Patents by Inventor Shinya OHORI

Shinya OHORI 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: 11181061
    Abstract: A control apparatus performs a diagnosis process for determining whether or not catalyst warm-up control is abnormal by determining whether or not an ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control is a timing advanced by a threshold or more. The threshold is a value that is set to a timing more advanced than the ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control by a predetermined margin. The control apparatus performs a setting process for setting the threshold based on a start-up coolant temperature such that the margin becomes larger when the start-up coolant temperature is low than when the start-up coolant temperature is high.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Chisa Watanabe, Yuki Ikejiri
  • Patent number: 11174804
    Abstract: A controller includes a soak timer, a nonvolatile memory, and a determining section. The determining section is configured to perform a rationality check on a condition that a performance condition is met. The determining section is also configured to make the performance condition strict when an obtained index value of a vehicle outside temperature, that is obtained when an elapsed amount of time reaches a specified amount of time, and the determining section is activated, is higher than a stored index value of the vehicle outside temperature stored in the nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Miwa Hinoshita, Junji Hyodoh
  • Patent number: 11098667
    Abstract: During operation of the engine for a time period from a system-on operation to a system-off operation, the vehicle causes the warming-up determination parameter to be subject to addition when an engine is not in a flow path heat release state where an amount of heat released in the supply flow path is expected to be larger than an amount of heat received in the supply flow path, while causing the warming-up determination parameter to be subject to subtraction when the engine is in the flow path heat release state and a duration time of the flow path heat release state is equal to or longer than a first predetermined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Naoya Okubo
  • Publication number: 20210215112
    Abstract: A controller includes a soak timer, a nonvolatile memory, and a determining section. The determining section is configured to perform a rationality check on a condition that a performance condition is met. The determining section is also configured to make the performance condition strict when an obtained index value of a vehicle outside temperature, that is obtained when an elapsed amount of time reaches a specified amount of time, and the determining section is activated, is higher than a stored index value of the vehicle outside temperature stored in the nonvolatile memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya OHORI, Miwa HINOSHITA, Junji HYODOH
  • Patent number: 10982619
    Abstract: A controller for vehicle is provided. A determining section obtains fuel pressure in a delivery pipe and performs a rationality check for determining whether the obtained fuel pressure is within a normal range. The determining section shifts the normal range toward a high pressure side when a second index value of a vehicle outside temperature is higher than a first index value as compared with when the second index value is not higher than the first index value. The second index value is obtained when the determining section is activated. The first index value is stored in a nonvolatile memory before a main switch is turned off so that power supply is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Naoya Okubo, Yukio Kobayashi, Seiji Hino
  • Publication number: 20210087989
    Abstract: A control apparatus performs a diagnosis process for determining whether or not catalyst warm-up control is abnormal by determining whether or not an ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control is a timing advanced by a threshold or more. The threshold is a value that is set to a timing more advanced than the ignition timing that is set during the performance of catalyst warm-up control by a predetermined margin. The control apparatus performs a setting process for setting the threshold based on a start-up coolant temperature such that the margin becomes larger when the start-up coolant temperature is low than when the start-up coolant temperature is high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya OHORI, Chisa WATANABE, Yuki IKEJIRI
  • Publication number: 20210033037
    Abstract: During operation of the engine for a time period from a system-on operation to a system-off operation, the vehicle causes the warming-up determination parameter to be subject to addition when an engine is not in a flow path heat release state where an amount of heat released in the supply flow path is expected to be larger than an amount of heat received in the supply flow path, while causing the warming-up determination parameter to be subject to subtraction when the engine is in the flow path heat release state and a duration time of the flow path heat release state is equal to or longer than a first predetermined time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya OHORI, Naoya Okubo
  • Publication number: 20200408164
    Abstract: A controller for vehicle is provided. A determining section obtains fuel pressure in a delivery pipe and performs a rationality check for determining whether the obtained fuel pressure is within a normal range. The determining section shifts the normal range toward a high pressure side when a second index value of a vehicle outside temperature is higher than a first index value as compared with when the second index value is not higher than the first index value. The second index value is obtained when the determining section is activated. The first index value is stored in a nonvolatile memory before a main switch is turned off so that power supply is stopped.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya OHORI, Naoya Okubo, Yukio Kobayashi, Seiji Hino
