Patents by Inventor Kanao Kogure
Kanao Kogure 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: 9194356Abstract: A stop control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of ensuring the comfort of vehicle occupants in a vehicle compartment and improving the fuel economy of the engine along with automatic stoppage of the engine during both a cooling operation and a heating operation of an air conditioner. When the engine is automatically stopped, the stop control system sets a target blowout temperature which is a target value of the temperature of air blown out from the air conditioner into a vehicle compartment, and acquires a fan voltage indicative of the air volume blown by a fan of the air conditioner. Further, the stop control system calculates stop allowable time based on the target blowout temperature and the fan voltage, and restarts the engine when engine stoppage time period (stoppage time period-counting timer value) has reached the stop allowable time.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichirou Wakou, Yoshihisa Tsuchiya, Shinji Yasuno, Masanobu Eguchi, Kanao Kogure, Nobuyuki Akahoshi
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Patent number: 9163603Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of properly determining timing for restarting the engine in a stopped state when idle stop control of the engine is executed during a heating operation of an air conditioner, thereby making it possible to ensure marketability and fuel economy performance in a well-balanced manner. The control system executes the idle stop control of the engine during the heating operation of the air conditioner. The control system includes an ECU. The ECU sets a lower limit blowout temperature, calculates an estimated blowout temperature, and controls the engine such that the engine is restarted when the estimated blowout temperature has become not higher than the lower limit blowout temperature.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichirou Wakou, Yoshihisa Tsuchiya, Masanobu Eguchi, Shinji Yasuno, Kanao Kogure, Nobuyuki Akahoshi
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Patent number: 8972157Abstract: A stop control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of restarting the engine automatically stopped, in optimum timing, thereby making it possible to positively prevent occurrence of fogging of window glass of a vehicle compartment and improve fuel economy. The engine is connected to a compressor of an air conditioner. According to the stop control system, during idle stop, window glass temperature is calculated, and according to the calculated window glass temperature, limit humidity below which fogging of the window glass does not occur is set. When determining compartment humidity becomes equal to or higher than the limit humidity, the idle stop is terminated and the engine is restarted. When the weather is rainy or snowy, the determining compartment humidity is corrected. When vehicle compartment temperature is not lower than a first predetermined temperature, the window glass temperature is corrected.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shinichirou Wakou, Yoshihisa Tsuchiya, Masanobu Eguchi, Shinji Yasuno, Kanao Kogure, Nobuyuki Akahoshi
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Publication number: 20130030679Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of properly determining timing for restarting the engine in a stopped state when idle stop control of the engine is executed during a heating operation of an air conditioner, thereby making it possible to ensure marketability and fuel economy performance in a well-balanced manner. The control system executes the idle stop control of the engine during the heating operation of the air conditioner. The control system includes an ECU. The ECU sets a lower limit blowout temperature, calculates an estimated blowout temperature, and controls the engine such that the engine is restarted when the estimated blowout temperature has become not higher than the lower limit blowout temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichirou WAKOU, Yoshihisa TSUCHIYA, Masanobu EGUCHI, Shinji YASUNO, Kanao KOGURE, Nobuyuki AKAHOSHI
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Patent number: 8347642Abstract: A controller for a vehicle includes an in-passenger-compartment temperature sensor which detects the temperature of the air supplied to an evaporator by actuating a blower fan, an outside air temperature sensor, an evaporator temperature sensor which detects the temperature of the evaporator, and an engine stop duration determiner which determines an engine stop duration on the basis of the temperature detected by the evaporator temperature sensor immediately before an engine stops and the temperatures detected by the outside air temperature sensor and the in-passenger-compartment temperature sensor. An engine control unit continues the operation of the blower fan after a stop condition holds and the engine is stopped, and then restarts the engine and actuates a compressor when the engine stop duration has elapsed.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Akahoshi, Kazuhito Aizawa, Kanao Kogure
