intermediate portion fixed to the rest member and two opposite ends fixed connected to a backrest frame, maintains the rest member in a rest position and can deform in response to a thrust of the user's back so as to let the rest member move between the rest position and a first position under normal conditions, and then abruptly towards a second position when a thrust of a user's back exceeds a given force value; the force/displacement curve of the elastic member has a slope which is between zero and a given threshold in the section between the first and the second positions, the threshold being equal to 0.5 [N/mm].
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: C.R.F. Società Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Salvatore Demontis, Gianluca Puleo, Fabio Lopez, Giorgio Masoero
  • Publication number: 20120306248
    Abstract: A lumbar support for a vehicle backrest has a rest member with a front surface shaped to support an area of a user's back, and an elastic member behind the rest member; the elastic member has an intermediate portion fixed to the rest member and two opposite ends fixed connected to a backrest frame, maintains the rest member in a rest position and can deform in response to a thrust of the user's back so as to let the rest member move between the rest position and a first position under normal conditions, and then abruptly towards a second position when a thrust of a user's back exceeds a given force value; the force/displacement curve of the elastic member has a slope which is between zero and a given threshold in the section between the first and the second positions, the threshold being equal to 0.5 [N/mm].
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: C.R.F. Societá Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Salvatore Demontis, Gianluca Puleo, Fabio Lopez, Giorgio Masoero