Patents by Inventor Hiroaki Mizoguchi
Hiroaki Mizoguchi 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: 11952939Abstract: The valve closing control is performed to close the waist gate valve of the turbocharger when the hydraulic fluid temperature is less than the temperature threshold. By closing the waist gate valve, the output torque is increased by increasing the amount of air taken into the engine that is idling operation, to suppress the engine stall that may occur when switching from the non-driving range to the driving range.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroaki Mizoguchi
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Patent number: 11933235Abstract: An internal combustion engine to which a controller is applied includes a cylinder, a turbocharger, an intake passage, a throttle valve, and an exhaust passage. The turbocharger includes a turbine wheel, a compressor wheel, and a wastegate valve. The controller executes a loss estimating process that calculates an estimated value of a pumping loss of the internal combustion engine from an intake air pressure, which is air pressure at a downstream side of the throttle valve in the intake passage, an engine speed of the internal combustion engine, and a charging pressure.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeta Kikuchi, Tatsuya Suzuki, Hiroaki Mizoguchi
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Publication number: 20240071223Abstract: A travelling control system includes a plurality of vehicles each including a controller, a server including a generator configured to generate a travelling control information for the plurality of vehicles, a predictor configured to predict a merging interference between a first vehicle travelling from a merging road toward a main road and a second vehicle travelling on the main road, a sender which is provided in the first vehicle to send an interference suppressing request, and a receiver which is provided in the second vehicle to receive the interference suppressing request. The controller of the second vehicle travelling on the main road is configured to execute interference suppressing control of suppressing an approach of the second vehicle to the first vehicle travelling from the merging road to the main road, in a case that the receiver receives the interference suppressing request from the first vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Hajime OYAMA, Masato MIZOGUCHI, Ryosuke NAMBA, Hiroaki KAWAMURA, Norikazu EBISAWA, Kengo KOBAYASHI, Masaru NAKANISHI
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Patent number: 11885272Abstract: An engine control system according to the present disclosure includes an oil temperature sensor and a waste gate valve control unit. The oil temperature sensor detects a temperature of an engine oil. The waste gate valve control unit controls opening and closing of a waste gate valve based on the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor. More specifically, when the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the waste gate valve control unit controls the waste gate valve so that it opens.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shigeta Kikuchi, Tatsuya Suzuki, Hiroaki Mizoguchi, Toshiaki Otani
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Patent number: 11835003Abstract: Electric devices of a vehicle are divided into groups according to a magnitude of electric power used by each of the electric devices. The number of the groups is smaller than the number of the electric devices. A controller for the vehicle stores in advance different correction amounts respectively associated with the groups. The controller is configured to, when the number of operating ones of the electric devices belonging to the same group is equal to or greater than a predetermined specified number, perform an increase process of increasing an engine rotation speed of an internal combustion engine by the correction amount associated with the group in which the number of the operating ones of the electric devices is equal to or greater than the specified number.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHInventors: Hiroaki Mizoguchi, Shinichi Oda, Yasuaki Murakami, Masahiro Kachi
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Publication number: 20230374948Abstract: An engine control system according to the present disclosure includes an oil temperature sensor and a waste gate valve control unit. The oil temperature sensor detects a temperature of an engine oil. The waste gate valve control unit controls opening and closing of a waste gate valve based on the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor. More specifically, when the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the waste gate valve control unit controls the waste gate valve so that it opens.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shigeta KIKUCHI, Tatsuya SUZUKI, Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI, Toshiaki OTANI
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Publication number: 20230366359Abstract: An internal combustion engine to which a controller is applied includes a cylinder, a turbocharger, an intake passage, a throttle valve, and an exhaust passage. The turbocharger includes a turbine wheel, a compressor wheel, and a wastegate valve. The controller executes a loss estimating process that calculates an estimated value of a pumping loss of the internal combustion engine from an intake air pressure, which is air pressure at a downstream side of the throttle valve in the intake passage, an engine speed of the internal combustion engine, and a charging pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Shigeta KIKUCHI, Tatsuya SUZUKI, Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI
