Patents by Inventor Kouji Sakumoto

Kouji Sakumoto 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: 10774707
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a NOx sensor purification instructions for a NOx sensor causes: an on-vehicle electronic computer mounted in the vehicle, when it comes to a predetermined purification time, to execute a start procedure to send a start command to perform a purification control to the control unit; and control unit, in response to the start command, to execute a purification procedure to perform the purification control which causes the current flowing in the reference pump cell from the reference pump current to be a purification pump current, which is set to a current value larger than the reference pump current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouji Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 10724463
    Abstract: A process of causing an engine (10) to perform high-temperature exhaust driving (D1) after urea water from an urea water injection valve (33) is not supplied to an SCR catalyst (34), and a process of causing the engine (10) to perform high-flow-rate exhaust driving (D2) after a flow rate of exhaust gas from a cylinder interior (13) is not reduced are performed on an ECU (40). A process of determining deterioration or malfunction of upstream and downstream NOx sensors (47 and 48) based on detected values (Ca and Cb) acquired when the engine speed (Na) reaches a determination speed (Nx) is performed on a vehicle external computer (52).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Kouji Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 10202882
    Abstract: A fault diagnosis device for an exhaust pipe fuel injector that diagnoses a normality or an abnormality of the exhaust pipe fuel injector which injects a fuel according to an instructed fuel injection amount, includes: a storage unit which stores a regeneration duration and an instructed fuel injection amount in the regeneration duration; a calculation unit which calculates an instructed fuel injection amount per unit time in the regeneration duration; and a fault diagnosis unit which diagnoses that the exhaust pipe fuel injector is abnormal when the instructed fuel injection amount per unit time in the regeneration duration exceeds a fault threshold, and diagnoses that the exhaust pipe fuel injector is normal when the instructed fuel injection amount per unit time in the regeneration duration does not exceed the fault threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Toshio Ichimasa, Yukihiro Kawashima, Tomoya Kaji, Kouji Sakumoto, Shunya Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20180179978
    Abstract: A process of causing an engine (10) to perform high-temperature exhaust driving (D1) after urea water from an urea water injection valve (33) is not supplied to an SCR catalyst (34), and a process of causing the engine (10) to perform high-flow-rate exhaust driving (D2) after a flow rate of exhaust gas from a cylinder interior (13) is not reduced are performed on an ECU (40). A process of determining deterioration or malfunction of upstream and downstream NOx sensors (47 and 48) based on detected values (Ca and Cb) acquired when the engine speed (Na) reaches a determination speed (Nx) is performed on a vehicle external computer (52).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventor: Kouji SAKUMOTO
  • Patent number: 9943806
    Abstract: The exhaust gas purification system includes a SCR, an NOx sensor which is provided on a downstream side of the SCR, and an NOx purifying controller which controls an amount of urea water being ejected to the SCR and performs an abnormality diagnosis based on a detection value of the NOx sensor, wherein the exhaust gas purification system includes an exhaust gas temperature sensor which acquires temperature of the exhaust gas flowing into the SCR, a temperature increasing rate calculating unit which calculates a temperature increasing rate at which the exhaust gas temperature acquired by the exhaust gas temperature sensor reaches a second temperature from a predetermined first temperature, and a prohibiting unit which prohibits abnormality diagnosis by the NOx purifying controller in a case in which the temperature increasing rate calculated by the temperature increasing rate calculating unit is higher than a predetermined determination threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanobu Minezawa, Kouji Sakumoto, Shinji Hara
  • Publication number: 20170342881
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a NOx sensor purification instructions for a NOx sensor causes: an on-vehicle electronic computer mounted in the vehicle, when it comes to a predetermined purification time, to execute a start procedure to send a start command to perform a purification control to the control unit; and control unit, in response to the start command, to execute a purification procedure to perform the purification control which causes the current flowing in the reference pump cell from the reference pump current to be a purification pump current, which is set to a current value larger than the reference pump current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventor: Kouji SAKUMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170328258
    Abstract: A fault diagnosis device for an exhaust pipe fuel injector that diagnoses a normality or an abnormality of the exhaust pipe fuel injector which injects a fuel according to an instructed fuel injection amount, includes: a storage unit which stores a regeneration duration and an instructed fuel injection amount in the regeneration duration; a calculation unit which calculates an instructed fuel injection amount per unit time in the regeneration duration; and a fault diagnosis unit which diagnoses that the exhaust pipe fuel injector is abnormal when the instructed fuel injection amount per unit time in the regeneration duration exceeds a fault threshold, and diagnoses that the exhaust pipe fuel injector is normal when the instructed fuel injection amount per unit time in the regeneration duration does not exceed the fault threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2015
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Toshio ICHIMASA, Yukihiro KAWASHIMA, Tomoya KAJI, Kouji SAKUMOTO, Shunya MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20170043295
    Abstract: The exhaust gas purification system includes a SCR, an NOx sensor which is provided on a downstream side of the SCR, and an NOx purifying controller which controls an amount of urea water being ejected to the SCR and performs an abnormality diagnosis based on a detection value of the NOx sensor, wherein the exhaust gas purification system includes an exhaust gas temperature sensor which acquires temperature of the exhaust gas flowing into the SCR, a temperature increasing rate calculating unit which calculates a temperature increasing rate at which the exhaust gas temperature acquired by the exhaust gas temperature sensor reaches a second temperature from a predetermined first temperature, and a prohibiting unit which prohibits abnormality diagnosis by the NOx purifying controller in a case in which the temperature increasing rate calculated by the temperature increasing rate calculating unit is higher than a predetermined determination threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Masanobu MINEZAWA, Kouji SAKUMOTO, Shinji HARA
  • Patent number: 8109091
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation control system comprises a pressure condition evaluation module and a protection module. The pressure condition evaluation module evaluates at least one of vane movement of a turbocharger and engine pressure. The protection module selectively controls an exhaust gas recirculation valve based on the at least one of the vane movement of the turbocharger and the engine pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Inventors: Yun Xiao, Kouji Sakumoto
  • Publication number: 20090288413
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation control system comprises a pressure condition evaluation module and a protection module. The pressure condition evaluation module evaluates at least one of vane movement of a turbocharger and engine pressure. The protection module selectively controls an exhaust gas recirculation valve based on the at least one of the vane movement of the turbocharger and the engine pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 26, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yun Xiao, Kouji Sakumoto
  • Patent number: 7546761
    Abstract: A temperature sensor rationality control system for an exhaust treatment system having an oxidation catalyst includes an oxidation catalyst inlet temperature sensor that generates an inlet temperature signal and an oxidation catalyst outlet temperature sensor that generates an outlet temperature signal. A control module determines whether a difference based on the inlet temperature signal and the outlet temperature signal is below a difference threshold when an exhaust temperature is within a threshold range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2009
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Chuan He, Richard B. Jess, Jay Tolsma, GuoJun Shi, Jose L. DeLeon, Kouji Sakumoto
  • Publication number: 20080083271
    Abstract: A temperature sensor rationality control system for an exhaust treatment system having an oxidation catalyst includes an oxidation catalyst inlet temperature sensor that generates an inlet temperature signal and an oxidation catalyst outlet temperature sensor that generates an outlet temperature signal. A control module determines whether a difference based on the inlet temperature signal and the outlet temperature signal is below a difference threshold when an exhaust temperature is within a threshold range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: April 10, 2008
    Inventors: Chuan He, Richard B. Jess, Jay Tolsma, GuoJun Shi, Jose L. DeLeon, Kouji Sakumoto