Patents by Inventor Roberto Fontana

Roberto Fontana 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).

  • Detonation detection method for internal combustion engines
    Patent number: 5978728
    Abstract: The method includes the steps of generating a detonation signal related to the intensity of the vibration on an engine block; wide-band filtering the detonation signal; rectifying the filtered detonation signal; integrating the rectified signal; calculating the logarithm of the integration result; calculating a mean value as a function of the calculated logarithm; calculating the values of a first and second standard-deviation-related quantity as a function of the logarithm value and the mean value; and calculating a detonation coefficient value as a function of the values of the standard-deviation-related quantities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: C.R.F. Societa Consortile per Azioni
    Inventors: Roberto Fontana, Gianluca Morra, Stefano Re Fiorentin