Patents by Inventor Shunsuke Aritomi

Shunsuke Aritomi 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: 11852093
    Abstract: Low noise control of a high-pressure fuel pump is performed by reducing noise generated by an anchor colliding with a fixing core. A control device 800 for a high-pressure fuel pump controls a suction valve that opens and closes an inflow port through which fuel flows to a pressurizing chamber by performing energization to a solenoid 205 in synchronization with a reciprocating motion of a plunger. A current energized to the solenoid 205 includes a peak current for giving a force to start closing a valve to the suction valve in a stationary state and a holding current for performing switching in a range smaller a maximum value of the peak current in order to hold the suction valve in a valve closing state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Aono, Osamu Mukaihara, Kenichiro Tokuo, Hirotaka Nakai, Kotaro Oki, Shunsuke Aritomi, Akiyasu Miyamoto
  • Publication number: 20230227017
    Abstract: Accurately controlling pressing thrust regardless of an individual difference and a use situation of a brake apparatus, and the like are set forth herein. The present invention controls a motor that applies thrust to a piston that presses a brake pad, in a current variation period before an idling current period, a variation in the current and the voltage or a variation in a function including the current and the voltage in the idling current period is computed as a plurality of prospective values. At a predetermined time T0 during the current variation period, one of the plurality of prospective values is selected on the basis of the current and the voltage, and on the basis of the variation in the current and the voltage or the function related to the selected prospective value, a characteristic parameter of the motor is computed to compute a stop current of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke ARITOMI, Shinji SETO, Norikazu MATSUZAKI, Kimio NISHINO, Daisuke KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20230038318
    Abstract: Low noise control of a high-pressure fuel pump is performed by reducing noise generated by an anchor colliding with a fixing core. A control device 800 for a high-pressure fuel pump controls a suction valve that opens and closes an inflow port through which fuel flows to a pressurizing chamber by performing energization to a solenoid 205 in synchronization with a reciprocating motion of a plunger. A current energized to the solenoid 205 includes a peak current for giving a force to start closing a valve to the suction valve in a stationary state and a holding current for performing switching in a range smaller a maximum value of the peak current in order to hold the suction valve in a valve closing state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 25, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Toshihiro AONO, Osamu MUKAIHARA, Kenichiro TOKUO, Hirotaka NAKAI, Kotaro OKI, Shunsuke ARITOMI, Akiyasu MIYAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230043134
    Abstract: Provided fire an electric parking brake device and an electric parking brake control method that can apply an appropriate clamping force by accelerating data measurement and by suppressing influence of load fluctuation during idle rum For this end, the electric parking brake device of the present invention includes: a disc rotor; brake pads that are pressed to the disc rotor; an electric motor that imparts a thrust to the brake pads; a current detection unit that detects a motor current of the electric motor; and a brake control device that controls the electric motor 8 based on the motor current. The brake control device controls the electric motor 8 based on a current change amount of an electric current during a period from a point of time that the motor current becomes a peak current to a predetermined point of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinji SETO, Shunsuke ARITOMI, Ryu KAI, Kimio NISHINO, Daisuke KOJIMA
  • Publication number: 20210156350
    Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a fuel supply pump that can simultaneously prevent cavitation erosion in a relief valve seat portion at the time of increasing the pressure and reduce a maximum pressure when releasing an abnormally high pressure. Therefore, in the fuel supply pump, a relief valve mechanism includes a seat portion and a relief valve seated on the seat portion, and sets a set discharge pressure to 30 MPa or more. A seat angle of the seat portion is formed to be 40° to 50°, and a set valve opening pressure of the relief valve mechanism is set to 2 MPa or more than the set discharge pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke ARITOMI, Masayuki SUGANAMI
  • Patent number: 10982638
    Abstract: To reduce collision noise caused when an electromagnetic valve of a high-pressure fuel supply pump is opened. Therefore, in a control device for controlling a high-pressure fuel supply pump including: an anchor; a fixed core configured to attract the anchor with an electromagnetic force; a suction valve configured to be opened or closed when the anchor is sucked by the fixed core; and an electromagnetic force generation unit configured to generate the electromagnetic force when applied with a driving voltage, it can be achieved by providing a control unit configured to perform control to lower a driving current from a peak current before a timing at which the anchor is sucked by the fixed core and collides in an operation state where an engine is under no load and an engine rotation speed is equal to or less than a set rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori Watanabe, Shunsuke Aritomi, Masayuki Suganami, Ryo Kusakabe
  • Patent number: 10961961
    Abstract: A control method of a fuel supply pump includes moving an anchor in the closing valve direction by passing a maximum drive current through the solenoid, and thereafter holding the anchor at a closing valve position by passing a holding current for keeping a closing valve state through the solenoid. The holding current is smaller than the maximum drive current. A current value of a first drive current is smaller than a current value of the holding current. A current value of a second drive current overlaps a range of the current value of the holding current. A current value of a third driving current is equal to or more than the current value of the holding current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masanori Watanabe, Shunsuke Aritomi, Kenichiro Tokuo, Masayuki Suganami
