Patents by Inventor Kazuo Kurata

Kazuo Kurata 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: 20240151190
    Abstract: A control device for controlling an engine includes main-chamber injecting means (1,3) that supplies a main chamber (8) with fuel; sub-chamber injecting means (2) that supplies a sub chamber (5) with fuel after the main chamber injecting means (1,3) supplies the fuel; estimating means (21) that estimates a degree of knocking serving as indices of an intensity of the knocking and an occurrence frequency of the knocking; and fuel controlling means (22) that carries out, when the degree (N) of the knocking is a first predetermined value (N1) or more, fuel control that reduces a sub-chamber fuel amount representing an amount of fuel supplied by the sub-chamber injecting means (2). By reducing the sub-chamber fuel amount in this manner, the occurrence of knocking can be suppressed, so that the combustion state of a divided-combustion-chamber engine can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshiya INOUE, Ryota ASAKURA, Ryota NAKADA, Takayuki SHIROTA, Sho IIZUKA, Kazuo KURATA
  • Patent number: 9951711
    Abstract: A control device for an engine includes an angular velocity detecting unit that detects the angular velocity of a rotating shaft which is driven according to an output of an engine, an angular acceleration calculating unit that calculates angular acceleration based on the angular velocity detected by the angular velocity detecting unit, a heat generation timing calculating unit that calculates a certain timing when the ratio of an amount of heat generation in a cylinder to the total amount of heat generation of one cycle falls in a predetermined range, based on a change of the angular acceleration calculated by the angular acceleration calculating unit, and a combustion control unit that controls combustion in the cylinder by comparison between the certain timing calculated by the heat generation timing calculating unit and a predetermined heat generation timing reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Kurata, Jun Akasegawa, Koji Satake, Tetsuro Ishida
  • Publication number: 20150369166
    Abstract: A control device for an engine includes an angular velocity detecting unit that detects the angular velocity of a rotating shaft which is driven according to an output of an engine, an angular acceleration calculating unit that calculates angular acceleration based on the angular velocity detected by the angular velocity detecting unit, a heat generation timing calculating unit that calculates a certain timing when the ratio of an amount of heat generation in a cylinder to the total amount of heat generation of one cycle falls in a predetermined range, based on a change of the angular acceleration calculated by the angular acceleration calculating unit, and a combustion control unit that controls combustion in the cylinder by comparison between the certain timing calculated by the heat generation timing calculating unit and a predetermined heat generation timing reference value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo KURATA, Jun AKASEGAWA, Koji SATAKE, Tetsuro ISHIDA
  • Patent number: 7628010
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes an oxidation catalyst disposed in an exhaust passageway of an engine, and a filter disposed downstream of the oxidation catalyst in the exhaust passageway. The exhaust purification system further includes an outlet temperature setting section for setting, as an outlet target temperature, a target value for an exhaust temperature which is detected on the downstream side of the filter in the exhaust passageway. The system further includes a heat loss quantity computing section for computing a heat loss quantity radiated from the filter to outside the exhaust passageway when exhaust discharged from the engine passes through the filter; and an inlet temperature setting section for setting, as an inlet target temperature on an upstream side of the filter, a temperature obtained by adding a loss temperature reduced by the heat loss quantity to the outlet target temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuo Kurata, Kei Shigahara
  • Publication number: 20070068148
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system including an oxidation catalyst disposed in an exhaust passageway of an engine, and a filter disposed downstream of the oxidation catalyst in the exhaust passageway. The exhaust purification system further includes an outlet temperature setting section for setting, as an outlet target temperature, a target value for an exhaust temperature which is detected on the downstream side of the filter in the exhaust passageway. The system further includes a heat loss quantity computing section for computing a heat loss quantity radiated from the filter to outside the exhaust passageway when exhaust discharged from the engine passes through the filter; and an inlet temperature setting section for setting, as an inlet target temperature on an upstream side of the filter, a temperature obtained by adding a loss temperature reduced by the heat loss quantity to the outlet target temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuo Kurata, Kei Shigahara