Patents by Inventor Kazuhiro ORYOJI

Kazuhiro ORYOJI 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: 11898508
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of appropriately correcting a flow rate of EGR gas. Therefore, an internal combustion engine control device 20 includes moisture amount calculation units 301 and 302, a dew condensation calculation unit 303, and an EGR correction unit 304. The moisture amount calculation unit 301 calculates a total moisture amount contained in the mixed gas. The dew condensation calculation unit 303 calculates a dew condensation generation amount WQcon in an intercooler based on the total moisture amount. The EGR correction unit 304 corrects a flow rate of the EGR gas based on the dew condensation generation amount WQcon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Matohara, Yoshihiko Akagi, Kazuhiro Oryoji
  • Patent number: 11834050
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a control unit for controlling pre-warming process of an engine of a Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV). The method comprises determining start-up time of the engine. The method also comprises determining engine heating time for the engine. The pre-warming process of the engine is initiated prior to start up time of the engine. The process of pre-warming is discontinued when the determined start-up time of the engine is greater than the engine heating time and the process is restarted when the determined start-up time of the engine is less than the engine heating time and when the pre-warming process of the engine is discontinued. The above-mentioned process is reiterated at plurality of time intervals for controlling the pre-warming process of the engine which results in energy efficiency and sufficient heat for warm-up of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ragesh R, Shin Yamauchi, Kengo Kumano, Kazuhiro Oryoji
  • Publication number: 20230220807
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device includes an engine state estimation unit, a wall surface temperature estimation unit, and an operation amount calculation unit. The engine state estimation unit calculates the energy transfer amount from the gas to the wall surface based on the parameter related to the operating condition, the parameter related to the chemical condition of combustion, and the parameter related to an operation status. The wall surface temperature estimation unit estimates the wall surface temperature on the basis of the energy transfer amount from the gas to the wall surface. The operation amount calculation unit calculates an operation amount of an actuator provided in the internal combustion engine on the basis of the wall surface temperature estimated by the wall surface temperature estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI
  • Patent number: 11629683
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of reducing a measurement load and calculating a flow velocity around an ignition plug. The internal combustion engine control device includes an inter-gap voltage calculation unit 31 and a flow velocity calculation unit 32. The inter-gap voltage calculation unit 31 calculates a reference inter-gap voltage under a reference condition, based on a secondary current and in-cylinder pressure. The flow velocity calculation unit calculates the flow velocity of a gas around the ignition plug based on the reference inter-gap voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oryoji, Yoshihiko Akagi, Takayasu Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20230079934
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of an internal combustion engine capable of increasing the temperature of a catalyst and the temperature of coolant more efficient1y than a conventional waste heat control device. A control device acquires a coolant temperature T_cw and a catalyst temperature T_cat of an exhaust system and controls an ignition timing ? of the internal combustion engine. The control device executes coolant heating control for increasing the energy distribution from the internal combustion engine to the coolant when the coolant temperature T_cw is equal to or less than a first threshold, and catalyst heating control for increasing the energy distribution from the internal combustion engine to the exhaust gas when the catalyst temperature T_cat is equal to or less than a second threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Ryutaro KOIWAI
  • Patent number: 11603819
    Abstract: In an engine including an auxiliary chamber having an ignition plug therein, an amount of heat generated in the auxiliary chamber tends to be large, and thus it is necessary to suppress abnormal combustion. However, when a sensor is added to the ignition plug, a manufacturing cost of the ignition plug tends to increase. An ECU 2 includes an auxiliary chamber temperature estimation unit 21 that estimates a temperature of the auxiliary chamber 42, and an ignition control unit 22 that delays an ignition timing at a first decrease degree defined in accordance with a change amount of the ignition timing with respect to the temperature of the auxiliary combustion chamber as the temperature of the auxiliary chamber 42 increases in a case where the estimated temperature of the auxiliary chamber 42 is included in a middle temperature region equal to or lower than a first set temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kengo Kumano, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Masayuki Saruwatari
  • Publication number: 20220325687
