Patents by Inventor Tamotsu KUNO

Tamotsu KUNO 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: 20230202455
    Abstract: A hybrid system which can calculate various type of more proper required torques is provided while input factors which can be used for calculating the various types of required torques are limited. A hybrid system 2 includes a rotation sensor 31 which detects a rotation number of an engine 3, at least either one of an accelerator opening-degree sensor 61 which detects an accelerator opening degree and a rotation-number instruction unit 62 which transmits a rotation-number signal instructing a certain rotation number to the engine 3, and a control unit 5 which controls an operation of the engine 3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuaki KOYAMA, Ryota KIMURA, Koichi FUNAKI, Yasuo FUJII, Tamotsu KUNO
  • Patent number: 11548370
    Abstract: In an industrial hybrid engine, an endless rotary band wound around a drive pulley of a crankshaft and a motor pulley of an electric motor for power is provided. The electric motor is attached to an engine body by using a support bracket. A tension mechanism is supported by the support bracket, the tension mechanism tensioning the endless rotary band in a direction in which the endless rotary band is stretched. A second support bracket that supports the electric motor separately from the support bracket is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu Takami, Tamotsu Kuno
  • Patent number: 10704435
    Abstract: A breather device for an engine which prevents a blow-by gas outlet passage from being blocked due to freezing, is provided, which includes a valve holder in a cylinder head cover and a breather valve supported by the holder. The holder includes a holder body having a valve port of the breather valve, a metal outlet passage pipe having a blow-by gas outlet passage formed inside, the blow-by gas outlet passage communicating with the valve port and being located below the valve port, and a heater that heats the outlet passage pipe. An outer peripheral surface of the outlet passage pipe is wrapped with the holder body formed of a material having lower thermal conductivity than that of the outlet passage pipe. The holder body has a heater insertion port, and the heater is inserted from the heater insertion port toward a heat input wall of the outlet passage pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Gen Nakamura, Koji Okada, Tamotsu Kuno, Akihiko Kai
  • Patent number: 10619546
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust treatment device for a diesel engine that can prevent unnecessary alarm for ash deposition from being issued. In the exhaust treatment device, a timer measures integrated time of a state of non-regenerative operation which ranges from an end of DPF regeneration to a next time point where the differential pressure reaches a regeneration request value. A counter acquires the short interval count if the integrated time is a short interval shorter than a predetermined decision time. An alarm device issues an alarm if the consecutive short interval count reaches a predetermined plural necessary count for alarm. A short interval count having been already acquired is preferably reset to 0 if the integrated time of the state of non-regenerative operation is a long interval, not shorter than a predetermined decision time, before the short interval count reaches the predetermined necessary count for alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Katsushi Inoue, Koichi Funaki, Masanori Fujiwara, Tamotsu Kuno, Kentaro Kita, Yuki Yoshita
  • Publication number: 20190323406
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust treatment device for a diesel engine that can prevent unnecessary alarm for ash deposition from being issued. In the exhaust treatment device, a timer measures integrated time of a state of non-regenerative operation which ranges from an end of DPF regeneration to a next time point where the differential pressure reaches a regeneration request value. A counter acquires the short interval count if the integrated time is a short interval shorter than a predetermined decision time. An alarm device issues an alarm if the consecutive short interval count reaches a predetermined plural necessary count for alarm. A short interval count having been already acquired is preferably reset to 0 if the integrated time of the state of non-regenerative operation is a long interval, not shorter than a predetermined decision time, before the short interval count reaches the predetermined necessary count for alarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Katsushi INOUE, Koichi FUNAKI, Masanori FUJIWARA, Tamotsu KUNO, Kentaro KITA, Yuki YOSHITA
  • Publication number: 20190001806
    Abstract: In an industrial hybrid engine, an endless rotary band wound around a drive pulley of a crankshaft and a motor pulley of an electric motor for power is provided. The electric motor is attached to an engine body by using a support bracket. A tension mechanism is supported by the support bracket, the tension mechanism tensioning the endless rotary band in a direction in which the endless rotary band is stretched. A second support bracket that supports the electric motor separately from the support bracket is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Masayasu TAKAMI, Tamotsu KUNO
  • Publication number: 20190003355
