Patents by Inventor Sergio LOPES

Sergio LOPES 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).

  • DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AN AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION DURING CORNERING
    Publication number: 20160348786
    Abstract: A method for controlling an automatic transmission of a vehicle during cornering includes controlling opening of the transmission in response to movement of a control interface, the position data of which are transmitted to a calculation unit of the transmission by a communication network of the vehicle, based on a comparison of a measured or predicted transverse acceleration value of the vehicle with a transverse acceleration threshold calibrated as a radius of curvature of encountered or identified corners and speed and longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle on the corners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Applicant: RENAULT s.a.s
    Inventors: Fabrice RIESENMEY, Sergio LOPES, Ivan POUJOL