Patents by Inventor Masanao Idogawa

Masanao Idogawa 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: 20230242091
    Abstract: A controller for a hybrid electric vehicle. The hybrid electric vehicle includes an engine, a motor generator, a clutch arranged between a crankshaft and the motor generator, and a catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage. The controller includes first processing circuitry that executes a catalyst warming process that warms the catalyst under a situation in which the hybrid electric vehicle is at a standstill and second processing circuitry configured to control the clutch and the motor generator. The first processing circuitry requests the second processing circuitry to prohibit disengagement of the clutch when the catalyst warming process is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Hisashi ITO, Takehiro KOMATSU, Masanao IDOGAWA
  • Patent number: 11698018
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine including an upstream cleaning device and a downstream cleaning device that are provided in an exhaust gas passage and a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of exhaust gas between the upstream cleaning device and the downstream cleaning device is provided. The control device includes a first temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a temperature of the downstream cleaning device from the temperature of exhaust gas detected by the temperature sensor and a second temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a temperature of the downstream cleaning device without using the temperature of exhaust gas detected by the temperature sensor. An abnormality determining process for the upstream cleaning device is performed when at least the temperature of the downstream cleaning device estimated by the second temperature estimating unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohichi Imai, Yuya Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Yuki Yabushita
  • Patent number: 11585285
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a rich air-fuel ratio control for performing fuel injection while setting a target equivalence ratio such that, at recovery from a fuel cutoff process, an air-fuel ratio of air-fuel mixture is richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. The controller is configured to execute a target equivalence ratio setting process for setting the target equivalence ratio that is maintained during execution of the rich air-fuel ratio control such that the target equivalence ratio increases as an air excess ratio that is calculated from an output value of a second air-fuel ratio sensor at start of the rich air-fuel ratio control increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takamitsu Mizutani, Yusuke Joh, Masanao Idogawa, Takeshi Genko
  • Publication number: 20220403767
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine including an upstream cleaning device and a downstream cleaning device that are provided in an exhaust gas passage and a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of exhaust gas between the upstream cleaning device and the downstream cleaning device is provided. The control device includes a first temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a temperature of the downstream cleaning device from the temperature of exhaust gas detected by the temperature sensor and a second temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a temperature of the downstream cleaning device without using the temperature of exhaust gas detected by the temperature sensor. An abnormality determining process for the upstream cleaning device is performed when at least the temperature of the downstream cleaning device estimated by the second temperature estimating unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Sohichi IMAI, Yuya YOSHIKAWA, Kazuhiro HASEGAWA, Yoshifumi MATSUDA, Masanao IDOGAWA, Takahiro UCHIDA, Yuki YABUSHITA
  • Patent number: 11512658
    Abstract: An engine device includes: an engine; and a control device that executes a return rich control that controls the engine so that an air-fuel ratio becomes rich over a predetermined period after the engine returns from the fuel cut. When the engine is intermittently stopped during the execution of the return rich control, the return rich control is executed for a period shorter than the predetermined period after the engine is restarted. Thus, when the engine is intermittently stopped during the execution of the return rich control and the engine is restarted thereafter, it is possible to suppress a total period of the return rich control from becoming long. As a result, it is possible to suppress an increase in the amount of hydrocarbons in the exhaust gas and suppress deterioration of emissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji Inoshita, Masanao Idogawa
  • Patent number: 11434837
    Abstract: During execution of a purge, a purge concentration-related value is learned based on an air-fuel ratio deviation that is a deviation of an air-fuel ratio detected by an air-fuel ratio sensor from a required air-fuel ratio. In this case, the purge concentration-related value is updated using an update amount with a smaller absolute value when the purge is a second purge of supplying evaporated fuel gas to an intake pipe through a second purge passage than when the purge is a first purge of supplying the evaporated fuel gas to the intake pipe through a first purge passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Masahiro Kachi, Reiko Goh, Hirokatsu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11421612
