Patents by Inventor Mario Orefice

Mario Orefice 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: 10069201
    Abstract: A system includes a sensor device adapted to be associated with a tyre of a vehicle, and a sensor coordinator device adapted to be installed on a body of the vehicle. The sensor coordinator device includes an antenna. The antenna includes a single-piece metallic plate shaped so as to define a first plate portion designed for the wireless reception of data from the sensor device in a first frequency band, and a second plate portion designed for the wireless transmission of data to the sensor device in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. The antenna further includes a ground plate common to both the first and second plate portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gianluca Dassano, Mario Orefice, Guillermo Vietti
  • Patent number: 9168795
    Abstract: A sensor device adapted to be associated with a vehicle wheel includes a package enclosing at least one sensor and an electronic data processing apparatus and at least one antenna arranged on the package for at least one among the wireless transmission of data generated by the electronic apparatus and the wireless reception of data to be provided to the electronic apparatus. The at least one antenna is shaped to adhere to surfaces of the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignees: PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A., POLITECNICO DI TORINO
    Inventors: Gianluca Dassano, Ladislau Matekovits, Mario Orefice, Guillermo Vietti
  • Publication number: 20130278467
    Abstract: A system includes a sensor device adapted to be associated with a tyre of a vehicle, and a sensor coordinator device adapted to be installed on a body of the vehicle. The sensor coordinator device includes an antenna. The antenna includes a single-piece metallic plate shaped so as to define a first plate portion designed for the wireless reception of data from the sensor device in a first frequency band, and a second plate portion designed for the wireless transmission of data to the sensor device in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. The antenna further includes a ground plate common to both the first and second plate portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Inventors: Gianluca Dassano, Mario Orefice, Guillermo Vietti
  • Publication number: 20130025751
    Abstract: A sensor device adapted to be associated with a vehicle wheel includes a package enclosing at least one sensor and an electronic data processing apparatus and at least one antenna arranged on the package for at least one among the wireless transmission of data generated by the electronic apparatus and the wireless reception of data to be provided to the electronic apparatus. The at least one antenna is shaped to adhere to surfaces of the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicants: POLITECNICO DI TORINO, PIRELLI TYRE S.P.A.
    Inventors: Gianluca Dassano, Ladislau Matekovits, Mario Orefice, Guillermo Vietti
  • Publication number: 20120109338
    Abstract: A method for implementing an electronically tunable structure including: a plurality of elementary cells interacting with the same electromagnetic field; a control unit and a plurality of electronic control devices, each of which is connected to the control unit and to a respective elementary cell. The control unit provide each electronic control device with a corresponding control signal. Each electronic control device is controllable to vary a state of the corresponding elementary cell. The control unit provides control signals such to define a group of identical patterned cells formed by a respective number of adjacent elementary cells. The states of the cells define a predetermined state configuration, so that the states of the group define a periodical sequence of states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Applicants: MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, POLITECNICO DI TORINO
    Inventors: Ladislau MATEKOVITS, Mario OREFICE, Karunanayake Pathirannahalage Asoka Priyathama ESSELLE, Michael Craig HEIMLICH
  • Publication number: 20080157901
    Abstract: A microstrip structure comprising a conductive layer whose width varies in such a way as to obtain an effective dielectric constant, which presents a sinusoidal shape modulation. The propagation of electromagnetic waves in materials with electromagnetic properties, which varies along their propagation direction having desirable characteristics, such as the presence of frequency bands in which the propagation is allowed and of bands in which the electromagnetic waves are stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Ladislau Matekovits, Paola Pirinoli, Guillermo Carlos Vietti Colome, Mario Orefice