Patents by Inventor Kiminobu Hirata

Kiminobu Hirata 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).

  • Publication number: 20070079601
    Abstract: When an abnormality occurred in a SCR device is detected, the output of an engine is restricted. To this end, in one embodiment, at the time of an abnormality occurrence, a map adopted for calculating a fuel injection quantity is switched from that for a normal time (S407). Further, as the abnormality to be detected, the clogging of an injection nozzle, the dilution of urea water stored in a tank, or the like is adopted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Inventors: Kiminobu Hirata, Takehiro Esaka
  • Publication number: 20070035832
    Abstract: In an exhaust emission purifying apparatus for an internal combustion engine, for adding a reducing agent for NOx to the exhaust gas to thereby purify NOx in the exhaust gas, the mixing of the reducing agent injected by an injection nozzle with the exhaust gas is accelerated. To this end, in the apparatus of the present invention, the injection nozzle for the urea water is disposed to be opposite to the flow of the exhaust gas, or to face upward in a vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: February 15, 2007
    Inventors: Kiminobu Hirata, Nobuhiko Masaki, Hisashi Akagawa, Yuji Yajima
  • Publication number: 20070000240
    Abstract: An exhaust emission purifying apparatus for an engine having: a reduction catalytic converter disposed in an exhaust system of the engine, for reductively purifying nitrogen oxides in the exhaust emission with a reducing agent; an injection nozzle for injection-supplying the reducing agent to an exhaust upstream side of the reduction catalytic converter in an exhaust pipe of the exhaust system; and a reducing agent supply device supplying the reducing agent to the injection nozzle, in which a recess portion is formed on an inner wall on a lower portion of the exhaust pipe, by concaving a site to which at least the reducing agent injection-supplied from the injection nozzle is attached, and also, a bottom wall of the recess portion is made detachable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventors: Kiminobu Hirata, Nobuhiko Masaki, Tatsuji Miyata
  • Publication number: 20060248880
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification apparatus of an engine having a reduction catalytic converter arranged in an engine exhaust gas system, for reducing and purifying nitrogen oxide by a liquid reducing agent, a reducing agent supply device controlling a flow rate of a liquid reducing agent that is supplied to the reduction catalytic converter, depending on engine operating conditions, an injection nozzle secured to the exhaust system via a flange, for injection-supplying the liquid reducing agent into exhaust gas at a position upstream of the reduction catalytic converter, and piping providing a fluid communication between the reducing agent supply device and the injection nozzle. The piping is constructed of a material made of ceramics, or water repellency treatment is applied to the inner wall of at least one of the injection nozzle and the piping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: November 9, 2006
    Inventors: Kiminobu Hirata, Hisashi Akagawa, Shuichi Nakamura, Hiroki Ueno, Ikuo Sakai
  • Publication number: 20060236681
    Abstract: In order to suppress deposition of constituent of a reducing agent (dissolved matter) in an exhaust passage of an engine enhancing an elimination rate of NOx even when temperature of an exhaust emission from the engine is low, an exhaust emission purifying apparatus is provided with an electro-generative-heat carrier provided on an upstream side of an injection nozzle that supplies the reducing agent into the exhaust emission on upstream side of a reduction catalyst in an exhaust pipe, the exhaust emission being heated to a temperature equal to or higher than a melting point of the dissolved matter whereby deposition of the dissolved matter on an inner wall surface of the exhaust pipe is suppressed to effectively use the supplied reducing agent for catalytic reduction reaction, even when the exhaust emission temperature is lower than the melting point of the dissolved matter of the reducing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Kouji Masuda, Kiminobu Hirata, Nobuhiko Masaki
  • Publication number: 20060233689
    Abstract: In an exhaust emission purifying apparatus for an engine provided with: a NOx reduction catalytic converter disposed in an engine exhaust pipe, for reductively purifying NOx with ammonia produced by the urea aqueous solution; and an injection nozzle injection-supplying the urea aqueous solution into the exhaust gas at an upstream position of the NOx reduction catalytic converter, a hydrolytic catalyst that accelerates the hydrolysis reaction by which ammonia is produced by the urea aqueous solution, is applied to at least one of an inner passage of the injection nozzle, the exhaust pipe positioned between the injection nozzle and the NOx reduction catalytic converter, and a diffuser panel diffusing the exhaust gas between the injection nozzle and the reduction catalytic converter, and then, the hydrolysis reaction of the urea aqueous solution being in contact with the hydrolytic catalyst is accelerated, to thereby suppress the deposition of urea in the exhaust pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Kiminobu Hirata, Hirokazu Satou