Patents by Inventor Kota Matsumoto

Kota Matsumoto 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: 20190063337
    Abstract: A control device for a compression-ignition engine is provided, which includes an engine having a plurality of cylinders, spark plug, a fuel injector, and a control unit connected to the spark plug and the fuel injector. The control unit causes the engine to perform an all-cylinder operation when the engine operates at a load above a given load, and perform a reduced-cylinder operation at a load below the given load. In the reduced-cylinder operation, the fuel injector injects fuel to one or some of the cylinders to generate mixture gas, the spark plug ignites the mixture gas, and the engine starts, at an air-fuel ratio larger than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio and a large compression ratio, SI combustion in which the mixture gas is ignited to combust by flame propagation, and then perform CI combustion in which unburned mixture gas ignites by self-ignition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Atsushi Inoue, Masanari Sueoka, Kota Matsumoto, Keiji Maruyama
  • Publication number: 20180334989
    Abstract: A control system of a compression-ignition engine is provided, which includes an engine configured to cause combustion of a mixture gas inside the combustion chamber, an injector attached to the engine and configured to inject fuel into the combustion chamber, a spark plug disposed to be oriented into the combustion chamber and configured to ignite the mixture gas inside the combustion chamber, and a controller connected to the injector and the spark plug and configured to operate the engine by outputting a control signal to the injector and the spark plug, respectively. After the spark plug ignites the mixture gas to start combustion, unburned mixture gas combusts by self-ignition. The controller outputs the control signal to the injector so that a fuel injection timing is advanced when the engine operates at a high speed than at a low speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi Inoue, Kota Matsumoto, Yusuke Kawai, Toru Miyamoto, Yudai Koshiro
  • Publication number: 20180334949
    Abstract: A control system of a compression-ignition engine is provided, which includes an engine, an injector, a spark plug, and a controller connected to the injector and the spark plug, and configured to operate the engine by outputting a control signal to the injector and the spark plug. After the spark plug ignites mixture gas to start combustion, unburned mixture gas combusts by self-ignition. The controller outputs the control signal to the injector to perform a first-stage injection of fuel and then a second-stage injection in which fuel is injected to at least form the mixture gas around the spark plug. The controller also outputs the control signal to the injector to control a ratio of the injection amount of the second-stage injection with respect to the injection amount of the first-stage injection to be higher at a high engine speed than at a low engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi Inoue, Kota Matsumoto, Yusuke Kawai, Toru Miyamoto, Yudai Koshiro
  • Publication number: 20180334998
    Abstract: A control system of a compression-ignition engine is provided, which includes an engine configured to cause combustion of mixture gas inside a combustion chamber, a spark plug, and a controller configured to operate the engine. The combustion is performed in a given mode in which, after the spark plug ignites the mixture gas to start combustion, unburned mixture gas combusts by self-ignition. The controller has a heat amount ratio changing module configured to change, according to an engine operating state, a heat amount ratio as an index relating to a ratio of a heat amount generated when the mixture gas combusts by flame propagation with respect to a total heat amount generated when the mixture gas inside the combustion chamber combusts. The controller causes the changing module to increase the heat amount ratio at a high engine speed than at a low engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Atsushi Inoue, Kota Matsumoto, Yusuke Kawai, Toru Miyamoto, Yudai Koshiro
  • Patent number: 9850828
    Abstract: A control device for a compression ignition engine includes a controller configured to operate an engine body by compression ignition combustion when the engine body operates in a compression ignition range. When the engine body operates in a low load range with a load lower than a predetermined load in the compression ignition range, the controller sets a time of fuel injection with the fuel injection valve in a first half of a compression stroke or earlier, and allows the ozonator to introduce the ozone into the cylinder. When the engine body operates in the low load range, the controller controls an ozone concentration to be lower at a higher speed than at a low speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nagatsu, Atsushi Inoue, Kota Matsumoto, Takashi Kaminaga, Toru Miyamoto, Takashi Youso
  • Patent number: 9777694
    Abstract: A control device of an engine is provided. The engine is operated at a high compression ratio, a geometric compression ratio of the engine being 14:1 or higher. The control device includes a fuel injection controller for controlling a fuel injector of the engine to start a fuel injection in a latter half of a compression stroke within an engine operating range where an engine speed is below a predetermined value and an engine load is above a predetermined value, and an ignition controller for controlling an ignition plug of the engine to retard an ignition timing when a timing for the fuel injection controller to start the fuel injection is on a retarding side of a predetermined timing, the ignition timing being retarded based on a retarding amount of the fuel injection start timing from the predetermined timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takaaki Nagano, Masahisa Yamakawa, Takashi Youso, Kazuhiro Nagatsu, Atsushi Inoue, Kota Matsumoto, Takashi Kaminaga, Toru Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 9719441
