Patents by Inventor Masayuki Saruwatari

Masayuki Saruwatari 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: 20210363937
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine, combustion stability is improved while exhaust gas emission is suppressed. For this purpose, a control device (1) for controlling an injector (103) is configured to include a control unit (21) that controls the injector (103) to perform a first fuel injection (1001) for injecting fuel at a first fuel pressure from the injector (103) in an intake stroke (S1) in one combustion cycle of an internal combustion engine (100) and a second fuel injection (1002) for injecting fuel at a second fuel pressure higher than the first fuel pressure from the injector (103) after the first fuel injection (1001) in the same one combustion cycle in the intake stroke (S1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Akiyasu MIYAMOTO, Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Publication number: 20210324809
    Abstract: The present subject matter provides a device and a method for injecting non-combustible fluid into an internal combustion. In order to reduce the non-combustible fluid consumption, the fluid to be injected is heated to a predefined temperature which improves the spray characteristics, reduces wall wetting and leads to a better vaporization of the fluid in the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Naoki YONEYA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Patent number: 11143131
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control device of an injector capable of suppressing the influence of pressure reduction boiling even if pressure in a combustion chamber is low. In a case where the temperature of fuel injected from a fuel injection valve is within a set high temperature region and the pressure of the combustion chamber is within a set low pressure region, the control device of an in-cylinder direct injection-type injector according to the present invention controls to increase a lift amount of the injector as compared to the case of a low temperature region or a high pressure region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hosaka, Taisuke Sugii, Eiji Ishii, Kazuki Yoshimura, Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Masayuki Saruwatari
  • Publication number: 20210293200
    Abstract: Emission of unburned hydrocarbons and soot is reduced while ensuring startability (ignitability) in a cold start mode of an internal combustion engine. Thus, fuel is injected with a first injection rate as an injection rate of a fuel injection valve 100 in a warm state in which a temperature of an engine 30 is equal to or higher than a set temperature, and the fuel is injected with a second injection rate lower than the first injection rate as the injection rate of the fuel injection valve 100 in a cold state in which the temperature of the engine 30 is lower than the set temperature at the same fuel pressure as that in the warm state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Masayuki SARUWATARI, Ryo KUSAKABE
  • Publication number: 20210285411
    Abstract: An object is to provide a fuel injection valve that restricts attachment of fuel injected from an injection hole to a combustion chamber. A fuel injection valve including a plurality of injection holes on a front end section, each of the plurality of injection holes including an upstream hole formed on an upstream side and a downstream hole that is connected to the upstream hole, formed on a downstream side of the upstream hole, and has a diameter different from that of the upstream hole. A center axis of a first downstream hole is configured to be eccentric to a center axis side of the fuel injection valve relative to a center axis of a first upstream hole of a first injection hole. An eccentricity amount or an eccentricity direction of a downstream hole relative to an upstream hole of at least one of the other injection holes is different from an eccentricity amount or an eccentricity direction of the first injection hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Takaki ITAYA, Kenichiro OGATA, Masahiko INOUE, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Publication number: 20210285395
    Abstract: Provided is a novel internal-combustion engine control device that can accurately determine a combustion state of an air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber even in a case where operation is switched between a steady operation state and a transient operation state. For this purpose, the internal-combustion engine control device includes a physical quantity detection unit that detects a physical quantity that fluctuates output of the internal-combustion engine, an output fluctuation value calculation unit that calculates an output fluctuation value for each cylinder based on a detection result of the physical quantity detection unit, and a state determination unit that determines a transient operation state or a steady operation state based on a difference or a ratio between a first output fluctuation value of a predetermined first cylinder and a second output fluctuation value of a predetermined second cylinder calculated by the output fluctuation value calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Toshihiro AONO, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Patent number: 11118523
    Abstract: Provided is a fuel injection device and a control unit therefor which enable reliable ignition even in a case where fuel pressure is low immediately after starting an engine. In the control unit for controlling an injector injecting fuel into an internal combustion engine, a plurality of injectors is provided in the internal combustion engine, a static flow rate of a first injector is configured to be smaller than a static flow rate of a second injector. In a case where a fuel pressure of fuel supplied by a pressurizing unit is lower than a set value set lower than a fuel pressure in warming up, an injection ratio of the first injector is controlled to increase according to a difference between a fuel pressure of fuel from the pressurizing unit and a fuel pressure in warming up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Hosaka, Taisuke Sugii, Eiji Ishii, Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Masayuki Saruwatari