  • Patent number: 10961962
    Abstract: There is provided a discharge valve mechanism provided at an outlet of a pressurizing chamber of a high-pressure fuel supply pump that aims to reduce a backflow amount of fuel from a discharge valve and to prevent cavitation erosion. There are provided a discharge valve disposed on a discharge side of a pressurizing chamber, a discharge valve seat that closes a discharge side flow passage of the pressurizing chamber by seating the discharge valve, and a discharge valve spring that presses the discharge valve toward the discharge valve seat. It is configured such that, in a case where a minimum seat diameter of a seat portion in which the discharge valve is seated on the discharge valve seat is set to D and a spring force of the discharge valve spring at a time of setting is set to F, a coefficient K obtained by dividing the spring force F by the minimum seat diameter D is set to be 0.2 or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Masashi Nemoto, Shigehiko Omata, Moritsugu Akiyama, Shunsuke Aritomi, Takanori Oginuma
  • Patent number: 10851767
    Abstract: A pump for supplying high-pressure includes a plunger, a cylinder, a body, and a holder. The uppermost end surface of the cylinder is an end of the cylinder that is closest to the pressurizing chamber. A first gap formed between the outer periphery of the cylinder and the body in the radial direction is smaller than a second gap formed in the radial direction between the inner diameter of the pressurizing chamber and the outer diameter of the plunger. A radial gap is formed in an entire area of the cylinder in an axial direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Aritomi, Kenichirou Tokuo, Satoshi Usui, Shingo Tamura
  • Publication number: 20200318593
    Abstract: There is provided a discharge valve mechanism provided at an outlet of a pressurizing chamber of a high-pressure fuel supply pump that aims to reduce a backflow amount of fuel from a discharge valve and to prevent cavitation erosion. There are provided a discharge valve disposed on a discharge side of a pressurizing chamber, a discharge valve seat that closes a discharge side flow passage of the pressurizing chamber by seating the discharge valve, and a discharge valve spring that presses the discharge valve toward the discharge valve seat. It is configured such that, in a case where a minimum seat diameter of a seat portion in which the discharge valve is seated on the discharge valve seat is set to D and a spring force of the discharge valve spring at a time of setting is set to F, a coefficient K obtained by dividing the spring force F by the minimum seat diameter D is set to be 0.2 or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Masashi NEMOTO, Shigehiko OMATA, Moritsugu AKIYAMA, Shunsuke ARITOMI, Takanori OGINUMA
  • Publication number: 20200318592
    Abstract: To reduce collision noise caused when an electromagnetic valve of a high-pressure fuel supply pump is opened. Therefore, in a control device for controlling a high-pressure fuel supply pump including: an anchor; a fixed core configured to attract the anchor with an electromagnetic force; a suction valve configured to be opened or closed when the anchor is sucked by the fixed core; and an electromagnetic force generation unit configured to generate the electromagnetic force when applied with a driving voltage, it can be achieved by providing a control unit configured to perform control to lower a driving current from a peak current before a timing at which the anchor is sucked by the fixed core and collides in an operation state where an engine is under no load and an engine rotation speed is equal to or less than a set rotation speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Masanori WATANABE, Shunsuke ARITOMI, Masayuki SUGANAMI, Ryo KUSAKABE
  • Publication number: 20190234359
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a control method of a high-pressure fuel supply pump and a high-pressure fuel supply pump using the same capable of effectively reducing noise generated when an electromagnetic suction valve is opened. This can be realized such that, in a control method of a high-pressure fuel supply pump including a suction valve disposed on the suction side of the pressurizing chamber, a rod for urging the suction valve toward the opening valve direction, and an anchor for moving the rod in the closing valve direction with attraction by magnetic attraction caused by a solenoid being energized, when the anchor moves in the opening valve direction, a first drive current is passed through the solenoid for a predetermined period of time, and thereafter a second drive current larger than the first drive current is passed through the solenoid for a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Masanori WATANABE, Shunsuke ARITOMI, Kenichiro TOKUO, Masayuki SUGANAMI
  • Patent number: 10337480
    Abstract: Provided is a high-pressure fuel pump in which responsiveness of closing a suction valve can be maintained even when the high-pressure fuel pump is increased in pressure or capacity of the high-pressure fuel pump is increased, thereby ensuring discharge efficiency. Therefore, the high-pressure fuel pump includes the rod that urges the suction valve in the valve opening direction, the mover that drives the rod in the valve closing direction, and the solenoid that generates a magnetic attraction force for moving the mover in the valve closing direction. After the suction valve starts moving from the suction valve closing position in the valve opening direction, the rod reaches the suction valve closing position and further moves in the valve opening direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Tokuo, Ryo Kusakabe, Shunsuke Aritomi, Satoshi Usui, Masayuki Suganami, Minoru Hashida, Masamichi Yagai, Yuta Saso, Atsuji Saito
  • Publication number: 20190136841
