Patents by Inventor Yuki Ikejiri
Yuki Ikejiri 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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Publication number: 20240068422Abstract: An upstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting an upstream gas temperature at a starting point in time of integration from the upstream gas temperature after starting of the internal combustion engine. A downstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting a downstream gas temperature at the starting point in time of the integration from the downstream gas temperature after the starting of the internal combustion engine. An anomaly diagnosing process obtains an anomaly determination result indicating that the exhaust purification device is in a removed state when a deviation between the upstream integrated value and the downstream integrated value is smaller than a reference level. The determination threshold is higher than a dew point.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yusuke JOH, Tomoyuki TSUJI, Yuki IKEJIRI, Masashi HAKARIYA, Makoto YAMAZAKI, Yoshikazu ASAMI, Hisao KIYONO, Tatsuaki ARISAWA, Yoshifumi MATSUDA, Tsubasa SUGANO
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Publication number: 20230400386Abstract: An electronic control unit is used for an internal combustion engine that executes a specific-cylinder fuel cutoff process in which combustion in part of cylinders is stopped and combustion is continued in the remaining cylinders. The electronic control unit diagnoses whether there is a misfire anomaly in the internal combustion engine based on a misfire frequency of the internal combustion engine. The electronic control unit executes a normality restoration diagnosing process of diagnosing, in a state in which it is diagnosed that there is a misfire anomaly, that the misfire anomaly has been resolved when a measured value of the misfire frequency becomes less than or equal to a specified normality restoration determination value. The normality restoration diagnosing process is configured to not diagnose, during the execution of the specific-cylinder fuel cutoff process, that the misfire anomaly has been eliminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yuki IKEJIRI, Akihiro KATAYAMA
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Patent number: 11719180Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis apparatus performs a stop process for stopping the supply of fuel to at least one of a plurality of cylinders and supplying fuel to the other cylinders or cylinder. The abnormality diagnosis apparatus performs a catalyst abnormality diagnosis process for diagnosing that there is an abnormality in an exhaust gas control apparatus, based on the value of a first misfire counter indicating the number of times of detection of a misfire during the operation of an internal combustion engine by a prescribed amount. In the catalyst abnormality diagnosis process, the abnormality diagnosis apparatus diagnoses that there is an abnormality in the exhaust gas control apparatus with the value of the first misfire counter being smaller when the stop process is performed than when the stop process is not performed during the operation of the internal combustion engine by the prescribed amount.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hideki Miyahara, Akihiro Katayama, Hirotaka Nakayama, Yuki Ikejiri, Takumi Anzawa
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Patent number: 11639695Abstract: A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute: a deactivating process that deactivates combustion control for air-fuel mixture in one or some of cylinders; a provisional determination process that uses a detection value of a sensor to output a logical value indicating whether a misfire has occurred; a provisional determination counting process that counts a number of times a specific one of the logical value output by the provisional determination counting process has been output; and an official determination process that makes an official determination of whether the misfire has occurred using, as an input, the number of times counted by the provisional determination counting process during a specific period.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takumi Anzawa, Akihiro Katayama, Yuki Ikejiri
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Publication number: 20230046361Abstract: A spunbond non-woven fabric includes a thermoplastic continuous filament. Bending resistance in a machine direction of the spunbond non-woven fabric is 40 mN or more and 80 mN or less, the spunbond non-woven fabric includes a nonbonded projected part and a bonded recessed part, and in a non-woven fabric cross-section, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the projected part is determined to be tA, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the recessed part is determined to be tB, and respective distances from one surface of the projected part to one surface of the recessed part are determined to be tC and tD (tC<tD), and the spunbond non-woven fabric has a relation represented by formulas (1) and (2) below: 0.5?1?tB/tA<1.0 ??(1) 0.65<tC/tD<1.0 ??(2).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yuki Ikejiri, Jun Yoshida, Koji Kitamura
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Publication number: 20230026227Abstract: A spunbond non-woven fabric includes a nonbonded projected part and a bonded recessed part. Bending resistance in a machine direction of the spunbond non-woven fabric is 20 mN or more and 40 mN or less, and in a non-woven fabric cross-section, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the projected part is determined to be tA, a thickness from one surface to another surface of the recessed part is determined to be tB, and respective distances from one surface of the projected part to one surface of the recessed part are determined to be tC and to (tC<tD), and the spunbond non-woven fabric has a relation represented by formulas (1) and (2) below: 0.5?1?tB/tA<1.0??(1) 0.35<tC/tD<0.65??(2).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicant: Toray Industries, Inc.Inventors: Yuki Ikejiri, Jun Yoshida, Koji Kitamura
