Patents by Inventor Jordi Bigorra Vives

Jordi Bigorra Vives 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: 8207454
    Abstract: An electrical junction box for an automotive vehicle. The junction box includes an upper cover and a lower cover. The lower cover may be constructed as a unitary one-piece molded body that defines a plurality of separate terminal cavities. Each of the separate terminal cavities is adapted to receive a single wire terminal without a housing connector that has multiple wire-terminal receptacles. In addition, the junction box may include an electrical circuit board and a busbar between the upper cover and the lower cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher J. Darr, John N. Topolewski, Enric Aparicio Rollan, Jordi Bigorra Vives
  • Publication number: 20090321129
    Abstract: An electrical junction box for an automotive vehicle. The junction box includes an upper cover and a lower cover. The lower cover may be constructed as a unitary one-piece molded body that defines a plurality of separate terminal cavities. Each of the separate terminal cavities is adapted to receive a single wire terminal without a housing connector that has multiple wire-terminal receptacles. In addition, the junction box may include an electrical circuit board and a busbar between the upper cover and the lower cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher J. Darr, John N. Topolewski, Enric Aparicio Rollan, Jordi Bigorra Vives
  • Patent number: 7359783
    Abstract: The mobile element is a vehicle window pane, panel, movable seat or similar, conveniently guided, and driven by a DC electric motor with a permanent magnet, and the method comprises a step of detecting an entrapment or collision situation of the mobile element by means of a first fuzzy logic algorithm, which inputs are the mobile element's position and the increments that may occur in the intensity of the current demanded by said motor, which is evaluated from the relative increase of the current intensity at one turn of the motor and after one next, subsequent turn of the motor. A second fuzzy logic algorithm is used to control the mobile element's velocity, in close loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Lear Corp.
    Inventors: Jordi Bigorra Vives, Antoni Ferre Fabregas, Josep Samitier Marti, Atila Herms Berenguer, Sebastià Bota Ferragut, Agustin Gutierrez Galvez, Jose Luis Merino Panades, Francisco Javier Garcia Hernando, Rafael Jimenez Pino
  • Publication number: 20050187688
    Abstract: The mobile element is a vehicle window pane, panel, movable seat or similar, conveniently guided, and driven by a DC electric motor with a permanent magnet, and the method comprises a step of detecting an entrapment or collision situation of the mobile element by means of a first fuzzy logic algorithm, which inputs are the mobile element's position and the increments that may occur in the intensity of the current demanded by said motor, which is evaluated from the relative increase of the current intensity at one turn of the motor and after one next, subsequent turn of the motor. A second fuzzy logic algorithm is used to control the mobile element's velocity, in close loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2004
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Applicant: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jordi Bigorra Vives, Antoni Fabregas, Josep Marti, Atila Berenguer, Sebastia Ferragut, Agustin Galvez, Jose Merino Panades, Francisco Garcia Hernando, Rafael Pino
  • Patent number: 6879057
    Abstract: An electrical distribution box for vehicles with two networks at different voltage levels, comprising centralized electronic signal and power control means, including a microprocessor and electrical protection means, arranged on printed circuit boards in a casing, electrically connected to at least one DC supply source and to parts of the vehicle, incorporating at least one voltage converter (5) inside the distribution box (1), on an independent printed circuit board (10) or in a differentiated area of a supporting plate of the control means, which board (10) or differentiated area is in a clear area of said casing, both in its upper part and in its lower part, electromagnetic screening means having been provided for the converter (5) inside the casing, and thermal dissipation means for the supporting plate of the converter (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: Lear Automotive (EEDS) Spain, S.L.
    Inventors: Joan Fontanilles Piñas, Carles Borrego Bel, Jordi Bigorra Vives, Jordi Giro Roca
  • Patent number: 6876174
    Abstract: Based on the measurement of the increase of sinusoidal voltage ?V=Vmaxsine(2?ft) on adding a sinusoidal current ?I=Imaxsine(2?ft+?) to the battery current, where f is the frequency and Imax, the amplitude of the superimposed current, with whose magnitudes the electrochemical impedance of the battery Z(f)=Vmax/Imaxej? is calculated, comprising the application of a first sinusoidal signal of prefixed frequency to the battery which generates an alternate voltage component superimposed over the direct one; eliminating the direct component of the response signal; applying a second periodic voltage signal with a frequency identical to that of said first signal and carrying out a synchronous detection of the alternate component generated by the application of said first signal to obtain the voltage proportional to the electrochemical impedance and evaluate the state of health and charge of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Lear Automotive (EEDS) Spain, S.L.
    Inventors: Josep Samittier Marti, Manuel Puig Vidal, Oscar Ruiz Sanchez, Daniel Guasch Murillo, Jordi Bigorra Vives, Jordi Giro Roca
  • Patent number: 6507506
    Abstract: The invention is designed for vehicles having two electrical power supply systems and corresponding differentiated voltage level charges and two batteries operating at a first and a second voltage level. A bidirectional voltage converter cooperates with both systems whose input and output stages are galvanically insulated and include a switch. The batteries are connected to said input and output at a first and a second voltage level so that said bidirectional converter can provide a first reduced voltage mode and a second increased voltage mode. The passive components, e.g. the magnetic components and capacitances, of said stages have been chosen to provide an identical transitional behavior in both modes when a disruption occurs in the regulating system either in the charge or the input voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2003
    Assignee: Lear Automotive (EEDS) Spain, S. L.
    Inventors: Joan Fontanilles Piñas, Carles Borrego Bel, Jordi Bigorra Vives, Jordi Giro Roca, Luis Martinez-Salamero, Javier Maixe Altes, Hugo Valderrama Blavi