Patents by Inventor Masateru NAGAO

Masateru NAGAO 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: 11118542
    Abstract: This engine system is provided with a throttle device, an EGR valve, and an ECU. The ECU diagnoses an abnormality of the EGR valve on the basis of an operating state during an engine deceleration, and diagnoses combustion deterioration of an engine on the basis of a crank angle speed change during the engine deceleration (not during a fuel cut-off). The ECU executes an engine stall avoidance control with the throttle device when it is determined there is an abnormality in the EGR valve, makes a final determination that the EGR valve has an abnormality and continues the engine stall avoidance control when it is determined thereafter that there is combustion deterioration, and makes a final determination that the EGR valve is normal and cancels the engine stall avoidance control when it is determined that there is no combustion deterioration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao Kurita, Masateru Nagao
  • Patent number: 10982604
    Abstract: An engine system is provided with an electronic throttle device to regulate intake amount to the engine, an EGR device (EGR valve) to recirculate a part of exhaust gas of the engine to the engine as EGR gas, and an electronic control unit (ECU) to control the electronic throttle device and the EGR valve based on an operating state of the engine. The ECU performs feedback control of the electronic throttle device such that a detected engine rotation number becomes a target idle rotation number, and sets the target idle rotation number to a predetermined first set value for avoiding engine stall until a predetermined time elapses from start of deceleration and then shifts the target idle rotation number to a second set value lower than the first set value after the predetermined time elapses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mamoru Yoshioka, Masanao Kurita, Masateru Nagao
  • Patent number: 10975779
    Abstract: An engine system includes a throttle device, an EGR valve, and an ECU. The ECU diagnoses foreign-matter lodging abnormality of the EGR valve and the foreign-matter diameter based on intake pressure. When the existence of the abnormality and the foreign-matter diameter are determined, the ECU calculates a difference between a foreign-matter diameter and a predetermined learning determination value as a foreign-matter diameter difference. If this difference is larger than an abnormality determination value, the foreign-matter diameter is judged to be excessive and the throttle device is controlled to avoid engine stall. If the foreign-matter diameter difference is equal to or larger than a normality determination value and also equal to or less than the abnormality determination value, engine deceleration is continued. If the foreign-matter diameter difference is less than the normality determination value, the foreign-matter diameter is judged to be minute and the learning determination value is updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mamoru Yoshioka, Masanao Kurita, Masateru Nagao
  • Patent number: 10927778
    Abstract: An engine system includes an injector, an EGR device (including an EGR valve having a step motor) to recirculate part of exhaust gas of an engine as EGR gas to the engine, and an electronic control unit (ECU) to control the injector, the EGR valve, and others based on an operating state of the engine. The ECU is configured to diagnose foreign-matter lodging abnormality of the EGR valve and a lodged foreign-matter diameter based on detected intake pressure during engine deceleration. When existence of the abnormality and the foreign-matter diameter are determined, the ECU controls the step motor to hold the EGR valve at a first opening degree smaller than a second opening degree needed to remove a foreign matter before fuel cut to the engine by the injector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masateru Nagao, Mamoru Yoshioka, Masanao Kurita
  • Publication number: 20210047990
    Abstract: This engine system is provided with a throttle device, an EGR valve, and an ECU. The ECU diagnoses an abnormality of the EGR valve on the basis of an operating state during an engine deceleration, and diagnoses combustion deterioration of an engine on the basis of a crank angle speed change during the engine deceleration (not during a fuel cut-off). The ECU executes an engine stall avoidance control with the throttle device when it is determined there is an abnormality in the EGR valve, makes a final determination that the EGR valve has an abnormality and continues the engine stall avoidance control when it is determined thereafter that there is combustion deterioration, and makes a final determination that the EGR valve is normal and cancels the engine stall avoidance control when it is determined that there is no combustion deterioration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masanao KURITA, Masateru NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20190345882
    Abstract: An engine system includes a throttle device, an EGR valve, and an ECU. The ECU diagnoses foreign-matter lodging abnormality of the EGR valve and the foreign-matter diameter based on intake pressure. When the existence of the abnormality and the foreign-matter diameter are determined, the ECU calculates a difference between a foreign-matter diameter and a predetermined learning determination value as a foreign-matter diameter difference. If this difference is larger than an abnormality determination value, the foreign-matter diameter is judged to be excessive and the throttle device is controlled to avoid engine stall. If the foreign-matter diameter difference is equal to or larger than a normality determination value and also equal to or less than the abnormality determination value, engine deceleration is continued. If the foreign-matter diameter difference is less than the normality determination value, the foreign-matter diameter is judged to be minute and the learning determination value is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mamoru YOSHIOKA, Masanao KURITA, Masateru NAGAO
  • Publication number: 20190338717
    Abstract: An engine system includes an injector, an EGR device (including an EGR valve having a step motor) to recirculate part of exhaust gas of an engine as EGR gas to the engine, and an electronic control unit (ECU) to control the injector, the EGR valve, and others based on an operating state of the engine. The ECU is configured to diagnose foreign-matter lodging abnormality of the EGR valve and a lodged foreign-matter diameter based on detected intake pressure during engine deceleration. When existence of the abnormality and the foreign-matter diameter are determined, the ECU controls the step motor to hold the EGR valve at a first opening degree smaller than a second opening degree needed to remove a foreign matter before fuel cut to the engine by the injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masateru NAGAO, Mamoru YOSHIOKA, Masanao KURITA
  • Publication number: 20190293007
    Abstract: An engine system is provided with an electronic throttle device to regulate intake amount to the engine, an EGR device (EGR valve) to recirculate a part of exhaust gas of the engine to the engine as EGR gas, and an electronic control unit (ECU) to control the electronic throttle device and the EGR valve based on an operating state of the engine. The ECU performs feedback control of the electronic throttle device such that a detected engine rotation number becomes a target idle rotation number, and sets the target idle rotation number to a predetermined first set value for avoiding engine stall until a predetermined time elapses from start of deceleration and then shifts the target idle rotation number to a second set value lower than the first set value after the predetermined time elapses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: AISAN KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Mamoru YOSHIOKA, Masanao KURITA, Masateru NAGAO