Patents by Inventor Shouichi Aiga

Shouichi Aiga 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: 11280301
    Abstract: An intake device of an engine comprises an intercooler, an intake passage including a downstream-side intake passage, and an EGR passage recirculating exhaust gas to the downstream-side intake passage. An intake-air supply opening having an opening area smaller than an area of a downstream-side face of an intercooler core is provided at a downstream side wall of a chamber. The downstream-side intake passage includes an extension passage portion extending upwardly along the downstream side wall. The intake-air supply opening includes an upper edge portion which separates the intake air flowing from an inside wall face of the extension passage portion and forms flowing main streams of the intake air inside the extension passage portion. EGR introduction ports are arranged at positions capable of supplying the EGR gas toward the flowing main streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro Hamazume, Takashi Yoshikawa, Jiro Kato, Taketoshi Yamauchi, Hirofumi Shinohara, Kazuhiro Nakamura, Yoko Inami, Shouichi Aiga, Tomoaki Fujiyama, Kosuke Miyamoto, Takuya Yamada
  • Publication number: 20210222653
    Abstract: An intake device of an engine comprises an intercooler, an intake passage including a downstream-side intake passage, and an EGR passage recirculating exhaust gas to the downstream-side intake passage. An intake-air supply opening having an opening area smaller than an area of a downstream-side face of an intercooler core is provided at a downstream side wall of a chamber. The downstream-side intake passage includes an extension passage portion extending upwardly along the downstream side wall. The intake-air supply opening includes an upper edge portion which separates the intake air flowing from an inside wall face of the extension passage portion and forms flowing main streams of the intake air inside the extension passage portion. EGR introduction ports are arranged at positions capable of supplying the EGR gas toward the flowing main streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshihiro HAMAZUME, Takashi YOSHIKAWA, Jiro KATO, Taketoshi YAMAUCHI, Hirofumi SHINOHARA, Kazuhiro NAKAMURA, Yoko INAMI, Shouichi AIGA, Tomoaki FUJIYAMA, Kosuke MIYAMOTO, Takuya YAMADA
  • Patent number: 10408144
    Abstract: An engine control device including: a turbocharger; an EGR device that includes an EGR passage, an EGR valve, and an EGR cooler; and a PCM that, based on an operation state of an engine, controls the EGR valve to adjust an EGR rate that is a ratio of an EGR gas amount to a total amount of gas introduced to a cylinder of the engine. The PCM controls the EGR valve such that, in a high load range and a medium load range for the engine, the EGR device recirculates the EGR gas into an intake passage; and controls the EGR valve such that an EGR rate in the high load range is lower than an EGR rate in the medium load range at a same engine speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Tadasuke Matsumoto, Shouichi Aiga, Yoshitomo Matsuo, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Tomoaki Fujiyama
  • Publication number: 20180245529
    Abstract: An engine control device including: a turbocharger; an EGR device that includes an EGR passage, an EGR valve, and an EGR cooler; and a PCM that, based on an operation state of an engine, controls the EGR valve to adjust an EGR rate that is a ratio of an EGR gas amount to a total amount of gas introduced to a cylinder of the engine. The PCM controls the EGR valve such that, in a high load range and a medium load range for the engine, the EGR device recirculates the EGR gas into an intake passage; and controls the EGR valve such that an EGR rate in the high load range is lower than an EGR rate in the medium load range at a same engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Tadasuke Matsumoto, Shouichi Aiga, Yoshitomo Matsuo, Kazuhiro Nishimura, Tomoaki Fujiyama
  • Patent number: 9897034
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of an engine that can certainly suppress and avoid pre-ignition. A control device of an engine is an engine control device for controlling the behavior of fuel that is directly injected into a combustion chamber of a cylinder by a tumble flow, and it has an injector that directly injects the fuel into the combustion chamber, an intake port that generates the tumble flow in the combustion chamber, and an ECU that injects the fuel from the injector at a plurality of injection timings including an intake-stroke-early-half injection timing that is set at an early half of the intake stroke of the cylinder, when an operating state of the engine is in a high-load, low-rotation range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsugawa, Hiroki Morimoto, Nobuhiko Yokoyama, Shouichi Aiga, Yoshitomo Matsuo, Tomoaki Fujiyama, Yoshitaka Wada
  • Publication number: 20170009698
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of an engine that can certainly suppress and avoid pre-ignition. A control device of an engine is an engine control device for controlling the behavior of fuel that is directly injected into a combustion chamber of a cylinder by a tumble flow, and it has an injector that directly injects the fuel into the combustion chamber, an intake port that generates the tumble flow in the combustion chamber, and an ECU that injects the fuel from the injector at a plurality of injection timings including an intake-stroke-early-half injection timing that is set at an early half of the intake stroke of the cylinder, when an operating state of the engine is in a high-load, low-rotation range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Takeshi Tsugawa, Hiroki Morimoto, Nobuhiko Yokoyama, Shouichi Aiga, Yoshitomo Matsuo, Tomoaki Fujiyama, Yoshitaka Wada