Patents by Inventor Shinichi Kuratani
Shinichi Kuratani 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).
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Patent number: 10527522Abstract: A misfire determination device of an internal combustion engine, includes an angular velocity obtaining section which obtains two crank angular velocities corresponding to two crank angular positions, respectively, which are set between a range which is around a first compression top dead center and a range which is around a second compression top dead center, in which the first compression top dead center is a compression top dead center of a determination target cylinder, and the second compression top dead center is the compression top dead center of a next ignition cylinder in which ignition is performed next to the ignition performed in the determination target cylinder; and a misfire determination section which determines whether or not misfire has occurred in the determination target cylinder based on a result of comparing a deviation between the two crank angular velocities to a predetermined misfire determination threshold.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2017Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichi Jino, Katsumi Sobakiri, Shinichi Kuratani
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Patent number: 10281359Abstract: A misfire determination device of an engine in which explosion occurs at unequal intervals, the engine including a plurality of cylinders and a crankshaft which is angularly displaced at a different angle between expansion strokes, is configured to calculate generated torque correlation amount correlated with generated torque, based on an angular position signal of the crankshaft, and perform misfire determination, based on an average value of the generated torque correlation amount in an interval less than one cycle of the engine, at an angular position of the crankshaft which is different from an angular position of the crankshaft at an ignition timing.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2015Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kenichi Jino, Katsumi Sobakiri, Shinichi Kuratani
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Publication number: 20180128712Abstract: A misfire determination device of an internal combustion engine, includes an angular velocity obtaining section which obtains two crank angular velocities corresponding to two crank angular positions, respectively, which are set between a range which is around a first compression top dead center and a range which is around a second compression top dead center, in which the first compression top dead center is a compression top dead center of a determination target cylinder, and the second compression top dead center is the compression top dead center of a next ignition cylinder in which ignition is performed next to the ignition performed in the determination target cylinder; and a misfire determination section which determines whether or not misfire has occurred in the determination target cylinder based on a result of comparing a deviation between the two crank angular velocities to a predetermined misfire determination threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Kenichi Jino, Katsumi Sobakiri, Shinichi Kuratani
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Publication number: 20170299468Abstract: A misfire determination device of an engine in which explosion occurs at unequal intervals, the engine including a plurality of cylinders and a crankshaft which is angularly displaced at a different angle between expansion strokes, is configured to calculate generated torque correlation amount correlated with generated torque, based on an angular position signal of the crankshaft, and perform misfire determination, based on an average value of the generated torque correlation amount in an interval less than one cycle of the engine, at an angular position of the crankshaft which is different from an angular position of the crankshaft at an ignition timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2015Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Kenichi Jino, Katsumi Sobakiri, Shinichi Kuratani
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Patent number: 9337755Abstract: A motor control apparatus has an inverter circuit having a plurality of pairs of upper and lower arms provided so as to correspond to the number of phases, and switching elements provided on each of the upper arms and the lower arms of each phase that drive a motor on the basis of ON or OFF operations of the respective switching elements, a single current detector that detects a current of the motor flowing through the inverter circuit, and a duty calculator that calculates duties of a PWM signals for turning the switching elements ON or OFF on the basis of a deviation between a current value of the current detected by the current detector and a target current value.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masamitsu Hamasaki, Takenobu Nakamura, Shinichi Kuratani
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Patent number: 9331612Abstract: A motor control apparatus has an inverter circuit having a plurality of pairs of upper and lower arms provided so as to correspond to a number of phases, and switching elements provided on each of the upper arms and the lower arms of each phase that drive a motor on the basis of ON or OFF operations of the respective switching elements, a single current detector that detects a current of the motor flowing through the inverter circuit, and a duty calculator that calculates duties of PWM signals for turning the switching elements ON or OFF on the basis of a deviation between a current value of the current detected by the current detector and a target current value.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinichi Kuratani
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Patent number: 9026340Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system of an internal combustion engine comprises a fuel amount determiner for determining a fuel command value. The fuel amount determiner has a feedback control mode in which the fuel amount determiner determines a running state reference coefficient corresponding to a running state detected by a running state detector based on a first correspondence stored in the memory, determines a running state compensation coefficient corresponding to the running state detected by the running state detector based on a second correspondence stored in the memory, determines a feedback compensation coefficient used to cause an air-fuel ratio to reach a value closer to a theoretical air-fuel ratio based on an output of the air-fuel ratio sensor, and determines the fuel command value using a formula including the determined running state reference coefficient, the determined running state compensation coefficient, and the determined feedback compensation coefficient.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinichi Kuratani, Tsuyoshi Takeuchi, Kozo Suzuki, Takashi Abe, Yoshinobu Mori, Daisuke Yanase
