Patents by Inventor Massimo Fossanetti

Massimo Fossanetti 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: 11970157
    Abstract: An automotive electronic dynamics control system for a motor-vehicle equipped with and automotive automated driving system designed to cause the motor-vehicle to perform low-speed manoeuvres in automated driving. The automotive automated driving system comprises an automotive sensory system designed to detect motor-vehicle-related quantities, and automotive actuators comprising an Electric Power Steering, a Braking System, and a Powertrain. The electronic dynamics control system is designed to implement a Driving Path Planner designed to: receive data representative of static obstacles in the surroundings of the motor-vehicle and representing static space constraints to the motion of the motor-vehicle, and compute, based on the received data, a planned driving path for the motor-vehicle during a low-speed manoeuvre performed in automated driving.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI
    Inventors: Giulio Borrello, Enrico Raffone, Claudio Rei, Massimo Fossanetti
  • Publication number: 20220169247
    Abstract: An automotive electronic dynamics control system for a motor-vehicle equipped with and automotive automated driving system designed to cause the motor-vehicle to perform low-speed manoeuvres in automated driving. The automotive automated driving system comprises an automotive sensory system designed to detect motor-vehicle-related quantities, and automotive actuators comprising an Electric Power Steering, a Braking System, and a Powertrain. The electronic dynamics control system is designed to implement a Driving Path Planner designed to: receive data representative of static obstacles in the surroundings of the motor-vehicle and representing static space constraints to the motion of the motor-vehicle, and compute, based on the received data, a planned driving path for the motor-vehicle during a low-speed manoeuvre performed in automated driving.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Applicant: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI
    Inventors: Giulio BORRELLO, Enrico RAFFONE, Claudio REI, Massimo FOSSANETTI
  • Publication number: 20220161819
    Abstract: An automotive electronic driving speed control system configured to control the driving speed of the motor-vehicle along a recurring path travelled by the motor-vehicle in assisted- or autonomous-driving based on one or more driver-specific driving speed profiles of the motor-vehicle learnt during one or more previous travels of the same path along which the motor-vehicle is manually driven by the specific driver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI
    Inventors: Roberto FEDELI, Enrico RAFFONE, Claudio REI, Massimo FOSSANETTI
  • Patent number: 11299172
    Abstract: An automotive autonomous driving system comprising automotive on-board systems comprising a propulsion system, a braking system, a steering system, and a sensory system, an automotive user interface, and an automotive electronic control unit connected to, via an automotive on-board communications network, and configured to cooperate with, the automotive on-board systems and the automotive user interface to provide an automotive autonomous driving system. The automotive electronic control unit is further configured to store and populate a database of recurrent low speed manoeuvres and cause recurrent low speed manoeuvres stored in the database of recurrent low speed manoeuvres to be repeated in autonomous driving mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI
    Inventors: Silvano Marenco, Stefano Mangosio, Massimo Fossanetti, Andrea Saroldi
  • Patent number: 11273828
    Abstract: An automotive electronic preventive active safety system comprising a control module configured to receive data indicative of a current position of a vehicle, of roads and characteristics thereof including road curvature, and of potential driving routes of the motor-vehicle from a current position up to an electronic horizon thereof. If a current speed of the vehicle at the current position is greater than or equal to a driving speed determined by a driving speed profile for the current position, the control module is configured to at least one of: command the motor-vehicle to decelerate to the driving speed determined by the driving speed profile for the current position; and generate a request to a driver of the motor-vehicle to decelerate the motor-vehicle to the driving speed determined by the driving speed profile for the current position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: C.R.F. SOCIETA' CONSORTILE PER AZIONI
    Inventors: Claudio Rei, Enrico Raffone, Massimo Fossanetti
  • Publication number: 20210284183
    Abstract: An automotive autonomous driving system comprising automotive on-board systems comprising a propulsion system, a braking system, a steering system, and a sensor), system, an automotive user interface, and an automotive electronic control unit connected to, via an automotive on-board communications network, and configured to cooperate with, the automotive on-board systems and the automotive user interface to provide an automotive autonomous driving system. The automotive electronic control unit is further configured to store and populate a database of recurrent low speed manoeuvres and cause recurrent low speed manoeuvres stored in the database of recurrent low speed manoeuvres to be repeated in autonomous driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Silvano MARENCO, Stefano MANGOSIO, Massimo FOSSANETTI, Andrea SAROLDI
  • Publication number: 20200156638
    Abstract: An automotive electronic preventive active safety system designed to improve driving stability of a motor-vehicle and to: receive data indicative of a current position of the motor-vehicle, and of roads and their characteristics comprising a road curvature, and of potential driving routes of the motor-vehicle from a current position up to an electronic horizon thereof; identify the most driving-safety-critical road bend along the driving route of the motor-vehicle; backwards compute, from the most driving-safety-critical road bend and up to the current position of the motor-vehicle, a driving speed profile that the motor-vehicle should follow from its current position up to the identified most driving-safety-critical road bend to result in the latter being driven through at a driving speed that satisfies a driving safety criterion; compare the current and backwards-computed speeds of the motor-vehicle in the current position thereof; and, if the current speed of the motor-vehicle in its current position is gr
