Patents by Inventor Keisuke Sasaki

Keisuke Sasaki 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: 10544713
    Abstract: A control device is configured, if, although the control device has caused a cam switching device to perform a first cam switching operation for switching the profiles of all the valve-driving cams of a plurality of cylinders from a first profile to a second profile, the profiles of all the valve-driving cams of the plurality of cylinders do not coincide with the second profile, to cause the cam switching device to perform a second cam switching operation for switching the profile of the valve-driving cam for at least one or more normal cylinders that are one or more cylinders at which the switching of profiles to the second profile has succeeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinji Sadakane, Hiroyuki Sugihara, Noriyasu Adachi, Keisuke Sasaki, Shigehiro Sugihira, Takayoshi Kawai, Kaoru Ohtsuka
  • Patent number: 10526980
    Abstract: To improve accuracy in misfire determination, a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine that controls an internal combustion engine having a variable compression ratio mechanism capable of changing the compression ratio of the internal combustion engine includes a controller configured to: determine that a misfire occurs if the magnitude of rotational fluctuation of the internal combustion engine is equal to or larger than a misfire criterion value and to make the misfire criterion value larger during the time in which changing of the compression ratio of the internal combustion engine is in progress than during the time in which the compression ratio is not being changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Sasaki, Akira Eiraku, Masanori Hattori, Yoshiyuki Kageura, Teppei Yoshioka, Shinichi Hiraoka
  • Patent number: 10513950
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine equipped with a cam switching device including a cam groove provided on the outer peripheral surface of a camshaft and an electromagnetic solenoid type actuator capable of protruding, toward the camshaft, an engagement pin that is engageable with the cam groove. The control device is configured, in causing the cam switching device to perform a cam switching operation, to perform energization of the actuator such that the engagement pin is seated on a forward outer peripheral surface, and to more lower, when an electric current (coil current) flowing through the actuator as a result of the energization is greater, an average electric voltage per unit time applied to the actuator in protruding the engagement pin toward the cam groove from the forward outer peripheral surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Noriyasu Adachi, Keisuke Sasaki, Shigehiro Sugihira, Takayoshi Kawai, Shinji Sadakane, Hiroyuki Sugihara, Kaoru Ohtsuka
  • Publication number: 20190375218
    Abstract: In a printer, a medium transporting apparatus includes a straight path through which a medium on which recording has been performed with the recording head is output, an inversion path through which the recording medium on which recording has been performed with the recording head is output to an output destination different from an output destination of the straight path, a switching member provided downstream of the recording head in a medium transport direction and configured to switch between a first state in which the switching member constitutes a portion of the straight path and a second state in which the switching member constitutes a portion of the inversion path, a motor that drives a pair of transport rollers that transports the medium, and a switching mechanism that switches between a first state and a second state with motive power of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Keisuke SASAKI, Takayuki TANAKA, Toshiki SHIROKI
  • Patent number: 10502154
    Abstract: An electronic control unit of a control device for an internal combustion engine executes, for a first cycle, first drive processing for controlling an actuator such that a pin drive operation is executed for switching from a first cam to a second cam, executes second drive processing for controlling the actuator such that the pin drive operation is executed again for a second cycle, and executes abnormality determination processing for determining that a cam switching mechanism has an abnormality in a case where a pin returns to a reference position by using a pin return section following a cam switching section of the first cycle after the execution of the first drive processing and the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the second cycle after the execution of the second drive processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Keisuke Sasaki, Noriyasu Adachi, Shigehiro Sugihira, Takayoshi Kawai, Shinji Sadakane, Kaoru Otsuka
  • Publication number: 20190368440
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes: an internal combustion engine including an electronically-controlled throttle valve configured to change throttle opening degrees in a step-wise manner among at least three selectable opening degrees, and being mounted on a vehicle; and a control device configured to control the vehicle. The control device includes a required throttle opening degree setting component and a first throttle opening degree selecting component. The first throttle opening degree selecting component is configured to: select, at the time of acceleration of the vehicle, a first throttle opening degree that is greater than the required throttle opening degree and is the closest to the required throttle opening degree; and select, at the time of deceleration of the vehicle, a second throttle opening degree that is smaller than the required throttle opening degree and is the closest to the required throttle opening degree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke SASAKI, Naoto KATO
  • Publication number: 20190368438