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Patent number: 11536628Abstract: Time required by a crankshaft to rotate 30° CA from a compression top dead center is defined as time T30. A CPU calculates a rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 related to a cylinder subject to determination of a misfire by subtracting a value related to a cylinder in which a compression top dead center occurred immediately before the cylinder subject to the determination from a value related to the subject to the determination. The rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 that corresponds to a cylinder in which a combustion operation is stopped is used as a reference value ?T30ref. When a combustion operation is performed, it is determined that there is a misfire if the absolute value of the difference between the rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 and the reference value ?T30ref is less than or equal to a determination value ?th.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiro Katayama, Takumi Anzawa, Yuki Ikejiri
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Patent number: 11448153Abstract: A misfire detection device and a misfire detection method for an internal combustion engine, and a memory medium are provided. Cylinders adjacent to the deactivated cylinder include a determined cylinder subject to a determination of whether a misfire has occurred and a cylinder different from the determined cylinder. It is determined that a misfire has occurred in the determined cylinder on condition that a divergence degree between a value of a combustion variable of the cylinder different from the determined cylinder and adjacent to the deactivated cylinder and a value of a combustion variable of the determined cylinder is greater than or equal to a specific amount. Combustion control has been executed in the cylinders adjacent to the deactivated cylinder and the cylinder different from the determined cylinder and adjacent to the deactivated cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Akihiro Katayama, Takumi Anzawa, Yuki Ikejiri
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Publication number: 20220154660Abstract: A misfire detection device and a misfire detection method for an internal combustion engine, and a memory medium are provided. Cylinders adjacent to the deactivated cylinder include a determined cylinder subject to a determination of whether a misfire has occurred and a cylinder different from the determined cylinder. It is determined that a misfire has occurred in the determined cylinder on condition that a divergence degree between a value of a combustion variable of the cylinder different from the determined cylinder and adjacent to the deactivated cylinder and a value of a combustion variable of the determined cylinder is greater than or equal to a specific amount. Combustion control has been executed in the cylinders adjacent to the deactivated cylinder and the cylinder different from the determined cylinder and adjacent to the deactivated cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Akihiro KATAYAMA, Takumi ANZAWA, Yuki IKEJIRI
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Publication number: 20220146375Abstract: Time required by a crankshaft to rotate 30° CA from a compression top dead center is defined as time T30. A CPU calculates a rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 related to a cylinder subject to determination of a misfire by subtracting a value related to a cylinder in which a compression top dead center occurred immediately before the cylinder subject to the determination from a value related to the subject to the determination. The rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 that corresponds to a cylinder in which a combustion operation is stopped is used as a reference value ?T30ref. When a combustion operation is performed, it is determined that there is a misfire if the absolute value of the difference between the rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 and the reference value ?T30ref is less than or equal to a determination value ?th.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Akihiro KATAYAMA, Takumi ANZAWA, Yuki IKEJIRI
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Publication number: 20220099041Abstract: A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute: a deactivating process that deactivates combustion control for air-fuel mixture in one or some of cylinders; a provisional determination process that uses a detection value of a sensor to output a logical value indicating whether a misfire has occurred; a provisional determination counting process that counts a number of times a specific one of the logical value output by the provisional determination counting process has been output; and an official determination process that makes an official determination of whether the misfire has occurred using, as an input, the number of times counted by the provisional determination counting process during a specific period.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takumi ANZAWA, Akihiro KATAYAMA, Yuki IKEJIRI
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Patent number: 11181061Abstract: A control apparatus performs a diagnosis process for determining whether or not catalyst warm-up control is abnormal by determining whether or not an ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control is a timing advanced by a threshold or more. The threshold is a value that is set to a timing more advanced than the ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control by a predetermined margin. The control apparatus performs a setting process for setting the threshold based on a start-up coolant temperature such that the margin becomes larger when the start-up coolant temperature is low than when the start-up coolant temperature is high.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya Ohori, Chisa Watanabe, Yuki Ikejiri
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Patent number: 11149842Abstract: A transmission ratio controller includes circuitry including a transmission ratio calculator and a monitor. The transmission ratio calculator calculates a transmission ratio using a first transmission ratio map when a specified parameter satisfies a first condition, and using a second transmission ratio map when the specified parameter satisfies a second condition. When the specified parameter satisfies the first condition, the internal combustion engine is in a first state. When the specified parameter satisfies the second condition, the internal combustion engine is in a second state. In the first state, the monitor calculates a hypothetical transmission ratio using the second transmission ratio map based on the second state.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Matsumoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuki Ikejiri
