Patents by Inventor Hiroshi Kamifuji
Hiroshi Kamifuji 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: 5146898Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine has a controller, which includes a microprocessor for executing a predetermined processing in response to fundamental parameters representing the operational condition of the engine, produces a basic fuel injection pulse on the basis of a suction air quantity and a rotational speed of the engine and corrects the basic fuel injection pulse in accordance with the degree of acceleration or deceleration required, thereby to provide a fuel injection pulse applied to a fuel injector. The microprocessor is provided with membership functions varying with respect to acceleration or deceleration and determines a correction coefficient for correcting the basic fuel injection pulse on the basis of the degree of acceleration or deceleration required in accordance with a fuzzy reasoning using the membership functions.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1990Date of Patent: September 15, 1992Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomiya Itakura, Hiroshi Kamifuji
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Patent number: 4966118Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine has a controller, which includes a microprocessor for executing a predetermined processing in response to fundamental parameters representing the operational condition of the engine, produces a basic fuel injection pulse on the basis of a suction air quantity and a rotational speed of the engine and corrects the basic fuel injection pulse in accordance with the degree of acceleration or deceleration required, thereby to provide a fuel injection pulse applied to a fuel injector. The microprocessor is provided with membership functions varying with respect to acceleration or deceleration and determines a correction coefficient for correcting the basic fuel injection pulse on the basis of the degree of acceleration or deceleration required in accordance with fuzzy reasoning using the membership functions.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 1989Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomiya Itakura, Hiroshi Kamifuji
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Patent number: 4879982Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for controlling the revolution speed of an engine, suitable for use in an automobile having an automatic transmission. Flow rate of auxiliary intake air by-passing a throttle valve is controlled by an auxiliary air control valve, the opening period of which is incremented in response to a signal which represents the state of the automatic transmission shifted from neutral range to a power range so as to avoid any reduction in the engine speed or the engine stall. The valve open time is controlled as a function of the engine cooling water temperature.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1988Date of Patent: November 14, 1989Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomiya Itakura, Hiroshi Kamifuji
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Patent number: 4873960Abstract: An electronically-controlled fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine including means including a computer for electronically controlling a fuel injection quantity of an engine, means for detecting a rotational speed of the engine and a throttle sensor having lower and higher opening regions for detecting an opening of a throttle valve is further provided with means for storing the ratio between the slopes of output voltage characteristic curves derived from the regions with respect to a throttle opening in a range where the ranges of throttle openings to be detected in the regions overlap, and means for correcting the output voltage generated from one of the regions by use of the ratio in a throttle opening range exceeding said overlapping range.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1988Date of Patent: October 17, 1989Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kamifuji, Yoshiyuki Tanabe, Kiyomi Morita
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Patent number: 4639624Abstract: A torque motor including a housing, a shaft member extending through the housing and supported by bearings, a stationary core in the housing and at least one coil fixed to the shaft member and arranged for rotation with respect to the stationary core within a finite range. Magnets are fixed to the housing for imparting rotational force to the coil and support members are provided in the housing for fixedly supporting the stationary core. The coil is provided with oppositely disposed free ends and extends across the stationary core between the free ends such that each of the free ends projects beyond an outer peripheral surface of the stationary core without contacting the stationary core. The support members include at least two plate members on opposite sides of the shaft member, the magnets being within the housing at portions other than where the support members are disposed.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 1985Date of Patent: January 27, 1987Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuki Ejiri, Tomoo Ito, Hisato Tsuruta, Hiroshi Kamifuji
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Patent number: 4601271Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an opening degree of a throttle valve comprises a motor including a rotor, a detector for detecting the opening degree of the throttle valve, and a control unit for outputting a command to the motor so as to swing the throttle valve to the desired opening degree which is determined by the control unit in accordance with the information representing the engine condition. The apparatus further comprises a one-piece shaft which includes a throttle valve shaft and an output shaft of the rotor of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 1984Date of Patent: July 22, 1986Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Yuuki Ejiri, Tomoo Ito, Hiroshi Kamifuji
