Patents by Inventor Satoshi Yoshizaki

Satoshi Yoshizaki 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: 20200290592
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a first MG, a second MG, a planetary gear mechanism, and an HV-ECU. The engine includes a supercharger and a purge device. The purge device introduces fuel vapor into an intake passage of the engine. Upon request for fuel purge, when an operating point of the engine is included in an area A, the HV-ECU controls the engine and the first MG to move the operating point to outside of the area A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi YONEZAWA, Satoshi YOSHIZAKI, Osamu MAEDA, Daigo ANDO, Yoshikazu ASAMI, Kenji ITAGAKI, Shunsuke OYAMA, Koichiro MUTA
  • Publication number: 20200294332
    Abstract: In a hybrid vehicle, each of an engine and an MG1 is mechanically coupled to a drive wheel with a planetary gear being interposed. The planetary gear and an MG2 are configured such that motive power output from the planetary gear and motive power output from the MG2 are transmitted to the drive wheel as being combined. A controller makes WGV diagnosis for diagnosing whether or not a waste gate valve is normally controllable by issuing an instruction to a WGV actuator while the controller stops combustion in the engine and controls the MG1 and the MG2 in coordination to perform motoring of the engine during traveling of the hybrid vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi YONEZAWA, Satoshi YOSHIZAKI, Osamu MAEDA, Daigo ANDO, Yoshikazu ASAMI, Kenji ITAGAKI, Shunsuke OYAMA, Koichiro MUTA
  • Publication number: 20200290590
    Abstract: An HV-ECU performs processing including calculating requested system power, calculating requested engine power when an engine activation request has been issued, obtaining a turbo temperature, setting an operating point on a predetermined operating line when the turbo temperature is equal to or lower than a threshold value Ta, setting as the operating point, a position on a higher rotation speed side by a predetermined value along an equal power line when the turbo temperature is higher than the threshold value Ta, carrying out engine control, and carrying out MG control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi YONEZAWA, Satoshi YOSHIZAKI, Osamu MAEDA, Daigo ANDO, Yoshikazu ASAMI, Kenji ITAGAKI, Shunsuke OYAMA, Koichiro MUTA
  • Patent number: 10738686
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine controller is applied to an internal combustion engine incorporating a turbocharger. The engine includes an intake passage, a compressor arranged in the intake passage, a bypass passage connecting portions of the intake passage at upstream and downstream sides of the compressor. An air bypass valve adjusts a flowrate of intake air passing through the bypass passage. The internal combustion engine controller includes an acceleration determination unit and an ABV control unit. The acceleration determination unit is configured to detect an acceleration request sent to the internal combustion engine and determine whether or not the acceleration request is in an initial stage. The ABV control unit is configured to execute a temporary open/close control to open the air bypass valve for a specified period when determined by the acceleration determination unit that the acceleration request is in the initial stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke Matsumoto, Satoshi Yoshizaki
  • Patent number: 10711687
    Abstract: A controller sets a target operation position and controls an operation position of a wastegate in accordance with the target operation position in a position control mode. The controller sets a target drive force and controls a drive force of the wastegate in accordance with the target drive force in a drive force control mode. The controller controls the wastegate in the position control mode when a boost pressure of an engine is less than or equal to a preset value and controls the wastegate in the drive force control mode when the boost pressure is greater than the preset value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi Yoshizaki
  • Publication number: 20190162114
    Abstract: A wastegate is provided in an exhaust bypass passage that allows exhaust gas to bypass a turbine wheel of an exhaust turbine-type forced-induction device. A required boost pressure is set in accordance with a running state of an engine. A controller is configured to control a drive force of the wastegate to a magnitude that achieves the required boost pressure when the required boost pressure is higher than a preset pressure, and control the drive force to a magnitude that achieves a higher boost pressure than the required boost pressure when the required boost pressure is less than or equal to the preset pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi YOSHIZAKI, Masahiro INOUE, Koji HONDA
  • Publication number: 20190162130
    Abstract: An anomaly determination device executes a first anomaly determination process and a second anomaly determination process. The anomaly determination device determines in the first anomaly determination process that an anomaly is present in a link mechanism when a fully-closed-time detection value is outside a closed-side normal range and when a fully-open-time detection value is outside an open-side normal range. The anomaly determination device determines in the second anomaly determination process that an anomaly is present in the link mechanism if the difference between the fully-closed-time detection value and the fully-open-time detection value is outside a normal distance range set in advance when it is not determined in the first anomaly determination process that an anomaly is present in the link mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke MATSUMOTO, Satoshi YOSHIZAKI, Masahiro INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190162112
