Patents by Inventor Hiroyuki Fukuda

Hiroyuki Fukuda 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).

  • Patent number: 11326538
    Abstract: An injection control device for a fuel injection valve includes: a current detection unit of the fuel injection valve; a current area correction control unit that performs current area correction for an area correction amount of an energization time to equalize the integrated current value of the energization current profile and an integrated current value of the detected current; and an information correction unit that learns and stores a reference attainment time, from a start of energization to an attainment of each of the plurality of reference currents, in a storage unit, and corrects information related to the current area correction based on a difference between the reference attainment time and an actual attainment time from the start of energization to the attainment of each reference current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kosuke Kato, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Yasumasa Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 11313308
    Abstract: An injection control device includes: a drive control unit that controls energization by correcting an energization instruction time when injecting the fuel by executing the current-drive, and includes an energization time correction amount calculation unit that calculates an energization time correction amount by performing area correction on a current flowing through the fuel injection valve; an abnormality determination unit that determines an abnormality in a control system of the drive control unit; and a correction amount subtraction setting unit that stops a calculation of the energization time correction amount when the abnormality determination unit determines an abnormality, and controls the drive control unit to directly or stepwise reduce the energization time correction amount at an abnormality determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazumasa Kanai, Yohei Suganuma, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11306675
    Abstract: In a current-driving of a fuel injection valve to inject fuel through a single injection or a multi-stage injection, an energization time correction amount is calculated by performing area correction on a current flowing through the fuel injection valve. The single injection is switched to the multi-stage injection when the single injection is consecutively performed under a predetermined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Kato, Yohei Suganuma, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20220112571
    Abstract: A method of producing a steel material, wherein when a cooling apparatus having a plurality of cooling sections disposed side by side in a longitudinal direction of a steel material cools the steel material hot worked or cooled/reheated, the steel material is conveyed at a conveyance distance Lo (m) satisfying Equation (1), in one direction along with the longitudinal direction of the steel material, in the cooling apparatus, wherein Lo is defined as conveyance distance (m) of steel material, m is a natural number, and Lh is defined as length (m) of cooling sections in longitudinal direction of steel material: (m?0.20)×Lh?Lo(m+0.20)×Lh??(1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Kenji Okushiro, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Hideo Kijima, Yoshikazu Yoshida, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Sadanori Nakano
  • Publication number: 20220090556
    Abstract: An injection control device controls fuel injection to an internal-combustion engine by driving a fuel injection valve with an electric current to open and close the valve. The injection control device includes a boost circuit boosting a battery voltage; a boost controller controlling the boosting of the boost circuit; and a charge control setter setting charge permission or charge prohibition of the boost circuit to the boost controller. The charge control setter sets the charge permission or charge prohibition of the boost circuit to the boost controller according to a magnitude of an influence of a drive current error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Kosuke KATO, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Yasumasa ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220090554
    Abstract: An injection control device includes: a booster circuit that boosts a battery voltage; a boosting control unit that performs boosting control on the booster circuit; a charge control setting unit that sets a charge prohibition time of the booster circuit for the boosting control unit; and a maximum time specification unit that specifies a maximum valve-closing detection time based on a valve-closing detection time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke TAKAYA, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Kosuke KATO
  • Publication number: 20220090555
    Abstract: An injection control device opens and closes a fuel injection valve by driving the fuel injection valve with a current to control fuel injection to an internal combustion engine. The injection control device includes: a booster circuit that boosts a battery voltage; a boosting control unit that performs boosting control on the booster circuit; and a charge control setting unit that sets charge permission or charge prohibition for the booster circuit to the boosting control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Keisuke TAKAYA, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Kosuke KATO
  • Publication number: 20220082060
    Abstract: An injection control device includes: an arithmetic unit that obtains a valve-closing time for stopping injection of fuel from a fuel injection valve based on a degree of variation in a time change of a voltage generated when the fuel injection valve is driven based on a required injection amount; an injection amount change unit that increases or decreases the required injection amount; and a learning unit that repeats injection control of the fuel to learn the valve-closing time obtained by the arithmetic unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Tomoki MORI, Kosuke KATO, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Yohei SUGANUMA
  • Patent number: 11230747
    Abstract: A method quenches a steel pipe and an apparatus quenches a steel pipe by which a steel pipe having excellent and uniform quality can be acquired by applying uniform rapid cooling to the steel pipe in a longitudinal direction as well as in a circumferential direction of the steel pipe using a simple unit. Movements of a heated steel pipe in a direction parallel to and in a direction perpendicular to a pipe axis of the steel pipe are stopped, and cooling water is jetted onto an outer surface of the steel pipe from four or more spray nozzles arranged spirally outside the steel pipe while rotating the steel pipe about the pipe axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Fukuda, Hideo Kijima
  • Publication number: 20220018484
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining positioning of a scanner moving along a section of a pipe, may include: an encoder and a counter measuring distance traveled by the scanner along a plurality of scan lines along a length of the section of the pipe; measuring acceleration and angular velocity of the scanner around a portion of the circumference of the pipe between successive scan lines; computing an angle of rotation of the scanner around the portion of the circumference of the pipe between successive scan lines, and determining a distance traveled around the portion of the circumference of the pipe between first and second scan lines using the computed angle of rotation. The process may further include determining a position of the device using the distance traveled measurements from the counter and the fusion circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Tao Zhang, Lichung Chu, Shinhaeng Lee, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20220016658