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Patent number: 11149844Abstract: A transmission ratio controller includes circuitry that includes a transmission ratio calculator calculating a request transmission ratio, a transmission ratio instructor transmitting a control signal, and an abnormality determiner. The request transmission ratio is calculated using a first transmission ratio map when a specified parameter satisfies a first condition, and a second transmission ratio map when the specified parameter satisfies a second condition. The internal combustion engine is in a first state when the specified parameter satisfies the first condition, and in a second state when the specified parameter satisfies the second condition. In the first state, the abnormality determiner calculates a hypothetical transmission ratio using the second transmission ratio map based on the second state.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Matsumoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuki Ikejiri
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Patent number: 11143083Abstract: A storage device stores mapping data and association data. The mapping data defines a mapping that outputs an estimated value of the temperature of a catalyst using a warm-up operation amount variable and the previous value of the estimated value as an input. The association data associates the integrated value of an intake air amount of an internal combustion engine from the startup of the engine and the temperature of the catalyst. The execution device repeatedly calculates the estimated value based on the output of the mapping. When the correspondence relationship between the integrated value and the estimated value is different from the correspondence relationship between the integrated value and the temperature of the catalyst in the association data, the warm-up process is determined to have an anomaly.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Harufumi Muto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuki Ikejiri, Yosuke Hashimoto
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Patent number: 11143294Abstract: A transmission ratio controller includes circuitry. The circuitry includes a transmission ratio calculator configured to calculate a request transmission ratio to a transmission mechanism, a transmission ratio instructor configured to output a control signal based on the request transmission ratio, and an abnormality determiner configured to determine whether a transmission ratio of the transmission mechanism is abnormal. At least two of the request transmission ratio, an instruction transmission ratio corresponding to the control signal, or an actual transmission ratio achieved by the transmission mechanism are transmission ratios subject to comparison. The abnormality determiner is configured to determine that when a difference obtained by comparing the transmission ratios subject to comparison is greater than or equal to a predetermined specified value, the transmission ratio of the transmission mechanism is abnormal.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya Matsumoto, Akihiro Katayama, Yuki Ikejiri
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Patent number: 10961936Abstract: A learned neural network in weights using at least the four parameters of the engine load, engine speed, intake pressure inside the intake passage downstream of the throttle valve (12), and amount of intake air fed into the engine as input parameters of the neural network and using a target EGR rate as training data is stored. At the time of engine operation, the learned neural network is used to estimate the target EGR rate from the above parameters and abnormality of the exhaust gas recirculation system is detected based on the difference between the estimated value of the target EGR rate and the target EGR rate.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Harufumi Muto, Yuki Ikejiri, Akihiro Katayama, Yosuke Hashimoto
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Publication number: 20210087989Abstract: A control apparatus performs a diagnosis process for determining whether or not catalyst warm-up control is abnormal by determining whether or not an ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control is a timing advanced by a threshold or more. The threshold is a value that is set to a timing more advanced than the ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control by a predetermined margin. The control apparatus performs a setting process for setting the threshold based on a start-up coolant temperature such that the margin becomes larger when the start-up coolant temperature is low than when the start-up coolant temperature is high.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinya OHORI, Chisa WATANABE, Yuki IKEJIRI
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Publication number: 20210080002Abstract: A transmission ratio controller includes circuitry that includes a transmission ratio calculator calculating a request transmission ratio, a transmission ratio instructor transmitting a control signal, and an abnormality determiner. The request transmission ratio is calculated using a first transmission ratio map when a specified parameter satisfies a first condition, and a second transmission ratio map when the specified parameter satisfies a second condition. The internal combustion engine is in a first state when the specified parameter satisfies the first condition, and in a second state when the specified parameter satisfies the second condition. In the first state, the abnormality determiner calculates a hypothetical transmission ratio using the second transmission ratio map based on the second state.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya MATSUMOTO, Akihiro KATAYAMA, Yuki IKEJIRI
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Publication number: 20210080003Abstract: A transmission ratio controller includes circuitry. The circuitry includes a transmission ratio calculator configured to calculate a request transmission ratio to a transmission mechanism, a transmission ratio instructor configured to output a control signal based on the request transmission ratio, and an abnormality determiner configured to determine whether a transmission ratio of the transmission mechanism is abnormal. At least two of the request transmission ratio, an instruction transmission ratio corresponding to the control signal, or an actual transmission ratio achieved by the transmission mechanism are transmission ratios subject to comparison. The abnormality determiner is configured to determine that when a difference obtained by comparing the transmission ratios subject to comparison is greater than or equal to a predetermined specified value, the transmission ratio of the transmission mechanism is abnormal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takuya MATSUMOTO, Akihiro Katayama, Yuki IKEJIRI