Patents by Inventor Munehisa Horibe

Munehisa Horibe 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: 9062631
    Abstract: A straight port and a swirl port supply low-oxygen-concentration gas and high-oxygen-concentration gas into a combustion chamber of an engine such that high-level-oxygen-concentration gas and low-level-oxygen-concentration gas are formed from the high-oxygen-concentration gas and the low-oxygen-concentration gas in an adjacent region of the combustion chamber, which is adjacent to a fuel mist injected from an injection hole of a fuel injection valve. The high-level-oxygen-concentration gas is located in a corresponding area of the adjacent region, which is generally opposite from the fuel injection hole, and the low-level-oxygen-concentration gas is located in a remaining area of the adjacent region, which is other than the corresponding area of the adjacent region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masumi Kinugawa, Kohei Motoo, Munehisa Horibe
  • Publication number: 20130032123
    Abstract: A straight port and a swirl port supply low-oxygen-concentration gas and high-oxygen-concentration gas into a combustion chamber of an engine such that high-level-oxygen-concentration gas and low-level-oxygen-concentration gas are formed from the high-oxygen-concentration gas and the low-oxygen-concentration gas in an adjacent region of the combustion chamber, which is adjacent to a fuel mist injected from an injection hole of a fuel injection valve. The high-level-oxygen-concentration gas is located in a corresponding area of the adjacent region, which is generally opposite from the fuel injection hole, and the low-level-oxygen-concentration gas is located in a remaining area of the adjacent region, which is other than the corresponding area of the adjacent region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masumi Kinugawa, Kohei Motoo, Munehisa Horibe
  • Publication number: 20120298071
    Abstract: A combustion system of an internal combustion engine has a fuel injector injecting a fuel directly into a combustion chamber and a water injector injecting a water (non-combustible fluid) into the combustion chamber. The water collides with a fuel spray which the fuel injector injects. A penetrating force of the fuel spray is decreased and the fuel spray hardly reaches a cylinder wall surface. The injected fuel is combusted at a position away from the cylinder wall surface, so that the combustion heat transferred to the cylinder wall surface is reduced and the heat loss of the combustion can be decreased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Munehisa Horibe, Satoru Sasaki, Yoshiaki Nishijima, Takamasa Yokota