    Abstract: A controller sets a target operation position and controls an operation position of a wastegate in accordance with the target operation position in a position control mode. The controller sets a target drive force and controls a drive force of the wastegate in accordance with the target drive force in a drive force control mode. The controller controls the wastegate in the position control mode when a boost pressure of an engine is less than or equal to a preset value and controls the wastegate in the drive force control mode when the boost pressure is greater than the preset value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Satoshi YOSHIZAKI
  • Publication number: 20190153931
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine controller is applied to an internal combustion engine incorporating a turbocharger. The engine includes an intake passage, a compressor arranged in the intake passage, a bypass passage connecting portions of the intake passage at upstream and downstream sides of the compressor. An air bypass valve adjusts a flowrate of intake air passing through the bypass passage. The internal combustion engine controller includes an acceleration determination unit and an ABV control unit. The acceleration determination unit is configured to detect an acceleration request sent to the internal combustion engine and determine whether or not the acceleration request is in an initial stage. The ABV control unit is configured to execute a temporary open/close control to open the air bypass valve for a specified period when determined by the acceleration determination unit that the acceleration request is in the initial stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yosuke MATSUMOTO, Satoshi YOSHIZAKI
  • Patent number: 10273898
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to increase an air amount that is suctioned into a cylinder while maintaining the lean air-fuel ratio as a first torque increasing operation in a case where target torque is increased during the operation at the lean air-fuel ratio such that torque is increased. The electronic control unit is configured to compute limit torque as an upper limit of the torque that can be realized in a case where the lean air-fuel ratio is kept for a certain time from a current time point. The electronic control unit is configured to switch to the operation at the theoretical air-fuel ratio and increase the torque as a second torque increasing operation in a case where the target torque becomes higher than the limit torque during execution of the first torque increasing operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigehiro Sugihira, Naoto Kato, Satoshi Yoshizaki
  • Patent number: 10221799
    Abstract: A target air amount for achieving a requested torque is back-calculated from the requested torque using a virtual air-fuel ratio. The virtual air-fuel ratio is changed from a first air-fuel ratio to a second air-fuel ratio in response to a condition for switching an operation mode from operation in the first air-fuel ratio to operation in the second air-fuel ratio being satisfied. After the virtual air-fuel ratio is changed from the first air-fuel ratio to the second air-fuel ratio, an interval of time passes and the target air-fuel ratio is then switched from the first air-fuel ratio to a third air-fuel ratio that is an intermediate air-fuel ratio between the first air-fuel ratio and the second air-fuel ratio. The target air-fuel ratio is temporarily held at the third air-fuel ratio, and is thereafter switched from the third air-fuel ratio to the second air-fuel ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoru Tanaka, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Yusuke Saito, Ryutaro Moriguchi, Noriyasu Adachi, Yosuke Matsumoto, Naoya Takagi
  • Patent number: 10202924
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to enhance the possibility of realizing a required torque in a supercharging region where scavenging occurs in a control apparatus for a supercharged engine. In order to achieve this object, the control apparatus for the supercharged engine according to the invention determines an operation amount of an intake valve driving device from a target in-cylinder air amount that is calculated from a required torque, and determines an operation amount of a throttle from a target intake valve passing air amount that is obtained by adding an amount of air blowing through an interior of a cylinder to the target in-cylinder air amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinichi Soejima, Akira Eiraku, Satoru Tanaka, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Kiyonori Takahashi, Yoshihiro Sakayanagi
  • Patent number: 10190519
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control device for an internal combustion engine that includes a turbocharger, and an actuator that changes a turbocharging pressure by regulating exhaust energy for use in drive of the turbocharger. When a target torque is increased during execution of a lean burn operation, the control device switches an operation mode of the internal combustion engine from the lean burn operation to a stoichiometric operation. When the operation mode switching is performed in a turbocharging state, the control device determines whether a target torque is within a range of a torque realizable under the lean air-fuel ratio. When the target torque is within the range, the control device operates the actuator so as to keep the turbocharging pressure at a magnitude equal to or larger than a magnitude at a time point at which the operation mode is switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigehiro Sugihira, Naoto Kato, Satoshi Yoshizaki
  • Patent number: 10094307
    Abstract: A target first air amount for achieving a requested torque by an operation of an intake property variable actuator is calculated by using a first parameter. A target second air amount for achieving the requested torque by an operation of a turbocharging property variable actuator is calculated by using a second parameter. A value of a first parameter changes to a value that reduces a conversion efficiency of an air amount into torque in response to the requested torque decreasing to a first reference value or lower. Further, a value of the second parameter starts to change to a direction to reduce the conversion efficiency in response to the requested torque decreasing to a second reference value that is larger than the first reference value, or lower, and gradually changes to a direction to reduce the conversion efficiency in accordance with the requested torque further decreasing from the second reference value to the first reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshizaki, Satoru Tanaka