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes an internal combustion engine including a fuel injection valve configured to inject fuel into an intake port and a throttle valve configured to control intake air amount for controlling engine torque, and being mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle system further includes a control device configured to control the vehicle. The control device includes a fuel increment controlling component that executes a fuel increment control to make the air-fuel ratio richer than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio in a plurality of cycles started from a fuel injection start cycle at the time of engine start-up. Where a torque rate correlation value correlated with a torque rate that is a time rate of increase of the engine torque is lower, the fuel increment controlling component deceases a total fuel injection amount in the plurality of cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventor: Keisuke SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10487731
    Abstract: An engine includes a cylinder pressure sensor inserted into a through-hole of a cylinder head. A sealing member that seals between a hole wall surface and a body-side wall surface. A dimension relationship of D1<D3×(D4/D2) is satisfied where: D1 is a distance in a direction of a central axis from a reference position of the sealing member to a first given position; D2 is a distance between the hole wall surface and the body-side wall surface at the first given position; D3 is a distance in the direction of the central axis from the reference position to a second given position; and D4 is a distance between the hole wall surface and the body-side wall surface at the second given position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Sasaki, Hajime Takagawa, Yoichiro Goya
  • Publication number: 20190344773
    Abstract: There is a control system for a hybrid vehicle including an internal combustion engine including a throttle valve on an intake air passage, and a generator coupled to an output shaft of the engine. The control system includes a controller. The controller is configured to detect shaft torque of the output shaft of the engine by the generator, calculate an actual value of a throttle flow rate based on the shaft torque, the flow rate being an amount of air that flows through the throttle valve, and learn flow rate characteristics indicating a relationship between a throttle opening being a degree of opening of the throttle valve and the throttle flow rate, based on an actual value of the throttle opening and the actual value of the throttle flow rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoto KATO, Tomoya OTA, Keisuke SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10465573
    Abstract: In a system that selects a large-cam as a driving cam at a time of a start of an engine, when an engine stop request is output, it is determined whether there is a small-cam cylinder for which a small-cam is selected as the driving cam. In a case where it is determined that there is a small-cam cylinder, a switching command for switching the driving cam from the small-cam to the large-cam is output. When an engine start request is output, the above determination is performed again. In a case where it is determined that there is a small-cam cylinder, the switching command is output to all solenoid actuators again. In addition, the drive of the fuel injector is suspended until the switching operation of the driving cam is completed for all cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigehiro Sugihira, Noriyasu Adachi, Keisuke Sasaki, Takayoshi Kawai, Kaoru Otsuka, Shinji Sadakane, Hiroyuki Sugihara
  • Publication number: 20190322269
    Abstract: A control system of a hybrid vehicle includes an internal combustion engine loaded on a vehicle, an electric motor loaded on the vehicle, and connected to wheels via a power transmission mechanism, a battery storing power that drives the electric motor, and a control device that controls engine torque generated by the internal combustion engine, and motor torque transmitted to the wheels by the electric motor. The control device calculates an outputable power of the battery based on a temperature and a state of charge of the battery. The control device is configured to make a torque change amount of the engine torque larger when the calculated outputable power belongs to a predetermined low power region than when the outputable power belongs to a high power region with higher power than the low power region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke SASAKI, Satoshi TSUDA, Naoto KATO
  • Publication number: 20190308425
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes a medium mounting section on which a medium is to be mounted, a reverse-feeding path for reversing the medium that has been fed from the medium mounting section, a recording unit configured to perform recording onto the medium that has been reversed by the reverse-feeding path, and a reverse-discharging path for reversing the medium on which recording has been performed by the recording unit and for discharge the medium to a discharge section configured to discharge the medium, in which when viewed in a medium width direction intersecting a medium transport direction, a path section for reversing the medium in the reverse-feeding path and a path section for reversing the medium in the reverse-discharging path have portions overlapping each other in the vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Kazuo OTSUKA, Kazuhisa TAKEDA, Satoshi KAWAMURA, Haruna TAKAHASHI, Keisuke SASAKI
  • Publication number: 20190291445
    Abstract: A recording device includes a recording unit configured to eject a liquid onto a medium to record, a carriage including the recording unit and configured to move in an X direction corresponding to a medium width direction that intersects a Y direction corresponding to a medium transport direction, a liquid reservoir located in the carriage at a position above the recording unit, configured to contain a liquid, and having a fill port through which the liquid is supplied, a fill port unit located in the carriage at a position above the liquid reservoir and including a component for open/close operation of the fill port, and an operation unit through which the device is operated. The fill port unit and the operation unit partly overlap in a device front-rear direction that is parallel to the medium transport direction, when viewed in the X direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Katsumi YAMADA, Kazunori TAKABAYASHI, Morio IWATA, Keisuke SASAKI, Satoshi NAKATA
