Patents by Inventor Takeshi Atago
Takeshi Atago 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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Patent number: 5027278Abstract: In order to control all revolution numbers of an engine at high precision, combustion of each cylinder is reliably controlled. For the combustion control of each cylinder, there are controlled measurement timings of an air volume as well as a fuel volume contributive to the combustion and exhaust gas being a combustion result, calculation timings of a fuel injection volume and an ignition timing, and output timings of fuel injection and/or ignition. These timings are synchronized by crank angle positions from a reference point such as top dead center. Particularly as to the measurement timing, a delay time of a gas stream between a measurement spot and the cylinder is compensated in terms of a crank angle corresponding thereto, whereby the variables to be measured are synchronized.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1989Date of Patent: June 25, 1991Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikihiko Ohnari, Teruji Sekozawa, Motohisa Funabashi, Takeshi Atago, Makoto Shioya
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Patent number: 4996965Abstract: An electronic control system for an internal combustion engine includes a plurality of first sensors for measuring a driver action taken in accordance with a driver's intent, a plurality of second sensors for measuring operating conditions of an engine, a plurality of actuators for controlling the engine, a unit for setting a target reference by selecting one among a plurality of target references for engine control, and a unit for manipulating the actuators responsive to the established target reference to control the engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1989Date of Patent: March 5, 1991Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikihiko Onari, Motohisa Funabashi, Teruji Sekozawa, Takeshi Atago, Makoto Shioya
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Patent number: 4991102Abstract: An engine control system is disclosed in which the air-fuel ratio is controlled by feedback in accordance with the oxygen concentration detected of the exhaust gas, and a feedback control system thereof separate learning compensation values for compensating for the changes of the input/output characteristics of an air flow meter and a fuel injector respectively.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 1988Date of Patent: February 5, 1991Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masahide Sakamoto, Takeshi Atago, Junichi Ishii, Matsuo Amano, Nobuo Kurihara
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Patent number: 4972818Abstract: On an outer peripheral portion of a rotor (1), three protrusions are provided per each cylinder. A pickup coil 2 is disposed facing to the outer peripheral portion with a predetermined distance. A rotation signal (S.sub.0) is converted to a rotation signal pulse (S.sub.1) having three pulses (A, B and C) per each cylinder corresponding to the three protrusions. According to the first signal (A) of the rotation signal pulse (S.sub.1) the cranking ignition period (A.sub.1) is determined. According to the second signal (B) of the rotation signal pulse (S.sub.1), the starting timing for flowing current to the ignition coil (8) is decided. According to the third signal (C) of the rotation signal pulse (S.sub.1), the ignition timing at cranking operation is defined by detecting time intervals (3t, t, 2t) between the three signals (A, B, C).Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1989Date of Patent: November 27, 1990Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Suzuki Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Hitachi Automotive Engineering, Ltd.,Inventors: Toshiro Nomura, Seiichi Kikuchi, Toshio Ishii, Yasunori Mouri, Takeshi Atago
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Patent number: 4953532Abstract: An ignition timing control unit for an internal combustion engine is constructed such that a predetermined amount of correction for the ignition timing of the engine is set beforehand in accordance with directions of change in the number of revolutions of the engine so that, during a predetermined period of time after the detection of an operation to accelerate the engine, the predetermined amount of correction for the ignition timing is added to standard ignition timing of the engine to suppress the change in the number of revolutions of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1989Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago
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Patent number: 4896641Abstract: A detection processing of a rotational number of an engine is executed periodically in synchronism with a rotation of the engine. A calculation processing of an ignition timing correction amount (.DELTA.IGN) is executed periodically in every predetermined time independently on the rotational number detection of the engine. After the engine is accelerated, the ignition timing control of the engine is executed based on the ignition timing correction amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1988Date of Patent: January 30, 1990Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago, Junji Miyake, Masahide Sakamoto
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Patent number: 4887573Abstract: An ignition timing adjusting apparatus of an internal combustion engine is provided so as to suppress the vibration of the body of a vehicle when it is accelerated. This is achieved by obtaining a first ignition timing compensation magnitude determined on the basis of the revolution speed fluctuation of the internal combustion engine and a second ignition timing compensation magnitude determined on the basis of the engine load condition, and by compensating a basic ignition timing in accordance with the first and second ignition timing compensation magnitude when the vehicle is accelerated.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1988Date of Patent: December 19, 1989Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiko Fujiwara, Toshiro Abe, Atsunori Hashimoto, Shinsuke Nakazawa, Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago
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Patent number: 4887216Abstract: In order to control all revolution numbers of an engine at high precision, combustion of each cylinder is reliably controlled. For the combustion control of each cylinder, there are controlled measurement timings of an air volume as well as a fuel volume contributive to the combustion and exhaust gas being a combustion result, calculation timings of a fuel injection volume and an ignition timing, and output timings of fuel injection and/or ignition. These timings are synchronized by crank angle positions form a reference point such as top dead center. Particularly as to the measurement timing, a delay time of a gas stream between a measurement spot and the cylinder is compensated in terms of a crank angle corresponding thereto, whereby the variables to be measured are synchronized.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1987Date of Patent: December 12, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikihiko Ohnari, Teruji Sekozawa, Motohisa Funabashi, Takeshi Atago, Makoto Shioya
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Patent number: 4852537Abstract: Disclosed is an ignition timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle in which, when an acceleration is detected, a correction quantity for ignition time advance or retardation corresponding to an increment or a decrement of and the changing direction of the rotation speed is computed to correct basic ignition timing, thereby suppressing an acceleration shock or vehicle body vibration.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1987Date of Patent: August 1, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago
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Patent number: 4853720Abstract: To perform the proper control conforming to the intent of a driver of an automotive vehicle under any condition which is encountered by the vehicle, optimum control methods are preliminarily classified in accordance with categories relating to conditions of the vehicle and categories relating to intents of the driver and the classified optimum control methods are stored in a memory, thereby selecting one of the control methods corresponding to the combination of the categories to which the vehicle condition and the driver's intent detected during the running of the vehicle belong.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1987Date of Patent: August 1, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mikihiko Onari, Teruji Sekozawa, Motohisa Funabashi, Takeshi Atago
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Patent number: 4821698Abstract: A fuel injection system of the type in which the opening time of a fuel injection valve is controlled on the basis of a predetermined program and in accordance with various operation parameters such as the intake air flow rate, engine speed and engine temperature. The system has a means for detecting at least one of the offset of the engine speed from a command speed and the engine speed variation per unit time, the data being used together with the above-mentioned operation parameters in controlling the opening time of the fuel injection valve.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 1986Date of Patent: April 18, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Atago, Yasunori Mouri, Toshio Manaka
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Patent number: 4799469Abstract: The ignition timing is controlled in that a change in engine speed is detected from a differentiated value dN/dt, and when dN/dt is larger than a predetermined value and when a value of dN/dt is positive, the ignition timing is retarded by a predetermined value from a fundamental ignition timing, and further, when dN/dt is larger than the predetermined value and when the value of dN/dt is negative, the ignition timing is advanced by the predetermined value from the fundamental ignition timing.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1987Date of Patent: January 24, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago, Toshio Manaka
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Patent number: 4759327Abstract: In an apparatus for controlling an internal combustion engine having a fuel injection control system, the detected number of revolutions is so modified that it becomes higher than an actual number of revolutions when a changing rate of the number of revolutions is larger than a predetermined value and the actual number of revolutions tends upward, and lower than the actual one when the changing rate is larger than the predetermined value and the actual number of revolutions tends downward. The quantity of fuel to be injected is calculated on the basis of the thus modified number of revolutions. According to the present invention, the deceleration shock or surging occurring during the low speed running of an automobile can be effectively diminished without any deterioration of the exhaust gas.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1986Date of Patent: July 26, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masami Nagano, Seiji Suda, Takeshi Atago, Masahide Sakamoto