  • Patent number: 9903285
    Abstract: A target air amount for achieving a requested torque is back-calculated from the requested torque using a virtual air-fuel ratio. The virtual air-fuel ratio is changed from a first air-fuel ratio to a second air-fuel ratio in response to a condition for switching an operation mode being satisfied. After the virtual air-fuel ratio is changed, the target air-fuel ratio is maintained at the first air-fuel ratio until the ignition timing reaches a retardation limit. Subsequently, in response to the ignition timing reaching the retardation limit, the target air-fuel ratio is switched from the first air-fuel ratio to a third air-fuel ratio. After switching of the target air-fuel ratio, in response to a difference between the target air amount and an estimated air amount becoming equal to or less than a threshold value, the target air-fuel ratio is switched from the third air-fuel ratio to the second air-fuel ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Saito, Noriyasu Adachi, Satoru Tanaka, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Ryutaro Moriguchi, Yosuke Matsumoto
  • Publication number: 20170350338
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control device for an internal combustion engine that includes a turbocharger, and an actuator that changes a turbocharging pressure by regulating exhaust energy for use in drive of the turbocharger. When a target torque is increased during execution of a lean burn operation, the control device switches an operation mode of the internal combustion engine from the lean burn operation to a stoichiometric operation. When the operation mode switching is performed in a turbocharging state, the control device determines whether a target torque is within a range of a torque realizable under the lean air-fuel ratio. When the target torque is within the range, the control device operates the actuator so as to keep the turbocharging pressure at a magnitude equal to or larger than a magnitude at a time point at which the operation mode is switched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigehiro SUGIHIRA, Naoto KATO, Satoshi YOSHIZAKI
  • Publication number: 20170342926
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to increase an air amount that is suctioned into a cylinder while maintaining the lean air-fuel ratio as a first torque increasing operation in a case where target torque is increased during the operation at the lean air-fuel ratio such that torque is increased. The electronic control unit is configured to compute limit torque as an upper limit of the torque that can be realized in a case where the lean air-fuel ratio is kept for a certain time from a current time point. The electronic control unit is configured to switch to the operation at the theoretical air-fuel ratio and increase the torque as a second torque increasing operation in a case where the target torque becomes higher than the limit torque during execution of the first torque increasing operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigehiro SUGIHIRA, Naoto KATO, Satoshi YOSHIZAKI
  • Patent number: 9657677
    Abstract: An integrated control apparatus includes an internal combustion engine, a stepped automatic transmission, a power train manager, and an engine controller. The power train manager is configured to: output a target torque and a forenotice torque to the engine controller; start lowering of the target torque after a specified time elapses from a timing of an upshifting instruction; lower the forenotice torque prior to the lowering of the target torque. The engine controller is configured to: start a reduction in an air amount in accordance with a magnitude of lowering of the forenotice torque; start reducing the air amount from a time when the lowering of the forenotice torque is started until a time when the lowering of the target torque is started; and adjust an air-fuel ratio in accordance with a deviation between the target torque and a torque that is estimated from a lean air-fuel ratio and the air amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Satoshi Yoshizaki, Naoto Kato, Shigehiro Sugihira
  • Patent number: 9650979
    Abstract: A target air amount for achieving a requested torque is back-calculated from the requested torque using a parameter that provides a conversion efficiency of an air amount to torque. The value of the parameter gradually changes to lower the conversion efficiency as the requested torque decreases from a second reference value towards a first reference value. The first reference value is calculated based on the engine speed. The second reference value is calculated based on an air amount with which the first reference value is achieved under a second air-fuel ratio, and a first air-fuel ratio. The target air-fuel ratio is set to the first air-fuel ratio when the requested torque is greater than the first reference value, and is switched from the first air-fuel ratio to the second air-fuel ratio when the requested torque decreases to a value equal to or less than the first reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Satoru Tanaka, Satoshi Yoshizaki
  • Patent number: 9583347
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a semiconductor device, the method, comprising forming, on a substrate, a first resist pattern including a plurality of line patterns extending in a predetermined direction, injecting an impurity into the substrate by using the first resist pattern, removing the first resist pattern, forming a second resist pattern including a plurality of second line patterns extending in the predetermined direction, and injecting an impurity into the substrate by using the second resist pattern, wherein, in the forming the second resist pattern, the plurality of second line patterns are respectively formed between places where the adjacent first line patterns are formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mikio Arakawa, Satoshi Yoshizaki