Patents by Inventor Tatsuaki Suzuki

Tatsuaki Suzuki 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: 11325579
    Abstract: A controller configured to control a hybrid vehicle includes a catalyst temperature increase control unit configured to execute a catalyst temperature increase control of increasing a temperature of a three-way catalyst device, a motoring control of rotating a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine with power of a motor in a state in which combustion of the internal combustion engine is stopped, and a fuel introduction process of introducing unburned air-fuel mixture into an exhaust passage by performing fuel injection in the internal combustion engine during the execution of the motoring control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Nose, Yuto Ikeda, Hirofumi Hashinokuchi, Tatsuaki Suzuki, Eiji Ikuta, Keiichi Myojo, Hirokazu Ando
  • Patent number: 11028747
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel introduction process of introducing an air-fuel mixture containing fuel injected by a fuel injection valve into an exhaust passage without burning the air-fuel mixture in a cylinder. The fuel introduction processor is configured to perform, during the execution of the fuel introduction process, a determination process of determining whether afterfire, in which the air-fuel mixture burns at an upstream side of a three-way catalyst device in the exhaust passage, has occurred and a stopping process of stopping the fuel introduction process when determining in the determination process that the afterfire has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki Nose, Yuto Ikeda, Hirofumi Hashinokuchi, Tatsuaki Suzuki, Eiji Ikuta, Yoshiyuki Shogenji, Hirokazu Ando
  • Patent number: 10774763
    Abstract: When stopping combustion in a cylinder under a situation in which the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine having an ignition device is rotating, a controller executes a fuel introduction process of injecting fuel from a fuel injection valve and introducing the fuel from inside the cylinder to the exhaust passage without burning the fuel. Also, the controller executes a storing process before starting the fuel introduction process. In the storing process, the controller stores oxygen in a three-way catalyst by executing a fuel cutoff process of stopping fuel injection of the fuel injection valve under a situation in which the crankshaft is rotating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuto Ikeda, Yuki Nose, Hirofumi Hashinokuchi, Tatsuaki Suzuki, Keiichi Myojo, Eiji Ikuta, Hirokazu Ando
  • Patent number: 10753298
    Abstract: A controller includes an air-fuel ratio control unit that calculates an air-fuel ratio F/B correction value and an air-fuel ratio learning value and corrects an amount of fuel supplied to each cylinder based on the air-fuel ratio F/B correction value FAF and the air-fuel ratio learning value KG. The controller further includes a dither control unit that executes dither control to adjust the amount of fuel supplied to each cylinder, corrected by the air-fuel ratio control unit, so that at least one of the cylinders is set to a rich combustion cylinder and at least a further one of the cylinders is set to a lean combustion cylinder. When the dither control is executed, the air-fuel ratio control unit prohibits execution of air-fuel ratio learning control and executes air-fuel ratio feedback control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tatsuaki Suzuki, Yuki Nose, Keiichi Myojo, Yoshiyuki Shogenji, Eiji Ikuta
  • Publication number: 20200049088
    Abstract: When stopping combustion in a cylinder under a situation in which the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine having an ignition device is rotating, a controller executes a fuel introduction process of injecting fuel from a fuel injection valve and introducing the fuel from inside the cylinder to the exhaust passage without burning the fuel. Also, the controller executes a storing process before starting the fuel introduction process. In the storing process, the controller stores oxygen in a three-way catalyst by executing a fuel cutoff process of stopping fuel injection of the fuel injection valve under a situation in which the crankshaft is rotating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuto IKEDA, Yuki NOSE, Hirofumi HASHINOKUCHI, Tatsuaki SUZUKI, Keiichi MYOJO, Eiji IKUTA, Hirokazu ANDO
  • Publication number: 20200049043
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes a fuel introduction process of introducing an air-fuel mixture containing fuel injected by a fuel injection valve into an exhaust passage without burning the air-fuel mixture in a cylinder. The fuel introduction processor is configured to perform, during the execution of the fuel introduction process, a determination process of determining whether afterfire, in which the air-fuel mixture burns at an upstream side of a three-way catalyst device in the exhaust passage, has occurred and a stopping process of stopping the fuel introduction process when determining in the determination process that the afterfire has occurred.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki NOSE, Yuto IKEDA, Hirofumi HASHINOKUCHI, Tatsuaki SUZUKI, Eiji IKUTA, Yoshiyuki SHOGENJI, Hirokazu ANDO
  • Publication number: 20200047741
    Abstract: A controller configured to control a hybrid vehicle includes a catalyst temperature increase control unit configured to execute a catalyst temperature increase control of increasing a temperature of a three-way catalyst device, a motoring control of rotating a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine with power of a motor in a state in which combustion of the internal combustion engine is stopped, and a fuel introduction process of introducing unburned air-fuel mixture into an exhaust passage by performing fuel injection in the internal combustion engine during the execution of the motoring control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuki NOSE, Yuto IKEDA, Hirofumi HASHINOKUCHI, Tatsuaki SUZUKI, Eiji IKUTA, Keiichi MYOJO, Hirokazu ANDO
  • Patent number: 10309327
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute temperature rise processing in which a temperature of a catalyst is raised by an air-fuel ratio of at least one of a plurality of cylinders being controlled to a rich air-fuel ratio, an air-fuel ratio of each of the other cylinders being controlled to a lean air-fuel ratio, and a fuel being ignited, and allow the temperature rise processing to continue, by allowing the fuel injection to continue while prohibiting the ignition of the fuel, in a case where the fuel cut request is present and the temperature of the catalyst is equal to or higher than the threshold during the execution of the temperature rise processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuaki Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20190048818
    Abstract: A controller includes an air-fuel ratio control unit that calculates an air-fuel ratio F/B correction value and an air-fuel ratio learning value and corrects an amount of fuel supplied to each cylinder based on the air-fuel ratio F/B correction value FAF and the air-fuel ratio learning value KG. The controller further includes a dither control unit that executes dither control to adjust the amount of fuel supplied to each cylinder, corrected by the air-fuel ratio control unit, so that at least one of the cylinders is set to a rich combustion cylinder and at least a further one of the cylinders is set to a lean combustion cylinder. When the dither control is executed, the air-fuel ratio control unit prohibits execution of air-fuel ratio learning control and executes air-fuel ratio feedback control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tatsuaki SUZUKI, Yuki NOSE, Keiichi MYOJO, Yoshiyuki SHOGENJI, Eiji IKUTA
  • Patent number: 10115132
