Patents by Inventor Shunichi TSUTSUJI

Shunichi TSUTSUJI 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: 11473537
    Abstract: An EGR valve deterioration degree calculation system configured to calculate a degree of deterioration of an EGR valve includes an execution device. The execution device is configured to perform: a pressure acquisition process; a pressure change amount calculation process of calculating a pressure change amount associated with an operation of opening and closing the EGR valve; a differential pressure calculation process of calculating a differential pressure between an upstream side of the EGR valve and a downstream side of the EGR valve when the EGR valve is in a closed state; and a deterioration degree calculation process of calculating the degree of deterioration of the EGR valve based on the pressure change amount and the differential pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunichi Tsutsuji
  • Publication number: 20220298993
    Abstract: An EGR valve deterioration degree calculation system configured to calculate a degree of deterioration of an EGR valve includes an execution device. The execution device is configured to perform: a pressure acquisition process; a pressure change amount calculation process of calculating a pressure change amount associated with an operation of opening and closing the EGR valve; a differential pressure calculation process of calculating a differential pressure between an upstream side of the EGR valve and a downstream side of the EGR valve when the EGR valve is in a closed state; and a deterioration degree calculation process of calculating the degree of deterioration of the EGR valve based on the pressure change amount and the differential pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunichi TSUTSUJI
  • Patent number: 9822722
    Abstract: The fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus diagnoses that a fuel pressure sensor is abnormal in the case where, because a state where a detected value of the fuel pressure sensor is less than a target value occurs, a fuel discharge amount of a fuel pump is increased, and as a result, the fuel discharge amount reaches its maximum amount, and even if a predetermined period has elapsed since the fuel discharge amount reaches its maximum amount, the detected value is less than the target value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunichi Tsutsuji, Koji Honda, Makiko Nakayama, Kinji Morihiro
  • Patent number: 9334817
    Abstract: A supercharging system includes a waste gate valve (35) mounted in a bypass passage (34) that bypasses a turbine (31) and through which exhaust gas flows. An electronic control unit (39) that diagnoses abnormality of the supercharging system makes a first abnormality determination and a second abnormality determination, each of which is based on an integrated value of an intake air amount and an increased amount of supercharging pressure in each of a first determination period from initiation to termination of an increase in the supercharging pressure and a second determination period from initiation to termination of an increase in the intake air amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUASHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Shunichi Tsutsuji
  • Publication number: 20160090933
    Abstract: The fuel pressure sensor abnormality diagnosis apparatus diagnoses that a fuel pressure sensor is abnormal in the case where, because a state where a detected value of the fuel pressure sensor is less than a target value occurs, a fuel discharge amount of a fuel pump is increased, and as a result, the fuel discharge amount reaches its maximum amount, and even if a predetermined period has elapsed since the fuel discharge amount reaches its maximum amount, the detected value is less than the target value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shunichi TSUTSUJI, Koji Honda, Makiko Nakayama, Kinji Morihiro
  • Publication number: 20160010572
    Abstract: A supercharging system includes a waste gate valve (35) mounted in a bypass passage (34) that bypasses a turbine (31) and through which exhaust gas flows. An electronic control unit (39) that diagnoses abnormality of the supercharging system makes a first abnormality determination and a second abnormality determination, each of which is based on an integrated value of an intake air amount and an increased amount of supercharging pressure in each of a first determination period from initiation to termination of an increase in the supercharging pressure and a second determination period from initiation to termination of an increase in the intake air amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Shunichi TSUTSUJI