Patents by Inventor Kenichiro Ikeya
Kenichiro Ikeya 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: 10907573Abstract: Provided is a thermally insulated insert member and an engine having the thermally insulated insert member. Thermally insulated insert member is disposed in an intake port of a cylinder head of the engine. The thermally insulated insert member includes a guide member that guides a flow of intake air flowing in t he intake port; and a thermally insulative support member with a shape that can be fitted within the intake port. The guide member is formed of a metal and is supported in the intake port via the thermally insulative support member.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Ikeya, Satoshi Yamamura
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Publication number: 20200049059Abstract: Provided is a thermally insulated insert member and an engine having the thermally insulated insert member. Thermally insulated insert member is disposed in an intake port of a cylinder head of the engine. The thermally insulated insert member includes a guide member that guides a flow of intake air flowing in t he intake port; and a thermally insulative support member with a shape that can be fitted within the intake port. The guide member is formed of a metal and is supported in the intake port via the thermally insulative support member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2017Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Kenichiro IKEYA, Satoshi YAMAMURA
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Publication number: 20190301410Abstract: An intake port structure has a sleeve disposed along an inner peripheral surface of an intake port of a cylinder head and made of a material having a thermal conductivity lower than a material of the cylinder head. When a cross-sectional area of an intake passage on an upstream side in an vicinity of a mating surface between the cylinder head and the intake passage toward the cylinder head is defined as a mating surface upstream area, and an intake port cross-sectional area of the intake port, which excludes the sleeve, on a downstream side in the vicinity is defined as a mating surface downstream area, the mating surface downstream area is greater than the mating surface upstream area, and the intake port cross-sectional area at a place where the sleeve is disposed in the intake port is gradually reduced from the mating surface toward a combustion chamber side.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2019Publication date: October 3, 2019Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.Inventor: Kenichiro IKEYA
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Patent number: 10260462Abstract: In an intake device for an internal combustion engine, a difference in the air-fuel ratio between the cylinders is reduced without increasing the lengths of the branch passages. An intake device (23) for an internal combustion engine (1) having at least three cylinders (3) includes: an intake chamber (30) configured to be connected with an air inlet (16); and multiple branch passages (31) connected at upstream ends (41) thereof to the intake chamber and connected at downstream ends thereof to intake ports (6) communicating with the cylinders, respectively, wherein the upstream ends of the branch passages are arranged in a direction of rotation about a predetermined center line X in a same order as an order of ignition of the cylinders.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichiro Ikeya, Naohiro Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20170122271Abstract: In an intake device for an internal combustion engine, a difference in the air-fuel ratio between the cylinders is reduced without increasing the lengths of the branch passages. An intake device (23) for an internal combustion engine (1) having at least three cylinders (3) includes: an intake chamber (30) configured to be connected with an air inlet (16); and multiple branch passages (31) connected at upstream ends (41) thereof to the intake chamber and connected at downstream ends thereof to intake ports (6) communicating with the cylinders, respectively, wherein the upstream ends of the branch passages are arranged in a direction of rotation about a predetermined center line X in a same order as an order of ignition of the cylinders.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Kenichiro Ikeya, Naohiro Ishikawa
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Patent number: 8714136Abstract: In a direct fuel-injection engine equipped with a pentroof-shaped piston, cross-sectional shapes containing a piston central axis (Lp) of a cavity recessed in a central part of the piston having a top face with the height varying in the circumferential direction are set so as to be basically identical at each position in the circumferential direction (see broken line).Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichiro Ikeya, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Hiroshi Sono, Yukihisa Yamaya, Akihiro Yamaguchi, Yoshimasa Kaneko, Goichi Katayama, Yutaka Tajima
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Patent number: 8627798Abstract: A direct fuel-injection engine includes a piston, a cavity recessed in a central part of a top face of the piston, and a fuel injector. At a main injection collision point of a fuel-injection axis when main injection is performed while the piston is near top dead center, a main injection collision angle formed between its tangent and the fuel-injection axis is set at an obtuse angle. Fuel colliding with the main injection collision point is deflected towards a cavity open end side. At a secondary injection collision point of the fuel-injection axis when performing secondary injection with the piston is further from top dead center, a secondary injection collision angle formed between its tangent and the fuel-injection axis is set at one of a right angle and an acute angle. Fuel colliding with the secondary injection collision point is deflected primarily in the circumferential direction of the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2009Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akihiro Yamaguchi, Yoshimasa Kaneko, Yukihisa Yamaya, Yutaka Tajima, Kenichiro Ikeya, Goichi Katayama, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Hiroshi Sono
