Patents by Inventor Naohide Tsuji

Naohide Tsuji 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: 9938887
    Abstract: A direct injection diesel engine includes a piston having a reentrant cavity and a multi-hole fuel injection nozzle disposed on a center line of the cavity. The cavity is formed by a lip portion defining a smallest diameter at a position below a piston crown surface and a raised portion formed at a center of the bottom and shaped like a frustum of a cone. A conical surface of the raised portion is formed to have an angle pointing to a spray point of the fuel injection nozzle at a piston top dead center position. The height position of a top surface is substantially equal to the height position of the lip portion. This structure is to promote the oxidation of soot by utilizing the air in the central part of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isshou Uehara, Manabu Hasegawa, Naohide Tsuji
  • Patent number: 9879590
    Abstract: A fuel injection nozzle disposed in a center of a reentrant cavity combustion chamber has first and second nozzle hole groups whose inclination angles with respect to a cylinder center axis line are different. A nozzle hole diameter of the second nozzle hole group is larger than that of the first one. First and second nozzle holes are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction. A glow plug projects, in a height direction of the cylinder, up to a height of a spray center axis line (F2) of the second nozzle hole directed at a lower side. Therefore the glow plug can contact fuel masses formed by sprays from both the first and second nozzle holes. The glow plug is positioned between spray center axis lines (F1, F2) in the circumferential direction, and positioned at a swirl downstream side of spray center axis line (F2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Isshou Uehara, Manabu Hasegawa, Naohide Tsuji, Masahiko Nakano
  • Publication number: 20170159549
    Abstract: A piston of a direct injection type diesel engine has a re-entrant type cavity, and a fuel injection nozzle with multiple nozzle holes is arranged on the center line thereof. The cavity has a lip portion, which is the portion thereof having the smallest diameter, positioned below a piston crown surface and a pocket portion formed above the lip portion. The pocket portion is positioned at a height to which a pilot injection injected prior to the top dead center under engine idling is directed, and the position of a wall surface is so set that a leading part of the injection spray does not collide strongly therewith. The fuel from the pilot injection temporarily stays in the pocket portion and moves into the cavity by means of a subsequent squish flow. Accordingly, an increase in unburned hydrocarbons is suppressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Isshou Uehara, Naohide Tsuji, Masahiko Emi
  • Publication number: 20170145901
    Abstract: A direct injection diesel engine includes a piston having a reentrant cavity and a multi-hole fuel injection nozzle disposed on a center line of the cavity. The cavity is formed by a lip portion defining a smallest diameter at a position below a piston crown surface and a raised portion formed at a center of the bottom and shaped like a frustum of a cone. A conical surface of the raised portion is formed to have an angle pointing to a spray point of the fuel injection nozzle at a piston top dead center position. The height position of a top surface is substantially equal to the height position of the lip portion. This structure is to promote the oxidation of soot by utilizing the air in the central part of the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Isshou Uehara, Manabu Hasegawa, Naohide Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20160084148
    Abstract: Fuel injection nozzle (6) disposed in a center of reentrant cavity combustion chamber (5) has first and second nozzle hole groups whose inclination angles with respect to cylinder center axis line are different, one is large inclination angle and the other is small inclination angle. Nozzle hole diameter of second nozzle hole group is larger than that of the first one. First and second nozzle holes are alternately arranged in a circumferential direction. Glow plug (11) projects, in a height direction of cylinder (4), up to a height of spray center axis line (F2) of the second nozzle hole directed at a lower side, therefore glow plug (11) can contact fuel masses formed by sprays from both first and second nozzle holes. Glow plug (11) is positioned between spray center axis lines (F1, F2) in the circumferential direction, and positioned at swirl downstream side of spray center axis line (F2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Isshou UEHARA, Manabu HASEGAWA, Naohide TSUJI, Masahiko NAKANO
  • Patent number: 7594483
    Abstract: An engine cooling system has an engine water jacket, a coolant circulation passage connecting a water jacket outlet to a water jacket inlet and a radiator disposed in the coolant circulation passage. A thermostat valve selectively closes and opens the coolant circulation passage leading to the radiator. A bypass passage extends from between the water jacket outlet and the thermostat valve to an outlet side of the radiator. A bridge passage connects a portion of the bypass passage to a portion of the coolant circulation passage located downstream of the radiator and upstream of where the bypass passage merges therewith. A resistance generating section is located downstream of the bridge passage connection to the coolant circulation passage and upstream of the bypass passage connection to the coolant circulation passage. The bridge passage has an oil heat exchanger to exchange heat between the cooling medium and transmission oil passing therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2009
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohide Tsuji, Eiji Aiyoshizawa, Nobuhiro Abe, Tatsuo Kuraishi
  • Publication number: 20080276886
    Abstract: An engine cooling system has an engine water jacket, a coolant circulation passage connecting a water jacket outlet to a water jacket inlet and a radiator disposed in the coolant circulation passage. A thermostat valve selectively closes and opens the coolant circulation passage leading to the radiator. A bypass passage extends from between the water jacket outlet and the thermostat valve to an outlet side of the radiator. A bridge passage connects a portion of the bypass passage to a portion of the coolant circulation passage located downstream of the radiator and upstream of where the bypass passage merges therewith. A resistance generating section is located downstream of the bridge passage connection to the coolant circulation passage and upstream of the bypass passage connection to the coolant circulation passage. The bridge passage has an oil heat exchanger to exchange heat between the cooling medium and transmission oil passing therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Naohide TSUJI, Eiji AIYOSHIZAWA, Nobuhiro ABE, Tatsuo KURAISHI