    Abstract: A control device for a compression ignition engine includes a controller configured to operate an engine body by compression ignition combustion when the engine body operates in a predetermined compression ignition range. When the engine body operates in a predetermined high load range of the compression ignition range, the controller maximizes a filling amount of the cylinder using a gas state adjustment system, and lowers an EGR ratio so that the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder is lean with an excess air ratio ? higher than 1 in a lower speed range, and maximizes the filling amount of the cylinder, and increases the EGR ratio so that the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder has the excess air ratio ? of 1 or lower in a higher speed range than the lower speed range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nagatsu, Atsushi Inoue, Kota Matsumoto, Takashi Kaminaga, Toru Miyamoto, Takashi Youso
  • Publication number: 20160265482
    Abstract: A control device for a compression ignition engine includes a controller configured to operate an engine body by compression ignition combustion when the engine body operates in a compression ignition range. When the engine body operates in a low load range with a load lower than a predetermined load in the compression ignition range, the controller sets a time of fuel injection with the fuel injection valve in a first half of a compression stroke or earlier, and allows the ozonator to introduce the ozone into the cylinder. When the engine body operates in the low load range, the controller controls an ozone concentration to be lower at a higher speed than at a low speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Nagatsu, Atsushi Inoue, Kota Matsumoto, Takashi Kaminaga, Toru Miyamoto, Takashi Youso
  • Publication number: 20160252031
    Abstract: A control device for a compression ignition engine includes a controller configured to operate an engine body by compression ignition combustion when the engine body operates in a predetermined compression ignition range. When the engine body operates in a predetermined high load range of the compression ignition range, the controller maximizes a filling amount of the cylinder using a gas state adjustment system, and lowers an EGR ratio so that the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder is lean with an excess air ratio ? higher than 1 in a lower speed range, and maximizes the filling amount of the cylinder, and increases the EGR ratio so that the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder has the excess air ratio ? of 1 or lower in a higher speed range than the lower speed range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuhiro NAGATSU, Atsushi INOUE, Kota MATSUMOTO, Takashi KAMINAGA, Toru MIYAMOTO, Takashi YOUSO
  • Publication number: 20160201635
    Abstract: A control device of an engine is provided. The engine is operated at a high compression ratio, a geometric compression ratio of the engine being 14:1 or higher. The control device includes a fuel injection controller for controlling a fuel injector of the engine to start a fuel injection in a latter half of a compression stroke within an engine operating range where an engine speed is below a predetermined value and an engine load is above a predetermined value, and an ignition controller for controlling an ignition plug of the engine to retard an ignition timing when a timing for the fuel injection controller to start the fuel injection is on a retarding side of a predetermined timing, the ignition timing being retarded based on a retarding amount of the fuel injection start timing from the predetermined timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Takaaki Nagano, Masahisa Yamakawa, Takashi Youso, Kazuhiro Nagatsu, Atsushi Inoue, Kota Matsumoto, Takashi Kaminaga, Toru Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20040224762
    Abstract: To improve a screen display on the computer game device, according to the present invention, when a game character and its attribute information are to be displayed on the computer game screen and the display size of the game character is to be enlarged or reduced, it is possible to avoid disadvantages such as the attribute information being overly enlarged and thereby covering a large portion of the screen or being overly reduced and thereby becoming illegible by fixing the display size of the game character's attribute information, and provide an easily viewable screen to the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2004
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Norio Haga, Kota Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 6767285
    Abstract: To improve a screen display on the computer game device, according to the present invention, when a game character and its attribute information are to be displayed on the computer game screen and the display size of the game character is to be enlarged or reduced, it is possible to avoid disadvantages such as the attribute information being overly enlarged and thereby covering a large portion of the screen or being overly reduced and thereby becoming illegible by fixing the display size of the game character's attribute information, and provide an easily viewable screen to the player.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Sega Corporation
    Inventors: Norio Haga, Kota Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20020090995
    Abstract: To improve a screen display on the computer game device, according to the present invention, when a game character and its attribute information are to be displayed on the computer game screen and the display size of the game character is to be enlarged or reduced, it is possible to avoid disadvantages such as the attribute information being overly enlarged and thereby covering a large portion of the screen or being overly reduced and thereby becoming illegible by fixing the display size of the game character's attribute information, and provide an easily viewable screen to the player.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventors: Norio Haga, Kota Matsumoto