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Publication number: 20150061554Abstract: A motor control apparatus has an inverter circuit having a plurality of pairs of upper and lower arms provided so as to correspond to a number of phases, and switching elements provided on each of the upper arms and the lower arms of each phase that drive a motor on the basis of ON or OFF operations of the respective switching elements, a single current detector that detects a current of the motor flowing through the inverter circuit, and a duty calculator that calculates duties of PWM signals for turning the switching elements ON or OFF on the basis of a deviation between a current value of the current detected by the current detector and a target current value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinichi Kuratani
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Publication number: 20150061555Abstract: A motor control apparatus has an inverter circuit having a plurality of pairs of upper and lower arms provided so as to correspond to the number of phases, and switching elements provided on each of the upper arms and the lower arms of each phase that drive a motor on the basis of ON or OFF operations of the respective switching elements, a single current detector that detects a current of the motor flowing through the inverter circuit, and a duty calculator that calculates duties of a PWM signals for turning the switching elements ON or OFF on the basis of a deviation between a current value of the current detected by the current detector and a target current value.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masamitsu Hamasaki, Takenobu Nakamura, Shinichi Kuratani
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Patent number: 8446115Abstract: A motor drive device has a drive circuit for driving a motor, and a control section for controlling the drive circuit. The control section has a current command value calculating portion for calculating a current command value, a rotation calculating portion for calculating a rotation angle and an angular speed of the motor, a current command value correcting portion for correcting the current command value based on the rotation angle, a voltage command value calculating portion for calculating a voltage command value based on the current command value, a voltage command value correcting portion for correcting the voltage command value based on the current command value and the rotation angle and the angular speed, and a drive signal generating portion for generating a drive signal based on the voltage command value.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Omron Automotive Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Michisada Yabuguchi, Takenobu Nakamura, Shinichi Kuratani
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Patent number: 8356512Abstract: An ECU is used in a motorcycle including an engine E, which combusts in a combustion chamber a blended fuel in which gasoline and ethanol are blended, and a fuel injection device for injecting a fuel with a predetermined fuel injection amount such that an air excess ratio in the combustion chamber is a first predetermined value when an ethanol concentration of the blended fuel is zero. The ECU executes O2 feedback control based on an O2 concentration derived from an output of an O2 sensor. Further, the ECU calculates an actual fuel compensation ratio by dividing a fuel injection amount after the O2 feedback control by a predetermined fuel injection amount, and estimates the concentration of the alternative fuel based on this actual fuel compensation ratio and a first predetermined value stored in the ECU.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2009Date of Patent: January 22, 2013Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Takashi Abe, Sou Kurosaka, Yoshinobu Mori, Shinichi Kuratani
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Patent number: 8310187Abstract: A motor drive device has a drive unit for driving a motor based on an ON/OF operation of a switching element by a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signal. The motor drive device uses a PWM control method and performs abnormal determination based on an application voltage value and an actual measurement voltage value of the motor. The motor drive device does not make a false determination of determining as abnormal when it is normal, when determining the presence of abnormality based on the application voltage value and the actual measurement voltage value of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2010Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Michisada Yabuguchi, Shinichi Kuratani, Takenobu Nakamura
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Patent number: 8228012Abstract: A controller of a multi-phase electric motor has a drive section having an upper arm switching element and a lower arm switching element for driving the multi-phase electric motor, a single current detection section for detecting a current value of the multi-phase electric motor, a pulse width modulation signal generation section for generating plural pulse width modulation of each phase within one control period based on the current value detected by the current detection section and a carrier signal, and a phase movement section for moving the pulse width modulation signal of a predetermined phase generated by the pulse width modulation signal generation section by gradually changing a movement amount of the phase in one control period, and outputting the resultant pulse width modulation signal to the drive section.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2008Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Masamitsu Hamasaki, Shinichi Kuratani, Takenobu Nakamura
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Publication number: 20120166068Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system of an internal combustion engine comprises a fuel amount determiner for determining a fuel command value. The fuel amount determiner has a feedback control mode in which the fuel amount determiner determines a running state reference coefficient corresponding to a running state detected by a running state detector based on a first correspondence stored in the memory, determines a running state compensation coefficient corresponding to the running state detected by the running state detector based on a second correspondence stored in the memory, determines a feedback compensation coefficient used to cause an air-fuel ratio to reach a value closer to a theoretical air-fuel ratio based on an output of the air-fuel ratio sensor, and determines the fuel command value using a formula including the determined running state reference coefficient, the determined running state compensation coefficient, and the determined feedback compensation coefficient.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Shinichi Kuratani, Tsuyoshi Takeuchi, Kozo Suzuki, Takashi Abe, Yoshinobu Mori, Daisuke Yanase