    Abstract: In an engine including an auxiliary chamber having an ignition plug therein, an amount of heat generated in the auxiliary chamber tends to be large, and thus it is necessary to suppress abnormal combustion. However, when a sensor is added to the ignition plug, a manufacturing cost of the ignition plug tends to increase. An ECU 2 includes an auxiliary chamber temperature estimation unit 21 that estimates a temperature of the auxiliary chamber 42, and an ignition control unit 22 that delays an ignition timing at a first decrease degree defined in accordance with a change amount of the ignition timing with respect to the temperature of the auxiliary combustion chamber as the temperature of the auxiliary chamber 42 increases in a case where the estimated temperature of the auxiliary chamber 42 is included in a middle temperature region equal to or lower than a first set temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kengo KUMANO, Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Publication number: 20220268249
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of reducing a measurement load and calculating a flow velocity around an ignition plug. The internal combustion engine control device includes an inter-gap voltage calculation unit 31 and a flow velocity calculation unit 32. The inter-gap voltage calculation unit 31 calculates a reference inter-gap voltage under a reference condition, based on a secondary current and in-cylinder pressure. The flow velocity calculation unit calculates the flow velocity of a gas around the ignition plug based on the reference inter-gap voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Takayasu MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20220235719
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of appropriately correcting a flow rate of EGR gas. Therefore, an internal combustion engine control device 20 includes moisture amount calculation units 301 and 302, a dew condensation calculation unit 303, and an EGR correction unit 304. The moisture amount calculation unit 301 calculates a total moisture amount contained in the mixed gas. The dew condensation calculation unit 303 calculates a dew condensation generation amount WQcon in an intercooler based on the total moisture amount. The EGR correction unit 304 corrects a flow rate of the EGR gas based on the dew condensation generation amount WQcon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya MATOHARA, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Kazuhiro ORYOJI
  • Patent number: 11371480
    Abstract: Due to changes in a flow of an air-fuel mixture in a cylinder, reliable ignition due to spark discharge may not be possible. Therefore, an ignition control unit 24 includes a secondary voltage calculation unit 31 that calculates an average value of a secondary voltage generated on a secondary side of an ignition coil, an irregular flow ratio calculation unit 32 that calculates a ratio of cycles in which the average value of the secondary voltage is equal to or less than a set average value with respect to a cycle of the internal combustion engine in a predetermined period as an irregular flow ratio indicating that the flow of the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder is irregular, and an ignition operation amount correction unit 37 that corrects an ignition operation amount so that the irregular flow ratio is equal to or less than the set ratio value that is the target to be reached of the irregular flow ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oryoji, Yoshihiko Akagi, Hidefumi Iwaki
  • Publication number: 20220097712
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and a control unit for controlling pre-warming process of an engine of a Hybrid Electric Vehicle (HEV). The method comprises determining start-up time of the engine. The method also comprises determining engine heating time for the engine. The pre-warming process of the engine is initiated prior to start up time of the engine. The process of pre-warming is discontinued when the determined start-up time of the engine is greater than the engine heating time and the process is restarted when the determined start-up time of the engine is less than the engine heating time and when the pre-warming process of the engine is discontinued. The above-mentioned process is reiterated at plurality of time intervals for controlling the pre-warming process of the engine which results in energy efficiency and sufficient heat for warm-up of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Ragesh R, Shin YAMAUCHI, Kengo KUMANO, Kazuhiro ORYOJI
  • Publication number: 20220010762
    Abstract: Due to changes in a flow of an air-fuel mixture in a cylinder, reliable ignition due to spark discharge may not be possible. Therefore, an ignition control unit 24 includes a secondary voltage calculation unit 31 that calculates an average value of a secondary voltage generated on a secondary side of an ignition coil, an irregular flow ratio calculation unit 32 that calculates a ratio of cycles in which the average value of the secondary voltage is equal to or less than a set average value with respect to a cycle of the internal combustion engine in a predetermined period as an irregular flow ratio indicating that the flow of the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder is irregular, and an ignition operation amount correction unit 37 that corrects an ignition operation amount so that the irregular flow ratio is equal to or less than the set ratio value that is the target to be reached of the irregular flow ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Hidefumi IWAKI
  • Patent number: 11007480
