Patents by Inventor Kazuya NIIDA
Kazuya NIIDA 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: 10670148Abstract: An internal combustion engine gasket includes a plurality of annular plates that are stacked. Each of the annular plates includes: a through-hole; an inner circumferential portion; a plurality of bolt holes; an outer circumferential portion; and an intermediate portion. The annular plates includes: a grommet plate having a fold-back portion in the inner circumferential portion; and first and second seal plates stacked on both sides of the grommet plate, and having a bead in the intermediate portion. The inner circumferential portion of the first seal plate is wrapped or held by the fold-back portion of the grommet plate. A spacer member is formed between the grommet plate and the first or second seal plate along the entire circumference of the outer circumferential portion so as to have a thickness smaller than or equal to the grommet plate and include all of the bolt holes.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi Niwa, Kazuya Niida
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Patent number: 10436098Abstract: An engine equipped with a turbo supercharger has an exhaust manifold coupled to an engine body, a turbo supercharger including a turbine housing demarcating a turbine chamber and a supply path of exhaust air, and a turbine insulator covering the same, and a manifold insulator covering at least the upper surface of the exhaust manifold and the side surface of the exhaust manifold on the turbo supercharger side. The exhaust manifold has a flange as a connection section with respect to the turbo supercharger. The manifold insulator has a cut-away section exposing a joining surface of the flange, and an opening caused by having the interval between the cut-away edge of the cut-away section and the outer peripheral edge of the flange be relatively wider in a predetermined position than in other positions.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi Niwa, Hiroshi Sumimoto, Kazuya Niida
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Patent number: 10309283Abstract: An exhaust device of an engine is provided, which includes an exhaust port formed in a cylinder head and connected to an exhaust aperture of a cylinder, an exhaust manifold disposed on a side surface of the cylinder head and formed with a first exhaust passage, an exhaust path constituting part disposed on a side of the exhaust manifold opposite from the cylinder head, and formed with a second exhaust passage, a catalyst disposed on a downstream side of the exhaust path constituting part, an upstream gasket disposed between the side surface of the cylinder head and an upstream connecting member of the manifold, and a downstream gasket disposed between a downstream connecting member of the manifold and an exhaust-manifold-side connecting member of the exhaust path constituting part. The upstream gasket has a larger thermal resistance in an exhaust gas flow direction than the downstream gasket.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Yasushi Niwa, Kazuya Niida
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Publication number: 20190040787Abstract: An engine equipped with a turbo supercharger has an exhaust manifold coupled to an engine body, a turbo supercharger including a turbine housing demarcating a turbine chamber and a supply path of exhaust air, and a turbine insulator covering the same, and a manifold insulator covering at least the upper surface of the exhaust manifold and the side surface of the exhaust manifold on the turbo supercharger side. The exhaust manifold has a flange as a connection section with respect to the turbo supercharger. The manifold insulator has a cut-away section exposing a joining surface of the flange, and an opening caused by having the interval between the cut-away edge of the cut-away section and the outer peripheral edge of the flange be relatively wider in a predetermined position than in other positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2017Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi NIWA, Hiroshi SUMIMOTO, Kazuya NIIDA
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Patent number: 10145297Abstract: Disclosed is a controller for a turbocharged engine. The engine includes a supercharger configured to supercharge intake air using an exhaust gas from the engine, and including movable flaps arranged so that a boost pressure generated in an intake passage is adjustable. If a rotational speed of a turbine and compressor that constitute the supercharger has reached a first threshold lower than an endurance limit, an amount of fuel injected to the engine is reduced to a predetermined amount. If the rotational speed has reached a second threshold lower than the first threshold, the amount of fuel injected is reduced in accordance with an excess of the rotational speed over the second threshold.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Amane Tsuda, Hiroaki Deguchi, Kenjiro Konomi, Nobuo Yunoki, Yasushi Niwa, Kazuya Niida
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Patent number: 10087868Abstract: An abnormality detector of a turbocharged engine includes: a compressor including a plurality of blades that are detected portions; and a detecting portion configured to electrically detect the plurality of blades. Each time the blades are detected a predetermined number of times, one pulse having a pulse width corresponding to a measurement time required to detect the blades is output, and a turbo revolution is calculated from the pulse width of the output pulse. When it is judged that a rotation change of the rotating body which change is calculated based on a pulse width of a first pulse and a pulse width of a second pulse output after the first pulse exceeds a predetermined rate in a region where the rotating body exceeds a predetermined revolution, it is determined that an abnormality of the blade or an electromagnetic noise abnormality of the detecting portion occurs.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Amane Tsuda, Hiroaki Deguchi, Kenjiro Konomi, Nobuo Yunoki, Yasushi Niwa, Kazuya Niida