    Abstract: An injection control device for a fuel injection valve includes: a current detection unit; and a current area correction control unit that corrects, based on an energization current profile, an area correction amount of an energization time to equalize the integrated current value of the energization current profile and an integrated current value of the detected current, and obtains the integrated current value of the current based on an attainment time from a start of energization of the fuel injection valve to an attainment of each of a plurality of reference current values; a storage unit that stores a reference attainment time; and a reference current value correction unit that corrects each reference current value based on a difference between the reference attainment time and a detected attainment time at a time of actual drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Kosuke KATO, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Yasumasa ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20220018301
    Abstract: An injection control device for a fuel injection valve includes: a current detection unit of the fuel injection valve; a current area correction control unit that performs current area correction for an area correction amount of an energization time to equalize the integrated current value of the energization current profile and an integrated current value of the detected current; and an information correction unit that learns and stores a reference attainment time, from a start of energization to an attainment of each of the plurality of reference currents, in a storage unit, and corrects information related to the current area correction based on a difference between the reference attainment time and an actual attainment time from the start of energization to the attainment of each reference current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Kosuke KATO, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Yasumasa ISHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210404407
    Abstract: An injection control device includes: an area correction unit that calculates an energization time correction amount when executing a current drive of the fuel injection valve to inject a fuel from the fuel injection valve; an estimation unit that independently calculates an estimated energization time correction amount; a comparison unit that compares the energization time correction amount c with the estimated energization time correction amount; and a first abnormality determination unit that determines that the energization time correction amount is abnormal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: MAKOTO SHIRAKAWA, MASASHI INABA, HIROYUKI FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20210404405
    Abstract: In a current-driving of a fuel injection valve to inject fuel through a single injection or a multi-stage injection, an energization time correction amount is calculated by performing area correction on a current flowing through the fuel injection valve. The single injection is switched to the multi-stage injection when the single injection is consecutively performed under a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yuki KATO, Yohei SUGANUMA, Hiroyuki FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20210404408
    Abstract: An injection control device includes: a drive control unit that controls energization by correcting an energization instruction time when injecting the fuel by executing the current-drive, and includes an energization time correction amount calculation unit that calculates an energization time correction amount by performing area correction on a current flowing through the fuel injection valve; an abnormality determination unit that determines an abnormality in a control system of the drive control unit; and a correction amount subtraction setting unit that stops a calculation of the energization time correction amount when the abnormality determination unit determines an abnormality, and controls the drive control unit to directly or stepwise reduce the energization time correction amount at an abnormality determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: KAZUMASA KANAI, YOHEI SUGANUMA, HIROYUKI FUKUDA
  • Publication number: 20210372338
    Abstract: An injection control device includes: a conversion coefficient setter setting a conversion coefficient for each injection when a fuel injection valve is driven by an electric current to inject fuel from the fuel injection valve; and an area correction unit calculating an energization time correction amount by performing area correction using the conversion coefficient for each injection regardless of whether a drive current of the fuel injection valve has reached a target peak current or not.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yohei SUGANUMA, Ryohei TAKAHASHI, Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Masashi INABA
  • Patent number: 11181066
    Abstract: An injection controller includes a control IC outputting an energization instruction signal to apply a peak current to a fuel injection valve (i.e., an instruction TQ), and a current monitor unit detecting an electric current flowing in the fuel injection valve. The control IC corrects an output OFF time of the energization instruction signal based on a difference between (i) an integrated current of an ideal current profile which serves as a target current before reaching the peak current and (ii) an integrated current of an energization current in the fuel injection valve detected by the current monitor unit (i.e., an effective TQ).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Inaba, Hiroyuki Fukuda, Katsuya Minamijima
  • Patent number: 11119815
    Abstract: A management apparatus includes a memory; and a processor configured to: store configuration information and performance information for each of a plurality of information processing apparatuses acquired from a host OS executed by each of a plurality of groups to which the plurality of information processing apparatuses belong and each of which provides a given service into the memory for each of the plurality of groups, select, based on the configuration information and the performance information, a movement target virtual machine for each of the plurality of groups, when the movement target virtual machine is moved to the different group, determine whether a performance value of a service corresponding to the movement target virtual machine satisfies a reference value, and when it is determined that the performance value satisfies the reference value, determine to move the movement target virtual machine from the target group to the different group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Shigeto Suzuki, Hiroyoshi Kodama, Satoshi Inano, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Patent number: 11044178
    Abstract: A data center management method executed by a computer that includes a first memory and a second memory, the method includes storing, in the second memory, a predicted value calculated based on measured values obtained as measurement data and differences each corresponding to the measurement data obtained a predetermined period ago; storing, in the first memory, the measurement data as the measured value; calculating, based on each of the stored measured values, an amount of change which is a difference between the measured value and the predicted value, and storing the calculated amount in the second memory; calculating first corrected prediction data based on the measured value currently measured and the measurement values previously measured; calculating second corrected prediction data based on previous amounts of change and the first corrected prediction data; and controlling the device using an operation amount calculated based on the second corrected prediction data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Hiroshi Endo, Shigeto Suzuki, Hiroyoshi Kodama, Hiroyuki Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20210177704
    Abstract: The gastrostomy catheter includes a shaft in which a lumen is provided, a flexible bumper which is provided at a tip of the shaft, and a wire which has elasticity and can bias the bumper in a diameter-increasing direction and restricts deformation of the bumper in a diameter-decreasing direction. At least a portion on a tip side of the wire biases the bumper in the diameter-increasing direction or restricts the deformation of the bumper in the diameter-decreasing direction by the elasticity of the wire in a state in which the wire is disposed in the bumper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicants: SUMITOMO BAKELITE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki FUKUDA, Kiyotaka ARIKAWA, Minoru SUZUKI, Yutaka SUZUKI