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Publication number: 20110248656Abstract: A motor drive device has a drive circuit for driving a motor, and a control section for controlling the drive circuit. The control section has a current command value calculating portion for calculating a current command value, a rotation calculating portion for calculating a rotation angle and an angular speed of the motor, a current command value correcting portion for correcting the current command value based on the rotation angle, a voltage command value calculating portion for calculating a voltage command value based on the current command value, a voltage command value correcting portion for correcting the voltage command value based on the current command value and the rotation angle and the angular speed, and a drive signal generating portion for generating a drive signal based on the voltage command value.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: October 13, 2011Applicant: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Michisada Yabuguchi, Takenobu Nakamura, Shinichi Kuratani
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Publication number: 20110239750Abstract: An ECU is used in a motorcycle including an engine E, which combusts in a combustion chamber a blended fuel in which gasoline and ethanol are blended, and a fuel injection device for injecting a fuel with a predetermined fuel injection amount such that an air excess ratio in the combustion chamber is a first predetermined value when an ethanol concentration of the blended fuel is zero. The ECU executes O2 feedback control based on an O2 concentration derived from an output of an O2 sensor. Further, the ECU calculates an actual fuel compensation ratio by dividing a fuel injection amount after the O2 feedback control by a predetermined fuel injection amount, and estimates the concentration of the alternative fuel based on this actual fuel compensation ratio and a first predetermined value stored in the ECU.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2009Publication date: October 6, 2011Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takashi Abe, Sou Kurosaka, Yoshinobu Mori, Shinichi Kuratani
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Publication number: 20110234138Abstract: A motor drive device has a drive unit having at least three pairs of upper and lower arms including switching elements at each of the upper arm and the lower arm, for driving a motor based on an ON/OFF operation of each of the switching elements by a PWM signal, a single current detection resistor for detecting a current flowing to the drive unit, and a control unit for detecting a current value of a current flowing to each phase of the motor based on the current flowing to the current detection resistor, and outputting the PWM signal to each of the switching elements based on a target current value of each phase and the detected current value of each phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2011Publication date: September 29, 2011Applicant: OMRON AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Shinichi Kuratani, Takenobu Nakamura
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Patent number: 7974751Abstract: A sensitivity identifying device has an operating object device configured to operate when an operation member is moved according to a force applied by a user, an assist force applying device for applying an assist force to movement of the operation member, an operation force parameter detecting device for detecting a value of an operation force parameter, an operation response parameter detecting device for detecting a value of an operation response parameter, a sensitivity identifying information storage section for storing sensitivity identifying information associating a sensitivity index, with a combination of the value of the operation force parameter and the operation response parameter, and a sensitivity determining unit for specifying the sensitivity index based on the combination of the value of the operation force parameter and the operation response parameter, and the sensitivity identifying information, and outputting the sensitivity index.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2007Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: OMRON CorporationInventors: Hideaki Ito, Fuminori Ozaki, Yumi Tsutsumi, Mayumi Komatsu, Shinichi Kuratani
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Publication number: 20110080126Abstract: A motor drive device has a drive unit for driving a motor based on an ON/OFF operation of a switching element by a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) signal. The motor drive device uses a PWM control method and performs abnormal determination based on an application voltage value and an actual measurement voltage value of the motor. The motor drive device does not make a false determination of determining as abnormal when it is normal, when determining the presence of abnormality based on the application voltage value and the actual measurement voltage value of the motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: April 7, 2011Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Michisada Yabuguchi, Shinichi Kuratani, Takenobu Nakamura
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Publication number: 20110068728Abstract: A motor drive device has a drive unit at least three sets of upper and lower arms, each of the at least three sets of upper and lower arms having switching elements thereon, for driving a motor based on an ON/OFF operation of each of the switching elements by a PWM signal, a single current detection resistor for detecting current flowing to the drive unit, and a control unit for detecting a current value of the current flowing to each of phases of the motor based on the current flowing to the current detection resistor, and outputting the PWM signal to each of the switching elements based on a target current value of each of the phases and the detected current value of each of the phases.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Applicant: OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Shinichi Kuratani, Takenobu Nakamura, Michisada Yabuguchi, Masamitsu Hamasaki