Patents by Inventor Naofumi Ochi

Naofumi Ochi 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: 11959407
    Abstract: A detection device detecting collapse of PM collected in a filter provided in an exhaust system flow path of an internal combustion engine includes: a differential pressure sensor configured to acquire a differential pressure between an exhaust inlet side and an exhaust outlet side of the filter; a water generation determination unit configured to determine whether water is generated in the exhaust system flow path; and a PM collapse determination unit configured to determine that at least a part of the PM collected in the filter has collapsed when a PM accumulation amount estimated based on the acquired differential pressure has increased by a predetermined amount or more within a predetermined period in a state where the PM accumulation amount estimated based on the acquired differential pressure is equal to or larger than a predetermined first threshold and the water generation determination unit has determined that water is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Daiki Ishii, Naofumi Ochi, Takanobu Ogawa, Yuta Kageyama, Akira Matsutani, Hitoshi Sato
  • Patent number: 11401849
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine exhaust purification device includes a filter which is disposed in an exhaust path and collects particulate matter in exhaust gas, an injection valve which is disposed upstream of the filter in the exhaust path and injects fuel into the exhaust path, a fuel pump which supplies a fuel to the injection valve, a shut-off valve which is interposed between the fuel pump and the injection valve, and selectively shuts off a fuel supply from the fuel pump to the injection valve, and a control unit which controls the injection valve and the shut-off valve. The control unit closes the shut-off valve when the control unit detects an opened adherence failure of the injection valve and detects an abnormal temperature rise of the filter during regeneration of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Osamu Igarashi, Naofumi Ochi, Takaaki Noda, Shirou Ochiai, Hiromichi Yamada
  • Publication number: 20220082039
    Abstract: A detection device detecting collapse of PM collected in a filter provided in an exhaust system flow path of an internal combustion engine includes: a differential pressure sensor configured to acquire a differential pressure between an exhaust inlet side and an exhaust outlet side of the filter; a water generation determination unit configured to determine whether water is generated in the exhaust system flow path; and a PM collapse determination unit configured to determine that at least a part of the PM collected in the filter has collapsed when a PM accumulation amount estimated based on the acquired differential pressure has increased by a predetermined amount or more within a predetermined period in a state where the PM accumulation amount estimated based on the acquired differential pressure is equal to or larger than a predetermined first threshold and the water generation determination unit has determined that water is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Daiki ISHII, Naofumi OCHI, Takanobu OGAWA, Yuta KAGEYAMA, Akira MATSUTANI, Hitoshi SATO
  • Patent number: 10934914
    Abstract: A urea water supply system which performs permission determination by a control device based on a first parameter includes a cooling water temperature sensor, and a control device is configured to be able to store a result of the permission determination, and when a system control is restarted after the system control is stopped and a stop period is elapsed, it performs a shortening setting to shorten a time required for the permission determination based on the determination result stored at a time when the system is stopped and a cooling water temperature immediately after restarting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Masanobu Minezawa, Shinji Hara, Naofumi Ochi
  • Publication number: 20210010402
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine exhaust purification device includes a filter which is disposed in an exhaust path and collects particulate matter in exhaust gas, an injection valve which is disposed upstream of the filter in the exhaust path and injects fuel into the exhaust path, a fuel pump which supplies a fuel to the injection valve, a shut-off valve which is interposed between the fuel pump and the injection valve, and selectively shuts off a fuel supply from the fuel pump to the injection valve, and a control unit which controls the injection valve and the shut-off valve. The control unit closes the shut-off valve when the control unit detects an opened adherence failure of the injection valve and detects an abnormal temperature rise of the filter during regeneration of the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Osamu IGARASHI, Naofumi OCHI, Takaaki NODA, Shirou OCHIAI, Hiromichi YAMADA
  • Publication number: 20190271247
    Abstract: A urea water supply system which performs permission determination by a control device based on a first parameter includes a cooling water temperature sensor, and a control device is configured to be able to store a result of the permission determination, and when a system control is restarted after the system control is stopped and a stop period is elapsed, it performs a shortening setting to shorten a time required for the permission determination based on the determination result stored at a time when the system is stopped and a cooling water temperature immediately after restarting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Masanobu MINEZAWA, Shinji HARA, Naofumi OCHI
  • Patent number: 9067160