  • Patent number: 11105282
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, which can control an injection amount of water injected into each cylinder of the internal combustion engine to a minimum injection amount that allows knock to be suppressed for each cylinder. Therefore, in a control device 1 that controls water supply valves 35 (water supply devices) that supply water into each of combustion chambers of a plurality of cylinders R (cylinders R1 to R3 in the embodiment) of an internal combustion engine 100, the control device 1 includes a water supply amount calculation unit 2 that calculates a supply amount of water supplied to each of the combustion chambers of the plurality of cylinders R1 to R3 for each cylinder, and a water supply control unit 3 that controls the water supply valves 35 based on the supply amount of water calculated by the water supply amount calculation unit 2 for each cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Sukegawa, Atsushi Shimada, Masayuki Saruwatari
  • Patent number: 11098670
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of a fuel injection device which can stabilize a behavior of a valve even when a voltage of a voltage source varies, and can reduce a deviation of an injection amount. A control device 150 of a fuel injection device 101 includes a valve 214, a coil 205 which generates a magnetic attraction force to attract a movable member 202 which drives the valve 214, and a voltage source. The fuel injection device 101 applies a voltage to the coil 205 on the basis of an injection pulse, causes a drive current to flow to the coil 205 until the current becomes a maximum current to attract the movable member 202, and drives the valve 214 to inject fuel. The drive current flowing to the coil 205 or a voltage of the voltage source is detected before the injection pulse is stopped. In a case where the detected drive current or the voltage is equal to or less than a setting, a width of the injection pulse or an injection pulse different from the injection pulse is corrected to be long.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kusakabe, Masayuki Saruwatari, Noriyuki Maekawa
  • Patent number: 11073092
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine capable of estimating a compression ratio of the internal combustion engine at the time of fuel cut of the internal combustion engine and without being affected by an intake air amount and an intake air temperature. A compression ratio ? is calculated on the basis of a change of in-cylinder pressure P with respect to crank angle ? at timing when an in-cylinder volume change rate dV/d?/V takes an extreme value or at timing from closing of an intake valve 109 to the start of ignition of the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Aono, Masayuki Saruwatari
  • Patent number: 11059477
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a parking assist device for a vehicle such that the vehicle can be parked without decreasing or excessively increasing the speed or causing the vehicle to stop during assisted parking, the speed of the host vehicle is kept constant even immediately after an obstacle or a bump is cleared, and the vehicle is prevented from colliding with any other parked vehicle. The device calculates a speed command value and/or an engine torque command value in consideration of the acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle and controls the speed of the vehicle on the basis of the calculated speed command value and/or the engine torque command value, said acceleration/deceleration being predicted in advance on the basis of the height and distance of an obstacle and/or a bump that is present in a parking path, the gradient of the road surface, and the steering angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuuji Fukushima, Taisetsu Tanimichi, Masayuki Saruwatari
  • Patent number: 11007480
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purification system which exhibits high exhaust gas purification performance. The present invention provides an exhaust gas purification system including: a carrier containing aluminum oxide; an exhaust gas purification device including a catalyst provided on the carrier and containing gallium, and connected to an internal combustion engine; and a system connected to the exhaust gas purification device for increasing an oxygen concentration. The system for increasing an oxygen concentration provides an oxygen concentration higher than that of a post combusted gas of the internal combustion engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Eri Takahashi, Masato Kaneeda, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Naoki Yoneya, Masayuki Saruwatari
  • Publication number: 20210140388
    Abstract: Combustion stability can be improved while HC and PN discharged from a combustion chamber are prevented. In an ECU that controls a fuel injection device installed in a combustion chamber of an internal-combustion engine so as to be able to inject fuel in a direction intersecting with a sliding direction of a piston, a pressure value of the fuel supplied to the fuel injection device is acquired, control is performed such that the fuel injection device injects the fuel at least twice in a compression stroke, and control is performed such that fuel injection timing of at least one time in the compression stroke is advanced earlier than fuel injection timing of a time corresponding to the high pressure value of the fuel when the acquired fuel pressure value is low.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Kenichiroh OGATA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Publication number: 20210131372
