Patents by Inventor Takayuki Sakamoto

Takayuki Sakamoto 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: 10174702
    Abstract: There is provided a regeneration device for an exhaust-gas purifying device 40 which is provided in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, the regeneration device including: an injector for injecting fuel into a cylinder; a glow plug which is energized to be heated to thereby increase a temperature inside the cylinder; and a regeneration control unit for executing a regenerating operation for restoring a purification capacity of the exhaust-gas purifying device by controlling the injection of fuel of the injector and the energization of the glow plug, wherein during the regenerating operation, the regeneration control unit controls the injection of fuel of the injector by a multi-stage injection including at least a post injection and energizes the glow plug at a predetermined duty ratio to burn, within the cylinder, fuel supplied by the post injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Daiji Nagaoka, Takayuki Sakamoto
  • Patent number: 10130913
    Abstract: There is provided an exhaust gas purification system including: a NOx storage-reduction catalyst that is provided in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine 10 to reduce and purify NOx in exhaust gas; a deterioration degree estimation module for estimating a degree of deterioration of the NOx storage-reduction catalyst; a NOx storage amount estimation module for estimating a NOx storage amount of the NOx storage-reduction catalyst; a regeneration control unit for starting a regeneration process in which a NOx storage capacity of the NOx storage-reduction catalyst is restored when a NOx storage amount that is estimated by the NOx storage amount estimation module reaches a predetermined storage amount threshold; and a storage amount threshold correction module for correcting the storage amount threshold based on the degree of deterioration that is estimated by the deterioration degree estimation module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Teruo Nakada, Takayuki Sakamoto, Daiji Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20180245532
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system is provided with a NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst 32 that occludes NOx in exhaust when the exhaust is in a lean state and reduces and purifies the occluded NOx when the exhaust is in a rich state, and a NOx purge rich control unit 140 for reducing and purifying NOx occluded in the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst 32 by putting the exhaust into the rich state by repetitively performing fuel injection control of at least one of post injection and exhaust pipe injection at a predetermined interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA
  • Patent number: 10052587
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system is provided with a NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst and a NOx purge rich control unit that executes NOx purge in a case where a catalyst temperature of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than a catalyst temperature threshold value and a NOx occlusion amount of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than an NOx occlusion amount threshold value and executes the NOx purge even when the catalyst temperature is lower than a catalyst temperature threshold value in a case where the NOx occlusion amount is equal to or greater than the occlusion amount threshold value, a fuel injection amount resulting from an accelerator operation is equal to or greater than an injection amount threshold value, and an exhaust temperature detected by a first exhaust temperature sensor is equal to or higher than an exhaust temperature threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventors: Teruo Nakada, Takayuki Sakamoto, Daiji Nagaoka
  • Publication number: 20180111087
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system is provided with a NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst and a NOx purge rich control unit that executes NOx purge in a case where a catalyst temperature of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than a catalyst temperature threshold value and a NOx occlusion amount of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than an NOx occlusion amount threshold value and executes the NOx purge even when the catalyst temperature is lower than a catalyst temperature threshold value in a case where the NOx occlusion amount is equal to or greater than the occlusion amount threshold value, a fuel injection amount resulting from an accelerator operation is equal to or greater than an injection amount threshold value, and an exhaust temperature detected by a first exhaust temperature sensor is equal to or higher than an exhaust temperature threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180112573
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes a NOx reduction catalyst which is provided on an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, a SOx purging control module for executing a SOx purging control for restoring the NOx reduction catalyst from sulfur poisoning by increasing a temperature of the exhaust gas to a first target temperature at which SOx are desorbed through an injection system control to increase a fuel injection amount, a prohibition module for prohibiting an execution of the SOx purging control according to an operating state of the internal combustion engine, and a temperature retention mode control module for executing a temperature retention mode control for maintaining the temperature of the exhaust gas at a second target temperature which is lower than the first target temperature by controlling the fuel injection amount during a period of time during which the SOx purging control is prohibited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180106178
    Abstract: The present invention is provided with: a SOx purge control unit that executes catalyst regeneration processing that maintains the temperature of a NOx occlusion/reduction catalyst at a prescribed recovery temperature; a catalyst temperature estimation unit that estimates catalyst temperature on the basis of the amount of unburnt fuel contained in exhaust and of a catalyst heat generation amount; a second exhaust temperature sensor that is arranged further to an exhaust downstream side than the catalyst and that detects exhaust temperature; and a heat generation amount correction value setting unit that, during the execution of the catalyst regeneration processing, on the basis of an estimated catalyst temperature estimated by the catalyst temperature estimation unit and of an actual exhaust temperature detected by the second exhaust temperature sensor, obtains a heat generation amount correction value that is used to correct the heat generation amount of the catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180094596
