Patents by Inventor Sandro Bonardo

Sandro Bonardo 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).

  • Publication number: 20240092332
    Abstract: A valve unit for an anti-lock braking system has a valve body, a piston, and an elastic element acting on the piston. The valve body has an outlet port, an inlet port, a primary chamber communicating with the outlet port, an expansion chamber with an outflow passage establishing fluid communication between the primary chamber and the expansion chamber, and a bypass passage between the inlet port and the outlet port. The piston is movable in the primary chamber and has a longitudinal through cavity, a first transversal surface facing the outlet port, and a second transversal surface facing away from the outlet port. The first transversal surface has an area smaller than the area of the second transversal surface. The elastic element exerts an elastic force to move the piston away from the outlet port. The valve unit is activatable by pressure of a brake fluid in the primary chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Sandro BONARDO
  • Publication number: 20240067152
    Abstract: A valve unit for an ABS system having a single hydraulic chamber configured to receive a brake fluid, with a delivery port for supplying the brake fluid to a brake caliper, and a passage to for letting the brake fluid from a master cylinder into the single hydraulic chamber is provided. A single piston, longitudinally movable within the single hydraulic chamber, has first transverse surfaces facing the delivery port and defining as a whole a first transverse area, second transverse surfaces facing away from the delivery port and defining as a whole a second transverse area greater than the first transverse area. A longitudinal cavity extends in the single piston establishing fluid communication between the first and second transverse surfaces, whereby displacement of the single piston towards the delivery port occludes the passage and increments the volume available for the brake fluid in the single hydraulic chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Sandro BONARDO, Benjamin Chetwood STRUVE'
  • Patent number: 11834126
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake distributor for a two-wheeled vehicle has an outer body that forms an internal cavity accommodating two floating piston valve elements. The two floating piston valve elements are axially movable and mutually coupled in a telescopic manner. One of the two floating piston valve elements has an internal through-channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: RAICAM DRIVELINE S.R.L.
    Inventors: Sandro Bonardo, Matteo Giaccardi
  • Publication number: 20230234544
    Abstract: An anti-lock braking unit is provided which has a single actuating solenoid acting on a piston of an associated valve unit. The actuating solenoid moves the piston within a primary hydraulic chamber in fluid communication with a brake calliper. A movement of the piston closes a bypass passage formed within the valve unit, that connects a master cylinder to the brake calliper. By closing the bypass passage, the build-up of pressure acting on the calliper is stopped. Simultaneously, the movement of the piston opens an outflow passage within the valve unit, allowing a brake fluid to vent from the primary hydraulic chamber into an expansion chamber. The expansion chamber provides an increased volume for brake fluid contained between the valve unit and the brake calliper, thereby decreasing pressure of the brake fluid acting on the calliper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Chetwood STRUVE, Sandro BONARDO, Andrea CANESTRARI, Daniele CANOVA
  • Publication number: 20230091631
    Abstract: A control device comprises two brake master cylinders (13, 14), both of which may be operated simultaneously by the same single manual control lever (15), according to a combined or integral braking mode. A switching element (27), associated with the manual control lever (15), may exclude one (14) of the two brake master cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Sandro BONARDO, Roberto CANALE
  • Publication number: 20230020090
    Abstract: A hydraulic brake distributor for a two-wheeled vehicle has an outer body that forms an internal cavity accommodating two floating piston valve elements. The two floating piston valve elements are axially movable and mutually coupled in a telescopic manner. One of the two floating piston valve elements has an internal through-channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Sandro BONARDO, Matteo GIACCARDI
  • Patent number: 6322284
    Abstract: The invention concerns an arrangement (10) for fixing a tubular shift cylinder (12), between two mounting and locking positions in a motor vehicle body, comprising means for blocking the cylinder (12) in axial translation including, from the front rearwards, a transverse surface of the cylinder (12), axial elastic means, a body wall (20), pierced with an orifice (18), and a transverse eye mounting (34) of the cylinder (12) passing through a cutout (40) of the orifice (18) and enabling to immobilise the cylinder (12) axially when a rotation of the cylinder (12) locks it by squeezing the wall (20) between the support surface, the axial elastic means and the eye mounting (34).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2001
    Assignee: Valeo
    Inventors: Sandro Bonardo, Frédéric Rey, Gino Villata