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Patent number: 4748951Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the idling engine speed of an automobile engine comprises: an engine speed sensor for detecting an engine speed; a control unit for calculating a difference between an actual engine speed detected by the sensor and a targeted idling engine speed preset in accordance with the operating conditions of the engine, for judging whether or not a power steering system is being operated to a point close to an operatable limit thereof when the automobile is at a standstill, and for outputting a signal for increasing by a predetermined value a gain of a proportional term for proportional-integral type feedback control employed in controlling the idling engine speed if judgment is made that the power steering system is being operated to a point close to the operatable limit thereof when the automobile is at a standstill; and an ISC valve for adjusting a flow rate of air supplied to the engine in accordance with a signal output by the control unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1987Date of Patent: June 7, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Manaka, Takeshi Atago, Toshio Ishii
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Patent number: 4742807Abstract: An electronic control device for an internal combustion engine provides feedback control of the idle speed using as a reference value an intake air flow rate set in correspondence with the reference value of the idle speed.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 1986Date of Patent: May 10, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masahide Sakamoto, Seiji Suda, Takeshi Atago, Masami Nagano
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Patent number: 4732126Abstract: A basic pulse width T.sub.p is determined in accordance with the throttle valve opening and speed of an engine, and the basic pulse width T.sub.p is corrected when the peak value of cylinder pressures exceeds a given range established by the average value of the peak pressure values.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1987Date of Patent: March 22, 1988Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenji Ikeura, Yoshihisa Kawamura, Takeshi Atago, Yasunori Mouri
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Patent number: 4723524Abstract: In a fuel injection controlling method for an internal combustion engine having the hot were air flow meter and the valve opening pulse generating means for a fuel increment independently of the basic valve opening pulse generating means for causing the injector to inject fuel normally during the normal condition, the valve opening pulse for a fuel increment has a duration dependent on at least one of selected from variations in the air intake volume per unit time, a closing signal of the idle switch for the throttle valve, a signal indicating the number of revolutions of the engine, etc., independently of the duration of the basic valve opening pulse. The acceleration adjustment is adjusted the fuel increment in accordance with the valve opening pulse for a fuel increment. It is possible to obtain optimum acceleration by varying the adjustment depending on conditions for interrupt adjustment during acceleration.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1986Date of Patent: February 9, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Takeshi Atago, Masami Nagano, Masahide Sakamoto
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Patent number: 4719885Abstract: A fuel at the time of start of an internal combustion engine (8) is supplied dividedly by the injection pulse signals. The injection pulse width (T.sub.ST) of the injection pulse signals is controlled in accordance with the temperature of the engine fuel chamber (9) of the internal combustion engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 1987Date of Patent: January 19, 1988Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Masami Nagano, Takeshi Atago
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Patent number: 4665877Abstract: A tubular trembler supported on an ultrasonic vibrator is disposed almost on an axis in an engine intake pipe and has a fuel passing-through hole in the wall thereof. A fuel jet tip of the electromagnetic injection valve is disposed so as to face the fuel passing-through hole so as to jet the fuel divergently against an inside wall of the tubular trembler through the fuel passing-through hole. The fuel is injected against the inside wall of the trembler through the fuel passing-through hole and is atomized. When the fuel is jetted into the fuel passing-through hole from the fuel jet tip, the relative distance from the fuel jet tip to the inside edge of the fuel passing-through hole is determined so that most of the injected fuel will strike the inner wall of the tubular trembler, within the dimensions determined by the bore, the fuel passing-through hole, the inside diameter and the length of the tubular trembler and the angle of the spread of the injected fuel.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 1985Date of Patent: May 19, 1987Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Manaka, Takeshi Atago, Teruo Yamauchi
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Patent number: 4625919Abstract: In an electromagnetic fuel injection valve of the axial flow type, a tubular member with both its ends open is disposed in a penetration path that is formed in a stationary core, and an area is sealed between the outer periphery of the tubular member on the side of nozzle and the inner periphery of the penetration path. Further, the path formed between the tubular member and the penetration path is communicated with fuel space formed around the outer periphery of the stationary core. Therefore, the fuel circulates when it is allowed to flow out or flow in via the inner path of the tubular member.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 1984Date of Patent: December 2, 1986Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Masahiro Soma, Takeshi Atago, Takayuki Kido