Patents by Inventor Masayuki Saruwatari
Masayuki Saruwatari 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: 10837418Abstract: The invention provides an internal combustion engine control device capable of performing a stable combustion at a lean combustion limit. In an internal combustion engine control device that controls an internal combustion engine provided with an ignition device igniting an air-fuel mixture formed inside a combustion chamber, an intake side air temperature of the internal combustion engine is controlled in response to a compression ratio of the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2016Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Kazuhiro Oryoji, Masayuki Saruwatari, Yoshihiro Sukegawa
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Patent number: 10808630Abstract: There is a problem of a difficulty in estimating the temporal change of the MBT for each of cylinders with light calculation load and high accuracy. An object of the present invention is to provide a control device capable of detecting a temporal change in the fuel efficiency optimum ignition timing (MBT) for each of cylinders. Therefore, the control device for internal combustion engine includes a control unit (CPU) that estimates an optimum ignition timing of each of cylinders from the relationship between the phase angle (?Tmax) at which the torque peaks and the phase angle (?Pmax) at which the in-cylinder pressure peaks with respect to the ignition timing of the cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Naoki Yoneya, Masayuki Saruwatari
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Publication number: 20200300184Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine capable of estimating a compression ratio of the internal combustion engine at the time of fuel cut of the internal combustion engine and without being affected by an intake air amount and an intake air temperature. A compression ratio ? is calculated on the basis of a change of in-cylinder pressure P with respect to crank angle ? at timing when an in-cylinder volume change rate dV/d?/V takes an extreme value or at timing from closing of an intake valve 109 to the start of ignition of the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Toshihiro AONO, Masayuki SARUWATARI
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Publication number: 20200300194Abstract: Misfire and torque fluctuation due to rapid combustion deterioration of an internal combustion engine can be reduced. An ECU of an engine which burns fuel in a cylinder includes a determination unit which determines a target air-fuel ratio of the engine on the basis of a variation in crank angle in a relatively small number of combustion cycles, or a difference in indicated average effective pressure from a previous combustion cycle, and an air-fuel ratio control unit which controls the air-fuel ratio of the engine to be the target air-fuel ratio determined by the determination unit. The determination unit shifts the target air-fuel ratio to a rich side when the variation exceeds a first setting value or when the difference exceeds a second setting value.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Yoshiaki NAGASAWA, Masayuki SARUWATARI, Koji ONISHI
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Publication number: 20200291914Abstract: Provided is a control device and a control method of a high-efficiency internal combustion engine capable of stabilizing combustion and suppressing NOx emissions without unnecessarily increasing a mounting load on an ECU. Therefore, the control device of the internal combustion engine for controlling the internal combustion engine includes an ignition plug that ignites an air-fuel mixture of fuel and air in the combustion chamber, a combustion pressure estimation sensor that detects a combustion pressure in the combustion chamber, and a crank angle sensor that detects a crank angle of a crankshaft. An MBT region is set based on an ignition delay period from an ignition timing of the ignition plug calculated from a detection value of the combustion pressure estimation sensor and a detection value of the crank angle sensor to a combustion start timing in the combustion chamber, and a combustion period from the combustion start timing to a set amount combustion end timing when a set amount of combustion ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Atsushi SHIMADA, Toshihiro AONO, Masayuki SARUWATARI
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Patent number: 10731594Abstract: Provided is a control device of a fuel injection device which can stabilize a behavior of a valve even when a voltage of a voltage source varies, and can reduce a deviation of an injection amount. The fuel injection device includes a valve and a coil which generates a magnetic attraction force to attract a movable element which drives the valve. A control device applies a predetermined voltage to the coil on the basis of an injection pulse, causes a drive current to flow to the coil until the drive current reaches a maximum current, drives the valve by attracting the movable element, and injects fuel. The drive current flowing to the coil is lowered from the maximum current before the valve reaches a desired maximum lift position, and a constant voltage lower than a predetermined voltage or 0 V is continuously applied to the coil until the valve reaches the desired maximum lift position.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Kusakabe, Masayuki Saruwatari, Noriyuki Maekawa
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Publication number: 20200240340Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an engine system control device capable of stabilizing a combustion state, while improving fuel economy by performing intake air heating. According to the present invention, there is provided an engine system control device which controls an engine system including an engine configured to combust air-fuel mixture, an intake air path configured to take air to the engine, and an intake air heating mechanism configured to heat the intake air, wherein a heating amount of the intake air is controlled depending on a combustion speed of the air-fuel mixture.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2016Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Hisayuki ORITA, Masayuki SARUWATARI, Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Motoyuki ABE
