Patents by Inventor Takanobu Aikawa

Takanobu Aikawa 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: 7661406
    Abstract: To prevent an increase in torque when the fixed state of a throttle valve is released. When diagnostics reads fixed diagnostics flag 1 indicating that the throttle valve is in a fixed state, control value ATVO that can maintain throttle aperture RTVO is set (S11, S12) based on detected value RTVO for the throttle aperture in the current fixed state, fuel injection volume TiO that is calculated according to new air volume Q is secured at fuel injection volume TiL or greater in order to achieve the engine torque for when fail-safe control is executed, and when air-fuel ratio?is less than the lower limit value?L, causing an increase in the amount of smoke, control is executed to suppress the occurrence of said smoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Yokoyama, Takanobu Aikawa
  • Publication number: 20080249698
    Abstract: To prevent an increase in torque when the fixed state of a throttle valve is released. When diagnostics reads fixed diagnostics flag 1 indicating that the throttle valve is in a fixed state, control value ATVO that can maintain throttle aperture RTVO is set (S 11, S 12) based on detected value RTVO for the throttle aperture in the current fixed state, fuel injection volume TiO that is calculated according to new air volume Q is secured at fuel injection volume TiL or greater in order to achieve the engine torque for when fail-safe control is executed, and when air-fuel ratio), is less than the lower limit valueXL, causing an increase in the amount of smoke, control is executed to suppress the occurrence of said smoke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2005
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Jin Yokoyama, Takanobu Aikawa
  • Patent number: 6681744
    Abstract: In a diesel engine (1) provided with an exhaust gas recirculation mechanism (9, 10), a fuel injection timing is calculated by considering a delay of air aspirated by the cylinders of the engine (1) and a delay of exhaust gas recirculation. By performing fuel injection based on this fuel injection timing, conditions of combustion in a cylinder of the engine (1) are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Itoyama, Takanobu Aikawa
  • Publication number: 20020179072
    Abstract: In a diesel engine (1) provided with an exhaust gas recirculation mechanism (9, 10), a fuel injection timing is calculated by considering a delay of air aspirated by the cylinders of the engine (1) and a delay of exhaust gas recirculation. By performing fuel injection based on this fuel injection timing, conditions of combustion in a cylinder of the engine (1) are improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Applicant: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Itoyama, Takanobu Aikawa
  • Patent number: 6145486
    Abstract: An apparatus controlling a fuel injection quantity at the time of starting a Diesel engine and a method are disclosed. The apparatus and method detect a water temperature at the time of starting the Diesel engine, detect an engine speed at the time of starting the Diesel engine, set a starting fuel injection quantity based on the water temperature at the time of starting the Diesel engine and the engine speed at the time of starting the Diesel engine, detect a line pressure of an automatic transmission mounted to the Diesel engine, and correct the starting fuel injection quantity based on the line pressure of the automatic transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Takanobu Aikawa