Patents by Inventor Herminio Navalon Carretero

Herminio Navalon Carretero 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: 7934491
    Abstract: Incorporates at least one thermal switch (5) in series with the heating resistor (4) of the module located on the frame (1) of said resistors (4) that cuts off current to the resistor (4) when the heater power control circuit fails. The thermal switch (5) can be between the heating resistor (4) and the earth connection of the support (6), or between the heating resistor (4) and the power supply (3) of the module. The module allows a closed-loop control using as variable the temperature of one of the resistors (4), whose resistivity can change with the temperature. Similarly, the electronic control circuit can also be integrated in the heater frame (1), allowing a closed-loop control of the dissipated power using as control variable the temperature of the frame (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: Nagares, S.A.
    Inventor: Herminio Navalon Carretero
  • Publication number: 20090038592
    Abstract: Incorporates at least one thermal switch (5) in series with the heating resistor (4) of the module located on the frame (1) of said resistors (4) that cuts off current to the resistor (4) when the heater power control circuit fails. The thermal switch (5) can be between the heating resistor (4) and the earth connection of the support (6), or between the heating resistor (4) and the power supply (3) of the module. The module allows a closed-loop control using as variable the temperature of one of the resistors (4), whose resistivity can change with the temperature. Similarly, the electronic control circuit can also be integrated in the heater frame (1), allowing a closed-loop control of the dissipated power using as control variable the temperature of the frame (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: Nagares, S.A.
    Inventor: Herminio Navalon Carretero
  • Publication number: 20070039596
    Abstract: Used for heating the gases circulating through an intake manifold (13), preferably of a plastic material, by means of heating element (1), incorporating a metal frame (2) in which is adhered the power control circuit (4), and in which is installed the heating element (1), both forming the same module to provide electronic control of the temperature of the intake gases in the intake manifold, preventing the maximum temperature of the plastic of the intake manifold from being exceeded. The power control circuit (4) incorporates essentially a control logic (8), which is connected a temperature sensor (3) and at least one power switch (6), which controls the heating element (1), the temperature sensor (3) being preferably integrated in the power control circuit (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2003
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Applicant: NAGARES, S.A.
    Inventor: Herminio Navalon Carretero
  • Patent number: 6831441
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic pulse width modulation (PWM) regulator of a low frequency rectangular wave signal serving to control the speed of a direct current motor. The invention aims at simplifying the design of said regulator by eliminating the classical inductive element so that the motor continuously operates as a filter of the output signal provided by the switching component. The invention also aims at preventing noises caused by switching. To this end, subsonic switching frequencies of less than 50 Hz are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Nagares, S.A.
    Inventor: Herminio Navalon Carretero
  • Patent number: 6789530
    Abstract: Electrical resistances to carry out heating of air necessary for the combustion process of an engine, each of said resistance being in continuous tape form, with a pronounced coiled trajectory so that the resistance is distributed uniformly in an orifice for the passage of air established in a support and has its larger faces located in imaginary planes parallel to the axis of said orifice so that the electrical resistance presents its front rim to the passage of the air with a minimum loss of head, while presenting a wide contact surface to the air. The resistance is fastened to the support in arched recesses defined in diametrically opposed areas of said support, with the interposition of respective ceramic insulators being connected to ground by one of its ends and by its other end to the electricity supply cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Nagares, S.A., Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
    Inventors: Herminio Navalon Carretero, Francisco Payri Gonzalez, José Maria Desantes Fernandez, Jaime Alberto Broatch Jacobi
  • Publication number: 20040129258
    Abstract: Electrical resistances to carry out heating of air necessary for the combustion process of an engine, each of said resistance being in continuous tape form, with a pronounced coiled trajectory so that the resistance is distributed uniformly in an orifice for the passage of air established in a support and has its larger faces located in imaginary planes parallel to the axis of said orifice so that the electrical resistance presents its front rim to the passage of the air with a minimum loss of head, while presenting a wide contact surface to the air. The resistance is fastened to the support in arched recesses defined in diametrically opposed areas of said support, with the interposition of respective ceramic insulators being connected to ground by one of its ends and by its other end to the electricity supply cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Herminio Navalon Carretero, Francisco Payri Gonzalez, Jose Maria Desantes Fernandez, Jaime Alberto Broatch Jacobi
  • Patent number: 6186107
    Abstract: The heating glow plug controller for diesel engines is capable of controlling the activation of the glow plugs and consists of a set of electronic relays which in addition can also detect failures due to open circuit or short-circuit, and then acting in under 1 millisecond since electronic relays are semiconductors and no electromechanical elements are involved. There is one electronic relay per glow plug and each one may consist of a separate semiconductor wafer or alternatively, several relays may be integrated in a single semiconductor wafer. The set of relays is in turn connected to controlling or calculating module, and may even be included in the same block as the calculator module or in a different one connected by connectors and leads to the calculator block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Nagares, S.A.
    Inventor: D. Herminio Navalon Carretero