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: 20200070830
    Abstract: A vehicle control system including a plurality of systems configured to control a plurality of different functions, respectively, of a vehicle, and the plurality of systems each include: a plurality of input sections; an input adjustment section configured to adjust one or more requests, inputted through the plurality of input sections, for controlling a predetermined vehicle function; a plurality of output sections associated with the vehicle function; and a management section configured to manage operations of the plurality of output sections, based on a request adjusted by the input adjustment section. The management sections each have a communication function that allows information that is associated with management based on at least the adjusted request to be transmitted to and received from each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kaiji ITABASHI, Katsumi KONO, Tetsuya TAIRA, Shunsuke FUJISHIMA, Masanao IDOGAWA, Noritake MITSUTANI, Yoshihisa YAMADA, Hiroki NAKANO, Takashi YANAI, Ryo ITO
  • Patent number: 10578047
    Abstract: A controller for controlling an internal combustion engine includes an injection amount calculation portion that calculates a base injection amount, an injection amount correction portion that corrects the base injection amount to calculate first and second corrected injection amounts, and an injection count determination portion that determines first and second fuel injection counts, which are respectively a number of times fuel is injected from first and second fuel injection valves. When the first and second corrected injection amounts are respectively calculated using the same base injection amount, the injection count determination portion sets the first fuel injection count corresponding to the first corrected injection amount to be equal to the second fuel injection count corresponding to the second corrected injection amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohichi Imai, Masanao Idogawa
  • Publication number: 20200049097
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to execute an estimation process that estimates a density parameter of fuel in an upper layer portion of a delivery pipe and a density parameter of fuel in a lower layer portion of the delivery pipe and an operation process that includes acquiring a density parameter of the fuel injected from a fuel injection valve and operating an operation unit of the internal combustion engine based on the acquired density parameter. The estimation process includes a process that assumes that when the density of the fuel flowing into the delivery pipe is high, a greater proportion of the fuel flowing into the delivery pipe flows into the lower layer portion than when the density of the fuel flowing into the delivery pipe is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryusuke KURODA, Masahiro OZEKI, Masanao IDOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200049090
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine of a spark ignition type is provided. When stopping combustion in a cylinder in a situation in which a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine is rotating, one of a fuel cut process and a fuel feeding process is selectively executed. When combustion is resumed in the cylinder in which the combustion has been stopped, an enrichment process is executed to control a fuel injection valve so that an air-fuel ratio is set to be richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. When the enrichment process is executed, a decrease amount of an oxygen storage amount of the three-way catalyst corresponding to the enrichment process is set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryusuke KURODA, Masanao IDOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200049085
    Abstract: A controller for a vehicle includes a combustion stoppage period processor and a combustion period processor. The combustion stoppage period processor is configured to selectively execute one of a fuel cut process or a fuel feeding process when stopping combustion in the cylinder in a situation in which a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine is rotating. The combustion period processor is configured to execute an increase process that increases flow speed of exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe when the fuel feeding process is executed while combustion is stopped in the cylinder and then combustion is resumed in the cylinder in which the combustion has been stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryusuke KURODA, Masanao IDOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20200049046
    Abstract: A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit configured to i) perform a fuel introduction process, ii) calculate a total injection amount in the fuel introduction process, and control each of fuel injection valves based on a required injection amount per cylinder when the fuel introduction process is performed, and iii) perform a cylinder deactivation process for stopping fuel from being injected for one or some of cylinders, and controlling each of the fuel injection valves such that an amount of the fuel obtained by dividing the total injection amount is injected for a cylinder or cylinders other than the one or some of the cylinders for which the fuel is stopped from being injected, when the fuel introduction process is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ryusuke KURODA, Masanao IDOGAWA
  • Patent number: 10487769
    Abstract: A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a low pressure fuel pump, a low pressure fuel passage, a high pressure fuel pump, a high pressure fuel passage, a fuel injection valve, a high pressure controller, and a low pressure controller. The low pressure controller calculates a feedforward correction amount that increases as a request injection amount of the fuel injection valve increases and an increase rate of the high pressure target value increases when a high pressure target value increases. The low pressure controller calculates a feedback correction amount based on a low-side pressure deviation when the high pressure target value increases. The low pressure controller controls driving of the low pressure fuel pump based on a sum of the feedforward correction amount and the feedback correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohichi Imai, Motohiro Sugimoto, Masanao Idogawa