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Claudio REI, Enrico RAFFONE, Massimo FOSSANETTI
  • Patent number: 7702445
    Abstract: What is described is a control system for controlling the driving-away maneuver in a motor vehicle provided with a gearbox comprising a primary input shaft which can be coupled to a drive shaft of a propulsion system of the vehicle by means of a servo-assisted friction clutch, wherein a control unit receives at its input signals indicating a command imparted by the driver of the motor vehicle by operating the accelerator pedal, and generates—on the basis of a mathematical reference model—reference torque request signals indicating the reference torques requested from the drive shaft and from the friction clutch during the driving-away manoeuvre, and also generates—by comparison between signals indicating the estimated angular velocities of the drive shaft and of the primary gear shaft, and detected signals indicating the actual angular velocities of the drive shaft and of the primary gear shaft—corresponding corrective contributions, in such a way as to construct command signals for controlling torque actuato
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: C.R.F. Società Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Renato Gianoglio, Claudia Supparo, legal representative, Dario Del Pin, Giovanni Ellena, Massimo Fossanetti, Massimo Lupo, Attilio Porta, Pandeli Borodani
  • Patent number: 7373233
    Abstract: What is described is a control system for controlling the coupling between a driveshaft of a motor vehicle propulsion system and a primary input shaft of a gearbox by means of a servo-assisted friction clutch. A control unit receives at its input signals indicating a command imparted by the driver of the motor vehicle by operating the accelerator pedal in a driving-away or gear-changing manoeuvre, and generates—on the basis of a mathematical reference model—reference torque request signals indicating the reference torques requested from the driveshaft and from the friction clutch, the said request signals or data varying in time in such a way as to cause synchronization between the angular velocities of the driveshaft and of the primary gear shaft to be reached at the same moment as the difference between the angular accelerations of the said shafts becomes zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: C.R.F. Società{grave over ( )} Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Renato Gianoglio, Claudia Supparo, legal representative, Dario Del Pin, Giovanni Ellena, Massimo Fossanetti, Massimo Lupo, Attilio Porta, Pandeli Borodani
  • Publication number: 20060287793
    Abstract: What is described is a control system for controlling the coupling between a driveshaft of a motor vehicle propulsion system and a primary input shaft of a gearbox by means of a servo-assisted friction clutch. A control unit receives at its input signals indicating a command imparted by the driver of the motor vehicle by operating the accelerator pedal in a driving-away or gear-changing manoeuvre, and generates—on the basis of a mathematical reference model—reference torque request signals indicating the reference torques requested from the driveshaft and from the friction clutch, the said request signals or data varying in time in such a way as to cause synchronization between the angular velocities of the driveshaft and of the primary gear shaft to be reached at the same moment as the difference between the angular accelerations of the said shafts becomes zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Renato Gianoglio, Dario Del Pin, Giovanni Ellena, Massimo Fossanetti, Massimo Lupo, Attilio Porta, Pandeli Borodani, Claudia Supparo
  • Publication number: 20060287794
    Abstract: What is described is a control system for controlling the driving-away manoeuvre in a motor vehicle provided with a gearbox comprising a primary input shaft which can be coupled to a drive shaft of a propulsion system of the vehicle by means of a servo-assisted friction clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2006
    Publication date: December 21, 2006
    Inventors: Renato Gianoglio, Claudia Supparo, Dario Pin, Giovanni Ellena, Massimo Fossanetti, Massimo Lupo, Attilio Porta, Pandeli Borodani
  • Patent number: 6524219
    Abstract: A first clutch and a second clutch, which are operable selectively, control the coupling of the rotor of a reversible electrical machine with the transmission and with the internal combustion engine, respectively. A control system is provided for implementing a stop-start function in which, in a stop stage, the internal combustion engine is disconnected from the electrical machine and from the transmission and is switched off, in first predetermined operating conditions of the vehicle and then, as a result of the occurrence of second operating conditions, such as a command imparted by the driver, in a subsequent start stage, is automatically restarted by means of the electrical machine operating as a motor, and is then reconnected to the transmission. The system is characterized especially by particular methods of controlling the clutches and the electrical machine during the start stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Domenico Mesiti, Giancarlo Osella, Attilio Porta, Giovanni Ellena, Massimo Fossanetti, Massimo Lupo
  • Patent number: 6389346
    Abstract: A system for controlling a servo-controlled gearbox (C), configured so as to use gear-shifting strategies similar to those used by a human driver so as to improve the driving sensation experienced by the driver. The control system uses a plurality of sensors (SENS) disposed in the vehicle for detecting the various operative conditions and a system of rules (a rule-based system) for implementing the strategies provided for.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: C.R.F. S.C.P.A.
    Inventors: Renato Gianoglio, Pandeli Borodani, Giovanni Ellena, Massimo Fossanetti, Massimo Lupo, Attilio Porta
  • Publication number: 20020019290
    Abstract: A first clutch and a second clutch, which are operable selectively, control the coupling of the rotor of a reversible electrical machine with the transmission and with the internal combustion engine, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Publication date: February 14, 2002
    Applicant: C.R.F. SOCIETA CONSORTILE PER AZIONI
    Inventors: Domenico Mesiti, Giancarlo Osella, Attilio Porta, Giovanni Ellena, Massimo Fossanetti, Massimo Lupo