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Publication number: 20120259534Abstract: A stop control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of restarting the engine automatically stopped, in optimum timing, thereby making it possible to positively prevent occurrence of fogging of window glass of a vehicle compartment and improve fuel economy. The engine is connected to a compressor of an air conditioner. According to the stop control system, during idle stop, window glass temperature is calculated, and according to the calculated window glass temperature, limit humidity below which fogging of the window glass does not occur is set. When determining compartment humidity becomes equal to or higher than the limit humidity, the idle stop is terminated and the engine is restarted. When the weather is rainy or snowy, the determining compartment humidity is corrected. When vehicle compartment temperature is not lower than a first predetermined temperature, the window glass temperature is corrected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichirou WAKOU, Yoshihisa Tsuchiya, Masanobu Eguchi, Shinji Yasuno, Kanao Kogure, Nobuyuki Akahoshi
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Publication number: 20120259530Abstract: A stop control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of ensuring the comfort of vehicle occupants in a vehicle compartment and improving the fuel economy of the engine along with automatic stoppage of the engine during both a cooling operation and a heating operation of an air conditioner. When the engine is automatically stopped, the stop control system sets a target blowout temperature which is a target value of the temperature of air blown out from the air conditioner into a vehicle compartment, and acquires a fan voltage indicative of the air volume blown by a fan of the air conditioner. Further, the stop control system calculates stop allowable time based on the target blowout temperature and the fan voltage, and restarts the engine when engine stoppage time period (stoppage time period-counting timer value) has reached the stop allowable time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichirou WAKOU, Yoshihisa Tsuchiya, Shinji Yasuno, Masanobu Eguchi, Kanao Kogure, Nobuyuki Akahoshi
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Patent number: 8285443Abstract: A controller for a vehicle makes it possible to prevent window glass from fogging and also to reduce fuel consumption in conducting control to temporarily stop an engine when a vehicle stops. The controller for a vehicle includes a vehicle condition detector which detects a condition under which a vehicle is being placed, a fogging determination humidity estimator which estimates a fogging determination humidity, which is a humidity not causing window glass of the vehicle to fog up under the condition detected by the vehicle condition detector, a humidity detector which detects the humidity in the vehicle, and an engine stop duration determiner which determines a longer engine stop duration as the humidity difference increases between the humidity detected by the humidity detector immediately before an engine is stopped and the fogging determination humidity.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2008Date of Patent: October 9, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Nobuyuki Akahoshi, Kazuhito Aizawa, Kanao Kogure
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Publication number: 20090145141Abstract: A controller for a vehicle makes it possible to restrain a temperature rise or a temperature fall in a passenger compartment and also to reduce fuel consumption in conducting control to temporarily stop an engine when the vehicle is at rest. The controller for a vehicle includes an in-passenger-compartment temperature sensor which detects the temperature of the air supplied to an evaporator by actuating a blower fan, an outside air temperature sensor, an evaporator temperature sensor which detects the temperature of the evaporator, and an engine stop duration determiner which determines an engine stop duration on the basis of the temperature detected by the evaporator temperature sensor immediately before an engine stops and the temperatures detected by the outside air temperature sensor and the in-passenger-compartment temperature sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki AKAHOSHI, Kazuhito AIZAWA, Kanao KOGURE
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Publication number: 20090150025Abstract: A controller for a vehicle makes it possible to prevent window glass from fogging and also to reduce fuel consumption in conducting control to temporarily stop an engine when a vehicle stops. The controller for a vehicle includes a vehicle condition detector which detects a condition under which a vehicle is being placed, a fogging determination humidity estimator which estimates a fogging determination humidity, which is a humidity not causing window glass of the vehicle to fog up under the condition detected by the vehicle condition detector, a humidity detector which detects the humidity in the vehicle, and an engine stop duration determiner which determines a longer engine stop duration as the humidity difference increases between the humidity detected by the humidity detector immediately before an engine is stopped and the fogging determination humidity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2008Publication date: June 11, 2009Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Nobuyuki AKAHOSHI, Kazuhito AIZAWA, Kanao KOGURE