Patents by Inventor Shizuo Kawai
Shizuo Kawai 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: 4725209Abstract: A distributor type fuel injection pump of the invention includes a rotor, a pair of plungers reciprocated in the rotor, the pair of plungers defining a pump chamber therebetween; a shuttle cylinder; a shuttle piston, movably located in the shuttle cylinder, for dividing the interior of the shuttle cylinder into first and second pressure chambers, the second pressure chamber being always connected to the pump chamber, thereby pressurizing the fuel in the second pressure chamber by pressurization of fuel in the pump chamber by the plungers and moving the shuttle piston to pressurize the fuel in the first pressure chamber; a distribution head for distributing and supplying the pressurized fuel in the first pressure chamber to each combustion chamber of the engine; a control rod for mechanically adjusting an initial position of the shuttle piston when the fuel is supplied to the first and second pressure chambers; and a spill hole for spilling the fuel in the second pressure chamber when the shuttle piston is movType: GrantFiled: February 4, 1987Date of Patent: February 16, 1988Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Akira Shibata, Shizuo Kawai, Yukinori Miyata
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Patent number: 4469069Abstract: A fuel injection device injects pressurized fuel in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The device is provided with an accumulator. The accumulator accumulates part of the pressurized fuel to be injected in the combustion chamber in accordance with a given operating state of the engine, thereby obtaining an optimum injection rate throughout the entire operating range of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 1983Date of Patent: September 4, 1984Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Masatoshi Kuroyanagi, Masahiko Suzuki, Shizuo Kawai
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Patent number: 4450819Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for adjusting the injection timing of a distribution-type fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines. In the device of the present invention in which an adjusting piston is moved responsive to the fuel pressure in the high-pressure oil chamber and the resilient force of the timer spring, and the roller ring is rotated following the movement of the adjusting piston, the improvement comprises a cylinder which is provided in addition to a cylinder that accommodates the adjusting piston, and a shaft which slides in the above cylinder separately from the adjusting piston, so that the position of the adjusting piston can be adjusted by the shaft. The device employs sliding portions that do not require strict machining precision. Further, when the fuel injection pump is to be mounted on the engine, the initial timing can be easily adjusted through manipulation effected from the outer side of the fuel injection pump.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 1982Date of Patent: May 29, 1984Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuhiro Furuhashi, Naozi Ishikawa, Shizuo Kawai
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Patent number: 4450817Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the fuel injection timing of a compression ignition engine are featured by dithering the fuel injection timing so as to be advanced and retarded with respect to and in the vicinity of a calculated timing of injection of pressurized fuel supplied to the engine which calculated injection timing is determined in accordance with operating conditions of the engine, operating the engine alternately at the calculated fuel injection timing, the advanced fuel injection timing and the retarded fuel injection timing each during a given period of time, deciding a direction of improving a fuel consumption rate of the engine from corresponding changes of an operating condition of the engine detected when the engine is operated at the respective fuel injection timings, and correcting the calculated fuel injection timing in accordance with the result of the decision, thereby controlling the fuel injection timing at an optimum fuel injection timing which ensures an optimum fuel consumptiType: GrantFiled: March 12, 1982Date of Patent: May 29, 1984Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Noritaka Ibuki, Shizuo Kawai
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Patent number: 4432321Abstract: A fuel injection pump device for an internal combustion engine, in which a mechanical correcting signal continuously generated from a bellows in response to change in atmospheric pressure is transmitted to an adjusting member associated with a pump to adjust an amount of fuel injected into the engine by the pump. Transmission of the mechanical correcting signal from the bellows is limited such that the mechanical correcting signal is allowed to be transmitted to the adjusting member in a range in which the atmospheric pressure is below a predetermined level, but is prevented from being transmitted to the adjusting member when the atmospheric pressure is above the predetermined level.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 1981Date of Patent: February 21, 1984Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasushi Matsuda, Shizuo Kawai
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Patent number: 4423713Abstract: The intake pressure and temperature of a Diesel engine equipped with a supercharger are sensed and the sensed intake pressure value is divided by the sensed intake temperature value to obtain an intake density. A value indicative of the intake density is divided by a value indicative of the air-excess ratio computed in accordance with the operating condition of the engine producing a smoke-limit injection amount. The smoke-limit injection amount is compared with the injection amount corresponding to a part-load condition of the engine and the smaller one of the values is applied to a linear solenoid for controlling the fuel injection amount adjusting member in the fuel injection pump of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 1980Date of Patent: January 3, 1984Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Sami, Tatehito Ueda, Osamu Ito, Nobuhito Hobo, Takashi Naitou, Tetsuya Nakamura, Shizuo Kawai, Yukinori Miyata
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Patent number: 4423485Abstract: An electric control apparatus for a fuel injection pump comprises a fuel flow sensor for detecting the net quantity of fuel supplied to the fuel injection pump, operating condition sensors for detecting operating condition parameters of an engine, a servo device for driving a fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump which controls the fuel injection quantity of the fuel injection pump, and an electric control circuit for receiving detection signals from the fuel flow sensor and the operating condition sensors, computing the actual fuel injection quantity and the desired fuel injection quantity, and determining an error between the computed actual fuel injection quantity and desired fuel injection quantity to drive the fuel injection quantity controlling element of the fuel injection pump through the servo device in accordance with an error representing signal, thereby controlling the actual fuel injection quantity at the desired fuel injection quantity.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1981Date of Patent: December 27, 1983Assignees: Nippondenso Co., Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Hiroshi Sami, Osamu Ito, Shizuo Kawai, Nobuhito Hobo, Teruo Nishio
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Patent number: 4416232Abstract: An electrical governor for a fuel injection pump with a spill ring comprises an acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) detector, an engine rotational speed (N) detector, a spill ring displacement detector, a maximum limit injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the engine rotational speed (N) and the maximum smoke concentration generating injection amount (Qmax), a partial load injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the rotational speed (N) and the partial load injection amount (Qpar) corresponding to the acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) with the acceleration pedal operating amount (PA) as a parameter, a minimum limit injection amount pattern memory for storing the relation between the rotational speed (N) and the minimum limit injection amount (Qmin), a target position pattern memory for storing the relation between the target injection amount (Qf) and the spill ring displacement target position (V.sub.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1981Date of Patent: November 22, 1983Assignee: Nippondenso Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Shiozaki, Satoshi Haseda, Jun Tarui, Osamu Ito, Nobuhito Hobo, Yoshihiko Tsuzuki, Shizuo Kawai, Hiroshi Sami