Patents by Inventor Kei Masuda

Kei Masuda 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: 20100005873
    Abstract: A catalyst deterioration judgment device that can accurately perform a catalyst deterioration judgment by considering an oxygen density at downstream of an exhaust purification catalyst. The system reads outputs of an oxygen sensor and an ammonia sensor that are installed in downstream of an NSR catalyst when the catalyst is in an activate condition. When this read oxygen sensor output is equal to or more than a reference value and the ammonia sensor output is equal to or more than a reference value, it is estimated that ammonia oxidizing reaction does not occur under existence of oxygen in the NSR catalyst. In this case, the NSR catalyst is judged to be deteriorated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Katoh, Kei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20090277160
    Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, including a three-way catalyst, a NOX storage-reduction catalyst, a rich controlling mechanism performing control to make an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas rich to reduce NOX stored in the NOX storage-reduction catalyst, and a control performing control to ensure that a NOX purifying component is present in the NOX storage-reduction catalyst when reducing the NOx.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Katoh, Kei Masuda
  • Patent number: 7150262
    Abstract: A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine includes a fuel pressure sensor to detect the pressure of the fuel supplied from a fuel pump to an injector; an in-cylinder pressure sensor, which serves as a combustion chamber temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature in the combustion chamber or the parameter depending on the temperature, to detect in-cylinder pressure (combustion chamber pressure); and an ECU that controls to execute the first fuel injection of each cylinder by the injector when the fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure sensor is not less than a predetermined threshold fuel pressure and when the in-cylinder pressure detected by the in-cylinder pressure sensor is not less than a threshold in-cylinder pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2006
    Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso Corporation
    Inventors: Takayuki Demura, Koji Morita, Kenji Harima, Kei Masuda, Tetsuji Nagata
  • Publication number: 20060231066
    Abstract: A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine includes a fuel pressure sensor to detect the pressure of the fuel supplied from a fuel pump to an injector; an in-cylinder pressure sensor, which serves as a combustion chamber temperature detecting unit that detects the temperature in the combustion chamber or the parameter depending on the temperature, to detect in-cylinder pressure (combustion chamber pressure); and an ECU that controls to execute the first fuel injection of each cylinder by the injector when the fuel pressure detected by the fuel pressure sensor is not less than a predetermined threshold fuel pressure and when the in-cylinder pressure detected by the in-cylinder pressure sensor is not less than a threshold in-cylinder pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takayuki Demura, Koji Morita, Kenji Harima, Kei Masuda, Tetsuji Nagata
  • Patent number: 7043916
    Abstract: A control device for a turbocharger with an electric motor includes a turbocharger which is provided along with an internal combustion engine and supercharges air taken in the internal combustion engine using a compressor; an electric motor which can increase a supercharging pressure by running the compressor of the turbocharger; and a controller. The controller calculates a base amount of electric power to be supplied to the electric motor based on a target supercharging pressure and an actual supercharging pressure, decides an amount of electric power to be supplied to the electric motor, controls the electric motor based on the decided amount of electric power to be supplied, and sets the amount of electric power to be supplied to a maximum amount of electric power in a beginning state of an electric power supplied motor, only when the compressor is out of a region where a surge occurs, regardless of the calculated base amount of electric power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kei Masuda
  • Patent number: 6981481
    Abstract: A stating device for an internal combustion engine predicts whether a starter is required to assist a crank of the engine before igniting fuel in a cylinder in an expansion stroke, and starts the starter before igniting the fuel in a cylinder in an expansion stroke if it is decided that the starter is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2006
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Susumu Kojima, Kei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20050144947
    Abstract: A control device for a turbocharger with an electric motor includes a turbocharger which is provided along with an internal combustion engine and supercharges air taken in the internal combustion engine using a compressor; an electric motor which can increase a supercharging pressure by running the compressor of the turbocharger; and a controller. The controller calculates a base amount of electric power to be supplied to the electric motor based on a target supercharging pressure and an actual supercharging pressure, decides an amount of electric power to be supplied to the electric motor, controls the electric motor based on the decided amount of electric power to be supplied, and sets the amount of electric power to be supplied to a maximum amount of electric power in a beginning state of an electric power supplied motor, only when the compressor is out of a region where a surge occurs, regardless of the calculated base amount of electric power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kei Masuda
  • Patent number: 6880337
    Abstract: A control device for a turbocharger with an electric motor includes a turbocharger which is provided along with an internal combustion engine and supercharges air taken in the internal combustion engine using a compressor; an electric motor which can increase a supercharging pressure by running the compressor of the turbocharger; and a controller. The controller calculates a base amount of electric power to be supplied to the electric motor based on a target supercharging pressure and an actual supercharging pressure, decides an amount of electric power to be supplied to the electric motor, controls the electric motor based on the decided amount of electric power to be supplied, and sets the amount of electric power to be supplied to a maximum amount of electric power regardless of the calculated base amount of electric power when high supercharging responsiveness by the turbocharger is required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20040200448
    Abstract: A stating device for an internal combustion engine predicts whether a starter is required to assist a crank of the engine before igniting fuel in a cylinder in an expansion stroke, and starts the starter before igniting the fuel in a cylinder in an expansion stroke if it is decided that the starter is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: October 14, 2004
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Susumu Kojima, Kei Masuda
  • Publication number: 20040093867
    Abstract: A control device for a turbocharger with an electric motor includes a turbocharger which is provided along with an internal combustion engine and supercharges air taken in the internal combustion engine using a compressor; an electric motor which can increase a supercharging pressure by running the compressor of the turbocharger; and a controller. The controller calculates a base amount of electric power to be supplied to the electric motor based on a target supercharging pressure and an actual supercharging pressure, decides an amount of electric power to be supplied to the electric motor, controls the electric motor based on the decided amount of electric power to be supplied, and sets the amount of electric power to be supplied to a maximum amount of electric power regardless of the calculated base amount of electric power when high supercharging responsiveness by the turbocharger is required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Kei Masuda
  • Patent number: 6332450
    Abstract: In a throttle control apparatus of an internal combustion engine, when the driver operates an accelerator so as to cause a motor vehicle to proceed to a steady-state running mode, a target throttle opening amount is no longer controlled to a throttle opening amount that depends upon an operated amount of the accelerator. Instead, the throttle opening amount is controlled to a value that provides a steady-state required torque. In this manner, the vehicle is immediately brought into a desired steady-state running mode, without requiring the driver to repeatedly operate the accelerator since the accelerator operation is not directly reflected by the throttle opening amount. Thus, the driver need not frequently repeat accelerator operations when the vehicle enters a steady-state running mode, thus assuring improved driveability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Harufumi Muto, Kei Masuda, Makoto Fujita, Naoto Kushi