Patents by Inventor Koutarou Hayashi

Koutarou Hayashi 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: 9038372
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, inside an engine exhaust passage, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) and an exhaust purification catalyst (13) are arranged. The carrier (50) of the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is formed from a crystallized composite oxide of aluminum and an alkali earth metal. On this carrier (50), precious metal catalysts (51, 52) are carried. The concentration of hydrocarbons which flow into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is made to vibrate by within a predetermined range of amplitude of a 200 ppm or more and within a predetermined range of period of 5 second or less, whereby the NOx which is contained in exhaust gas is reduced at the exhaust purification catalyst (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Watanabe, Koutarou Hayashi, Kohei Yoshida, Yuki Bisaiji, Kazuhiro Umemoto
  • Patent number: 9034267
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, inside of an engine exhaust passage, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) and an exhaust purification catalyst (13) are arranged. The exhaust purification catalyst (13) is comprised of a mixture of a first catalyst in which platinum (51) and a basic layer (52) are carried on alumina (50) and a second catalyst in which rhodium (56) is carried on zirconia (55). The concentration of hydrocarbons which flow into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is made to vibrate by within a predetermined range of amplitude of a 200 ppm or more and within a predetermined range of period of 5 second or less, whereby the NOx which is contained in exhaust gas is reduced at the exhaust purification catalyst (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masao Watanabe, Koutarou Hayashi, Kohei Yoshida, Yuki Bisaiji, Kazuhiro Umemoto
  • Publication number: 20130183203
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, inside of an engine exhaust passage, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) and an exhaust purification catalyst (13) are arranged. The exhaust purification catalyst (13) is comprised of a mixture of a first catalyst in which platinum (51) and a basic layer (52) are carried on alumina (50) and a second catalyst in which rhodium (56) is carried on zirconia (55). The concentration of hydrocarbons which flow into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is made to vibrate by within a predetermined range of amplitude of a 200 ppm or more and within a predetermined range of period of 5 second or less, whereby the NOx which is contained in exhaust gas is reduced at the exhaust purification catalyst (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Watanabe, Koutarou Hayashi, Kohei Yoshida, Yuki Bisaiji, Kazuhiro Umemoto
  • Publication number: 20130183202
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, inside an engine exhaust passage, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) and an exhaust purification catalyst (13) are arranged. The carrier (50) of the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is formed from a crystallized composite oxide of aluminum and an alkali earth metal. On this carrier (50), precious metal catalysts (51, 52) are carried. The concentration of hydrocarbons which flow into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is made to vibrate by within a predetermined range of amplitude of a 200 ppm or more and within a predetermined range of period of 5 second or less, whereby the NOx which is contained in exhaust gas is reduced at the exhaust purification catalyst (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 18, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Watanabe, Koutarou Hayashi, Kohei Yoshida, Yuki Bisaiji, Kazuhiro Umemoto
  • Publication number: 20100307133
    Abstract: An exhaust gas control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a NOx adsorbent that is provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, and that adsorbs nitrogen monoxide; an active oxygen supply device that supplies active oxygen to an area upstream of the NOx adsorbent; and a control portion that performs a first control that does not cause the active oxygen supply device to supply the active oxygen while exhaust gas flows to the NOx adsorbent at a time of cold start of the internal combustion engine, whereby the nitrogen monoxide is adsorbed by the NOx adsorbent, wherein the control portion performs a second control that causes the active oxygen supply device to supply the active oxygen after the first control is finished, whereby the nitrogen monoxide adsorbed by the NOx adsorbent is converted to a nitrate or a nitrate ion on the NOx adsorbent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 9, 2010
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masao Watanabe, Koutarou Hayashi, Youhei Kinoshita, Rui Imoto