    Abstract: A diesel particulate defuser (“DPD”) is connected to an exhaust pipe of a diesel engine, an exhaust gas temperature during automatic regeneration of the DPD is detected, and the difference between the detected exhaust gas temperature and a target regeneration temperature is determined. In a case where an exhaust pipe injection amount is PID controlled based on this difference, when an exhaust brake valve is closed during traveling automatic regeneration, the exhaust pipe injection is stopped and calculation of an integral control term by the PID control is continued as long as the exhaust valve brake valve is closed, and when the exhaust brake valve is opened, the integral control term that has been continuously calculated is taken as an initial operation amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Takashi Ikeda, Naofumi Ochi, Hiroyuki Ishikawa
  • Patent number: 8978363
    Abstract: A diesel particulate filter (“DPF”) system that is more convenient than a conventional DPF system, including a DPF having a catalyzed soot filter (“CSF”) that is connected to an exhaust pipe of a diesel engine in order to collect particulate matter (“PM”) in exhaust gas, and a diesel oxidation catalyst (“DOC”) provided on an upstream side of the CSF; and temperature sensors provided respectively on an upstream side and a downstream side of the DOC. When a PM accumulation amount in the CSF exceeds a fixed amount, DPF regeneration is performed by setting a temperature detected by the upstream side temperature sensor at or above a first threshold and setting a temperature detected by the downstream side temperature sensor at or above a second threshold. When a breakdown is detected in the upstream side temperature sensor, the second threshold is modified upward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Ikeda, Naofumi Ochi, Hitoshi Satou
  • Patent number: 8931254
    Abstract: An exhaust pipe injection control device to optimally control a degree of exhaust gas recirculation (“EGR”) opening during diesel particulate filter (“DPF”) regeneration. The device includes a regeneration-time opening control unit which controls a degree of EGR opening of an EGR device during DPF regeneration, and a regeneration-time opening map in which an optimal degree of EGR opening of the EGR device during DPF regeneration is set in advance according to an engine rotation speed and a fuel injection amount of an engine. The regeneration-time opening control unit performs exhaust gas recirculation by referring to the regeneration-time opening map based on the engine rotation speed and the fuel injection amount of the engine and controlling the degree of EGR opening of the EGR device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Naofumi Ochi, Shinji Hara, Kenzou Yaginuma
  • Patent number: 8875492
    Abstract: An exhaust pipe injection control device for controlling an appropriate fuel injection amount regardless of engine rotation speed. The exhaust pipe injection control device includes: a target injection amount setting unit which sets, according to an engine rotation speed and an exhaust gas flow rate, a target injection amount that is injected in a single injection from an exhaust pipe injector; a base pulse width (“BPW”) map in which a fuel injection time of the exhaust pipe injector is set so that, with respect to the target injection amount and an exhaust pipe injection fuel pressure, fuel in the target injection amount is injected; and an exhaust pipe injection executing unit which performs injection from the exhaust pipe injector by referring to the BPW map based on the target injection amount and the exhaust pipe injection fuel pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Naofumi Ochi, Tetsuya Murata, Takao Onodera
  • Patent number: 8522533
    Abstract: When an internal combustion engine is in a low rotation speed driving condition, a duration of the low rotation speed driving condition is measured, and when this duration exceeds a predetermined time, the forced regeneration control is performed. Thus, even when an exhaust flow rate is small and an estimation of a particulate matter accumulated amount due to a pressure difference between front and back sides of a filter is difficult, a forced regeneration time can be accurately judged, the deterioration of fuel efficiency that is caused by excessive trapped particulate matter can be avoided, and thermal runaway that is caused by the excessive particulate matter, and the melting damage of the diesel particulate filter due to this thermal runaway, can be prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Takao Onodera, Naofumi Ochi, Shigeru Ikeda, Tatsuo Mashiko
  • Publication number: 20130086892
    Abstract: An exhaust pipe injection control device to optimally control a degree of exhaust gas recirculation (“EGR”) opening during diesel particulate filter (“DPF”) regeneration. The device includes a regeneration-time opening control unit which controls a degree of EGR opening of an EGR device during DPF regeneration, and a regeneration-time opening map in which an optimal degree of EGR opening of the EGR device during DPF regeneration is set in advance according to an engine rotation speed and a fuel injection amount of an engine. The regeneration-time opening control unit performs exhaust gas recirculation by referring to the regeneration-time opening map based on the engine rotation speed and the fuel injection amount of the engine and controlling the degree of EGR opening of the EGR device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Naofumi Ochi, Shinji Hara, Kenzou Yaginuma
  • Publication number: 20130084217
    Abstract: A diesel particulate filter (“DPF”) system that is more convenient than a conventional DPF system, including a DPF having a catalyzed soot filter (“CSF”) that is connected to an exhaust pipe of a diesel engine in order to collect particulate matter (“PM”) in exhaust gas, and a diesel oxidation catalyst (“DOC”) provided on an upstream side of the CSF; and temperature sensors provided respectively on an upstream side and a downstream side of the DOC. When a PM accumulation amount in the CSF exceeds a fixed amount, DPF regeneration is performed by setting a temperature detected by the upstream side temperature sensor at or above a first threshold and setting a temperature detected by the downstream side temperature sensor at or above a second threshold. When a breakdown is detected in the upstream side temperature sensor, the second threshold is modified upward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Applicant: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Takashi Ikeda, Naofumi Ochi, Hitoshi Satou
