Patents by Inventor Akiyasu Miyamoto

Akiyasu Miyamoto 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: 11852093
    Abstract: Low noise control of a high-pressure fuel pump is performed by reducing noise generated by an anchor colliding with a fixing core. A control device 800 for a high-pressure fuel pump controls a suction valve that opens and closes an inflow port through which fuel flows to a pressurizing chamber by performing energization to a solenoid 205 in synchronization with a reciprocating motion of a plunger. A current energized to the solenoid 205 includes a peak current for giving a force to start closing a valve to the suction valve in a stationary state and a holding current for performing switching in a range smaller a maximum value of the peak current in order to hold the suction valve in a valve closing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Aono, Osamu Mukaihara, Kenichiro Tokuo, Hirotaka Nakai, Kotaro Oki, Shunsuke Aritomi, Akiyasu Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11629678
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection valve capable of stroking a valve body in two stages of large and small strokes and improving responsiveness of a valve opening operation. Therefore, a first mover 201 is attracted to a magnetic core 107. A second mover 202 is formed separately from the first mover 201, and is attracted to the magnetic core 107 on an inner diameter side of the first mover 201. A valve body 101 has a flange portion 101a on an upstream side of the second mover 202. A spacer 213 forms a gap (void g1) in an axial direction between the flange portion 101a and the second mover 202 in a valve closed state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyasu Miyamoto, Masashi Sugaya, Yasuo Namaizawa, Takuya Watai
  • Publication number: 20230053215
    Abstract: During model-based development, a processing target is sometimes broken down into partial structures. At such time, a long calculation time and a large quantity of computer resources are required if each partial structure has a large number of degrees of freedom. The present invention is a hierarchical reduced-order matrix generation device 600 that generates a hierarchical reduced-order matrix for performing numerical analysis of a physical object, and has: a storage unit 62 that stores physical object data indicating properties of the physical object; and a computation unit 61 that generates a hierarchical reduced-order matrix for a model of the physical object data. The computation unit 61 divides the overall structure into a plurality of partial structures, and calculates the reduced-order matrix using a unique mode and a static mode of each of the divided plurality of partial structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Akiyasu MIYAMOTO, Taizou MIYAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230038318
    Abstract: Low noise control of a high-pressure fuel pump is performed by reducing noise generated by an anchor colliding with a fixing core. A control device 800 for a high-pressure fuel pump controls a suction valve that opens and closes an inflow port through which fuel flows to a pressurizing chamber by performing energization to a solenoid 205 in synchronization with a reciprocating motion of a plunger. A current energized to the solenoid 205 includes a peak current for giving a force to start closing a valve to the suction valve in a stationary state and a holding current for performing switching in a range smaller a maximum value of the peak current in order to hold the suction valve in a valve closing state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Toshihiro AONO, Osamu MUKAIHARA, Kenichiro TOKUO, Hirotaka NAKAI, Kotaro OKI, Shunsuke ARITOMI, Akiyasu MIYAMOTO
  • Patent number: 11359569
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to promote the stabilization of the fuel injection amount in a fuel injection device in which a valve body and a movable iron core are configured to be relatively displaceable. In a control unit 120 of a fuel injection device 100 which includes a control part that controls the energization time of a current flowing through a coil 108 based on the pulse width of a drive command pulse, the control part is configured to be able to execute control to split a required fuel injection amount for one combustion cycle into portions and inject the portions in a plurality of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyasu Miyamoto, Takao Miyake, Ryo Kusakabe
  • Patent number: 11359567
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for a fuel injection device capable of detecting a variation in valve opening start timing of the fuel injection device and stabilizing a fuel injection quantity. Therefore, the control device for the fuel injection device of the present invention is a control device for a plurality of fuel injection devices each including: a valve body that opens a fuel passage by separating from a valve seat; a movable element that causes an opening/closing operation of the valve body; and a stator that attracts the movable element by a drive current flowing through a coil. This control device includes a control unit that controls the energization time of the drive current by a pulse width of a drive command pulse. The control unit estimates a valve opening start timing having a correlation with a detected valve closing completion timing. Further, the pulse width of the drive command pulse is corrected based on the valve opening start timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyasu Miyamoto, Takao Miyake, Taisuke Sugii
  • Publication number: 20220099040
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for a fuel injection device capable of detecting a variation in valve opening start timing of the fuel injection device and stabilizing a fuel injection quantity. Therefore, the control device for the fuel injection device of the present invention is a control device for a plurality of fuel injection devices each including: a valve body that opens a fuel passage by separating from a valve seat; a movable element that causes an opening/closing operation of the valve body; and a stator that attracts the movable element by a drive current flowing through a coil. This control device includes a control unit that controls the energization time of the drive current by a pulse width of a drive command pulse. The control unit estimates a valve opening start timing having a correlation with a detected valve closing completion timing. Further, the pulse width of the drive command pulse is corrected based on the valve opening start timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Akiyasu MIYAMOTO, Takao MIYAKE, Taisuke SUGII
