Patents by Inventor Naohiro Yamaguchi
Naohiro Yamaguchi 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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Publication number: 20230331318Abstract: A bracket includes a base to be bonded to a surface of a side edge portion of a glass. The side edge portion and the base are joined with a combination of at least two types of adhesives. A first adhesive has a shorter curing time than a second adhesive. The second adhesive provides stronger joining after cured than the first adhesive. In the joining, the bracket is stabilized from the outside while the side edge portion and the base are in contact with each other with the first adhesive and the second adhesive interposed therebetween. The stabilization of the bracket from the outside is released upon the first adhesive being cured. Curing the second adhesive is allowed to proceed while the bracket continues to be stabilized with the first adhesive.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Takuya NAITO, Ryoichi URATA, Naohiro YAMAGUCHI, Takashi KAWAHARA, Satoshi KANEKO, Hideomi KAMIZONO
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Patent number: 11655770Abstract: An engine is provided, which includes an engine body including a cylinder provided with intake and exhaust ports and intake and exhaust valves, intake and exhaust passages, a turbocharger including a turbine provided to the exhaust passage and a compressor provided to the intake passage, and a variable phase mechanism configured to change open/close timings of the intake valve while maintaining an open period of the intake valve at a 270° C.A or larger. A geometric compression ratio of the cylinder is 11:1 or higher. In a high-load range, the variable phase mechanism sets the intake valve close timing to be after an intake BDC and to make a ratio of a retarded amount of the intake closing to the geometric compression ratio be 4.58 or above and 6.67 or below, and sets the intake valve open timing to be before a close timing of the exhaust valve.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Naohiro Yamaguchi, Mitsunori Wasada, Satoshi Imamura, Toshimasa Kotani
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Patent number: 11635041Abstract: An engine is provided, which includes an engine body including a plurality of cylinders, each of the cylinders being provided with an intake port, an exhaust port, an intake valve, and an exhaust valve, an intake passage and an exhaust passage connected to the engine body, and a turbocharger including a turbine provided to the exhaust passage and a compressor provided to the intake passage. A geometric compression ratio of the cylinder is 11:1 or higher. An open period of the intake valve is a range of 270° or larger by a crank angle. The exhaust passage includes a plurality of independent exhaust passages, each communicating with the exhaust port of one cylinder or with the exhaust ports of two or more cylinders of which timings of exhaust strokes are discontinuous from each other, and connecting the engine body to the turbine.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Naohiro Yamaguchi, Mitsunori Wasada, Satoshi Imamura, Toshimasa Kotani
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Patent number: 11512663Abstract: An engine is provided, which includes a combustion chamber defined by a piston crown surface, an inner wall surface of a cylinder, and a pentroof ceiling surface formed in a cylinder head, and an ignition part of a spark plug disposed at the ceiling surface to achieve flame propagation combustion inside the combustion chamber. A cavity recessed in a spherical cap shape is formed in a central area of the crown surface. An opening of an intake port is formed in the ceiling surface (intake side) and an opening of an exhaust port is formed in the ceiling surface (exhaust side). When seen in a cross-sectional view taken along a cylinder axis, the ignition part is located above the cavity to be offset toward the exhaust side with respect to a cylinder axial line whereas a cavity center point is located to be offset toward the intake side.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Satoshi Imamura, Masaki Fukuma, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Wada, Takumi Uemura, Keisuke Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20220306015Abstract: A vehicle window glass with an onboard camera includes a vehicle window glass configured to be mounted to a vehicle; a bracket fixed to an inner side surface of the vehicle window glass; an onboard camera attached to the bracket; and a hood member disposed on a vehicle forward side of the onboard camera; wherein the hood member has a surface facing the vehicle window glass and exhibiting a black appearance having an L value of at most 27.0 and is made of a material having a gloss value of less than 6.0 measured based on JIS Z 8741-1997.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Applicant: AGC Inc.Inventors: Naohiro YAMAGUCHI, Hideomi KAMIZONO, Takashi KAWAHARA
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Publication number: 20220282687Abstract: An engine is provided, which includes a combustion chamber defined by a piston crown surface, an inner wall surface of a cylinder, and a pentroof ceiling surface formed in a cylinder head, and an ignition part of a spark plug disposed at the ceiling surface to achieve flame propagation combustion inside the combustion chamber. A cavity recessed in a spherical cap shape is formed in a central area of the crown surface. An opening of an intake port is formed in the ceiling surface (intake side) and an opening of an exhaust port is formed in the ceiling surface (exhaust side). When seen in a cross-sectional view taken along a cylinder axis, the ignition part is located above the cavity to be offset toward the exhaust side with respect to a cylinder axial line whereas a cavity center point is located to be offset toward the intake side.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Satoshi Imamura, Masaki Fukuma, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Wada, Takumi Uemura, Keisuke Yamamoto