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes: an NOx reduction type catalyst, which is provided in an exhaust passage; an intake air amount sensor, which detects an intake air amount of the internal combustion engine; and a controller, which executes a regeneration treatment that recovers an NOx purification capacity of the NOx reduction type catalyst by switching an exhaust air fuel ratio from a lean state to a rich state by using: an air-system control to reduce the intake air amount; and an injection-system control to increase a fuel injection amount, wherein, in response to a detection value of the intake air amount sensor, the controller changes at least one of a fuel injection timing and the fuel injection amount in the internal combustion engine, in at least one period of switching of: a period of starting the regeneration treatment; and a period of ending the regeneration treatment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Masaaki NISHITO, Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA, Masashi GABE
  • Publication number: 20180073413
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes a NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst that occludes NOx in exhaust in a lean state and reduces and purifies the occluded NOx in exhaust in a rich state, and a NOx purge rich control unit that executes NOx purge of reducing and purifying the occluded NOx by putting the exhaust into the rich state by fuel injection control, where a catalyst temperature of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than a catalyst temperature threshold value and a NOx occlusion amount of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than an NOx occlusion amount threshold value, and executes the NOx purge when the catalyst temperature is lower than a catalyst temperature threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180065088
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system including a NOx catalyst 32 provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine 10 and purifying NOx in exhaust; a MAF sensor 40 for acquiring an air flow-rate of the internal-combustion engine 10; a control unit 60, 70 that execute catalyst regeneration treatment of recovering a NOx purification ability of the NOx catalyst 32 by performing, in combination, air-based control of reducing air flow-rate of the internal-combustion engine 10 to a predetermined target air flow-rate and injection-based control of increasing a fuel injection amount, wherein, in a case of executing the catalyst regeneration treatment, the control unit 60, 70 starts with the air-based control and starts the injection-based control when the air flow-rate acquired by the MAF sensor 40 is reduced to the target air flow-rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA, Hiroyuki YUZA
  • Publication number: 20180066557
    Abstract: The embodiments include: a NOx occlusion/reduction catalyst which is provided to an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine, occludes NOx in exhaust when the exhaust is in a lean state, and reduces and purifies occluded NOx when the exhaust is in a rich state; a NOx purging control unit which, when the exhaust is in the rich state, executes NOx purging in which the NOx occluded in the NOx occlusion/reduction catalyst is reduced and purified; and a NOx-purging-prohibition processing unit which, when at least one of a plurality of prohibition conditions is fulfilled, prohibits execution of catalyst regeneration processing by the NOx purging control unit even if a catalyst-regeneration-processing start request has been issued, and, when one of the prohibition conditions is fulfilled during execution of the catalyst regeneration processing, invalidates the prohibition condition and allows continued execution of the catalyst regeneration processing by the NOx purging control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA, Hiroyuki YUZA
  • Publication number: 20180066556
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust purification system including: an NOx occlusion reduction type catalyst (32), a catalyst temperature estimating unit (115), an NOx occlusion amount estimating unit (113), a regeneration control unit (100) that performs catalyst regeneration of bringing an exhaust gas into a rich state to recover NOx occlusion capacity of the NOx occlusion reduction type catalyst (32), an interval setting unit (118) that sets a target interval from the termination of the catalyst regeneration to a start of next catalyst regeneration, a catalyst regeneration start processing unit (110) that starts the next catalyst regeneration when the NOx occlusion amount is equal to or greater than a threshold and an elapsed time from the termination of the catalyst regeneration reaches the target interval, and an interval target value correcting unit (119) that extends and corrects the target interval based on the NOx occlusion amount when the catalyst temperature is lower than a predetermined catalyst activation temp
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180066561
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device including an oxidation catalyst heating value estimation unit 88A, a NOx catalyst heating value estimation unit 88B, an oxidation catalyst temperature estimation unit 88C, a NOx catalyst temperature estimation unit 88D, and switches 801, 802, 803 that switch between an enabled state in which processing performed by the oxidation catalyst heating value estimation unit 88A and the oxidation catalyst temperature estimation unit 88C is executed and a disabled state in which the processing performed by the oxidation catalyst heating value estimation unit 88A and the oxidation catalyst temperature estimation unit 88C is not executed, wherein the control device is configured to be applied to both an exhaust gas purification system including an NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst and an oxidation catalyst and an exhaust gas purification system including the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst and not including the oxidation catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180066558