  • Publication number: 20190353116
    Abstract: A port injection valve injects fuel into an intake passage. An intake synchronous injection is to inject fuel in synchronization with an opening period of an intake valve. A single injection process is to execute only an intake air non-synchronous injection. A majority of a fuel injection period of the single injection process is prior to the opening timing of the intake valve. A controller causes, when switching a fuel injection process from the single injection process to a multiple injection process, an injection start timing of the intake air non-synchronous injection to be more advanced than an injection start timing of the single injection process prior to the switching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke TAKATA, Masanori TOYA, Masanao IDOGAWA
  • Patent number: 10450993
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device is applied to an internal combustion engine that includes a port injection valve and a direct injection valve. The fuel injection control device includes a port warm-up judgment section, which judges whether the intake port has been warmed up, and an injection mode determination section, which determines the injection mode based on the engine speed and a predicted load rate. When determining the injection mode at the cold operation of the internal combustion engine, the injection mode determination section sets the range of the operation region of the internal combustion engine in which the direct-injection-only mode is selected as the injection mode to be broader in a case in which the port warm-up judgment section has judged that the port has not been warmed up than in a case in which the port warm-up judgment section has judged that the port has been warmed up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinori Kitazume, Masanao Idogawa
  • Publication number: 20190316535
    Abstract: An electronic control unit performs a cylinder-by-cylinder correction of a fuel injection amount to cause differences among air-fuel ratios of air-fuel mixture burned in multiple cylinders. In a case in which the cylinder-by-cylinder correction of the fuel injection amount results in a cylinder in which combustion is performed at an air-fuel ratio richer than an output air-fuel ratio, the output air-fuel ratio being an air-fuel ratio at which combustion torque is maximized, the electronic control unit performs a cylinder-by-cylinder correction of ignition timing such that the ignition timing of the cylinder in which combustion is performed at the air-fuel ratio richer than the output air-fuel ratio becomes more advanced than the ignition timing of the other cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohichi IMAI, Masanao IDOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190301390
    Abstract: A port injection valve injects fuel into an intake passage. A base injection amount is an injection amount proportional to an amount of fresh air introduced into a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. A division process involves dividing the base injection amount into a synchronous injection amount and an asynchronous injection amount. In an intake-synchronous injection, the fuel is injected in synchronization with a period in which an intake valve is open. In an intake-asynchronous injection, the fuel is injected at a time advanced with respect to the intake-synchronous injection. In a selective correction process, the asynchronous injection amount is corrected according to a required correction amount for the base injection amount, and the synchronous injection amount is not corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koumei MIYATA, Masanori TOYA, Masanao IDOGAWA, Kosuke SASAKI
  • Patent number: 10428758
    Abstract: A fuel injection controller for an internal combustion engine includes first and second calculation sections. The first calculation section acquires a fuel pressure at a predetermined point of time before an injection starting point of time and calculates an injection time using the acquired fuel pressure. The second calculation section acquires a fuel pressure when the injection starting point of time arrives and calculates the injection time by using the acquired fuel pressure. The controller is configured to, before starting the energization to the injector, set a point of time to stop energization to an injector based on a calculation result of the injection time by the first calculation section. The controller is also configured to, after starting the energization to the injector, reset the point of time to stop the energization to the injector based on a calculation result of the injection time by the second calculation section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohichi Imai, Masanao Idogawa
  • Patent number: 10378465
    Abstract: A fuel injection amount control device controls a fuel injection amount of an injector in an internal combustion engine including a blow-by gas ventilation system. The fuel injection amount control device includes a reflection rate setting section, a dilution correction section, and a dilution learning section. The reflection rate setting section sets a reflection rate proportional to the amount of a blow-by gas discharged to an intake air. The dilution correction section corrects a fuel injection amount by using, as a correction value, the product obtained by multiplying a reflection rate by a dilution learning value. The dilution learning section updates the dilution learning value such that an air-fuel ratio F/B correction value approaches 0 on the condition that a fuel dilution amount of engine oil is equal to or greater than a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akinori Kitazume, Masanao Idogawa