    Abstract: A pump for supplying high-pressure includes a plunger, a cylinder, a body, and a holder. The uppermost end surface of the cylinder is an end of the cylinder that is closest to the pressurizing chamber. A first gap formed between the outer periphery of the cylinder and the body in the radial direction is smaller than a second gap formed in the radial direction between the inner diameter of the pressurizing chamber and the outer diameter of the plunger. A radial gap is formed in an entire area of the cylinder in an axial direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Shunsuke ARITOMI, Kenichirou TOKUO, Satoshi USUI, Shingo TAMURA
  • Publication number: 20180238287
    Abstract: Provided is a high-pressure fuel pump in which responsiveness of closing a suction valve can be maintained even when the high-pressure fuel pump is increased in pressure or capacity of the high-pressure fuel pump is increased, thereby ensuring discharge efficiency. Therefore, the high-pressure fuel pump includes the rod that urges the suction valve in the valve opening direction, the mover that drives the rod in the valve closing direction, and the solenoid that generates a magnetic attraction force for moving the mover in the valve closing direction. After the suction valve starts moving from the suction valve closing position in the valve opening direction, the rod reaches the suction valve closing position and further moves in the valve opening direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichiro TOKUO, Ryo KUSAKABE, Shunsuke ARITOMI, Satoshi USUI, Masayuki SUGANAMI, Minoru HASHIDA, Masamichi YAGAI, Yuta SASO, Atsuji SAITO
  • Patent number: 9890753
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electromagnetic valve structure improved in terms of the responsiveness of the electromagnetic valve and helping to realize a more accurate flow rate control, and to provide a high-pressure fuel supply pump in which the same is mounted. There is provided a high-pressure fuel supply pump having an electromagnetic valve equipped with an electromagnetic coil generating an electromagnetic force for opening and closing a valve body provided between a fuel intake path and a pressure chamber, a movable member operated by the electromagnetic force, a housing accommodating the movable member, and a back-pressure chamber formed between the housing and the movable member, wherein a first fuel path causing the back-pressure chamber to communicate with the intake path passes the center axis of the movable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Aritomi, Hitoshi Konno, Yukio Takahashi, Masayuki Suganami, Katsumi Miyazaki, Kenichirou Tokuo
  • Patent number: 9797387
    Abstract: A high-pressure fuel supply pump includes a plunger, a valve member, a valve seat, a pressurizing chamber, and a fuel passage. The fuel passage includes a gap passage portion formed in a gap between the valve seat and the valve member. The fuel passage also includes a bent passage portion extending in a bent direction with respect to the gap passage portion, on the downstream side of the gap passage portion. The inner surface of the valve member, on a side thereof that faces the valve seat, has a convex shape in an area of the valve member that is between the bent passage portion and the gap passage portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Aritomi, Satoshi Usui, Atsuji Saito, Tatsuo Kawano, Masayuki Suganami, Kenichirou Tokuo
  • Patent number: 9726104
    Abstract: In an electromagnetically controlled inlet valve actuator provided to a high pressure fuel pump, an impinging sound which is generated at the time of operating the mechanism is reduced. In a high pressure fuel pump provided with an electromagnetically controlled inlet valve (operated by way of a plunger rod), a current supply period includes a 1st current supply period for performing an operation of attracting the plunger rod in a valve closing direction, a 2nd current supply period for alleviating a speed at which the plunger rod moves in a valve opening direction, and a limited current supply period disposed between the 1st current supply period and the 2nd current supply period in the form of spanning a pump top dead center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Tokuo, Satoshi Usui, Masayuki Suganami, Shunsuke Aritomi
  • Publication number: 20160290299
    Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide an electromagnetic valve structure improved in terms of the responsiveness of the electromagnetic valve and helping to realize a more accurate flow rate control, and to provide a high-pressure fuel supply pump in which the same is mounted. There is provided a high-pressure fuel supply pump having an electromagnetic valve equipped with an electromagnetic coil generating an electromagnetic force for opening and closing a valve body provided between a fuel intake path and a pressure chamber, a movable member operated by the electromagnetic force, a housing accommodating the movable member, and a back-pressure chamber formed between the housing and the movable member, wherein a first fuel path causing the back-pressure chamber to communicate with the intake path passes the center axis of the movable member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Shunsuke ARITOMI, Hitoshi KONNO, Yukio TAKAHASHI, Masayuki SUGANAMI, Katsumi MIYAZAKI, Kenichirou TOKUO
  • Publication number: 20160281693
    Abstract: An object of the present invention is to reduce erosion due to cavitation in proximity to a valve seat in a high-pressure fuel supply pump including a fuel flow passage having a bent portion in proximity to the valve seat, formed therein. The high-pressure fuel supply pump includes fuel passages interconnecting with a pressurizing chamber of fuel in which volume varies due to reciprocating motion of a plunger to be in the reciprocation motion, and fluid valves formed on the fuel passage. The fuel valves are included in a valve seat and a valve member. The fuel passages include a gap passage portion formed in a gap between the valve seat and the valve member, and a bent passage portion extending in a bent direction on the downstream side of the gap passage portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Inventors: Shunsuke ARITOMI, Satoshi USUI, Atsuji SAITO, Tatsuo KAWANO, Masayuki SUGANAMI, Kenichirou TOKUO