Patents by Inventor Hirokazu Konohara

Hirokazu Konohara 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: 20080077305
    Abstract: An object is to prevent deterioration in both exhaust emission and fuel efficiency by suitably combining OTP boosting with power boosting. An electronic control unit (ECU) 30 of the present invention is arranged to control a fuel injection amount of an injector 7 to an engine 1 according to an operating condition of the engine 1, and perform OTP boosting of the fuel injection amount to prevent overheating of a discharge passage 3 and a catalyst converter 11 when the engine 1 comes into a high load and high rotation operating condition and perform power boosting that increases the fuel injection amount to enrich an air-fuel ratio to an output air-fuel ratio when the engine 1 comes into a high load operating condition. The ECU 30 executes the power boosting when the engine 1 comes into the high load and high rotation operating condition and executes the OTP boosting later from the start of the power boosting, delayed by a period attributable to at least the power boosting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: March 27, 2008
    Applicants: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Minoru Onobayashi, Hirokazu Konohara, Nobuhiro Ogasawara, Kunihiko Sato
  • Publication number: 20050217645
    Abstract: An evaporated fuel collecting apparatus comprises a canister containing an adsorbent for collecting evaporated fuel (vapor) generated in a fuel tank, an inflow port, a purge port, and an atmospheric port, which are formed in the canister. The inflow port is used to introduce the vapor generated in the furl tank into the canister. The purge port is used to purge the vapor collected in the canister. The atmospheric port is used to introduce atmospheric air into the canister. The canister is provided with a photocatalyst device including a photocatalyst for oxidatively decompose the vapor when exposed to light irradiation and an ultraviolet LED which irradiates light to the photocatalyst. The photocatalyst device is disposed in correspondence with the atmospheric port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2005
    Publication date: October 6, 2005
    Applicant: Aisan Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kanehiro Fukaya, Hirokazu Konohara, Takashi Nagai