  • Publication number: 20190178142
    Abstract: An exhaust purification device includes a PM filter and a differential pressure sensor for the PM filter, and calculates a first estimated amount PMf based on the operating state of the internal combustion engine and a second estimated amount PMc based on the differential pressure. The exhaust purification device performs an anomaly determination of the differential pressure sensor based on the state of the differential pressure sensor from stopping of the internal combustion engine to a startup thereof, and corrects the first estimated amount PMf based on the second estimated amount PMc when starting the internal combustion engine. The exhaust purification device calculates, as the PM deposition amount Pr, the larger value of the first and second estimated amounts, and starts a filter regeneration control of the PM filter when the PM deposition amount Pr is equal to or more than a first predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naoki MAEDA, Masanao IDOGAWA, Noriyasu KOBASHI
  • Publication number: 20190162132
    Abstract: An electronic control unit is configured to switch a drive mode of a first high-pressure fuel pump and a second high-pressure fuel pump, in accordance with an operating state of an internal combustion engine, either to a twin-drive mode, in which both the first high-pressure fuel pump and the second high-pressure fuel pump are driven, or to a single-drive mode, in which either one of the first high-pressure fuel pump and the second high-pressure fuel pump is driven. The electronic control unit is configured to determine whether or not a pump ambient temperature, which is the ambient temperature of the first high-pressure fuel pump and the second high-pressure fuel pump, is equal to or higher than a predetermined first temperature. In a case where the pump ambient temperature is equal to or higher than the first temperature, the electronic control unit turns ON a twin-drive mode request flag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Motohiro SUGIMOTO, Masanao IDOGAWA, Narumi MURAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190162125
    Abstract: A fuel injection controller updates an air-fuel ratio learning value such that the amount of correction of a fuel injection amount according to an air-fuel ratio feedback correction value approaches zero. Further, the fuel injection controller makes an update rate of the air-fuel ratio learning value lower when the variation among respective-cylinder correction values, which are set for the respective cylinders in order to differentiate air-fuel ratios of a plurality of cylinders, is great than when the variation among the respective-cylinder correction values of the cylinders is small.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohichi IMAI, Masanao IDOGAWA
  • Publication number: 20190162131
    Abstract: A wastegate opens and closes the flow path of a bypass passage that bypasses the turbine of a forced-induction device. A processor changes the drive current for the electric actuator in a stepwise manner from a state where the wastegate is stationary in a given standstill position. The amount of change in the drive current that is made until the wastegate is determined to be moved is learned as a learning value. A requested drive current for moving the wastegate to a target opening degree is corrected based on the learning value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao IDOGAWA, Isao NAKAJIMA, Masahiro NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190153972
    Abstract: A controller includes a P/L learning unit that performs P/L learning, a purge learning unit that performs purge learning, an air-fuel ratio learning unit that performs air-fuel ratio learning, and a storage unit that stores learning result. When the learning result of each learning process is not stored in the storage unit at the time of engine start, the P/L learning unit learns an injection characteristic of an in-cylinder injection valve through the P/L learning process whenever the in-cylinder injection valve performs the P/L injection and interrupts the P/L learning process before the P/L learning process is completed. The purge learning unit performs the purge learning process, and the air-fuel ratio learning unit starts the air-fuel ratio learning process provided that the P/L learning process is interrupted. The P/L learning unit then resumes the P/L learning process provided that the purge learning process is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao IDOGAWA, Narumi MURAKAMI, Motohiro SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190145343
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry performs a dither control process and a multi-injection process. Multiple injections in the multi-injection process includes a first injection and a second injection performed at a timing retarded from the first injection. The dither control process includes at least one of a process performed on a cylinder changed to a lean combustion cylinder so that a reduction amount of fuel injected through the first injection is greater than a reduction amount of fuel injected through the second injection and a process performed on a cylinder changed to a rich combustion cylinder so that an increase amount of fuel injected through the first injection is greater than an increase amount of fuel injected through the second injection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichiro KIDO, Masanao IDOGAWA, Manami YASUNAGA
  • Publication number: 20190136773
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry performs a dither control process. The dither control process includes a first mode in which a cylinder serving as a rich combustion cylinder is sequentially changed and a second mode in which a specified cylinder is fixed as one of a rich combustion cylinder and a lean combustion cylinder. The processing circuitry selects the first mode or the second mode based on an operating point of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Eiichiro KIDO, Masanao IDOGAWA, Manami YASUNAGA