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Patent number: 4547852Abstract: An engine control apparatus having a microcomputer which controls an operating condition modifying means to modify the operating condition of the engine, wherein the absolute value .DELTA.C of the difference, C.sub.now -C.sub.old is calculated from a previously obtained basic amount of control C.sub.old, and a newly obtained basic amount of control C.sub.now, a correction coefficient K is determined which takes a value of 1 to nearly 0 as the .DELTA.C is increased, and then the C.sub.set ofC.sub.set =K.times.(C.sub.now -C.sub.old)+C.sub.oldis calculated as an actual basic amount of control.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 1983Date of Patent: October 15, 1985Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Eng. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kamifuji, Tomoo Ito, Haruhiko Kobayashi, Tomiya Itakura
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Patent number: 4522175Abstract: In a rotational speed control apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which a signal-responsive diaphragm, whose controlling position is determined by a controlled negative pressure signal, is provided with a valve member controlling to negative pressure acting upon a driving diaphragm controlling the opening of a throttle valve, the negative pressure acting upon the driving diaphragm, when the controlled negative pressure signal is detected to be not normal, is controlled to be shifted to the level at which the driving diaphragm is rendered substantially non-operable.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 1984Date of Patent: June 11, 1985Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kamifuji, Tomoo Ito, Chiaki Niida
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Patent number: 4494498Abstract: A fuel supplying system used in engine starting includes throttle valve means disposed in an intake air passage and metering valve means disposed in a fuel passage which extends from a fuel reservoir to a space of the intake air passage downstream from the throttle valve means. In order to obtain a required air-fuel ratio of a mixture determined in accordance with data representing states of an engine, in the fuel supplying system an opening degree of the throttle valve means which have a response delay is held constant and an opening degree of the metering valve means is adapted to be changed in accordance with a change of the required air-fuel ratio.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 1983Date of Patent: January 22, 1985Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomoo Ito, Hiroshi Kamifuji, Haruhiko Kobayashi, Tomiya Itakura
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Patent number: 4480618Abstract: An apparatus for enriching an air-fuel mixture supplied by a carburetor upon starting operation of an internal combustion engine comprises a fuel quantity increasing passage which is operative independent of main fuel supply system. The passage has an inlet communicated to a fuel supply source and an outlet opened at a location downstream of a throttle valve. The amount of fuel ejected from the outlet of the passage is controlled by a control signal which represents a product of a value variable in dependence on a suction vacuum, the rotational frequency of the engine and a value variable in dependence on the temperature of engine cooling water.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 1982Date of Patent: November 6, 1984Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Kamifuji, Tomoo Ito, Haruhiko Kobayashi, Tomiya Itakura
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Patent number: 4442818Abstract: A heat-type flow sensor is provided on the upstream side of a Venturi portion formed in an air-intake path and in an air bypass communicating with the Venturi portion. An electromagnetic device is provided to control the amount of air flowing in the air bypass so that the output of the heat-type flow sensor converges to a set level. This electromagnetic device drives a fuel-scaling valve to scale fuel in accordance with the change of the amount of air supplied to the engine, and this scaled fuel is continuously injected into the air-intake path.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 1981Date of Patent: April 17, 1984Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Mineo Kashiwaya, Tohru Nakagawa, Kinsaku Yamada, Hiroshi Kamifuji, Yoshishige Oyama, Hiroshi Kuroiwa, Hisato Tsuruta
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Patent number: RE34216Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for controlling the revolution speed of an engine, suitable for use in an automobile having an automatic transmission. Flow rate of auxiliary intake air by-passing a throttle valve is controlled by an auxiliary air control valve, the opening period of which is incremented in response to a signal which represents the state of the automatic transmission shifted from neutral range to a power range so as to avoid any reduction in the engine speed or the engine stall. The valve open time is controlled as a function of the engine cooling water temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1991Date of Patent: April 13, 1993Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tomiya Itakura, Hiroshi Kamifuji