  • Publication number: 20130081543
    Abstract: A diesel particulate defuser (“DPD”) is connected to an exhaust pipe of a diesel engine, an exhaust gas temperature during automatic regeneration of the DPD is detected, and the difference between the detected exhaust gas temperature and a target regeneration temperature is determined. In a case where an exhaust pipe injection amount is PID controlled based on this difference, when an exhaust brake valve is closed during traveling automatic regeneration, the exhaust pipe injection is stopped and calculation of an integral control term by the PID control is continued as long as the exhaust valve brake valve is closed, and when the exhaust brake valve is opened, the integral control term that has been continuously calculated is taken as an initial operation amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Takashi Ikeda, Naofumi Ochi, Hiroyuki Ishikawa
  • Publication number: 20130081379
    Abstract: An exhaust pipe injection control device for controlling an appropriate fuel injection amount regardless of engine rotation speed. The exhaust pipe injection control device includes: a target injection amount setting unit which sets, according to an engine rotation speed and an exhaust gas flow rate, a target injection amount that is injected in a single injection from an exhaust pipe injector; a base pulse width (“BPW”) map in which a fuel injection time of the exhaust pipe injector is set so that, with respect to the target injection amount and an exhaust pipe injection fuel pressure, fuel in the target injection amount is injected; and an exhaust pipe injection executing unit which performs injection from the exhaust pipe injector by referring to the BPW map based on the target injection amount and the exhaust pipe injection fuel pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2011
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Naofumi Ochi, Tetsuya Murata, Takao Onodera
  • Patent number: 8181449
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system has an exhaust gas purification device for purifying components in exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. In order to recover a purification ability of the device, and in order to prevent oil dilution occurring when post injection is conducted during control that raises the temperature of exhaust gas, the system performs the following, during control; injection quantities of post injections are calculated based on previously set map data, accumulated to calculate a post injection accumulated injection amount, and, when the accumulated injection amount exceeds a predetermined value, the post injection is stopped to cease the regenerative control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Takao Onodera, Naofumi Ochi, Wei Wu, Tatsuo Mashiko
  • Patent number: 8171725
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas temperature raising control for recovering purification ability of an exhaust gas purification device of an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas temperature is efficiently raised to a target level without producing white smoke. In recovery control of the exhaust gas purification device, when the temperature of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust gas purification device is lower than a predetermined judgment value, a first exhaust gas temperature raising control that does not include post injection but includes intake air restriction is performed, and when equal to or higher than the predetermined judgment value, a second exhaust gas temperature raising control that includes both the post injection and the intake air restriction is performed to set an intake air restriction amount in the first exhaust gas temperature raising control greater than an intake air restriction amount in the second exhaust gas temperature raising control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Wei Wu, Naofumi Ochi, Shigeru Ikeda, Tatsuo Mashiko
  • Patent number: 7729845
    Abstract: A fuel injection control device that prevents a misfire is provided. The fuel injection control device comprises: target injection amount determination means 3 for determining a target injection amount of each fuel injection, so that the amount of fuel to be supplied to a cylinder in one combustion cycle is supplied in a plurality of fuel injections; and fuel injection correction amount determination means 4 for determining a fuel correction amount of one combustion cycle, wherein the fuel injection correction amount determination means 4 distributes the correction amount among each fuel injection in accordance with the ratio of a target injection amount of each fuel injection in the cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Takuro Iwashita, Takashi Haseyama, Yoshinobu Watanabe, Naofumi Ochi, Kenji Hagio, Tatsuo Mashiko
  • Publication number: 20090235644
    Abstract: In an exhaust gas temperature raising control for recovering purification ability of an exhaust gas purification device (12) of an internal combustion engine, the exhaust gas temperature is efficiently raised to a target level with white smoke prevented from being produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventors: Wei Wu, Naofumi Ochi, Shigeru Ikeda, Tatsuo Mashiko
  • Publication number: 20090183495
    Abstract: Even in the case of driving for a long time in the low rotation speed driving condition in which the exhaust flow rate is small and an estimation of the PM accumulated amount due to the pressure difference between the front and the back sides of a filter is difficult, the forced regeneration time can be accurately judged, the deterioration of fuel efficiency that is caused by excessive PM trapping can be avoided, and at the same time, thermal runaway that is generated by the excessive accumulated amount of PM and melting damage of the DPF due to this thermal runaway can be prevented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2007
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Takao Onodera, Naofumi Ochi, Shigeru Ikeda, Tatsuo Mashiko