Patents by Inventor Eiji Murase
Eiji Murase 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).
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Patent number: 11628824Abstract: A controller for a vehicle includes a controlling unit. In a case in which the target engine torque is less than or equal to a threshold, the controlling unit controls the engine such that the torque of the engine becomes equal to the target engine torque, and controls a motor-generator such that the torque of the motor-generator becomes equal to the target motor torque. Also, in a case in which the target engine torque is greater than the threshold, the controlling unit controls the engine such that the torque of the engine becomes less than or equal to the threshold, and controls the motor-generator such that the torque of the motor-generator increases.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshitaka Niimi, Eiji Murase
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Publication number: 20220017070Abstract: A controller for a vehicle includes a controlling unit. In a case in which the target engine torque is less than or equal to a threshold, the controlling unit controls the engine such that the torque of the engine becomes equal to the target engine torque, and controls a motor-generator such that the torque of the motor-generator becomes equal to the target motor torque. Also, in a case in which the target engine torque is greater than the threshold, the controlling unit controls the engine such that the torque of the engine becomes less than or equal to the threshold, and controls the motor-generator such that the torque of the motor-generator increases.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: January 20, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshitaka NIIMI, Eiji MURASE
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Patent number: 10808642Abstract: A fuel injection control device includes a valve closing detection unit (54) to detect a valve closing timing by using either of an electromotive force quantity detection mode and a timing detection mode, a selection unit (21) to select either of the electromotive force quantity detection mode and the timing detection mode for detecting the valve closing timing, and a correction unit (21) to calculate a correction coefficient for correcting a requested injection quantity so as to reduce the difference between an estimated injection quantity and the requested injection quantity, and the selection unit selects the electromotive force quantity detection mode regardless of the value of the requested injection quantity when the calculation of the correction coefficient is not completed.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Satake, Eiji Murase, Tomohiro Nakano
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Patent number: 10697384Abstract: During a catalyst rapid warm-up at a time of a cold start of an engine, a fuel is injected by a required injection quantity through a multi-stage injection consisting of a fuel injection by a full lift injection during an intake stroke and a fuel injection by a partial lift injection during a compression stroke. In a case where a deterioration of a combustion state is confirmed, a correction for increasing the required injection quantity, which is to enrich an air-fuel ratio, is performed. At a time of the enriching quantity increase, a sum of injection quantities of the multi-stage injection is increased by the amount of the correction for increasing the required injection quantity without the injection quantity and an injection timing of the fuel injection by the partial lift injection being changed from a base time.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiko Higuchi, Tomohiro Nakano, Eiji Murase
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Patent number: 10683826Abstract: A fuel injection control device includes a valve closing detection unit to detect a valve closing timing by using either of an electromotive force quantity detection mode and an timing detection mode and a selection unit to select either of the electromotive force quantity detection mode and the timing detection mode for detecting the valve closing timing, and the selection unit: selects the timing detection mode when a requested injection quantity is larger than a prescribed reference injection quantity in partial lift injection; and selects the electromotive force quantity detection mode when the requested injection quantity is smaller than the reference injection quantity.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Satake, Eiji Murase, Tomohiro Nakano
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Patent number: 10612480Abstract: A fuel injection control device includes a correction unit to calculate a correction coefficient for correcting a valve closing timing detected by an electromotive force quantity detection mode by using a valve closing timing detected by a timing detection mode. An estimation unit estimates an estimated injection quantity by using a valve closing timing after corrected by using a correction coefficient when the electromotive force quantity detection mode is selected by a selection unit and a valve closing timing is detected by the electromotive force quantity detection mode.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki Satake, Eiji Murase, Tomohiro Nakano
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Patent number: 10589387Abstract: An Au—Sn—Ag-based solder alloy for high temperature use containing Sn, Ag, Au and elements that are inevitably contained owing to manufacture procedure, wherein the Au—Sn—Ag-based solder alloy has a composition adjusted so that a solidus temperature is within a range of 280 to 400° C. with a gap between the solidus temperature and the liquidus temperature being within 40° C. The Au—Ag—Sn-based solder alloy has low cost, and is excellent in solderability, reflow wettability and reliability. The excellent reflow wettability of the Au—Ag—Sn-based solder alloy allows it to be useful in reflow bonding of crystal quartz devices, SAW filters and MEMS.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki Nagata, Eiji Murase, Toshikazu Shimizu
