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US 12,746,924 B2Granted
Road vehicle implementing a launch control procedure and corresponding control method
AssigneeFerrari S.P.A.
InventorsGiorgio Cucciolla, Flavio Gargiulo, Maximilian Romani
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Abstract
A road vehicle having: a passenger compartment delimited by a roof at the top; at least one front seat arranged in the passenger compartment; an accelerator pedal; a brake pedal; a control unit, which implements a launch control procedure; and a manual control, which is can be operated to carry out the activation of the launch control procedure and is arranged on the roof.
Claims19
A road vehicle (1) comprising:
- a passenger compartment (4) delimited by a roof (18) at the top;
- at least one front seat (9) arranged in the passenger compartment (4);
- an accelerator pedal (10);
- a brake pedal (11);
- a control unit (19), which implements a launch control procedure (20);
- and
- a manual control (21), which can be operated to carry out the activation of the launch control procedure (20) and is arranged on the roof (18);
- wherein the manual control (21) is configured to be activated by means of a vertical movement from the top to the bottom;
- wherein the manual control (21) comprises a support (22) having a seat (23) and a control body (25), which is accommodated in the seat (23) in a movable manner so as to be moved between a deactivated position, in which the launch control procedure (20) cannot be activated, and an active position, in which the launch control procedure (20) can be activated;
- wherein the control body (25) linearly translates by means of the vertical movement from the top to the bottom from the deactivated position to the active position, in which the control body (25) is at least partially extracted from the seat (23);
- wherein the control body (25) comprises a handle (26), which can be grabbed and can be pulled in order to extract the control body (25) from the seat (23), thus moving the control body (25) from the deactivated position to the active position.
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A road vehicle (1) comprising:
- a passenger compartment (4) delimited by a roof (18) at the top;
- an ambient lighting system (17) configured to generate an ambient light throughout the passenger compartment (4);
- a steering wheel (8);
- at least one front seat (9) arranged in the passenger compartment (4);
- a control panel (7), which is arranged behind the steering wheel (8) and is provided with a backlighting system (16);
- an ambient lighting system for the passenger compartment (4);
- an accelerator pedal (10);
- a brake pedal (11);
- a control unit (19), which implements a launch control procedure (20);
- and
- a manual control (21), which can be operated to carry out the activation of the launch control procedure (20) and is located outside the control panel (7) at a certain distance from the control panel (7);
- wherein the control unit (19) is configured to signal the activation of the launch control procedure (20) by changing a colour of a backlight of the control panel (7) and/or by changing a colour of the ambient light of the passenger compartment (4).
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.