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a control device of an injector capable of suppressing the influence of pressure reduction boiling even if pressure in a combustion chamber is low. In a case where the temperature of fuel injected from a fuel injection valve is within a set high temperature region and the pressure of the combustion chamber is within a set low pressure region, the control device of an in-cylinder direct injection-type injector according to the present invention controls to increase a lift amount of the injector as compared to the case of a low temperature region or a high pressure region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki HOSAKA, Taisuke SUGII, Eiji ISHII, Kazuki YOSHIMURA, Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Publication number: 20210095608
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, which can control an injection amount of water injected into each cylinder of the internal combustion engine to a minimum injection amount that allows knock to be suppressed for each cylinder. Therefore, in a control device 1 that controls water supply valves 35 (water supply devices) that supply water into each of combustion chambers of a plurality of cylinders R (cylinders R1 to R3 in the embodiment) of an internal combustion engine 100, the control device 1 includes a water supply amount calculation unit 2 that calculates a supply amount of water supplied to each of the combustion chambers of the plurality of cylinders R1 to R3 for each cylinder, and a water supply control unit 3 that controls the water supply valves 35 based on the supply amount of water calculated by the water supply amount calculation unit 2 for each cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Atsushi SHIMADA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Publication number: 20210079857
    Abstract: To accurately evaluate combustion stability in consideration of the effect of the trend even at the time of the transient operation. The present invention is configured to have a combustion energy calculation unit that calculates a combustion energy W_t of one combustion cycle in an internal combustion engine, a trend calculation unit that calculates a trend Tr of change in the combustion energy W_t calculated by the combustion energy calculation unit in a plurality of the combustion cycles, and a combustion stability judgment unit that judges combustion stability based on the combustion energy W_t in the plurality of combustion cycles and the trend Tr of change calculated by the trend calculation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Toshihiro AONO, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Patent number: 10941724
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an engine system control device capable of stabilizing a combustion state, while improving fuel economy by performing intake air heating. According to the present invention, there is provided an engine system control device which controls an engine system including an engine configured to combust air-fuel mixture, an intake air path configured to take air to the engine, and an intake air heating mechanism configured to heat the intake air, wherein a heating amount of the intake air is controlled depending on a combustion speed of the air-fuel mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Hisayuki Orita, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Motoyuki Abe
  • Patent number: 10941726
    Abstract: Torque fluctuations caused by misfire and abnormal combustion are prevented appropriately at the time of switching from SI to HCCI, and exhaust of NOx is restricted at the time of switching. Provided is a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine performing a plurality of combustion modes each having a different air-fuel ratio and compression end temperature in a cylinder 7 from each other. In the middle of switching from a first combustion mode to a second combustion mode, an intermediate combustion mode in which the compression end temperature is increased while keeping a different air-fuel ratio from the air-fuel ratio of the first combustion mode and the air-fuel ratio of the second combustion mode is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo Namba, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kazuhiro Oryoji
  • Patent number: 10890124
    Abstract: Provided is a technique capable of suppressing the amount of fuel adhering to a wall surface of a cylinder in an engine whose wall surface temperature varies every cycle. An internal combustion engine control device that controls an internal combustion engine, which injects fuel into a cylinder and generates combustion by ignition, includes: a wall surface temperature calculation unit that calculates a wall surface temperature of the cylinder based on a pressure in the cylinder; and a combustion control unit that controls the combustion of the internal combustion engine based on the calculated wall surface temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Yoneya, Masayuki Saruwatari
  • Patent number: 10844826
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to predict change of a combustion limit due to cycle variation of temperature and an EGR ratio and perform correction every cycle to decrease an amount of combustion consumption. Therefore, in an internal combustion engine control device that controls an internal combustion engine including a cylinder and an exhaust pipe, the internal combustion engine control device includes a control unit configured to perform EGR control of controlling an exhaust gas in the exhaust pipe to return to an inner cylinder of the cylinder, obtain temperature of the gas in the internal cylinder and an EGR ratio in a state where both an intake valve and an exhaust valve are closed in an combustion cycle, and correct a combustion parameter in a same combustion cycle as the combustion cycle on the basis of the obtained gas temperature and the obtained EGR ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Naoki Yoneya, Masayuki Saruwatari, Kazuhiro Oryoji