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Patent number: 10590880Abstract: After start-up of an internal combustion engine, a CPU divides a request injection amount, which is used to control the air-fuel ratio to a target value, into an amount of fuel injected by a port injection valve and an amount of fuel injected by a direct injection valve based on rotation speed and a load ratio. When the amount of fuel injected by the port injection valve changes from zero to greater than zero, the CPU decreases the actual fuel injection amount from the divided fuel injection amount then gradually increases to the divided fuel injection amount. When the amount of fuel injected by the port injection valve is gradually increased, the amount of fuel injected by the direct injection valve is increased from the divided fuel injection amount so that the request injection amount of fuel is injected by the port injection valve and the direct injection valve.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiko Higuchi, Tomohiro Nakano, Eiji Murase
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Patent number: 10550793Abstract: A fuel injection control device divides an amount of fuel corresponding to an injection amount required for a single combustion into portions corresponding to multiple fuel injections, causes the direct injector to inject the fuel in the multiple times, and causes the direct injector to execute a partial-lift injection as a final fuel injection. The device includes a total injection amount calculation section, an individual injection amount calculation section, and an injection amount changing section. The injection amount changing section executes, as a first changing process, a process for increasing the injection amount at the final fuel injection to a value between a partial-lift injection lower limit value and a partial-lift injection upper limit value and reducing the injection amount at a fuel injection other than the final fuel injection by the increased amount of the injection amount at the final fuel injection.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiko Higuchi, Tomohiro Nakano, Eiji Murase
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Publication number: 20190178189Abstract: A fuel injection control device includes a valve closing detection unit (54) to detect a valve closing timing by using either of an electromotive force quantity detection mode and a timing detection mode, a selection unit (21) to select either of the electromotive force quantity detection mode and the timing detection mode for detecting the valve closing timing, and a correction unit (21) to calculate a correction coefficient for correcting a requested injection quantity so as to reduce the difference between an estimated injection quantity and the requested injection quantity, and the selection unit selects the electromotive force quantity detection mode regardless of the value of the requested injection quantity when the calculation of the correction coefficient is not completed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: June 13, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki SATAKE, Eiji MURASE, Tomohiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20190170075Abstract: A fuel injection control device includes a correction unit to calculate a correction coefficient for correcting a valve closing timing detected by an electromotive force quantity detection mode by using a valve closing timing detected by a timing detection mode. An estimation unit estimates an estimated injection quantity by using a valve closing timing after corrected by using a correction coefficient when the electromotive force quantity detection mode is selected by a selection unit and a valve closing timing is detected by the electromotive force quantity detection mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki SATAKE, Eiji MURASE, Tomohiro NAKANO
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Publication number: 20190136789Abstract: A fuel injection control device includes a valve closing detection unit to detect a valve closing timing by using either of an electromotive force quantity detection mode and an timing detection mode and a selection unit to select either of the electromotive force quantity detection mode and the timing detection mode for detecting the valve closing timing, and the selection unit: selects the timing detection mode when a requested injection quantity is larger than a prescribed reference injection quantity in partial lift injection; and selects the electromotive force quantity detection mode when the requested injection quantity is smaller than the reference injection quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Nobuyuki SATAKE, Eiji MURASE, Tomohiro NAKANO
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Patent number: 10240553Abstract: This fuel injection system includes a port injector, an in-cylinder injector, and a control device. The control device sets the number of executions of maximum partial lift injection per injection stroke based on the pressure of a fuel supplied to the in-cylinder injector and within a range of the number of injections in which an injection amount of the maximum partial lift injection per injection stroke becomes equal to or less than a target amount. This control device allows the in-cylinder injector to execute the number of executions of the maximum partial lift injection and allows the port injector to inject the fuel by the amount equal to the shortfall compared to the total injection amount only in the maximum partial lift injection by the in-cylinder injector.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Nakano, Eiji Murase
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Patent number: 10156199Abstract: A drive control circuitry and an electronic control circuitry for controlling energization of a plurality of fuel injection valves. The plurality of fuel injection valves including a second fuel injection valve currently injecting fuel and a first fuel injection valve which, of the plurality of fuel injection valves, was last energized before the second fuel injection valve. When an energization start interval between a start of energization of the first fuel injection valve and a start of energization of the second fuel injection valve is longer than or equal to a peak reaching time of the first fuel injection valve, an energization time of the second fuel injection valve is extended as the energization start interval reduces. When the energization start interval is shorter than the peak reaching time, the energization time of the second fuel injection valve is reduced as the energization start interval reduces.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2014Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Nakano, Eiji Murase, Rihito Kaneko, Masanao Idogawa