  • Publication number: 20190293000
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, a catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control an engine torque such that a first torque change amount of the engine torque when the temperature of the catalyst belongs to a predetermined low temperature region to be lower than a second torque change amount of the engine torque when the temperature of the catalyst belongs to a high temperature region. The high temperature region is a region having a temperature higher than the low temperature region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke SASAKI, Hiroyoshi UEDA
  • Publication number: 20190226412
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine is configured, where a designated cam switching condition is met, to execute a boost pressure control processing and an air amount control processing. In the boost pressure control processing, the control device controls a boost pressure control device such that a boost pressure control parameter does not increase in synchronization with execution of a cam switching operation and decreases in accordance with an increase of a required engine torque after the execution of the cam switching operation. In the air amount control processing, the control device controls the opening degree of a throttle valve to its closed side in synchronization with the cam switching operation such that a difference of an in-cylinder charge air amount is not produced before and after the execution of the cam switching operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shigehiro Sugihira, Noriyasu Adachi, Keisuke Sasaki, Takayoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 10344638
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine system is provided with a cam switching device including a cam groove provided on the outer peripheral surface or a camshaft and an actuator capable of protruding, toward the camshaft, an engagement pin that is engageable with the cam groove. The internal combustion engine system is configured, in causing the cam switching device to perform a cam switching operation, to control the actuator such that the engagement pin is seated on a forward outer peripheral surface which is located more forward than an end of the cam groove on the forward side with respect to an insert section of the cam groove in the rotational direction of the camshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke Sasaki, Noriyasu Adachi, Shigehiro Sugihira, Takayoshi Kawai, Shinji Sadakane, Hiroyuki Sugihara, Kaoru Ohtsuka
  • Patent number: 10329962
    Abstract: At crank angle CA10 at which the switch request of the drive cam was issued, the ejection operations of the pins at all the solenoid actuators started simultaneously. The ejected pins are seated on the cam carriers at crank angle CA12. The pin seated on the cam carrier moves along the grooves in accordance with the rotation of the cam carrier. The earliest finish timing of the switch operation of the drive cam is at crank angle CA13 (#4 cylinder). At the crank angle CA13, drive of the fuel injector and the ignition device in each cylinder is permitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayoshi Kawai, Noriyasu Adachi, Shigehiro Sugihira, Keisuke Sasaki, Kaoru Otsuka, Shinji Sadakane, Hiroyuki Sugihara
  • Patent number: 10294835
    Abstract: When a stop request to the engine is issued, it is determined whether or not all of the drive cams are large cams. When it is determined that at least one of the small cams is included in the drive cams, the engine is continued to drive for a while and a switch control for switching the drive cams from the small cams to the large cams is executed within the duration. A self-holding type solenoid is used to switch between the small cams and the large cams. In the switch control, a permission to stop the engine is output at a timing when the “pin protrudable section” of the final cylinder #2 has elapsed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaoru Ohtsuka, Hiroyuki Sugihara, Shinji Sadakane, Noriyasu Adachi, Shigehiro Sugihara, Keisuke Sasaki, Takayoshi Kawai
  • Patent number: 10272687
    Abstract: A recording apparatus includes: a center frame that supports a recorder which performs recording on a medium; and at least two side frames positioned with the center frame interposed therebetween. The two side frames include: a first sub-frame to which both of a first feeder and a second feeder that feed a medium are mountable, the second feeder differing from the first feeder in the position from which to feed a medium; and a second sub-frame to which one of the first feeder and the second feeder is mountable. The second sub-frame includes a support portion that supports a power transmission unit which transmits drive power from a motor to the first feeder or the second feeder, the motor being a drive source necessary to feed a medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Keisuke Sasaki, Kazuo Saito
  • Publication number: 20190010887
    Abstract: An electronic control unit of a control device for an internal combustion engine executes, for a first cycle, first drive processing for controlling an actuator such that a pin drive operation is executed for switching from a first cam to a second cam, executes second drive processing for controlling the actuator such that the pin drive operation is executed again for a second cycle, and executes abnormality determination processing for determining that a cam switching mechanism has an abnormality in a case where a pin returns to a reference position by using a pin return section following a cam switching section of the first cycle after the execution of the first drive processing and the pin returns to the reference position by using the pin return section following the cam switching section of the second cycle after the execution of-the second drive processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keisuke SASAKI, Noriyasu ADACHI, Shigehiro SUGIHIRA, Takayoshi KAWAI, Shinji SADAKANE, Kaoru OTSUKA