Patents by Inventor Shintarou NOGUCHI

Shintarou NOGUCHI 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: 11828240
    Abstract: A temporal change of a turbo rotation speed of a turbocharger is detected for each cycle of an engine. A first vibration component corresponding to each of cylinders is specified from a pulsation component included in the temporal change of the turbo rotation speed, and the first vibration components for each of the cylinders are integrated over a plurality of cycles. A variation of combustion states in the plurality of cylinders is calculated by comparing integration results among the cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sase, Shintarou Noguchi, Byeongil An
  • Patent number: 11441507
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and method for detecting a misfire in an engine, the device being provided with: a rotation speed sensor (43) as a supercharger rotation speed measurement unit for measuring a rotation speed (Nt) of a supercharger (23); a misfire index calculation unit (51) that calculates a misfire index (Yt) from a degree of change in the rotation speed (Nt) of the supercharger (23), the rotation speed being measured by the rotation speed sensor (43); and a misfire determination unit (52) that determines a misfire in an engine (10) when the misfire index (Yt) calculated by the misfire index calculation unit (51) exceeds a pre-set determination value (D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Sase, Shintarou Noguchi
  • Publication number: 20220106918
    Abstract: A temporal change of a turbo rotation speed of a turbocharger is detected for each cycle of an engine. A first vibration component corresponding to each of cylinders is specified from a pulsation component included in the temporal change of the turbo rotation speed, and the first vibration components for each of the cylinders are integrated over a plurality of cycles. A variation of combustion states in the plurality of cylinders is calculated by comparing integration results among the cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SASE, Shintarou NOGUCHI, Byeongil AN
  • Publication number: 20200232408
    Abstract: The present invention provides a device and method for detecting a misfire in an engine, the device being provided with: a rotation speed sensor (43) as a supercharger rotation speed measurement unit for measuring a rotation speed (Nt) of a supercharger (23); a misfire index calculation unit (51) that calculates a misfire index (Yt) from a degree of change in the rotation speed (Nt) of the supercharger (23), the rotation speed being measured by the rotation speed sensor (43); and a misfire determination unit (52) that determines a misfire in an engine (10) when the misfire index (Yt) calculated by the misfire index calculation unit (51) exceeds a pre-set determination value (D).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SASE, Shintarou NOGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20200165994
    Abstract: An engine abnormality detection device for detecting variation of a combustion state of each of a plurality of cylinders of an engine, the engine abnormality detection device includes: a rotation information acquisition part configured to obtain rotation information related to a rotation state of the engine; a frequency analysis part configured to perform frequency analysis of the rotation information, the frequency analysis part being configured to calculate a component of fNe and a component fcyl through the frequency analysis of the rotation information, where fNe is a frequency of a single cycle of the engine and fcyl is a frequency of pulsation of the engine; and a detection part configured to detect variation of exhaust energy of each cylinder on the basis of the component of fNe and the component of fcyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES ENGINE & TURBOCHARGER, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo SASE, Shintarou NOGUCHI