  • Patent number: 10145328
    Abstract: After a system-off state has continued for a preset, time period since a system-off operation, on satisfaction of abnormality diagnosis prerequisites including a condition that a warm-up determination parameter indicating a degree of warm-up of an engine at a system-off time is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, characteristic abnormality diagnosis is performed to determine whether a characteristic abnormality occurs in a fuel pressure sensor. For a time period from a system-on operation to a system-off operation, the warm-up determination parameter is incremented when the engine is in operation, while being decremented after satisfaction of a predetermined condition when the engine is not in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Junji Hyodo
  • Publication number: 20180163661
    Abstract: After a system-off state has continued for a preset, time period since a system-off operation, on satisfaction of abnormality diagnosis prerequisites including a condition that a warm-up determination parameter indicating a degree of warm-up of an engine at a system-off time is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, characteristic abnormality diagnosis is performed to determine whether a characteristic abnormality occurs in a fuel pressure sensor. For a time period from a system-on operation to a system-off operation, the warm-up determination parameter is incremented when the engine is in operation, while being decremented after satisfaction of a predetermined condition when the engine is not in operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya OHORI, Junji HYODO
  • Patent number: 9759150
    Abstract: On start of an engine, a difference ?Pm between a first intake pipe pressure Pm1 and a second intake pipe pressure Pm2 is computed. Reduction correction of wall surface deposition correction is prohibited until the state that the difference ?Pm is equal to or less than a reference value ?Pmref continues over a predetermined number of strokes nref of the engine. After the state that the difference ?Pm is equal to or less than the reference value ?Pmref continues over the predetermined number of strokes nref of the engine, permission is given for the reduction correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Yoshiaki Ito, Makoto Yamazaki
  • Publication number: 20160237934
    Abstract: On start of an engine, a difference ?Pm between a first intake pipe pressure Pm1 and a second intake pipe pressure Pm2 is computed. Reduction correction of wall surface deposition correction is prohibited until the state that the difference ?Pm is equal to or less than a reference value ?Pmref continues over a predetermined number of strokes nref of the engine. After the state that the difference ?Pm is equal to or less than the reference value ?Pmref continues over the predetermined number of strokes nref of the engine, permission is given for the reduction correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya OHORI, Yoshiaki ITO, Makoto YAMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 8897992
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes: a variable valve timing mechanism that changes a valve timing; and a control unit that controls a change of the valve timing. The control unit sets an engine stop request-time target valve timing that is a target valve timing at the time when a request for an engine stop is issued, starts control for changing the valve timing coincides with the engine stop request-time target valve timing and causes the internal combustion engine to operate at an idle at the time when the request for the engine stop is issued, starts a process of stopping operation of internal combustion engine at the time when the valve timing has reached a predetermined valve timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Daigo Ando
  • Patent number: 8855891
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes: a variable valve timing mechanism that changes a valve timing; and a control unit that controls a change of the valve timing. The control unit sets an engine stop request-time target valve timing that is a target valve timing at the time when a request for an engine stop is issued, starts control for changing the valve timing coincides with the engine stop request-time target valve timing and causes the internal combustion engine to operate at an idle at the time when the request for the engine stop is issued, starts a process of stopping operation of internal combustion engine at the time when the valve timing has reached a predetermined valve timing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Shinya Ohori, Daigo Ando
  • Publication number: 20130160727
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine includes: a variable valve timing mechanism that changes a valve timing; and a control unit that controls a change of the valve timing. The control unit sets an engine stop request-time target valve timing that is a target valve timing at the time when a request for an engine stop is issued, starts control for changing the valve timing coincides with the engine stop request-time target valve timing and causes the internal combustion engine to operate at an idle at the time when the request for the engine stop is issued, starts a process of stopping operation of internal combustion engine at the time when the valve timing has reached a predetermined valve timing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Shinya OHORI, Daigo ANDO