Patents by Inventor Masami Nagano

Masami Nagano 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: 4852537
    Abstract: Disclosed is an ignition timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle in which, when an acceleration is detected, a correction quantity for ignition time advance or retardation corresponding to an increment or a decrement of and the changing direction of the rotation speed is computed to correct basic ignition timing, thereby suppressing an acceleration shock or vehicle body vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1987
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago
  • Patent number: 4825833
    Abstract: An engine control apparatus for assuring stabilized operating performance by detecting the combustion state of gas mixture within an engine cylinder and determining the amount of air supplied to the cylinder in dependence on the detected combustion state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji Ikeura, Yoshihisa Kawamura, Masami Nagano, Seiji Suda
  • Patent number: 4799469
    Abstract: The ignition timing is controlled in that a change in engine speed is detected from a differentiated value dN/dt, and when dN/dt is larger than a predetermined value and when a value of dN/dt is positive, the ignition timing is retarded by a predetermined value from a fundamental ignition timing, and further, when dN/dt is larger than the predetermined value and when the value of dN/dt is negative, the ignition timing is advanced by the predetermined value from the fundamental ignition timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago, Toshio Manaka
  • Patent number: 4759327
    Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine having a fuel injection control system, the detected number of revolutions is so modified that it becomes higher than an actual number of revolutions when a changing rate of the number of revolutions is larger than a predetermined value and the actual number of revolutions tends upward, and lower than the actual one when the changing rate is larger than the predetermined value and the actual number of revolutions tends downward. The quantity of fuel to be injected is calculated on the basis of the thus modified number of revolutions. According to the present invention, the deceleration shock or surging occurring during the low speed running of an automobile can be effectively diminished without any deterioration of the exhaust gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Nagano, Seiji Suda, Takeshi Atago, Masahide Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4742807
    Abstract: An electronic control device for an internal combustion engine provides feedback control of the idle speed using as a reference value an intake air flow rate set in correspondence with the reference value of the idle speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahide Sakamoto, Seiji Suda, Takeshi Atago, Masami Nagano
  • Patent number: 4723524
    Abstract: In a fuel injection controlling method for an internal combustion engine having the hot were air flow meter and the valve opening pulse generating means for a fuel increment independently of the basic valve opening pulse generating means for causing the injector to inject fuel normally during the normal condition, the valve opening pulse for a fuel increment has a duration dependent on at least one of selected from variations in the air intake volume per unit time, a closing signal of the idle switch for the throttle valve, a signal indicating the number of revolutions of the engine, etc., independently of the duration of the basic valve opening pulse. The acceleration adjustment is adjusted the fuel increment in accordance with the valve opening pulse for a fuel increment. It is possible to obtain optimum acceleration by varying the adjustment depending on conditions for interrupt adjustment during acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Atago, Masami Nagano, Masahide Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 4719885
    Abstract: A fuel at the time of start of an internal combustion engine (8) is supplied dividedly by the injection pulse signals. The injection pulse width (T.sub.ST) of the injection pulse signals is controlled in accordance with the temperature of the engine fuel chamber (9) of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1988
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago
  • Patent number: 4662340
    Abstract: A fuel injection apparatus in an internal combustion engine, which comprises a fuel injection valve device for supplying the engine with fuel, an air flow rate detector for detecting a quantity of air sucked by the engine, a detector for detecting a revolutional speed of the engine, apparatus for determining whether the engine is in a highly loaded state or not, and a control arrangement for calculating a basic pulse width of a valve opening pulse for the injection valve device on the basis of respective output signals of the respective detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1987
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Nagano
  • Patent number: 4624134
    Abstract: A hot-wire air-flow meter for internal combustion engines is integrated with a throttle valve so that the throttle valve is disposed immediately downstream of the outlet port of a bypass air passage of the air-flow meter. The shaft of the throttle valve inclines at most 45.degree. against a line connecting between the axis of the inlet port of the bypass air passage and the axis of the main air passage of the air-flow meter, whereby disturbance caused by the throttle valve in minimized. Further, a bent duct is disposed upstream of the air-flow meter so that a plane on which a bent axis of the bent duct is disposed crosses the above-mentioned line at an angle of at most 45.degree., whereby influence of the bent duct on the flow rate measuring accuracy is minimized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1984
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Masami Nagano
  • Patent number: 4550705
    Abstract: In an electrical fuel injector which comprises an air flow meter for detecting an amount of air intake to an internal combustion engine, a revolution counter for measuring the rate of rotations of the internal combustion engine, and an electronic circuit adapted to arithmetically control an opening time of an injection valve for injecting fuel into the internal combustion engine based on output signals from both air flow meter and revolution counter, a digital filter is provided which has a coefficient variable in accordance with drive conditions of the internal combustion engine, so that the output signal from the air flow meter is applied to the electronic circuit through the digital filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: November 5, 1985
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago, Tatsuya Yoshida
  • Patent number: 4506646
    Abstract: An electronic controlled fuel injection system having electromagnetic fuel injection valves each of which injects fuel twice during 4-cycle operation strokes, wherein a reference cylinder is provided to inject fuel at intervals of 360.degree. in crankshaft angle, and the next operating cylinder is made to inject fuel 180.degree. after the fuel injection timing for the reference cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1985
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago, Tatsuya Yoshida
  • Patent number: 4403741
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injection valve including a valve seat of the conical shape located at one end of a fuel injection passage, movable valve means including a ball cooperating with the valve seat of the conical shape, a rod rigidly connected to the ball and a plunger rigidly connected to the rod, and an electromagnet for moving the plunger. The movable valve means is guided during the movement thereof in an axial direction in two positions, one position being on the outer periphery of the ball and the other position being on the outer periphery of the rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1983
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisanori Moriya, Masakichi Momono, Masahiro Souma, Masami Nagano
  • Patent number: 4333890
    Abstract: A slow fuel controlling device for a carburetor in which fuel metered by a slow jet is mixed with air induced through a slow air bleed in the form of counter flows and the mixture thus formed is supplied into a portion of the intake passage near a throttle valve, and the diameter of the fuel feed passage is selected to substantially fill said passage with fuel by utilizing capillary action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiji Karino, Tadao Osawa, Masami Nagano, Tokihiko Sakuma, Yuiti Kanazawa, Tunemitu Kuroha, Kanji Tachibana
  • Patent number: 4229384
    Abstract: A carburetor for an internal combustion engine including a main suction conduit having a control throttle and a starting suction conduit having an on-off valve and opening at one end in a portion of the main suction conduit disposed downstream of the control throttle, wherein a main fuel passage and a main air bleed passage having a main air bleed for the main fuel passage are provided for the main suction conduit. A communication passage is provided to communicate a portion of the starting suction conduit disposed upstream of the on-off valve with a portion of the main air bleed passage disposed upstream of the main air bleed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 21, 1980
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiji Karino, Masami Nagano, Masakichi Momono
  • Patent number: 4153026
    Abstract: Construction of a carburetor used in a stratified charge combustion engine, wherein: flow division control means are dispensed with; and a main and an auxiliary discharge valves are made to have the flow division control functions by themselves, that is, air-fuel ratios of mixtures produced in a main air intake passage and an auxiliary air intake passage, respectively, are adapted to be varied in response to the change of the flow rate of intake air into the associated engine by changing the respective flow rate characteristics of the main and auxiliary discharge valves; thereby eliminating the drawback of decreased accuracy in actual operation of a carburetor used in a stratified charge combustion engine having said flow division control means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: May 8, 1979
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masami Nagano, Satosi Suzuki