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Patent number: 8474431Abstract: In a cross section in which squish flow from an outer peripheral part of a piston (13) toward a cavity (25) is large due to a width (W2) of a squish area (SA) being large and a squish clearance (C2) being small, a collision angle (?2) at which a fuel injection axis (Li2) collides with the cavity (25) is made large, whereas in a cross section in which squish flow is small due to the width of the squish area (SA) being small and the squish clearance being large, the collision angle at which a fuel injection axis collides with the cavity (25) is made small. This enables a tendency for fuel to flow out to the exterior of the cavity (25) in a cross section where the squish flow is small to be weakened, and a tendency for fuel to flow out to the exterior of the cavity (25) in a cross section where the squish flow is large to be strengthened, thereby making the conditions in which fuel and air are mixed uniform throughout the entire region of the cavity (25).Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Sono, Tatsuya Uchimoto, Yukihisa Yamaya, Kenichiro Ikeya, Yutaka Tajima, Mitsuhiro Shibata, Nobuhiko Sasaki
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Patent number: 8056532Abstract: In a direct fuel injection diesel engine having a piston with a pentroof-shaped top face, with regard to a pentroof-shaped piston (13) with a cavity (25) recessed in a central part of the top face, a radial width S of a squish area (26) formed between an outer peripheral part of the top face and a lower face of a cylinder head (14) changes in the circumferential direction of the piston (13). By setting a squish clearance H large for a portion where the radial width S of the squish area (26) is large and setting the squish clearance H small for a portion where the radial width S of the squish area (26) is small, more specifically, by setting S/H so that it is constant in the circumferential direction, it is possible to make the strength of the squish flow uniform in the circumferential direction of the piston, thus promoting the mixing of air and fuel and reducing harmful exhaust components.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2007Date of Patent: November 15, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Shibata, Hiroshi Sono, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Tatsuya Uchimoto, Kenichiro Ikeya, Yutaka Tajima, Yukihisa Yamaya
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Patent number: 7992536Abstract: In a direct fuel injection diesel engine equipped with a pentroof-shaped piston, when fuel is injected into a cavity (25) recessed in a central part of a piston (13), for which the height of a top face changes in the circumferential direction, from a fuel injection point (Oinj) of a fuel injector disposed on a piston central axis along a plurality of fuel injection axes (Li1,Li2), if a cross-section of the cavity (25) passing along the fuel injection axis (Li1,Li2) is defined as a fuel injection cross-section (Sn), a cross-sectional shape (see shaded portion) of the cavity (25) defined by first to third specific points (An, Bn, Cn) on the fuel injection cross-section (Sn) is set so as to be substantially equal for each fuel injection cross-section (Sn). By so doing, the conditions in which fuel and air are mixed in each fuel injection cross-section (Sn) can be made uniform, the engine output can be improved, and harmful exhaust substances can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2007Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Kenichiro Ikeya, Yukihisa Yamaya, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Tatsuya Uchimoto, Yutaka Tajima, Mitsuhiro Shibata, Hiroshi Sono
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Patent number: 7861685Abstract: In a direct fuel injection diesel engine equipped with a pentroof-shaped piston, a collision angle (?) at which fuel injected in a direction in which the height of the top face of a piston (13) is high collides with a cavity (25) is set larger than a collision angle (?) at which fuel injected in a direction in which the height of the top face of the piston (13) is low collides with the cavity (25).Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2007Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiroshi Sono, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Tatsuya Uchimoto, Kenichiro Ikeya, Yutaka Tajima, Mitsuhiro Shibata, Yukihisa Yamaya
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Publication number: 20100258078Abstract: In a direct fuel-injection engine equipped with a pentroof-shaped piston, cross-sectional shapes containing a piston central axis (Lp) of a cavity recessed in a central part of the piston having a top face with the height varying in the circumferential direction are set so as to be basically identical at each position in the circumferential direction (see broken line).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2008Publication date: October 14, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Ikeya, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Hiroshi Sono, Yukihisa Yamaya, Akihiro Yamaguchi, Yoshimasa Kaneko, Goichi Katayama, Yutaka Tajima