    Abstract: When first switching of switching from a first purge of supplying evaporated fuel gas to an intake pipe through a first purge passage to a second purge of supplying the evaporated fuel gas to the intake pipe through a second purge passage occurs and then second switching of switching from the second purge to the first purge occurs, a purge concentration-related value is corrected to a value closer to a first stored value that is the purge concentration-related value immediately before the first switching than to a second stored value that is the purge concentration-related value immediately before the second switching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Masahiro Kachi, Reiko Goh, Hirokatsu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11401885
    Abstract: An engine unit includes an engine including a cylinder injection valve that sprays fuel into a combustion chamber and an ignition plug that is able to ignite fuel sprayed from the cylinder injection valve. When expansion stroke injection drive of performing final fuel injection from the cylinder injection valve in an expansion stroke and igniting the fuel using the ignition plug in synchronization with the fuel injection in the expansion stroke is performed, upper and lower limits of an ignition timing are guarded such that the ignition timing is in a predetermined range centered on a final fuel injection start timing at a final determination timing of the ignition timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masatomo Yoshihara, Taejin Yoon, Naoki Hayashima, Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida
  • Patent number: 11391222
    Abstract: A control system includes a controller. The controller acquires a crank counter value each time a fixed time elapses. The controller calculates the number of the crank counter values corresponding to the top dead center of the plunger between a previously acquired crank counter value and a currently acquired crank counter value with reference to the map each time the crank counter value is acquired and calculate the number of driving times of the high pressure fuel pump by integrating the calculated number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiki Kato, Ryusuke Kuroda, Masanao Idogawa
  • Patent number: 11371443
    Abstract: A control system includes a controller. The controller counts the number of driving times of the high pressure fuel pump, which is the number of the reciprocating motions of the plunger based on a crank counter that is counted up at every predetermined crank angle. The controller stores a map in which a top dead center of the plunger is associated with a crank counter value, and store a crank counter value while an engine is stopped as a stop-time counter value. The controller calculates, referring to the map, the number of the crank counter values corresponding to the top dead center of the plunger between a crank counter value and the stop-time counter value, and set a calculated number as the number of driving times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Daiki Kato, Ryusuke Kuroda, Masanao Idogawa
  • Patent number: 11365701
    Abstract: An engine device includes an engine including an in-cylinder injection valve and a spark plug, an exhaust gas control device, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a last fuel injection from the in-cylinder injection valve in an expansion stroke and to set a fuel injection amount for the last fuel injection in expansion stroke injection driving, based on a coolant start temperature, post-start time, and volumetric efficiency. The expansion stroke injection driving is a control that is performed by performing the ignition by the spark plug in synchronization with the fuel injection in the expansion stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Koji Ichikawa, Hiroaki Mizoguchi, Takuya Okubo, Sohichi Imai, Hirokazu Andoh
  • Patent number: 11359573
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine capable of performing additional injection in addition to regular injection includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to calculate an ignition timing at a predetermined crank angle before a compression top dead center. The electronic control unit is configured to calculate an injection amount of fuel at a predetermined time interval and to calculate an injection amount of the fuel at the predetermined crank angle. The electronic control unit is configured to control the fuel injection valve such that the fuel injection valve additionally injects the fuel in an increase amount before ignition, when the injection amount calculated at the predetermined crank angle is increased due to retardation of the ignition tinting calculated after the fuel in the injection amount calculated at the predetermined time interval is regularly injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryota Iwasaki, Masanao Idogawa, Ryusuke Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20220178321
    Abstract: An engine device includes: an engine; and a control device that executes a return rich control that controls the engine so that an air-fuel ratio becomes rich over a predetermined period after the engine returns from the fuel cut. When the engine is intermittently stopped during the execution of the return rich control, the return rich control is executed for a period shorter than the predetermined period after the engine is restarted. Thus, when the engine is intermittently stopped during the execution of the return rich control and the engine is restarted thereafter, it is possible to suppress a total period of the return rich control from becoming long. As a result, it is possible to suppress an increase in the amount of hydrocarbons in the exhaust gas and suppress deterioration of emissions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kenji INOSHITA, Masanao IDOGAWA
  • Patent number: 11346296
