Patents by Inventor Takumi Anzawa

Takumi Anzawa 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).

  • Publication number: 20240110528
    Abstract: The vehicle includes an internal combustion engine provided with a catalyst for exhaust gas purification in an exhaust passage, and an automatic transmission having a parking lock mechanism. The control device executes the warm-up operation switching process for executing the first warm-up operation when the parking lock mechanism is operating, and executes the second warm-up operation in which the rotational fluctuation of the internal combustion engine becomes larger than the first warm-up operation when the parking lock mechanism is not operating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi ANZAWA
  • Patent number: 11927153
    Abstract: A diagnostic device is configured to execute a first acquisition process of acquiring a remaining amount of evaporated fuel in a fuel tank when an ignition switch turns off, as an end remaining amount, a determination process of, after the first acquisition process, determining whether there is a blockage of a vapor passage by reducing a pressure in a vapor passage with a pressure reducing pump when the end remaining amount is smaller than a prescribed value while the ignition switch is off, a second acquisition process of, after the determination process, acquiring a remaining amount of liquid fuel in the fuel tank when the ignition switch turns on, as a start remaining amount, and an invalidation process of invalidating a determination result that a blockage is present in the vapor passage in the determination process when the start remaining amount is larger than or equal to a set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hideki Miyahara, Takumi Anzawa, Shogo Chikada
  • Publication number: 20230303058
    Abstract: A diagnosing apparatus is configured to diagnose a hybrid electric vehicle. The diagnosing apparatus is configured to execute a load operation diagnosis process of diagnosing the engine when a specific execution condition is satisfied during a load operation of the engine. The diagnosing apparatus is further configured to execute an early execution process of a load operation diagnosis. The early execution process performs the load operation of the engine to satisfy an execution condition of the load operation diagnosis process in a state in which load is applied to the engine by the first motor while the first clutch is engaged and the second clutch is disengaged so that the vehicle travels with the driving force generated by the second motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi ANZAWA
  • Patent number: 11719180
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnosis apparatus performs a stop process for stopping the supply of fuel to at least one of a plurality of cylinders and supplying fuel to the other cylinders or cylinder. The abnormality diagnosis apparatus performs a catalyst abnormality diagnosis process for diagnosing that there is an abnormality in an exhaust gas control apparatus, based on the value of a first misfire counter indicating the number of times of detection of a misfire during the operation of an internal combustion engine by a prescribed amount. In the catalyst abnormality diagnosis process, the abnormality diagnosis apparatus diagnoses that there is an abnormality in the exhaust gas control apparatus with the value of the first misfire counter being smaller when the stop process is performed than when the stop process is not performed during the operation of the internal combustion engine by the prescribed amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki Miyahara, Akihiro Katayama, Hirotaka Nakayama, Yuki Ikejiri, Takumi Anzawa
  • Publication number: 20230160360
    Abstract: A controller is configured to execute an emission process of, on condition that the number of times a leakage diagnosis of a fuel tank is performed in a stop period from when an internal combustion engine stops to when the engine restarts is less than a predetermined allowable number of times, emitting gas from the fuel tank via a canister by opening a shut-off valve, execute a diagnosis process of performing the leakage diagnosis based on a change in index value, caused by the emission process, the index value indicating a pressure in the fuel tank, and execute a subtraction process of, when fuel has been fed to the fuel tank in a state where the shut-off valve is open in the stop period of the internal combustion engine, reducing the allowable number of times in the stop period in which fuel has been fed to the fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki MIYAHARA, Takumi ANZAWA, Keita FUKUI
  • Patent number: 11639695
    Abstract: A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute: a deactivating process that deactivates combustion control for air-fuel mixture in one or some of cylinders; a provisional determination process that uses a detection value of a sensor to output a logical value indicating whether a misfire has occurred; a provisional determination counting process that counts a number of times a specific one of the logical value output by the provisional determination counting process has been output; and an official determination process that makes an official determination of whether the misfire has occurred using, as an input, the number of times counted by the provisional determination counting process during a specific period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takumi Anzawa, Akihiro Katayama, Yuki Ikejiri
  • Publication number: 20230122371
    Abstract: A diagnostic device is configured to execute a first acquisition process of acquiring a remaining amount of evaporated fuel in a fuel tank when an ignition switch turns off, as an end remaining amount, a determination process of, after the first acquisition process, determining whether there is a blockage of a vapor passage by reducing a pressure in a vapor passage with a pressure reducing pump when the end remaining amount is smaller than a prescribed value while the ignition switch is off, a second acquisition process of, after the determination process, acquiring a remaining amount of liquid fuel in the fuel tank when the ignition switch turns on, as a start remaining amount, and an invalidation process of invalidating a determination result that a blockage is present in the vapor passage in the determination process when the start remaining amount is larger than or equal to a set value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hideki MIYAHARA, Takumi ANZAWA, Shogo CHIKADA
  • Patent number: 11536628
    Abstract: Time required by a crankshaft to rotate 30° CA from a compression top dead center is defined as time T30. A CPU calculates a rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 related to a cylinder subject to determination of a misfire by subtracting a value related to a cylinder in which a compression top dead center occurred immediately before the cylinder subject to the determination from a value related to the subject to the determination. The rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 that corresponds to a cylinder in which a combustion operation is stopped is used as a reference value ?T30ref. When a combustion operation is performed, it is determined that there is a misfire if the absolute value of the difference between the rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 and the reference value ?T30ref is less than or equal to a determination value ?th.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Katayama, Takumi Anzawa, Yuki Ikejiri