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Patent number: 10696302Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device is provided. The internal combustion engine control device is provided with a generator that is driven by exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine control device is capable of increasing the power generation of the generator. The internal combustion engine control device includes an exhaust amount control unit. The exhaust amount control unit increases the amount of the exhaust gas supplied to the generator in a coasting state.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Yuuki Okuda, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Masayuki Saruwatari
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Patent number: 10677208Abstract: Provided is a fuel injector that is capable of reducing penetration. The fuel injector of the present invention includes a valve body having a valve body side seat surface, a valve seat side seat surface that abuts on the valve body side seat surface, and an injection hole that is provided downstream of a position at which the valve body side seat surface abuts on the valve seat side seat surface. The valve body has a projection that is formed from the valve body side seat surface toward the injection hole, and the projection is formed to be smaller in a direction of fuel flow between seats than a radius of an upstream opening surface of the injection hole.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Tomoyuki Hosaka, Eiji Ishii, Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Taisuke Sugii, Kazuki Yoshimura, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Masayuki Saruwatari
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Patent number: 10641186Abstract: Because an in-cylinder temperature becomes low immediately after cold starting, it is impossible to take large ignition timing retard to avoid combustion instability and it takes time to activate a catalyst existing downstream of an internal combustion engine. The present invention provides an internal combustion engine control apparatus including an ignition timing control unit to control an ignition timing of an ignition device attached to an internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine control apparatus includes an in-cylinder temperature raising unit that raises an in-cylinder temperature, the in-cylinder temperature is raised by the in-cylinder temperature raising unit, and a retard amount of the ignition timing of the ignition device is increased by the ignition timing control unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Naoki Yoneya, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kazuhiro Oryoji
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Publication number: 20200088122Abstract: Provided is a control device of a fuel injection device which can stabilize a behavior of a valve even when a voltage of a voltage source varies, and can reduce a deviation of an injection amount. A control device 150 of a fuel injection device 101 includes a valve 214, a coil 205 which generates a magnetic attraction force to attract a movable member 202 which drives the valve 214, and a voltage source. The fuel injection device 101 applies a voltage to the coil 205 on the basis of an injection pulse, causes a drive current to flow to the coil 205 until the current becomes a maximum current to attract the movable member 202, and drives the valve 214 to inject fuel. The drive current flowing to the coil 205 or a voltage of the voltage source is detected before the injection pulse is stopped. In a case where the detected drive current or the voltage is equal to or less than a setting, a width of the injection pulse or an injection pulse different from the injection pulse is corrected to be long.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2017Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Masayuki SARUWATARI, Noriyuki MAEKAWA
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Publication number: 20200056553Abstract: There is a problem of a difficulty in estimating the temporal change of the MBT for each of cylinders with light calculation load and high accuracy. An object of the present invention is to provide a control device capable of detecting a temporal change in the fuel efficiency optimum ignition timing (MBT) for each of cylinders. Therefore, the control device for internal combustion engine includes a control unit (CPU) that estimates an optimum ignition timing of each of cylinders from the relationship between the phase angle (?Tmax) at which the torque peaks and the phase angle (?Pmax) at which the in-cylinder pressure peaks with respect to the ignition timing of the cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Naoki Yoneya, Masayuki Saruwatari
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Publication number: 20200001236Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification system which exhibits high exhaust gas purification performance. The present invention provides an exhaust gas purification system including: a carrier containing aluminum oxide; an exhaust gas purification device including a catalyst provided on the carrier and containing gallium, and connected to an internal combustion engine; and a system connected to the exhaust gas purification device for increasing an oxygen concentration. The system for increasing an oxygen concentration provides an oxygen concentration higher than that of a post combusted gas of the internal combustion engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Eri TAKAHASHI, Masato KANEEDA, Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Naoki YONEYA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
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Publication number: 20190331055Abstract: Provided is a control device of a fuel injection device which can stabilize a behavior of a valve even when a voltage of a voltage source varies, and can reduce a deviation of an injection amount. The fuel injection device includes a valve and a coil which generates a magnetic attraction force to attract a movable element which drives the valve. A control device applies a predetermined voltage to the coil on the basis of an injection pulse, causes a drive current to flow to the coil until the drive current reaches a maximum current, drives the valve by attracting the movable element, and injects fuel. The drive current flowing to the coil is lowered from the maximum current before the valve reaches a desired maximum lift position, and a constant voltage lower than a predetermined voltage or 0 V is continuously applied to the coil until the valve reaches the desired maximum lift position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: October 31, 2019Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Masayuki SARUWATARI, Noriyuki MAEKAWA
