Patents by Inventor Goro Tsuboi
Goro Tsuboi 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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Patent number: 10858976Abstract: An NH3 supply amount controller reduces and adjusts a supply amount of NH3 to an SCR catalyst by an NH3 supplier, when an exhaust gas flowing into an NOx catalyst has a rich air-fuel ratio and NOx occluded by the NOx catalyst is reduced to N2. A reduction amount of the supply amount of the NH3 controlled by the NH3 supply amount controller is set larger when s flow amount of the exhaust gas detected or estimated by an exhaust-gas flow amount detector is larger.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Goro Tsuboi, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Daishi Ikeda, Yoshiaki Tomita, Chikara Ishihara
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Patent number: 10858977Abstract: An NH3 supply amount controller reduces and adjusts a supply amount of NH3 to an SCR catalyst by an NH3 supplier, when an exhaust gas flowing into an NOX catalyst has a rich air-fuel ratio and NOX occluded by the NOX catalyst is reduced to N2. A reduction amount of the supply amount of the NH3 controlled by the NH3 supply amount controller is set smaller when a temperature of the NOX catalyst detected or estimated by an NOX catalyst temperature detector is higher.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Goro Tsuboi, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Daishi Ikeda, Yoshiaki Tomita, Chikara Ishihara
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Patent number: 10858978Abstract: An NH3 supply amount controller reduces and adjusts a supply amount of NH3 to an SCR catalyst by an NH3 supplier, when an exhaust gas flowing into an NOX catalyst has a rich air-fuel ratio and NOX occluded by the NOX catalyst is reduced to N2. A reduction amount of the supply amount of the NH3 controlled by the NH3 supply amount controller is set larger when an amount of reducing agent detected or estimated by a reducing agent amount detector is larger.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Goro Tsuboi, Takayuki Yamaguchi, Daishi Ikeda, Yoshiaki Tomita, Chikara Ishihara
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Patent number: 10801432Abstract: An engine control device is provided, which includes an oxidation catalyst provided in an exhaust passage to oxidize unburned fuel within exhaust gas, a NOx catalyst provided integrally with or downstream of the oxidation catalyst, a PM filter provided in the exhaust passage downstream of the oxidation catalyst to capture fine particulate matter within the exhaust gas, a fuel injector, and a controller. When the particulate matter is accumulated by a given amount, the controller starts a PM filter regeneration control to remove the particulate matter, and after this control is started and when the accumulation amount decreases by a given amount, the controller starts a NOx catalyst regeneration control to switch between a first state in which an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio or less and a second state in which the air-fuel ratio is higher than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Hiroshi Hayashibara, Goro Tsuboi, Hiroshi Yamada, Yoshiyuki Sato, Yoshio Mizuta
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Patent number: 10746072Abstract: An engine includes: an NOx catalyst and an SCR catalyst in an exhaust passage; an excess air ratio change device that changes an excess air ratio of an exhaust gas; and a reducing agent supply device that supplies a reducing agent for SCR including a material for NH3 or NH3 to a portion between the NOx catalyst and the SCR catalyst in the exhaust passages. The engine controls the reducing agent supply device in such a manner that a quantity of the reducing agent for SCR to be supplied from the reducing agent supply device to the exhaust passage 40 becomes small when the excess air ratio of the exhaust gas during regeneration control to regenerate the NOx catalyst is small, as compared to when the excess air ratio ? of the exhaust gas during regeneration control to regenerate the NOx catalyst is large.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2018Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Goro Tsuboi, Kazuma Uchiyama, Daishi Ikeda
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Publication number: 20200056527Abstract: An NH3 supply amount controller reduces and adjusts a supply amount of NH3 to an SCR catalyst by an NH3 supplier, when an exhaust gas flowing into an NOx catalyst has a rich air-fuel ratio and NOx occluded by the NOx catalyst is reduced to N2. A reduction amount of the supply amount of the NH3 controlled by the NH3 supply amount controller is set larger when an amount of reducing agent detected or estimated by a reducing agent amount detector is larger.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Goro TSUBOI, Takayuki YAMAGUCHI, Daishi IKEDA, Yoshiaki TOMITA, Chikara ISHIHARA
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Publication number: 20200056526Abstract: An NH3 supply amount controller reduces and adjusts a supply amount of NH3 to an SCR catalyst by an NH3 supplier, when an exhaust gas flowing into an NOX catalyst has a rich air-fuel ratio and NOX occluded by the NOX catalyst is reduced to N2. A reduction amount of the supply amount of the NH3 controlled by the NH3 supply amount controller is set smaller when a temperature of the NOX catalyst detected or estimated by an NOX catalyst temperature detector is higher.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Goro TSUBOI, Takayuki YAMAGUCHI, Daishi IKEDA, Yoshiaki TOMITA, Chikara ISHIHARA
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Publication number: 20200056521Abstract: An NH3 supply amount controller reduces and adjusts a supply amount of NH3 to an SCR catalyst by an NH3 supplier, when an exhaust gas flowing into an NOx catalyst has a rich air-fuel ratio and NOx occluded by the NOx catalyst is reduced to N2. A reduction amount of the supply amount of the NH3 controlled by the NH3 supply amount controller is set larger when s flow amount of the exhaust gas detected or estimated by an exhaust-gas flow amount detector is larger.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2017Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Goro TSUBOI, Takayuki YAMAGUCHI, Daishi IKEDA, Yoshiaki TOMITA, Chikara ISHIHARA
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Publication number: 20190242312Abstract: An engine control device is provided, which includes an oxidation catalyst provided in an exhaust passage to oxidize unburned fuel within exhaust gas, a NOx catalyst provided integrally with or downstream of the oxidation catalyst, a PM filter provided in the exhaust passage downstream of the oxidation catalyst to capture fine particulate matter within the exhaust gas, a fuel injector, and a controller. When the particulate matter is accumulated by a given amount, the controller starts a PM filter regeneration control to remove the particulate matter, and after this control is started and when the accumulation amount decreases by a given amount, the controller starts a NOx catalyst regeneration control to switch between a first state in which an air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas is a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio or less and a second state in which the air-fuel ratio is higher than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Hiroyuki Nishimura, Hiroshi Hayashibara, Goro Tsuboi, Hiroshi Yamada, Yoshiyuki Sato, Yoshio Mizuta
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Publication number: 20190107024Abstract: An engine includes: an NOx catalyst and an SCR catalyst in an exhaust passage; an excess air ratio change device that changes an excess air ratio of an exhaust gas; and a reducing agent supply device that supplies a reducing agent for SCR including a material for NH3 or NH3 to a portion between the NOx catalyst and the SCR catalyst in the exhaust passages. The engine controls the reducing agent supply device in such a manner that a quantity of the reducing agent for SCR to be supplied from the reducing agent supply device to the exhaust passage 40 becomes small when the excess air ratio of the exhaust gas during regeneration control to regenerate the NOx catalyst is small, as compared to when the excess air ratio X of the exhaust gas during regeneration control to regenerate the NOx catalyst is large.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Goro Tsuboi, Kazuma Uchiyama, Daishi Ikeda