  • Patent number: 11242830
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection valve capable of quickly stopping a position of a movable element at a predetermined position after closing a valve while reducing an impact force of a valve body. Therefore, a valve body 101 includes a sleeve 113. A first movable core 201 (first movable element) lifts the valve body 101 by the attractive force of a magnetic core 107. A second movable core 202 (second movable element) further lifts the valve body 101 by the attractive force of the magnetic core 107 after the first movable core 201 (first movable element) lifts the valve body 101. After the valve body 101 is seated on the seat member 102 and the second movable core 202 (second movable element) is separated from the sleeve 113, a bottom surface 201g of the first movable core 201 (first movable element) collides with a storage bottom surface 111b (collision receiving portion).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyasu Miyamoto, Yasuo Namaizawa, Takao Miyake, Takuya Watai
  • Publication number: 20210396191
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to promote the stabilization of the fuel injection amount in a fuel injection device in which a valve body and a movable iron core are configured to be relatively displaceable. In a control unit 120 of a fuel injection device 100 which includes a control part that controls the energization time of a current flowing through a coil 108 based on the pulse width of a drive command pulse, the control part is configured to be able to execute control to split a required fuel injection amount for one combustion cycle into portions and inject the portions in a plurality of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Akiyasu MIYAMOTO, Takao MIYAKE, Ryo KUSAKABE
  • Publication number: 20210363937
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, combustion stability is improved while exhaust gas emission is suppressed. For this purpose, a control device (1) for controlling an injector (103) is configured to include a control unit (21) that controls the injector (103) to perform a first fuel injection (1001) for injecting fuel at a first fuel pressure from the injector (103) in an intake stroke (S1) in one combustion cycle of an internal combustion engine (100) and a second fuel injection (1002) for injecting fuel at a second fuel pressure higher than the first fuel pressure from the injector (103) after the first fuel injection (1001) in the same one combustion cycle in the intake stroke (S1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Akiyasu MIYAMOTO, Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Publication number: 20210102520
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection valve capable of stroking a valve body in two stages of large and small strokes and improving responsiveness of a valve opening operation. Therefore, a first mover 201 is attracted to a magnetic core 107. A second mover 202 is formed separately from the first mover 201, and is attracted to the magnetic core 107 on an inner diameter side of the first mover 201. A valve body 101 has a flange portion 101a on an upstream side of the second mover 202. A spacer 213 forms a gap (void g1) in an axial direction between the flange portion 101a and the second mover 202 in a valve closed state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyasu MIYAMOTO, Masashi SUGAYA, Yasuo NAMAIZAWA, Takuya WATAI
  • Patent number: 10961935
    Abstract: A drive device capable of detecting individual variations of an injection quantity of a fuel injection device of each cylinder and adjusting a current waveform provided to an injection pulse width and a solenoid such that the individual variations of the fuel injection devices are reduced. The fuel injection device in the present invention includes a valve body that close a fuel passage by coming into contact with a valve seat and opens the fuel passage by separating from the valve seat and a magnetic circuit constructed of a solenoid, a fixed core, a nozzle holder a housing and a needle and when a current is supplied to the solenoid a magnetic suction force acts on the needle and the needle has a function to open the valve body by colliding against the valve body after performing a free running operation and changes of acceleration of the needle due to collision of the needle against the valve body are detected by a current flowing through the solenoid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo Kusakabe, Motoyuki Abe, Ayumu Hatanaka, Toshihiro Aono, Teppei Hirotsu, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Masahiro Toyohara, Osamu Mukaihara, Takao Fukuda, Yoshihito Yasukawa, Akiyasu Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10883434
    Abstract: An object is to suppress an inclination of a waveform indicating an injection quantity with respect to an injection pulse particularly when a lift amount of a valve body is small and an injection pulse width is short, thereby improving control accuracy of the injection quantity of a fuel injection device. Thus, a control device for controlling a fuel injection device, which includes a valve body, a solenoid, and a movable element to open the valve body, is provided with a control unit that controls a drive voltage or a drive current to be applied to the solenoid, in which the control unit controls the drive current such that the drive current to be supplied to the solenoid decreases from a maximum drive current after the maximum drive current is supplied to the solenoid and before the valve body starts to open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Takao Miyake, Akiyasu Miyamoto, Takatoshi Iizuka, Kiyotaka Ogura
  • Patent number: 10883461