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system is provided with a NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst and a NOx purge rich control unit that executes NOx purge of reducing and purifying the occluded NOx by putting the exhaust into a rich state by fuel injection control, in a case where a catalyst temperature of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than a catalyst temperature threshold value and a NOx occlusion amount of the NOx-occlusion-reduction-type catalyst is equal to or higher than an NOx occlusion amount threshold value, and executes the NOx purge even when the NOx occlusion amount is less than the NOx occlusion amount threshold value, in a case where the catalyst temperature is equal to or higher than a catalyst temperature threshold value which is greater than the catalyst temperature threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180058290
    Abstract: Provided is an exhaust purification system including: an NOx occlusion reduction type catalyst that is provided in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, and occludes NOx when an exhaust gas is in a lean state, and reduces the NOx when the exhaust gas is in a rich state; a regeneration control unit that executes a regeneration process of bringing the exhaust gas into a rich state to reduce the NOx occluded in the NOx occlusion reduction type catalyst; a storing unit that stores an exhaust lambda prediction value in advance when the regeneration process is executed; a reduction amount estimating unit that estimates an NOx reduction amount when the regeneration process is executed; and a prohibition unit that prohibits the execution of the regeneration process by the regeneration control unit when the estimated NOx reduction amount is less than a predetermined lower limit threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA, Hiroyuki YUZA
  • Publication number: 20180051615
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes; a catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of an engine to purify an exhaust gas; a catalyst temperature estimating unit that estimates a temperature of the catalyst based on an initial temperature of the catalyst at the time of starting of the engine and a caloric value of the catalyst which changes depending on an operating state of the internal combustion engine; and an initial catalyst temperature setting unit that sets an initial temperature of the catalyst based on a catalyst temperature stored immediately before stopping the engine, a temperature of an exhaust gas flowing into the catalyst which is stored immediately before stopping the engine, a temperature of an exhaust gas flowing into the catalyst which is acquired at the time of starting the engine, and a temperature of air taken into the engine which is acquired at the time of starting the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA, Hiroyuki YUZA
  • Publication number: 20180038254
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes an exhaust after-treatment apparatus which is provided on an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and which includes catalysts for purifying exhaust gas, a catalyst temperature retention control module for executing a catalyst temperature retention control in which an intake air flow is reduced to thereby suppress a reduction in the temperature of the catalysts when the internal combustion engine is in a motoring state where fuel injection into the internal combustion engine is stopped, and a prohibition module for prohibiting the execution of the catalyst temperature retention control in a case where an activation of an exhaust brake system is detected while the internal combustion engine is in the motoring state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: Isuzu Motors Limited
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA, Hiroyuki YUZA
  • Publication number: 20180038250
    Abstract: A rich-wait-time threshold value is set based on the NOx discharge amount per unit time discharged from an internal combustion engine. When the elapsed time, i.e. either the elapsed engine operation time since rich control was performed on a lean NOx trap catalyst device, or the elapsed engine operation time since the engine was started, becomes equal to or greater than the rich-wait-time threshold value, a determination that the rich control be started is added as a necessary condition for starting the rich control. Accordingly, an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine, an internal combustion engine, and an exhaust gas purification method for an internal combustion engine are provided, with which the execution timing of the rich control for recovering the NOx occlusion capacity of the lean NOx trap catalyst device is rendered more appropriate, and thus NOx reduction is performed with little fuel consumption deterioration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Daiji NAGAOKA, Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20180030911
    Abstract: An exhaust purification system includes: an NOx reduction type catalyst; an MAF sensor; an SOx purge control unit that uses an air system control having an intake air amount feedback-controlled based on a target intake air amount and an injection system control for a target injection increase amount set based on the target intake air amount, and a fuel injection amount feedback-controlled based on the target injection increase amount; an SOx purge prohibition processing unit that prohibits an SOx purge control; and a warming mode control unit that open-loop controls an air system when the SOx purge control is prohibited, controls the fuel injection amount, and maintains the exhaust gas at a temperature. The SOx purge control unit executes the injection system control by switching the target intake air amount into an actual intake air amount when starting the SOx purge control after a warming mode control is ended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO, Daiji NAGAOKA, Tomohiro KORENAGA
  • Publication number: 20180023435
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine includes an oxidation catalyst device on an upstream side in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and a lean NOx trap catalyst device on a downstream side, a controller which controls the exhaust gas purification system is configured to, when a temperature-rising control of an exhaust gas in a regeneration control is performed to recover a purification ability of the exhaust gas purification system, perform a control that changes a measurement position of a control temperature which is a control amount of a feedback control in the temperature-rising control, according to an excess air ratio or an oxygen concentration of the exhaust gas passing through the exhaust passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Daiji NAGAOKA, Teruo NAKADA, Takayuki SAKAMOTO