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Publication number: 20180266558Abstract: An internal combustion engine gasket includes a plurality of annular plates that are stacked. Each of the annular plates includes: a through-hole; an inner circumferential portion; a plurality of bolt holes; an outer circumferential portion; and an intermediate portion. The annular plates includes: a grommet plate having a fold-back portion in the inner circumferential portion; and first and second seal plates stacked on both sides of the grommet plate, and having a bead in the intermediate portion. The inner circumferential portion of the first seal plate is wrapped or held by the fold-back portion of the grommet plate. A spacer member is formed between the grommet plate and the first or second seal plate along the entire circumference of the outer circumferential portion so as to have a thickness smaller than or equal to the grommet plate and include all of the bolt holes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: September 20, 2018Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Yasushi NIWA, Kazuya NIIDA
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Patent number: 10047674Abstract: An exhaust device for an engine includes an engine main body having a cylinder head provided with a manifold exhaust passage formed with a gathering exhaust port, a turbo supercharger, a catalyst device provided adjacent to the turbo supercharger, and a processing device disposed on the same side as the cylinder head surface of the engine main body. The processing device includes an exhaust gas processing device and an EGR device. The turbo supercharger guides exhaust gas discharged from the gathering exhaust port upward. The catalyst device includes a carrier, and a container which allows the exhaust gas to pass through a lower region of the carrier. The EGR device and the exhaust gas processing device are at least disposed below the catalyst device.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Amane Tsuda, Hiroaki Deguchi, Yasushi Niwa, Noriyuki Maruoka, Kazuya Niida, Kentaro Nomura
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Publication number: 20170362986Abstract: An exhaust device of an engine is provided, which includes an exhaust port formed in a cylinder head and connected to an exhaust aperture of a cylinder, an exhaust manifold disposed on a side surface of the cylinder head and formed with a first exhaust passage, an exhaust path constituting part disposed on a side of the exhaust manifold opposite from the cylinder head, and formed with a second exhaust passage, a catalyst disposed on a downstream side of the exhaust path constituting part, an upstream gasket disposed between the side surface of the cylinder head and an upstream connecting member of the manifold, and a downstream gasket disposed between a downstream connecting member of the manifold and an exhaust-manifold-side connecting member of the exhaust path constituting part. The upstream gasket has a larger thermal resistance in an exhaust gas flow direction than the downstream gasket.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Yasushi Niwa, Kazuya Niida
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Publication number: 20170292436Abstract: A diesel engine of the present invention includes a turbocharger including: a turbine provided on an exhaust passage; a compressor provided on an intake passage; and a plurality of nozzle vanes provided around the turbine to control a flow velocity of an exhaust gas colliding with the turbine, angles of the nozzle vanes being changeable. In a case where a ratio of a volume of a combustion chamber when the intake valve is closed to a volume of the combustion chamber when a piston is located at a top dead center is denoted by an effective compression ratio ?e, and a total displacement of the engine is denoted by V (L), the effective compression ratio ?e is set to satisfy Formula (1) “?0.67×V+15.2??e?14.8.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2015Publication date: October 12, 2017Inventors: Yoshie Kakuda, Daisuke Shimo, Sangkyu Kim, Hiroshi Minamoto, Kazuya Niida
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Publication number: 20170138291Abstract: An abnormality detector of a turbocharged engine includes: a compressor including a plurality of blades that are detected portions; and a detecting portion configured to electrically detect the plurality of blades. Each time the blades are detected a predetermined number of times, one pulse having a pulse width corresponding to a measurement time required to detect the blades is output, and a turbo revolution is calculated from the pulse width of the output pulse. When it is judged that a rotation change of the rotating body which change is calculated based on a pulse width of a first pulse and a pulse width of a second pulse output after the first pulse exceeds a predetermined rate in a region where the rotating body exceeds a predetermined revolution, it is determined that an abnormality of the blade or an electromagnetic noise abnormality of the detecting portion occurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: Mazda Motor CorporationInventors: Amane Tsuda, Hiroaki Deguchi, Kenjiro Konomi, Nobuo Yunoki, Yasushi Niwa, Kazuya Niida
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Publication number: 20170067394Abstract: Disclosed is a controller for a turbocharged engine. The engine includes a supercharger configured to supercharge intake air using an exhaust gas from the engine, and including movable flaps arranged so that a boost pressure generated in an intake passage is adjustable. If a rotational speed of a turbine and compressor that constitute the supercharger has reached a first threshold lower than an endurance limit, an amount of fuel injected to the engine is reduced to a predetermined amount. If the rotational speed has reached a second threshold lower than the first threshold, the amount of fuel injected is reduced in accordance with an excess of the rotational speed over the second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Amane TSUDA, Hiroaki DEGUCHI, Kenjiro KONOMI, Nobuo YUNOKI, Yasushi NIWA, Kazuya NIIDA
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Publication number: 20150240750Abstract: An exhaust device for an engine includes an engine main body having a cylinder head provided with a manifold exhaust passage formed with a gathering exhaust port, a turbo supercharger, a catalyst device provided adjacent to the turbo supercharger, and a processing device disposed on the same side as the cylinder head surface of the engine main body. The processing device includes an exhaust gas processing device and an EGR device. The turbo supercharger guides exhaust gas discharged from the gathering exhaust port upward. The catalyst device includes a carrier, and a container which allows the exhaust gas to pass through a lower region of the carrier. The EGR device and the exhaust gas processing device are at least disposed below the catalyst device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Amane TSUDA, Hiroaki DEGUCHI, Yasushi NIWA, Noriyuki MARUOKA, Kazuya NIIDA, Kentaro NOMURA