Patents by Inventor Kiyotaka Hosono

Kiyotaka Hosono 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: 9353697
    Abstract: A control unit for an internal combustion engine includes a load detector to detect a load on the engine, an injection volume calculator to calculate a cylinder injection volume indicating a volume of fuel injected from a direct injector, a first controller to perform a first control for increasing the frequency of the injection by the direct injector upon a reduction in the cylinder injection volume, a second controller to perform a second control for increasing a port injection volume indicating a volume of fuel injected from a port injector upon a reduction in the cylinder injection volume, and a switching controller to switch between the first control with the first controller and the second control with the second controller depending on the load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Kawabe, Fumiaki Hiraishi, Kiyotaka Hosono
  • Publication number: 20140216414
    Abstract: A control unit for an internal combustion engine includes a load detector to detect a load on the engine, an injection volume calculator to calculate a cylinder injection volume indicating a volume of fuel injected from a direct injector, a first controller to perform a first control for increasing the frequency of the injection by the direct injector upon a reduction in the cylinder injection volume, a second controller to perform a second control for increasing a port injection volume indicating a volume of fuel injected from a port injector upon a reduction in the cylinder injection volume, and a switching controller to switch between the first control with the first controller and the second control with the second controller depending on the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashi Kawabe, Fumiaki Hiraishi, Kiyotaka Hosono
  • Patent number: 6971379
    Abstract: There is provided a combustion chamber structure in an internal combustion engine in which, at a peripheral portion of a combustion chamber, a gap between a cylinder head lower face and a piston upper face is small in intake-to-intake and exhaust-to-exhaust zones and gradually increases toward an intake-to-exhaust zone. According to such design, the mixture in the peripheral portion of the combustion chamber can smoothly flow from the intake-to-intake and exhaust-to-exhaust zones to the intake-to-exhaust zone along the peripheral face of the cylinder. The flow of air-fuel mixture from the intake-to-intake zone collides at the center of the intake-to-exhaust zone with the flow of mixture from the exhaust-to-exhaust zone, and the combined flow goes over a conical tapered portion in the upper face of the piston and vigorously enters a central recessed portion thereof. Therefore, it is possible to satisfactorily mix an air-fuel mixture with a simplified configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoharu Sakai, Takeshi Hasegawa, Takafumi Shigemori, Toshiaki Umemura, Yoshiyuki Hoshiba, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Kiyotaka Hosono, Hideki Miyamoto, Yu Yokoyama
  • Publication number: 20050109328
    Abstract: There is provided a combustion chamber structure in an internal combustion engine in which, at a peripheral portion of a combustion chamber, a gap between a cylinder head lower face and a piston upper face is small in intake-to-intake and exhaust-to-exhaust zones and gradually increases toward an intake-to-exhaust zone. According to such design, the mixture in the peripheral portion of the combustion chamber can smoothly flow from the intake-to-intake and exhaust-to-exhaust zones to the intake-to-exhaust zone along the peripheral face of the cylinder. The flow of air-fuel mixture from the intake-to-intake zone collides at the center of the intake-to-exhaust zone with the flow of mixture from the exhaust-to-exhaust zone, and the combined flow goes over a conical tapered portion in the upper face of the piston and vigorously enters a central recessed portion thereof. Therefore, it is possible to satisfactorily mix an air-fuel mixture with a simplified configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoharu Sakai, Takeshi Hasegawa, Takafumi Shigemori, Toshiaki Umemura, Yoshiyuki Hoshiba, Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Kiyotaka Hosono, Hideki Miyamoto, Yu Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 5481461
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automotive vehicle engine having controls for switching between a whole cylinder working mode and a partial cylinder non-working mode by making a valve motion arrangement operated in the intake and exhaust process. The automotive vehicle engine comprises-a revolution sensor, a boost pressure sensor, an ignition driving apparatus and a controlling apparatus for controlling the cylinder suspending mechanism and the ignition driving apparatus. The partial cylinder non-working mode or the all cylinder working mode is determined on the basis of the revolution speed "Ne" and the boost pressure data "Pb".
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1996
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Miyamoto, Kazumasa Iida, Mitsuru Kishimoto, Kiyotaka Hosono