Patents by Inventor Shinichirou Okugawa

Shinichirou Okugawa 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: 8078392
    Abstract: There is provided with an ECU for estimating an unburned fuel amount (HC) emitted from an engine after fuel combustion or a temperature of a DPF based upon a required engine operating condition as a control target value. An exhaust gas temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of an exhaust gas emitted directly from the engine is provided. A program for compensating for an estimation error in regard to an estimation value of the unburned fuel amount estimated from the required engine operating condition, that is, an operating condition difference amount between the required engine operating condition and an actual engine operating condition, based upon an engine exhaust gas temperature detected from the exhaust gas temperature sensor is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2011
    Assignee: Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Shigeto Yahata, Shinichirou Okugawa, Tsutomu Soga
  • Patent number: 7930879
    Abstract: A control device has a throttle valve and fuel injection valves supplying air and fuel to an internal combustion engine, a meter detecting an actual quantity of the air supplied to the engine, a sensor detecting an actual oxygen concentration of an exhaust gas outputted from an exhaust system of the engine, and an ECU controlling the valves. To regenerate an exhaust emission purifier disposed in the exhaust system at a target temperature appropriate to the regeneration of the purifier, the ECU determines a target oxygen concentration corresponding to a target air-fuel ratio and a basic air quantity according to a torque required of the engine and controls the valves according to the actual air quantity and the actual oxygen concentration to supply a basic quantity of fuel and the basic quantity of air to the engine at the target air-fuel ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2011
    Assignee: DENSO Corporation
    Inventors: Shinichirou Okugawa, Kazuo Kojima, Shigeto Yahata, Atsushi Takano
  • Publication number: 20080120962
    Abstract: A control device has a throttle valve and fuel injection valves supplying air and fuel to an internal combustion engine, a meter detecting an actual quantity of the air supplied to the engine, a sensor detecting an actual oxygen concentration of an exhaust gas outputted from an exhaust system of the engine, and an ECU controlling the valves. To regenerate an exhaust emission purifier disposed in the exhaust system at a target temperature appropriate to the regeneration of the purifier, the ECU determines a target oxygen concentration corresponding to a target air-fuel ratio and a basic air quantity according to a torque required of the engine and controls the valves according to the actual air quantity and the actual oxygen concentration to supply a basic quantity of fuel and the basic quantity of air to the engine at the target air-fuel ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2007
    Publication date: May 29, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shinichirou OKUGAWA, Kazuo Kojima, Shigeto Yahata, Atsushi Takano
  • Publication number: 20080040014
    Abstract: There is provided with an ECU for estimating an unburned fuel amount (HC) emitted from an engine after fuel combustion or a temperature of a DPF based upon a required engine operating condition as a control target value. An exhaust gas temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of an exhaust gas emitted directly from the engine is provided. A program for compensating for an estimation error in regard to an estimation value of the unburned fuel amount estimated from the required engine operating condition, that is, an operating condition difference amount between the required engine operating condition and an actual engine operating condition, based upon an engine exhaust gas temperature detected from the exhaust gas temperature sensor is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shigeto Yahata, Shinichirou Okugawa, Tsutomu Soga