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification system which exhibits high exhaust gas purification performance. The present invention provides an exhaust gas purification system including: a carrier containing aluminum oxide; an exhaust gas purification device including a catalyst provided on the carrier and containing gallium, and connected to an internal combustion engine; and a system connected to the exhaust gas purification device for increasing an oxygen concentration. The system for increasing an oxygen concentration provides an oxygen concentration higher than that of a post combusted gas of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Eri Takahashi, Masato Kaneeda, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Naoki Yoneya, Masayuki Saruwatari
  • Patent number: 10941726
    Abstract: Torque fluctuations caused by misfire and abnormal combustion are prevented appropriately at the time of switching from SI to HCCI, and exhaust of NOx is restricted at the time of switching. Provided is a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine performing a plurality of combustion modes each having a different air-fuel ratio and compression end temperature in a cylinder 7 from each other. In the middle of switching from a first combustion mode to a second combustion mode, an intermediate combustion mode in which the compression end temperature is increased while keeping a different air-fuel ratio from the air-fuel ratio of the first combustion mode and the air-fuel ratio of the second combustion mode is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Namba, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kazuhiro Oryoji
  • Patent number: 10941724
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an engine system control device capable of stabilizing a combustion state, while improving fuel economy by performing intake air heating. According to the present invention, there is provided an engine system control device which controls an engine system including an engine configured to combust air-fuel mixture, an intake air path configured to take air to the engine, and an intake air heating mechanism configured to heat the intake air, wherein a heating amount of the intake air is controlled depending on a combustion speed of the air-fuel mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisayuki Orita, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Motoyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 10900426
    Abstract: An object is to provide a control device that calculates an intake pipe pressure of an engine, in which the humidity of air is measured, and a change in a gas constant due to a change in the total number of moles of air is corrected, to improve the accuracy of the calculation value of the intake pipe pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Asano, Yoshihiko Akagi, Shinya Matohara, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Kunihiko Suzuki
  • Patent number: 10844826
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to predict change of a combustion limit due to cycle variation of temperature and an EGR ratio and perform correction every cycle to decrease an amount of combustion consumption. Therefore, in an internal combustion engine control device that controls an internal combustion engine including a cylinder and an exhaust pipe, the internal combustion engine control device includes a control unit configured to perform EGR control of controlling an exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe to return to an inner cylinder of the cylinder, obtain temperature of the gas in the internal cylinder and an EGR ratio in a state where both an intake valve and an exhaust valve are closed in an combustion cycle, and correct a combustion parameter in a same combustion cycle as the combustion cycle on the basis of the obtained gas temperature and the obtained EGR ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Yoneya, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kazuhiro Oryoji
  • Patent number: 10837418
    Abstract: The invention provides an internal combustion engine control device capable of performing a stable combustion at a lean combustion limit. In an internal combustion engine control device that controls an internal combustion engine provided with an ignition device igniting an air-fuel mixture formed inside a combustion chamber, an intake side air temperature of the internal combustion engine is controlled in response to a compression ratio of the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oryoji, Masayuki Saruwatari, Yoshihiro Sukegawa
  • Publication number: 20200332759
    Abstract: An internal-combustion-engine control unit and control method are provided that can prevent an excessive ignition-timing retard while occurrences of knocking are suppressed. An internal-combustion-engine control unit that controls an internal-combustion engine, the internal-combustion-engine control unit including: a knock-occurrence-frequency sensing section that senses a knock occurrence-frequency of a cylinder; and a cylinder-wall-temperature computing section that computes a wall temperature of the cylinder on a basis of the knock occurrence-frequency sensed at the knock-occurrence-frequency sensing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI
  • Patent number: 10794310
    Abstract: In some examples, a system including one or more processors may receive sensor data from one or more sensors indicating one or more engine parameters of an engine including a combustion chamber. Based on the sensor data, the system may determine a homogeneity index indicative of a homogeneity of an air-fuel mixture within the combustion chamber. Furthermore, the system may determine an estimated amount of NOx in the exhaust gas based at least in part on the homogeneity index. In addition, based at least partially on the estimated amount of NOx in the exhaust gas, the system may send an instruction to control an engine component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Zicheng Ge, Yahodeep Lonari, Kazuhiro Oryoji