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Publication number: 20220282674Abstract: An engine is provided, which includes an engine body including a cylinder provided with intake and exhaust ports and intake and exhaust valves, intake and exhaust passages, a turbocharger including a turbine provided to the exhaust passage and a compressor provided to the intake passage, and a variable phase mechanism configured to change open/close timings of the intake valve while maintaining an open period of the intake valve at a 270° C.A or larger. A geometric compression ratio of the cylinder is 11:1 or higher. In a high-load range, the variable phase mechanism sets the intake valve close timing to be after an intake BDC and to make a ratio of a retarded amount of the intake closing to the geometric compression ratio be 4.58 or above and 6.67 or below, and sets the intake valve open timing to be before a close timing of the exhaust valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Naohiro Yamaguchi, Mitsunori Wasada, Satoshi Imamura, Toshimasa Kotani
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Publication number: 20220282686Abstract: An engine is provided, which includes an engine body including a plurality of cylinders, each of the cylinders being provided with an intake port, an exhaust port, an intake valve, and an exhaust valve, an intake passage and an exhaust passage connected to the engine body, and a turbocharger including a turbine provided to the exhaust passage and a compressor provided to the intake passage. A geometric compression ratio of the cylinder is 11:1 or higher. An open period of the intake valve is a range of 270° or larger by a crank angle. The exhaust passage includes a plurality of independent exhaust passages, each communicating with the exhaust port of one cylinder or with the exhaust ports of two or more cylinders of which timings of exhaust strokes are discontinuous from each other, and connecting the engine body to the turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Naohiro Yamaguchi, Mitsunori Wasada, Satoshi Imamura, Toshimasa Kotani
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Patent number: 11340840Abstract: A printer is caused to perform a checking print for a job in a case that a predetermined user's instruction is received via a user interface. The printer is caused to perform the checking print for the job without receiving the predetermined user's instruction in a case that the job meets a predetermined condition.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Naohiro Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11293395Abstract: In an engine having fuel supply means for supplying fuel containing gasoline to a combustion chamber and ignition means for igniting an air-fuel mixture, if knocking occurs when ignition is performed at a reference ignition timing set on a retarded side of MBT that is an ignition timing at which the engine torque is maximized in a high-load region in which the engine load is larger than a predetermined load, ignition advance control that causes the ignition means to perform ignition at a timing on an advanced side of the reference ignition timing is performed.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2019Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Hitomi, Eiji Nakai, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Hiroki Morimoto
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Patent number: 11242812Abstract: An engine control method includes: a first fuel supply step of supplying fuel into the combustion chamber using an injector when a spark plug makes flame in the combustion chamber so that an air-fuel mixture is generated at least around the spark plug, the air-fuel mixture having an air-fuel mass ratio A/F or a gas-fuel mass ratio G/F, in which gas includes air, higher than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio; after the first fuel supply step, an ignition step of making the flame in the combustion chamber in the compression stroke using the spark plug; and after the ignition step, a second fuel supply step of supplying the fuel into the combustion chamber in the compression stroke using the injector to increase a fuel concentration of the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Hitomi, Eiji Nakai, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Hiroki Morimoto
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Publication number: 20210310456Abstract: In an engine having fuel supply means for supplying fuel containing gasoline to a combustion chamber and ignition means for igniting an air-fuel mixture, if knocking occurs when ignition is performed at a reference ignition timing set on a retarded side of MBT that is an ignition timing at which the engine torque is maximized in a high-load region in which the engine load is larger than a predetermined load, ignition advance control that causes the ignition means to perform ignition at a timing on an advanced side of the reference ignition timing is performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2019Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Mitsuo HITOMI, Eiji NAKAI, Naohiro YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 11028797Abstract: The engine control method includes a fuel supply step and an ignition step. In the fuel supply step, the injector supplies fuel into a combustion chamber. In the ignition step, an spark plug arranged in the combustion chamber makes a flame after the supply of the fuel into the combustion chamber and at a timing when a flow strength in the combustion chamber is greater than a predetermined value in a compression stroke during or before a post-mid stage where the compression stroke is divided into four stages of a pre-stage, a pre-mid stage, a post-mid stage, and a post-stage.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Mitsuo Hitomi, Eiji Nakai, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Hiroki Morimoto
