Patents by Inventor Etsuo Kunimoto

Etsuo Kunimoto 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: 20050039724
    Abstract: The present invention takes as its objective to provide a fuel injection device, and a diesel engine equipped therewith, which can reduce the amount of NOx in the exhaust gas while maintaining the rate of fuel consumption satisfactory. This fuel injection device includes a pressure accumulator which accumulates fuel whose pressure has been elevated, a fuel injection valve which opens by the supply of the fuel from the pressure accumulator and injects the fuel, a supply conduit which supplies fuel from the pressure accumulator to the fuel injection valve, and two valve apparatuses which are connected in the supply conduit in parallel and each of which interrupts fuel supply to the fuel injection valve. And the fuel flow amount when one of the electromagnetic valves is open is set to be smaller than the fuel flow amount when the other electromagnetic valve is open; and, during fuel supply to the fuel injection valve, an electromagnetic valve opens first, and next an electromagnetic valve opens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2002
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Ishida, Toshikazu Hayashi, Takeshi Arai, Shoji Namekawa, Hiroshi Yoshizumi, Noriaki Ida, Etsuo Kunimoto
  • Patent number: 4864990
    Abstract: An injection system for a dual-fuel diesel engine operated by means of a main fuel having a low cetane number and an auxiliary fuel having a high cetane number is disclosed. The injection system includes a pressure regulating check valve provided in parallel to a delivery valve in a main fuel injection pump and allowing fuel flow only in a direction opposite to that in the delivery valve. A control valve feeds the auxiliary fuel pressurized by a fuel feed pump to a fuel injection valve at an appropriate feed rate and at appropriate fuel feed timing regulated by a control device. A check valve is provided in the proximity of a fuel reservoir of the fuel injection valve in a flow passageway of the auxiliary fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mataji Tateishi, Etsuo Kunimoto, Hiroshi Nakagawa, Tatsuo Takaishi
  • Patent number: 4526151
    Abstract: A fuel injection device in which a fuel injection pump is connected through a fuel injection pipe to a fuel injection nozzle. The inner diameter of the fuel injection pipe is reduced from the side of the fuel injection pump towards the side of the fuel injection nozzle in either a stepwise manner or continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1985
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Mataji Tateishi, Etsuo Kunimoto, Tatsuo Takaishi