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Patent number: 11703024Abstract: Provided is a control device of a vehicle including an alternator that generates power using a driving force of an internal combustion engine, wherein when the alternator is cold and a request power of an accessory is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the control device increases the number of revolutions of the internal combustion engine compared with the number of revolutions when the alternator is not cold.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroaki Mizoguchi
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Publication number: 20230133765Abstract: An engine controller is configured to control an engine that includes a turbocharger and an electric pump that supplies a cooling water to the turbocharger. The engine controller includes a processor. The processor is configured to vary a flow rate of the cooling water supplied to the turbocharger by the electric pump during operation of the engine, based on a housing temperature, which is a temperature of a turbine housing of the turbocharger, and a generation site temperature, which is a temperature of a generation site of oil coke inside the turbocharger.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI, Machiko TAKAHASHI, Nobuo YAGIHASHI
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Publication number: 20230138881Abstract: Electric devices of a vehicle are divided into groups according to a magnitude of electric power used by each of the electric devices. The number of the groups is smaller than the number of the electric devices. A controller for the vehicle stores in advance different correction amounts respectively associated with the groups. The controller is configured to, when the number of operating ones of the electric devices belonging to the same group is equal to or greater than a predetermined specified number, perform an increase process of increasing an engine rotation speed of an internal combustion engine by the correction amount associated with the group in which the number of the operating ones of the electric devices is equal to or greater than the specified number.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI, Shinichi ODA, Yasuaki MURAKAMI, Masahiro KACHI
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Publication number: 20230135414Abstract: An engine controller is configured to control an engine that is mounted on a vehicle and includes a turbocharger and an electric pump. The electric pump supplies a cooling water to the turbocharger. The engine controller includes a processing device and a storage. The processing device is configured to execute a determination process that determines whether the cooling water needs to be supplied to the turbocharger after the engine is stopped, a post-stoppage pump driving process that drives the electric pump after the engine is stopped if the determination process determines that the cooling water needs to be supplied, and a recording process that records, in the storage, a number of times of execution of the post-stoppage pump driving process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventor: Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230126020Abstract: The valve closing control is performed to close the waist gate valve of the turbocharger when the hydraulic fluid temperature is less than the temperature threshold. By closing the waist gate valve, the output torque is increased by increasing the amount of air taken into the engine that is idling operation, to suppress the engine stall that may occur when switching from the non-driving range to the driving range.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI
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Publication number: 20230129229Abstract: Provided is a control device of a vehicle including an alternator that generates power using a driving force of an internal combustion engine, wherein when the alternator is cold and a request power of an accessory is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, the control device increases the number of revolutions of the internal combustion engine compared with the number of revolutions when the alternator is not cold.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI
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Patent number: 11365701Abstract: An engine device includes an engine including an in-cylinder injection valve and a spark plug, an exhaust gas control device, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a last fuel injection from the in-cylinder injection valve in an expansion stroke and to set a fuel injection amount for the last fuel injection in expansion stroke injection driving, based on a coolant start temperature, post-start time, and volumetric efficiency. The expansion stroke injection driving is a control that is performed by performing the ignition by the spark plug in synchronization with the fuel injection in the expansion stroke.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Koji Ichikawa, Hiroaki Mizoguchi, Takuya Okubo, Sohichi Imai, Hirokazu Andoh
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Publication number: 20220010749Abstract: An engine device includes an engine including an in-cylinder injection valve and a spark plug, an exhaust gas control device, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a last fuel injection from the in-cylinder injection valve in an expansion stroke and to set a fuel injection amount for the last fuel injection in expansion stroke injection driving, based on a coolant start temperature, post-start time, and volumetric efficiency. The expansion stroke injection driving is a control that is performed by performing the ignition by the spark plug in synchronization with the fuel injection in the expansion stroke.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Masanao IDOGAWA, Takahiro UCHIDA, Koji ICHIKAWA, Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI, Takuya OKUBO, Sohichi IMAI, Hirokazu ANDOH