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Patent number: 10968816Abstract: In a spark-ignition internal combustion engine in which a protrusion including an intake-side inclined surface and an exhaust-side inclined surface is formed on a top surface of a piston, and a cavity is formed in the protrusion at a position associated with a spark plug. The cavity includes a bottom surface and a tubular peripheral surface, and is formed in such a way that a ratio of a depth of the cavity with respect to a diameter of the cavity is 0.3 or smaller.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Shuma Aoki, Hiroaki Muranaka, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Wada
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Patent number: 10968817Abstract: In a spark-ignition internal combustion engine in which a protrusion including an intake-side inclined surface and an exhaust-side inclined surface is formed on a top surface of a piston, and a cavity is formed in the protrusion at a position associated with a spark plug, the intake-side inclined surface and the exhaust-side inclined surface are formed in such a way that an inclination angle of the exhaust-side inclined surface is smaller than an inclination angle of the intake-side inclined surface, and a difference in inclination angle between the intake-side inclined surface and the exhaust-side inclined surface is 4 degrees or larger.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Shuma Aoki, Hiroaki Muranaka, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Wada
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Publication number: 20210033038Abstract: An engine control method includes: a first fuel supply step of supplying fuel into the combustion chamber using an injector when a spark plug makes flame in the combustion chamber so that an air-fuel mixture is generated at least around the spark plug, the air-fuel mixture having an air-fuel mass ratio A/F or a gas-fuel mass ratio G/F, in which gas includes air, higher than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio; after the first fuel supply step, an ignition step of making the flame in the combustion chamber in the compression stroke using the spark plug; and after the ignition step, a second fuel supply step of supplying the fuel into the combustion chamber in the compression stroke using the injector to increase a fuel concentration of the air-fuel mixture in the combustion chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Mitsuo HITOMI, Eiji NAKAI, Naohiro YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki MORIMOTO
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Publication number: 20210033042Abstract: The engine control method includes a fuel supply step and an ignition step. In the fuel supply step, the injector supplies fuel into a combustion chamber. In the ignition step, an spark plug arranged in the combustion chamber makes a flame after the supply of the fuel into the combustion chamber and at a timing when a flow strength in the combustion chamber is greater than a predetermined value in a compression stroke during or before a post-mid stage where the compression stroke is divided into four stages of a pre-stage, a pre-mid stage, a post-mid stage, and a post-stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2019Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: Mitsuo HITOMI, Eiji NAKAI, Naohiro YAMAGUCHI, Hiroki MORIMOTO
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Patent number: 10907533Abstract: In a spark-ignition internal combustion engine in which a protrusion including an intake-side inclined surface and an exhaust-side inclined surface is formed on a top surface of a piston, and a cavity is formed in the protrusion at a position associated with a spark plug, the intake-side inclined surface and the exhaust-side inclined surface are formed in such a way that a ratio of a length of the exhaust-side inclined surface with respect to a length of the intake-side inclined surface is 1.25 or larger in a cross section passing through a center axis of the piston and orthogonal to an axis direction of a crankshaft.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Shuma Aoki, Hiroaki Muranaka, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Wada
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Patent number: 10895215Abstract: A control system for a pre-mixture compression-ignition engine is provided, configured such that in a first combustion mode, the control unit controls the fuel injection valve to have a fuel amount within a mixture gas in an outer circumferential portion of the combustion chamber larger than in the center portion, the swirl generating part to generate a swirl flow in the outer circumferential portion, and the spark plug to ignite the mixture gas in the center portion. In a second combustion mode, the control unit controls the fuel injection valve to start a fuel injection on intake stroke so that the mixture gas is formed in the entire combustion chamber, the swirl generating part so that a swirl flow becomes weaker than in the first combustion mode, and the spark plug to ignite the mixture gas before CTDC.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Naohiro Yamaguchi, Hiroki Morimoto, Toru Miyamoto, Akira Noomo
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Publication number: 20200131978Abstract: In a spark-ignition internal combustion engine in which a protrusion including an intake-side inclined surface and an exhaust-side inclined surface is formed on a top surface of a piston, and a cavity is formed in the protrusion at a position associated with a spark plug, the intake-side inclined surface and the exhaust-side inclined surface are formed in such a way that an inclination angle of the exhaust-side inclined surface is smaller than an inclination angle of the intake-side inclined surface, and a difference in inclination angle between the intake-side inclined surface and the exhaust-side inclined surface is 4 degrees or larger.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Shuma Aoki, Hiroaki Muranaka, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Yoshitaka Wada