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Publication number: 20190316540Abstract: Torque fluctuations caused by misfire and abnormal combustion are prevented appropriately at the time of switching from SI to HCCI, and exhaust of NOx is restricted at the time of switching. Provided is a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine performing a plurality of combustion modes each having a different air-fuel ratio and compression end temperature in a cylinder 7 from each other. In the middle of switching from a first combustion mode to a second combustion mode, an intermediate combustion mode in which the compression end temperature is increased while keeping a different air-fuel ratio from the air-fuel ratio of the first combustion mode and the air-fuel ratio of the second combustion mode is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2017Publication date: October 17, 2019Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Shogo NAMBA, Masayuki SARUWATARI, Kazuhiro ORYOJI
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Publication number: 20190285008Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of suppressing the amount of fuel adhering to a wall surface of a cylinder in an engine whose wall surface temperature varies every cycle. An internal combustion engine control device that controls an internal combustion engine, which injects fuel into a cylinder and generates combustion by ignition, includes: a wall surface temperature calculation unit that calculates a wall surface temperature of the cylinder based on a pressure in the cylinder; and a combustion control unit that controls the combustion of the internal combustion engine based on the calculated wall surface temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Naoki YONEYA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
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Patent number: 10370001Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a coast-stop control device that makes it possible to change gears to an appropriate gear change while traveling, before the engine is stopped. The present invention is a coast-stop control device for performing coast-stop control that automatically stops an engine while the vehicle is traveling, the coast-stop control device being characterized: in being provided with an engine stop condition-assessing means for assessing whether it is possible to stop the engine and a gear change control means for controlling the gear change ratio of a gear change mechanism; and in controlling the gear change mechanism to a prescribed gear change ratio when the engine stop condition-assessing means determines that an engine stop condition has been met.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Ryoh Inaba, Masayuki Saruwatari
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Publication number: 20190226443Abstract: An object of the present invention is to predict change of a combustion limit due to cycle variation of temperature and an EGR ratio and perform correction every cycle to decrease an amount of combustion consumption. Therefore, in an internal combustion engine control device that controls an internal combustion engine including a cylinder and an exhaust pipe, the internal combustion engine control device includes a control unit configured to perform EGR control of controlling an exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe to return to an inner cylinder of the cylinder, obtain temperature of the gas in the internal cylinder and an EGR ratio in a state where both an intake valve and an exhaust valve are closed in an combustion cycle, and correct a combustion parameter in a same combustion cycle as the combustion cycle on the basis of the obtained gas temperature and the obtained EGR ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2017Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Naoki YONEYA, Masayuki SARUWATARI, Kazuhiro ORYOJI
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Publication number: 20190211763Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection device and a control unit therefor which enable reliable ignition even in a case where fuel pressure is low immediately after starting an engine. In the control unit for controlling an injector injecting fuel into an internal combustion engine, a plurality of injectors is provided in the internal combustion engine, a static flow rate of a first injector is configured to be smaller than a static flow rate of a second injector. In a case where a fuel pressure of fuel supplied by a pressurizing unit is lower than a set value set lower than a fuel pressure in warming up, an injection ratio of the first injector is controlled to increase according to a difference between a fuel pressure of fuel from the pressurizing unit and a fuel pressure in warming up.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2017Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Tomoyuki HOSAKA, Taisuke SUGII, Eiji ISHII, Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
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Publication number: 20190145305Abstract: An object of the invention is to form a highly homogeneous air-fuel mixture which is not influenced by an engine rotation speed. Therefore, the invention provides a fuel injection control device including a cylinder, a first injector disposed at an upper portion of the cylinder in the axial direction and a center portion thereof in the radial direction, an intake valve disposed at an upper portion of the cylinder in the axial direction and an outer portion thereof in the radial direction in relation to the first fuel injection device, and a second injector supplying fuel from an upper portion of the cylinder in the axial direction and at least an outer portion in the radial direction in relation to the intake valve, in which a rotation speed of the engine is high, a fuel supply amount ratio of the first injector with respect to the second injector is controlled to be larger than that of a case where the rotation speed is low.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Yuusuke KIHARA, Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Kenichiro OGATA, Minoru OOSUGA, Masayuki SARUWATARI