    Abstract: A distribution apparatus includes a memory and a processor programmed to distribute control information and a first content to a terminal apparatus. The control information causes the terminal apparatus to execute displaying the first content superimposed onto a second content in a first display mode, the second content having a higher transparency than the first content; detecting an input operation causing the first content to move relative to the display region; in response to the detected input operation and the first content moving, changing the first display mode to a second display mode by changing a transparency of at least one of the first content and the second content, such that the first content and the second content are visible in the display region; and in response to completion of the input operation and the first content not moving, changing the second display mode to the first display mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tatsuaki Suzuki, Daisuke Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20180209363
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute temperature rise processing in which a temperature of a catalyst is raised by an air-fuel ratio of at least one of a plurality of cylinders being controlled to a rich air-fuel ratio, an air-fuel ratio of each of the other cylinders being controlled to a lean air-fuel ratio, and a fuel being ignited, and allow the temperature rise processing to continue, by allowing the fuel injection to continue while prohibiting the ignition of the fuel, in a case where the fuel cut request is present and the temperature of the catalyst is equal to or higher than the threshold during the execution of the temperature rise processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tatsuaki SUZUKI
  • Patent number: 9990657
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit configured to display first content and second content in a display region so as to overlap each other. The information display device includes a change unit configured to change the second content to third content, depending on a position where a predetermined region included in the first content is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Tatsuaki Suzuki, Kensuke Takada
  • Patent number: 9984390
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit configured to display first content in a region which accounts for a predetermined proportion of a display region and displays second content in another region. The information display device includes a detection unit configured to detect an inclination of the information display device. The information display device includes a change unit configured to change the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed in the display region, depending on the detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Tatsuaki Suzuki, Kensuke Takada
  • Patent number: 9972033
    Abstract: A distribution apparatus includes a receiving unit and a distributing unit. The receiving unit receives an acquisition request for a first content. The distributing unit distributes the first content displayed with a second content and control information that causes a region of the second content that does not overlap the first content to be displayed in a selectable state and causes a region of the second content overlapping the first content to be displayed so as to overlap the first content in a non-selectable state, when the acquisition request is received by the receiving unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuki Nakayama, Narae Lee, Tatsuaki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 9959646
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit that displays first content in a display region. The information display device includes a detection unit configured to detect a physical state of a terminal device. The information display device includes a display control unit configured to direct the display unit to display second new content in the display region while changing a display mode of the first content, on the basis of the detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chiemi Taki, Daisuke Kobayashi, Keisuke Kimura, Tatsuaki Suzuki, Kensuke Takada
  • Patent number: 9704180
    Abstract: A distribution device according to the present application includes a distribution unit. The distribution unit distributes control information to a terminal device. The control information causes the terminal device to execute a detection procedure of detecting a position where a moving operation to move first content being displayed by the terminal device has been performed, and a display procedure of superimposing and displaying second content on the first content, based on the position detected by the detection procedure. For example, the display procedure causes the terminal device to execute processing of displaying, as second content, advertising content that allows an access to a web page provided by an advertiser, when the advertising content is selected by a user of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: YAHOO JAPAN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daisuke Kobayashi, Tatsuaki Suzuki, Kensuke Takada
  • Publication number: 20160027060
    Abstract: A distribution device according to the present application includes a distribution unit. The distribution unit distributes control information to a terminal device. The control information causes the terminal device to execute a detection procedure of detecting a position where a moving operation to move first content being displayed by the terminal device has been performed, and a display procedure of superimposing and displaying second content on the first content, based on the position detected by the detection procedure. For example, the display procedure causes the terminal device to execute processing of displaying, as second content, advertising content that allows an access to a web page provided by an advertiser, when the advertising content is selected by a user of the terminal device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Tatsuaki SUZUKI, Kensuke TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20160019604
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit configured to display first content and second content in a display region so as to overlap each other. The information display device includes a change unit configured to change the second content to third content, depending on a position where a predetermined region included in the first content is displayed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Tatsuaki SUZUKI, Kensuke TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20160018987
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit configured to display first content in a region which accounts for a predetermined proportion of a display region and displays second content in another region. The information display device includes a detection unit configured to detect an inclination of the information display device. The information display device includes a change unit configured to change the proportion of the region in which the first content is displayed and the proportion of the region in which the second content is displayed in the display region, depending on the detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Tatsuaki SUZUKI, Kensuke TAKADA
  • Publication number: 20160012624
    Abstract: According to one aspect of an embodiment, an information display device includes a display unit that displays first content in a display region. The information display device includes a detection unit configured to detect a physical state of a terminal device. The information display device includes a display control unit configured to direct the display unit to display second new content in the display region while changing a display mode of the first content, on the basis of the detection result of the detection unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Chiemi TAKI, Daisuke KOBAYASHI, Keisuke KIMURA, Tatsuaki SUZUKI, Kensuke TAKADA