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Publication number: 20100186709Abstract: In a direct fuel injection diesel engine equipped with a pentroof-shaped piston, when fuel is injected into a cavity (25) recessed in a central part of a piston (13), for which the height of a top face changes in the circumferential direction, from a fuel injection point (Oinj) of a fuel injector disposed on a piston central axis along a plurality of fuel injection axes (Li1,Li2), if a cross-section of the cavity (25) passing along the fuel injection axis (Li1,Li2) is defined as a fuel injection cross-section (Sn), a cross-sectional shape (see shaded portion) of the cavity (25) defined by first to third specific points (An, Bn, Cn) on the fuel injection cross-section (Sn) is set so as to be substantially equal for each fuel injection cross-section (Sn). By so doing, the conditions in which fuel and air are mixed in each fuel injection cross-section (Sn) can be made uniform, the engine output can be improved, and harmful exhaust substances can be reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2007Publication date: July 29, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kenichiro Ikeya, Yukihisa Yamaya, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Tatsuya Uchimoto, Yutaka Tajima, Mitsuhiro Shibata, Hiroshi Sono
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Publication number: 20100147260Abstract: A direct fuel-injection engine includes a piston, a cavity recessed in a central part of a top face of the piston, and a fuel injector. At a main injection collision point of a fuel-injection axis when main injection is performed while the piston is near top dead center, a main injection collision angle formed between its tangent and the fuel-injection axis is set at an obtuse angle. Fuel colliding with the main injection collision point is deflected towards a cavity open end side. At a secondary injection collision point of the fuel-injection axis when performing secondary injection with the piston is further from top dead center, a secondary injection collision angle formed between its tangent and the fuel-injection axis is set at one of a right angle and an acute angle. Fuel colliding with the secondary injection collision point is deflected primarily in the circumferential direction of the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2009Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Akihiro YAMAGUCHI, Yoshimasa KANEKO, Yukihisa YAMAYA, Yutaka TAJIMA, Kenichiro IKEYA, Goichi KATAYAMA, Nobuhiko SASAKI, Hiroshi SONO
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Publication number: 20100108022Abstract: In a cross section in which squish flow from an outer peripheral part of a piston (13) toward a cavity (25) is large due to a width (W2) of a squish area (SA) being large and a squish clearance (C2) being small, a collision angle (?2) at which a fuel injection axis (Li2) collides with the cavity (25) is made large, whereas in a cross section in which squish flow is small due to the width of the squish area (SA) being small and the squish clearance being large, the collision angle at which a fuel injection axis collides with the cavity (25) is made small. This enables a tendency for fuel to flow out to the exterior of the cavity (25) in a cross section where the squish flow is small to be weakened, and a tendency for fuel to flow out to the exterior of the cavity (25) in a cross section where the squish flow is large to be strengthened, thereby making the conditions in which fuel and air are mixed uniform throughout the entire region of the cavity (25).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Inventors: Hiroshi Sono, Tatsuya Uchimoto, Yukihisa Yamaya, Kenichiro Ikeya, Yutaka Tajima, Mitsuhiro Shibata, Nobuhiko Sasaki
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Publication number: 20100006061Abstract: In a direct fuel injection diesel engine having a piston with a pentroof-shaped top face, with regard to a pentroof-shaped piston (13) with a cavity (25) recessed in a central part of the top face, a radial width S of a squish area (26) formed between an outer peripheral part of the top face and a lower face of a cylinder head (14) changes in the circumferential direction of the piston (13). By setting a squish clearance H large for a portion where the radial width S of the squish area (26) is large and setting the squish clearance H small for a portion where the radial width S of the squish area (26) is small, more specifically, by setting S/H so that it is constant in the circumferential direction, it is possible to make the strength of the squish flow uniform in the circumferential direction of the piston, thus promoting the mixing of air and fuel and reducing harmful exhaust components.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2007Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mitsuhiro Shibata, Hiroshi Sono, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Tatsuya Uchimoto, Kenichiro Ikeya, Yutaka Tajima, Yukihisa Yamaya
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Publication number: 20090314253Abstract: In a direct fuel injection diesel engine equipped with a pentroof-shaped piston, a collision angle (?) at which fuel injected in a direction in which the height of the top face of a piston (13) is high collides with a cavity (25) is set larger than a collision angle (?) at which fuel injected in a direction in which the height of the top face of the piston (13) is low collides with the cavity (25).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2007Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTDInventors: Hiroshi Sono, Nobuhiko Sasaki, Tatsuya Uchimoto, Kenichiro Ikeya, Yutaka Tajima, Mitsuhiro Shibata, Yukihisa Yamaya