Patents by Inventor Yoshitaka Wada

Yoshitaka Wada 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: 20170009698
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of an engine that can certainly suppress and avoid pre-ignition. A control device of an engine is an engine control device for controlling the behavior of fuel that is directly injected into a combustion chamber of a cylinder by a tumble flow, and it has an injector that directly injects the fuel into the combustion chamber, an intake port that generates the tumble flow in the combustion chamber, and an ECU that injects the fuel from the injector at a plurality of injection timings including an intake-stroke-early-half injection timing that is set at an early half of the intake stroke of the cylinder, when an operating state of the engine is in a high-load, low-rotation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsugawa, Hiroki Morimoto, Nobuhiko Yokoyama, Shouichi Aiga, Yoshitomo Matsuo, Tomoaki Fujiyama, Yoshitaka Wada
  • Publication number: 20160281663
    Abstract: A fuel control system of an engine is provided which controls, by using a tumble flow, a behavior of fuel directly injected into a combustion chamber formed inside a cylinder of the engine. The fuel control system includes a fuel injector for directly injecting the fuel into the combustion chamber, a tumble flow generator for generating the tumble flow within the combustion chamber, and a fuel injector controlling module for causing the fuel injector to inject the fuel at a first injection timing and then inject a smaller amount of fuel than an amount injected at the first injection timing, in a direction opposing a positive direction of the tumble flow at a second injection timing, the first injection timing designed to be in an intake stroke of the cylinder, the second injection timing designed to be in a latter half of the compression stroke of the cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Junsou Sasaki, Naohiro Yamaguchi, Yusuke Oda, Yoshitaka Wada, Yuya Honda
  • Publication number: 20160281633
    Abstract: An intake device of an engine having cylinders is provided. The intake device includes a cylinder head formed with two intake ports per cylinder, and a forced induction system. One of the two intake ports is designed to have a smaller passage cross-sectional area at a throat portion thereof than that of the other intake port, and to cause a strength of a tumble flow strength of intake air formed within a combustion chamber to be stronger when a flow of the intake air into the combustion chamber is assumed to be caused only from the one of the two intake ports, than only from the other intake port. A tumble ratio of the intake air flow within the combustion chamber is a predetermined value or greater when the intake air is forcibly induced and flows into the combustion chamber from the two intake ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Yasushi Nakahara, Yoshitaka Wada, Yohei Suzuki, Yuki Nabetani
  • Patent number: 8991347
    Abstract: A starting device of a spark-ignition multi-cylinder engine is provided. The device includes a multi-cylinder engine body having cylinders, fuel injection valves, ignition plugs, an intake valve drive mechanism for opening and closing intake valves, a hydraulic variable valve phase mechanism for changing a close timing of each intake valve, an engine-driven hydraulic pressure supply source for supplying a hydraulic pressure, and a start controller for controlling the fuel injection valves, the ignition plugs, and the variable valve phase mechanism. When the supplied hydraulic pressure is below a predetermined pressure, the variable valve phase mechanism locks the close timing. When an engine temperature in an engine-start is high, the start controller retards a fuel injection timing of the cylinder on intake stroke at an engine stopped timing and retards an ignition timing thereof. The start controller does not retard the close timing of the intake valve until the engine-start completes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Miyamoto, Kouji Shishime, Yoshitaka Wada, Tatsuya Takahata
  • Publication number: 20140202407
    Abstract: A starting device of a spark-ignition multi-cylinder engine is provided. The device includes a multi-cylinder engine body having cylinders, fuel injection valves, ignition plugs, an intake valve drive mechanism for opening and closing intake valves, a hydraulic variable valve phase mechanism for changing a close timing of each intake valve, an engine-driven hydraulic pressure supply source for supplying a hydraulic pressure, and a start controller for controlling the fuel injection valves, the ignition plugs, and the variable valve phase mechanism. When the supplied hydraulic pressure is below a predetermined pressure, the variable valve phase mechanism locks the close timing. When an engine temperature in an engine-start is high, the start controller retards a fuel injection timing of the cylinder on intake stroke at an engine stopped timing and retards an ignition timing thereof. The start controller does not retard the close timing of the intake valve until the engine-start completes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Keiichi Miyamoto, Kouji Shishime, Yoshitaka Wada, Tatsuya Takahata