Patents by Inventor Michiharu Kawano

Michiharu Kawano 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: 20200158006
    Abstract: A combustion chamber structure for an engine includes a combustion chamber where SI combustion by spark ignition and CI combustion by self-ignition are conducted. A crown surface includes a cavity recessed to have a bowl-shape, and a pair of raised portions. The cavity includes a bottom portion which is a lower region of the recessed part, the bottom portion having an outer circumferential edge which is circular in a top view. With a height of the raised portion relative to a height position of a deepest portion of the cavity being represented as H1 and a diameter of an outer circumferential edge of the bottom portion of the cavity being represented as D, H1/D as a ratio of the height H1 of the raised portion to the diameter D of the cavity is set to be in a range of 0.05 or more and 0.36 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi IMAMURA, Masaki FUKUMA, Yasushi NAKAHARA, Atsushi INOUE, Kota MATSUMOTO, Michiharu KAWANO, Yuya HONDA, Futa NISHI
  • Publication number: 20200158007
    Abstract: A combustion chamber structure for an engine includes a combustion chamber where SI combustion by spark ignition and CI combustion by self-ignition are conducted. A crown surface includes a cavity recessed to have a bowl-shape; a pair of first raised portions having a mound-shape along a pent roof shape; and a second raised portion provided to protrude at a position orthogonal to a ridge extending direction of the pair of first raised portions. With a height of the first raised portion relative to a height position of a deepest portion of the cavity being represented as H1 and a height of the second raised portion being represented as H2, H1/H2 as a ratio of the height H1 of the first raised portion to the height H2 of the second raised portion is set to be in a range of 1.92 or more and 2.75 or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Satoshi IMAMURA, Masaki FUKUMA, Yasushi NAKAHARA, Atsushi INOUE, Kota MATSUMOTO, Michiharu KAWANO, Yuya HONDA, Futa NISHI
  • Publication number: 20200141306
    Abstract: A structure of a combustion chamber for an engine includes a crown surface of a piston, a combustion chamber ceiling surface formed on a cylinder head, an injector and an ignition plug provided on the combustion chamber ceiling surface, and an intake opening and an exhaust opening opened in the combustion chamber ceiling surface. A side where the intake opening is opened is defined as an intake port side, and a side where the exhaust opening is opened is defined as an exhaust port side, with respect to a position, as a reference, where an ignition portion of the ignition plug is disposed in a plan view from one side in a cylinder axis direction, the injector is configured to inject fuel toward the exhaust port side, and a reverse squish flow generation portion, which draws an air-fuel mixture toward the intake port side, is provided in the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi IMAMURA, Masaki FUKUMA, Yasushi NAKAHARA, Atsushi INOUE, Kota MATSUMOTO, Yoshiharu UEKI, Michiharu KAWANO, Yuya HONDA, Kento ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20200105723
    Abstract: A module includes: a resin insulating layer; a first electronic component mounted on a lower surface of the resin insulating layer and including first and second terminals on an upper surface of the first electronic component; a resin bonding layer bonding the lower surface of the resin insulating layer to the upper surface of the first electronic component; first and second wiring lines located on inner surfaces of at least one first through hole and at least one second through hole penetrating through the resin insulating layer and the resin bonding layer, respectively, located on an upper surface of the resin insulating layer, and connecting to the first and second terminals, respectively, wherein an opening penetrating through the resin insulating layer and the resin bonding layer is provided between the first and second terminals and between the first and second wiring lines, and no other metal layers are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yasuhito HAGIWARA, Shigeru YOKOYAMA, Michiharu KAWANO, Takaki HAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190383207
    Abstract: In an engine (1), when an intake valve (16) opens, a downstream end portion (61) of a first intake port (6) extends to direct to between a shade back (162a) positioned on a cylinder axis (C) side with respect to a valve stem (161) and a ceiling surface (51) facing the shade back (162a). As viewed in a section perpendicular to a direction perpendicular to an intake air flow direction, a second intake port side inner wall surface (61a) at the downstream end portion (61) of the first intake port (6) curves apart from a second intake port (7) in a direction from an exhaust side to an intake side as compared to the shape of an opposite second intake port side inner wall surface (61b) mirror-reversed to a second intake port (7) side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi NAKAHARA, Yohei SUZUKI, Tsuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Michiharu KAWANO, Yuya HONDA, Kento ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20190383208
    Abstract: In an engine (1), an ignition plug (22) is arranged between a first intake port (6) and a second intake port (7). In a case where a downstream end portion (71) of the second intake port (7) is divided into a first intake port (6) side and an opposite first intake port (6) side, an inner wall surface (71a) of an opposite first intake port (6) side portion extends in a direction toward the first intake port (6) as extending from an upstream side to a downstream side of the second intake port (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasushi NAKAHARA, Yohei SUZUKI, Tsuyoshi YAMAMOTO, Michiharu KAWANO, Yuya HONDA, Kento ONISHI
  • Publication number: 20160356230
    Abstract: A control system of an engine is provided, which controls, by using a tumble flow, a behavior of fuel that is directly injected into a combustion chamber formed inside a cylinder of the engine. The control system includes a fuel injector for directly injecting the fuel into the combustion chamber, a tumble flow generator for generating the tumble flow within the combustion chamber, an ignition timing control module for controlling an ignition timing of an ignition plug of the engine, and a fuel injector control module for controlling the fuel injector to inject the fuel at an intake-stroke-early-half injection timing, an intake-stroke-latter-half injection timing, and a compression-stroke-early-half injection timing when the ignition timing is controlled by the ignition timing control module to be before a top dead center of the compression stroke in a cold state of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Tomomi Watanabe, Kazunori Hirabayashi, Shigeyuki Hirashita, Michiharu Kawano