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Publication number: 20180326543Abstract: An Au—Sn—Ag-based solder alloy for high temperature use containing Sn, Ag, Au and elements that are inevitably contained owing to manufacture procedure, wherein the Au—Sn—Ag-based solder alloy has a composition adjusted so that a solidus temperature is within a range of 280 to 400° C. with a gap between the solidus temperature and the liquidus temperature being within 40° C. The Au—Ag—Sn-based solder alloy has low cost, and is excellent in solderability, reflow wettability and reliability. The excellent reflow wettability of the Au—Ag—Sn-based solder alloy allows it to be useful in reflow bonding of crystal quartz devices, SAW filters and MEMS.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2015Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroaki NAGATA, Eiji MURASE, Toshikazu SHIMIZU
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Publication number: 20180313291Abstract: After start-up of an internal combustion engine, a CPU divides a request injection amount, which is used to control the air-fuel ratio to a target value, into an amount of fuel injected by a port injection valve and an amount of fuel injected by a direct injection valve based on rotation speed and a load ratio. When the amount of fuel injected by the port injection valve changes from zero to greater than zero, the CPU decreases the actual fuel injection amount from the divided fuel injection amount then gradually increases to the divided fuel injection amount. When the amount of fuel injected by the port injection valve is gradually increased, the amount of fuel injected by the direct injection valve is increased from the divided fuel injection amount so that the request injection amount of fuel is injected by the port injection valve and the direct injection valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2018Publication date: November 1, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiko Higuchi, Tomohiro Nakano, Eiji Murase
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Publication number: 20180221995Abstract: Provided is an Au-based solder alloy that has high bonding reliability even when its Au content is lower than that of a conventional Au-based solder alloy. The Au-based solder alloy is used for sealing or bonding a ceramic electronic component and made of an Au—Sn—Ag alloy containing 21.1 to 43.0% by mass of Sn, 0.1 to 15% by mass of Ag, and a balance of Au and inevitable impurities, an Au—Ge—Sn alloy containing 9.5 to 15% by mass of Ge, 2 to 10% by mass of Sn, and a balance of Au and inevitable impurities, or an Au—Ag—Ge alloy containing 5 to 18% by mass of Ag, 7 to 20% by mass of Ge, and a balance of Au and inevitable impurities. When the Au-based soldering ball is crushed in one direction, a maximum stress before cracking occurs is 2.0×102 N/mm2 or more, and a square root of strain before the cracking occurs is 0.40 or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2016Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: SUMITOMO METAL MINING CO., LTD.Inventor: Eiji MURASE
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Patent number: 9938924Abstract: A control device for a fuel injection valve includes a drive circuit that controls open/close operation of the fuel injection valve by passing an exciting current through a solenoid of the fuel injection valve and an ECU that reduces a peak current value as a fuel pressure in a delivery pipe at timing of a start of energization of the fuel injection valve decreases. The ECU reduces the peak current value as an amount of fuel discharged from a high-pressure fuel pump to the delivery pipe reduces.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Nakano, Eiji Murase, Rihito Kaneko
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Patent number: 9926879Abstract: An electronic control unit that calculates an injection standby period, which is a period from an energization start point of the solenoid to a point at which the fuel injection valve opens, and adjusts an energization period of the solenoid in accordance with the calculated injection standby period. The electronic control unit of the control apparatus for a fuel injection valve then measures a reference fall detection period, which is a period from the energization start point to a reference fall detection point, and sets the injection standby period to be longer as the reference fall detection period is longer. Here, the reference fall detection point is a point at which the excitation current detected by the current detection circuit falls below a reference current value, which is smaller than a peak current value, while the excitation current decreases after reaching the peak current value.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Tomohiro Nakano, Eiji Murase, Rihito Kaneko
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Publication number: 20180030919Abstract: A fuel injection control device divides an amount of fuel corresponding to an injection amount required for a single combustion into portions corresponding to multiple fuel injections, causes the direct injector to inject the fuel in the multiple times, and causes the direct injector to execute a partial-lift injection as a final fuel injection. The device includes a total injection amount calculation section, an individual injection amount calculation section, and an injection amount changing section. The injection amount changing section executes, as a first changing process, a process for increasing the injection amount at the final fuel injection to a value between a partial-lift injection lower limit value and a partial-lift injection upper limit value and reducing the injection amount at a fuel injection other than the final fuel injection by the increased amount of the injection amount at the final fuel injection.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiko HIGUCHI, Tomohiro NAKANO, Eiji MURASE