    Abstract: A breather device for an engine which prevents a blow-by gas outlet passage from being blocked due to freezing, is provided, which includes a valve holder in a cylinder head cover and a breather valve supported by the holder. The holder includes a holder body having a valve port of the breather valve, a metal outlet passage pipe having a blow-by gas outlet passage formed inside, the blow-by gas outlet passage communicating with the valve port and being located below the valve port, and a heater that heats the outlet passage pipe. An outer peripheral surface of the outlet passage pipe is wrapped with the holder body formed of a material having lower thermal conductivity than that of the outlet passage pipe. The holder body has a heater insertion port, and the heater is inserted from the heater insertion port toward a heat input wall of the outlet passage pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Gen NAKAMURA, Koji OKADA, Tamotsu KUNO, Akihiko KAI
  • Patent number: 9458753
    Abstract: The present invention provides a diesel engine capable of preventing a PM accumulation amount from increasing excessively. If DOC inlet exhaust gas temperature (“IEGT”) does not reach a predetermined value T0, a control unit carries out air intake amount feedback control (“AIAFC”), and a target value of intake throttling is set to a predetermined air intake amount. If the DPF regenerating processing is not started even if elapsed time reaches a predetermined value t after AIAFC is started in a state where the DOC IEGT does not reach the predetermined value T0, the control unit changes AIAFC to exhaust gas temperature feedback control (“EGTFC”). In EGTFC, the control unit changes a target value of intake throttling to a predetermined DOC IEGT T0. If application of a load exceeding a predetermined amount is detected before the DOC IEGT reaches the predetermined value T0, the control unit returns EGTFC to AIAFC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: KUBOTA Corporation
    Inventors: Kentarou Kita, Tamotsu Kuno, Katsushi Inoue, Yuuji Takemura, Yuuki Ishii, Yusuke Komemushi, Tomoya Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20150089925
    Abstract: The present invention provides a diesel engine capable of preventing a PM accumulation amount from increasing excessively. If DOC inlet exhaust gas temperature (“IEGT”) does not reach a predetermined value T0, a control unit carries out air intake amount feedback control (“AIAFC”), and a target value of intake throttling is set to a predetermined air intake amount. If the DPF regenerating processing is not started even if elapsed time reaches a predetermined value t after AIAFC is started in a state where the DOC IEGT does not reach the predetermined value T0, the control unit changes AIAFC to exhaust gas temperature feedback control (“EGTFC”). In EGTFC, the control unit changes a target value of intake throttling to a predetermined DOC IEGT T0. If application of a load exceeding a predetermined amount is detected before the DOC IEGT reaches the predetermined value T0, the control unit returns EGTFC to AIAFC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Kentarou KITA, Tamotsu KUNO, Katsushi INOUE, Yuuji TAKEMURA, Yuuki ISHII, Yusuke KOMEMUSHI, Tomoya HASEGAWA
  • Patent number: 8534239
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a multi-cylinder diesel engine in which a thermal damage of a common rail, and a rise in fuel temperature can be suppressed. In order to achieve the object, a multi-cylinder diesel engine in which, while the extension direction of a crank shaft 1 is set to the anteroposterior direction, a common rail 3 which is directed in the anteroposterior direction is placed above an intake manifold 2, and an engine cooling fan 4 is placed in front of the engine is configured so that the width direction of the engine which is perpendicular to the anteroposterior direction is set to the lateral direction, an air intake portion 6 of the intake manifold 2 is placed on the outer lateral side of the both lateral sides of the common rail 3, the outer lateral side being opposite to a head cover 5, and the common rail 3 is placed in a place to which engine cooling air produced by the engine cooling fan 4 is blown.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kubota Corporation
    Inventors: Osamu Yoshii, Akihiko Kai, Hiroki Oso, Yuuji Takemura, Tamotsu Kuno, Kentarou Kita, Tomoya Hasegawa, Wataru Miyauchi
  • Publication number: 20110061630
    Abstract: It is an object of the invention to provide a multi-cylinder diesel engine in which a thermal damage of a common rail, and a rise in fuel temperature can be suppressed. In order to achieve the object, a multi-cylinder diesel engine in which, while the extension direction of a crank shaft 1 is set to the anteroposterior direction, a common rail 3 which is directed in the anteroposterior direction is placed above an intake manifold 2, and an engine cooling fan 4 is placed in front of the engine is configured so that the width direction of the engine which is perpendicular to the anteroposterior direction is set to the lateral direction, an air intake portion 6 of the intake manifold 2 is placed on the outer lateral side of the both lateral sides of the common rail 3, the outer lateral side being opposite to a head cover 5, and the common rail 3 is placed in a place to which engine cooling air produced by the engine cooling fan 4 is blown.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: KUBOTA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Osamu YOSHII, Akihiko KAI, Hiroki OSO, Yuuji TAKEMURA, Tamotsu KUNO, Kentarou KITA, Tomoya HASEGAWA, Wataru MIYAUCHI