    Abstract: Fuel injection control of an engine is executed by setting a required injection amount and an air-fuel ratio correction amount. When setting conditions are met, the air-fuel ratio correction amount is set for a corresponding region to which a current intake air amount or load ratio belongs among a plurality of regions into which the range of the intake air amount or the load ratio is divided such that a region of a larger intake air amount or a higher load ratio becomes wider than a region of a smaller intake air amount or a lower load ratio. When purge conditions are met, a purge control valve is controlled such that purge of supplying an evaporated fuel gas to an intake pipe is executed based on a required purge ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Masahiro Kachi, Reiko Goh, Hirokatsu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11313314
    Abstract: A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine is provided. The internal combustion engine includes a port injection valve that injects fuel into an intake-air port, and a cylinder injection valve that injects fuel into a cylinder. The control apparatus includes an electronic control unit that controls the port injection valve and the cylinder injection valve such that when returning from a fuel cut, a value of a port increase amount correction, which is a fuel increase amount correction in which a fuel amount is decreased with a lapse of time during a port injection, differs from a value of a cylinder increase amount correction, which is a fuel increase amount correction in which a fuel amount is decreased with a lapse of time during a cylinder injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiromitsu Seo, Masatomo Yoshihara, Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Motohiro Sugimoto
  • Patent number: 11313313
    Abstract: When a rotational speed of an engine is higher than a predetermined rotational speed, a low-pressure fuel injection valve is controlled through the use of a fuel injection time based on an estimated fuel pressure in a low pressure supply pipe and a target fuel injection amount. When the rotational speed of the engine is equal to or lower than the predetermined rotational speed, the low-pressure fuel injection valve is controlled through the use of a fuel injection time based on a detected fuel pressure input from the fuel pressure sensor from the issuance of a command to activate energization of a solenoid to the start of energization of the solenoid and a target fuel injection amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masanao Idogawa, Satoshi Yoshizaki, Manami Yasunaga, Eiichiroh Kido
  • Patent number: 11286869
    Abstract: When a predetermined condition is satisfied, a flow rate ratio of a first passage flow rate to a second passage flow rate is estimated based on a throttle post pressure being a pressure on a downstream side of an intake pipe with respect to a throttle valve and an ejector pressure being a pressure of a suction port of an ejector. The first passage flow rate is a flow rate of an evaporated fuel gas flowing in a first purge passage. The second passage flow rate is a flow rate of the evaporated fuel gas flowing in a second purge passage. The first passage flow rate and the second passage flow rate are estimated based on the flow rate ratio and a valve passing flow rate being a flow rate of the evaporated fuel gas that passes through a purge control value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Masahiro Kachi, Reiko Goh, Hirokatsu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11286870
    Abstract: A catalyst having an oxygen storage capacity is provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine. A catalyst temperature calculating device calculates an oxygen storage amount of the catalyst to a value greater than or equal to zero and less than or equal to than a maximum value based on an amount of oxygen and an amount of unburned fuel components in a fluid flowing into the catalyst. A temperature calculation process calculates a temperature of the catalyst assuming that an amount of temperature rise of the catalyst is larger when an increase amount of the oxygen storage amount is large than when the increase amount of the oxygen storage amount is small in a case where the oxygen storage amount increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohichi Imai, Shigeki Nakayama, Masanao Idogawa, Daigo Ando
  • Publication number: 20220049670
    Abstract: When a rotational speed of an engine is higher than a predetermined rotational speed, a low-pressure fuel injection valve is controlled through the use of a fuel injection time based on an estimated fuel pressure in a low pressure supply pipe and a target fuel injection amount. When the rotational speed of the engine is equal to or lower than the predetermined rotational speed, the low-pressure fuel injection valve is controlled through the use of a fuel injection time based on a detected fuel pressure input from the fuel pressure sensor from the issuance of a command to activate energization of a solenoid to the start of energization of the solenoid and a target fuel injection amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao IDOGAWA, Satoshi YOSHIZAKI, Manami YASUNAGA, Eiichiroh KIDO
  • Patent number: 11248570
    Abstract: An engine apparatus includes an engine, a supercharger, an evaporated fuel treatment device, a controller and the engine apparatus is configured to determine a purge classification whether the evaporated fuel is a first purge in which the evaporated fuel flows dominantly in a first purge passage or a second purge in which the evaporated fuel flows dominantly in a second purge passage based on a relative ejector pressure that is a pressure of a suction port of the ejector and a value obtained by adding an offset amount based on a cross-sectional area of the second purge passage with respect to a cross-sectional area of the first purge passage to a pressure behind a throttle valve that is the pressure on a downstream side of the throttle valve of the intake pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Masahiro Kachi, Reiko Goh, Hirokatsu Yamamoto