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Patent number: 10221793Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured, when the speed of combustion of a fuel in a cylinder changes as the property of the fuel injected from a fuel injection valve changes, to change a combustion limit excess air ratio that is a target value of a fuel injection amount feedforward control according to a first relationship that the combustion limit excess air ratio increases as the speed of combustion of the fuel in the cylinder increases. The controller is also configured, when the speed of combustion of the fuel in the cylinder changes as the property of the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve changes, to change the value of a combustion limit combustion speed parameter that is the target value of a fuel injection amount feedback control according to a second relationship that the speed of combustion of the fuel in the cylinder corresponding to a combustion limit increases as the speed of combustion of the fuel in the cylinder increases.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichiro Nogawa, Hiroaki Mizoguchi, Yasuyuki Irisawa, Shintaro Hotta, Masanori Hayashi
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Patent number: 10087867Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a cylinder, an in-cylinder pressure sensor, a fuel injection valve, and an alcohol concentration sensor. The control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: carry out learning of fuel properties with the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve as a target; calculate a combustion speed parameter, showing a combustion speed, within the cylinder, of the fuel that is a learning target of the fuel properties, on a basis of the in-cylinder pressure; and determine that water is included in the fuel when the capacitance of the fuel detected by the alcohol concentration sensor is larger than a preset first threshold, and when the combustion speed of the fuel within the cylinder is smaller than a preset second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shintaro Hotta, Shinichiro Nogawa, Hiroaki Mizoguchi, Yasuyuki Irisawa, Masanori Hayashi
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Publication number: 20170356377Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured, when the speed of combustion of a fuel in a cylinder changes as the property of the fuel injected from a fuel injection valve changes, to change a combustion limit excess air ratio that is a target value of a fuel injection amount feedforward control according to a first relationship that the combustion limit excess air ratio increases as the speed of combustion of the fuel in the cylinder increases. The controller is also configured, when the speed of combustion of the fuel in the cylinder changes as the property of the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve changes, to change the value of a combustion limit combustion speed parameter that is the target value of a fuel injection amount feedback control according to a second relationship that the speed of combustion of the fuel in the cylinder corresponding to a combustion limit increases as the speed of combustion of the fuel in the cylinder increases.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichiro NOGAWA, Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI, Yasuyuki IRISAWA, Shintaro HOTTA, Masanori HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170356379Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a cylinder, an in-cylinder pressure sensor, a fuel injection valve, and an alcohol concentration sensor. The control device includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to: carry out learning of fuel properties with the fuel injected from the fuel injection valve as a target; calculate a combustion speed parameter, showing a combustion speed, within the cylinder, of the fuel that is a learning target of the fuel properties, on a basis of the in-cylinder pressure; and determine that water is included in the fuel when the capacitance of the fuel detected by the alcohol concentration sensor is larger than a preset first threshold, and when the combustion speed of the fuel within the cylinder is smaller than a preset second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shintaro HOTTA, Shinichiro NOGAWA, Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI, Yasuyuki IRISAWA, Masanori HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20160123247Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an in-cylinder pressure sensor for detecting an in-cylinder pressure. In-cylinder heat release amount data is calculated based on in-cylinder pressure data synchronized with the crank angle that is sampled using the in-cylinder pressure sensor. If the number of items of the heat release amount data that are located in a combustion period identified using the heat release amount data is two or more, the control apparatus determines that the in-cylinder pressure data that is sampled in synchronization with the crank angle is reliable and the engine can be controlled accordingly.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hiroaki MIZOGUCHI, Yusuke SUZUKI, Yoshihiro SAKAYANAGI, Shigeyuki URANO