    Abstract: Electromagnetic solenoid has movable core having end surface that is formed between inner circumferential surface and outer circumferential surface of movable core; and fixed core having end surface that is formed between inner circumferential surface and outer circumferential surface of fixed core and faces the end surface of movable core. Ring-shaped protruding portion is formed at least either one of the end surface of the movable core or the end surface of the fixed core. Protruding portion is provided at a position that is shifted to a radially inner circumferential side of the end surface. A length between apex and inner circumferential edge of protruding portion is shorter than a length between the apex and an outer circumferential edge of protruding portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamazaki, Takahiro Saito, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Akiyasu Miyamoto, Yoshihito Yasukawa
  • Patent number: 10823102
    Abstract: A control device for a fuel injection valve including a variable lift mechanism of two or more stages is provided. The control device includes an inflection point detection unit for detecting an inflection point from at least one of a drive current when the fuel injection valve is opened or a drive voltage when the fuel injection valve is closed. The control device also includes a drive sensing unit for sensing a drive lift of the fuel injection valve from at least one of an inflection point of a drive current during valve opening operation or a drive voltage during valve closing operation. The control device is configured to limit the command drive lift when the sensed drive lift is different from a command drive lift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiro Itaba, Osamu Mukaihara, Akiyasu Miyamoto, Akira Iizuka
  • Patent number: 10815949
    Abstract: Provided is a structure capable of reducing dribbling of fuel generated when a valve body is closed. In order to achieve the above object, a fuel injection device includes: a valve body; and a seat member having a seat portion on which the valve body is seated and having a fuel injection hole formed on a downstream side of the seat portion. The seat member is formed such that a gap between the seat member and the opposing valve body in the whole region on the downstream side of the fuel injection hole is smaller than a diameter of the fuel injection hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihito Yasukawa, Kiyotaka Ogura, Takao Miyake, Akira Iizuka, Kazuki Yoshimura, Akiyasu Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20200291910
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection valve capable of quickly stopping a position of a movable element at a predetermined position after closing a valve while reducing an impact force of a valve body. Therefore, a valve body 101 includes a sleeve 113. A first movable core 201 (first movable element) lifts the valve body 101 by the attractive force of a magnetic core 107. A second movable core 202 (second movable element) further lifts the valve body 101 by the attractive force of the magnetic core 107 after the first movable core 201 (first movable element) lifts the valve body 101. After the valve body 101 is seated on the seat member 102 and the second movable core 202 (second movable element) is separated from the sleeve 113, a bottom surface 201g of the first movable core 201 (first movable element) collides with a storage bottom surface 111b (collision receiving portion).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Akiyasu MIYAMOTO, Yasuo NAMAIZAWA, Takao MIYAKE, Takuya WATAI
  • Patent number: 10704516
    Abstract: The present invention includes a valve seat and a valve body that cooperatively open/close a fuel passage, a movable element having the valve body provided at one end part thereof and a movable iron core 27a provided at the other end part thereof, a fixed iron core 25 which faces the movable iron core 27a and which attracts the movable iron core 27a by applying a magnetic attraction force thereto, and a cylindrical member that includes thereinside the fixed iron core 25 and the movable iron core 27a. The fixed iron core 25 includes a reduced-diameter part 25m on an outer circumferential surface at the side facing the movable iron core 27a, and the movable iron core 27a includes a reduced-diameter part 27am on an outer circumferential surface at the side facing the fixed iron core 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamazaki, Takahiro Saito, Nobuaki Kobayashi, Akiyasu Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 10662886
    Abstract: A control device of a fuel injection device improves stabilization in an opening operation of a valve element and stabilizes an injection amount. The control device includes a valve element to open a fuel passage by being separated from a valve seat, a movable iron core to perform an opening/closing operation of the valve element, and a fixed iron core to attract the movable iron core when a current flows to a coil. The control device includes a control unit which performs an intermediate energization in which the coil is energized again to attract the movable iron core to the fixed iron core and then the energizing to the coil is blocked and the movable iron core is displaced in a direction away from the fixed core. The control unit controls whether the intermediate energization is performed according to an injection interval of the fuel injection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Akiyasu Miyamoto, Masahiro Toyohara, Osamu Mukaihara, Yoshihito Yasukawa
  • Publication number: 20200088123
    Abstract: In a fuel injection valve including a variable lift mechanism of two or more stages, when fuel is injected with a lift different from a command, exhaust emission deterioration and torque fluctuations may occur. A control device for a fuel injection valve including a variable lift mechanism of two or more stages is provided, which senses a drive lift of the fuel injection valve from an inflection point of a drive current during valve opening operation or a drive voltage during valve closing operation, and limits the command drive lift when the sensed drive lift is different from a command drive lift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Fumihiro ITABA, Osamu MUKAIHARA, Akiyasu MIYAMOTO, Akira IIZUKA