  • Patent number: 11519822
    Abstract: A misfire detection device executes a deactivating process that deactivates combustion control for air-fuel mixture in one or some of cylinders and a deactivating process that determines whether a misfire has occurred. The determining process determines whether a misfire has occurred by evaluating a magnitude of a rotation fluctuation amount using a determination value independent from the rotation fluctuation amount. The determining process includes a deactivation-related setting process that sets a different determination value for each of first and second cylinders when the deactivating process is executed. The deactivating process has not been executed in the first and second cylinders. The rotation fluctuation amount is a change amount of an instantaneous speed variable. The instantaneous speed variable indicates a speed in a case in which a crankshaft rotates in a rotation angle region that is less than or equal to an occurrence interval of a compression top dead center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi Anzawa
  • Patent number: 11448153
    Abstract: A misfire detection device and a misfire detection method for an internal combustion engine, and a memory medium are provided. Cylinders adjacent to the deactivated cylinder include a determined cylinder subject to a determination of whether a misfire has occurred and a cylinder different from the determined cylinder. It is determined that a misfire has occurred in the determined cylinder on condition that a divergence degree between a value of a combustion variable of the cylinder different from the determined cylinder and adjacent to the deactivated cylinder and a value of a combustion variable of the determined cylinder is greater than or equal to a specific amount. Combustion control has been executed in the cylinders adjacent to the deactivated cylinder and the cylinder different from the determined cylinder and adjacent to the deactivated cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Katayama, Takumi Anzawa, Yuki Ikejiri
  • Publication number: 20220154660
    Abstract: A misfire detection device and a misfire detection method for an internal combustion engine, and a memory medium are provided. Cylinders adjacent to the deactivated cylinder include a determined cylinder subject to a determination of whether a misfire has occurred and a cylinder different from the determined cylinder. It is determined that a misfire has occurred in the determined cylinder on condition that a divergence degree between a value of a combustion variable of the cylinder different from the determined cylinder and adjacent to the deactivated cylinder and a value of a combustion variable of the determined cylinder is greater than or equal to a specific amount. Combustion control has been executed in the cylinders adjacent to the deactivated cylinder and the cylinder different from the determined cylinder and adjacent to the deactivated cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiro KATAYAMA, Takumi ANZAWA, Yuki IKEJIRI
  • Publication number: 20220146375
    Abstract: Time required by a crankshaft to rotate 30° CA from a compression top dead center is defined as time T30. A CPU calculates a rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 related to a cylinder subject to determination of a misfire by subtracting a value related to a cylinder in which a compression top dead center occurred immediately before the cylinder subject to the determination from a value related to the subject to the determination. The rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 that corresponds to a cylinder in which a combustion operation is stopped is used as a reference value ?T30ref. When a combustion operation is performed, it is determined that there is a misfire if the absolute value of the difference between the rotation fluctuation amount ?T30 and the reference value ?T30ref is less than or equal to a determination value ?th.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Akihiro KATAYAMA, Takumi ANZAWA, Yuki IKEJIRI
  • Patent number: 11319891
    Abstract: A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine includes a storage device and processing circuitry. The storage device stores mapping data. The mapping data is data specifying a mapping that outputs a misfire variable using a rotation waveform variable as an input. The misfire variable is a variable related to a probability that a misfire has occurred in the internal combustion engine. The rotation waveform variable is a variable based on an instantaneous speed variable corresponding to each of discontinuous rotational angle intervals selected from multiple continuous rotational angle intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi Anzawa
  • Publication number: 20220099529
    Abstract: A misfire detection device executes a deactivating process that deactivates combustion control for air-fuel mixture in one or some of cylinders and a deactivating process that determines whether a misfire has occurred. The determining process determines whether a misfire has occurred by evaluating a magnitude of a rotation fluctuation amount using a determination value independent from the rotation fluctuation amount. The determining process includes a deactivation-related setting process that sets a different determination value for each of first and second cylinders when the deactivating process is executed. The deactivating process has not been executed in the first and second cylinders. The rotation fluctuation amount is a change amount of an instantaneous speed variable. The instantaneous speed variable indicates a speed in a case in which a crankshaft rotates in a rotation angle region that is less than or equal to an occurrence interval of a compression top dead center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi ANZAWA
  • Publication number: 20220099041
    Abstract: A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute: a deactivating process that deactivates combustion control for air-fuel mixture in one or some of cylinders; a provisional determination process that uses a detection value of a sensor to output a logical value indicating whether a misfire has occurred; a provisional determination counting process that counts a number of times a specific one of the logical value output by the provisional determination counting process has been output; and an official determination process that makes an official determination of whether the misfire has occurred using, as an input, the number of times counted by the provisional determination counting process during a specific period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takumi ANZAWA, Akihiro KATAYAMA, Yuki IKEJIRI
  • Patent number: 11268469
    Abstract: A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine including a crankshaft mechanically connected to a motor generator includes a storage device and processing circuitry. The storage device stores mapping data. The mapping data is data specifying a mapping that outputs a misfire variable using a rotation waveform variable and a damping variable as an input. The misfire variable is a variable related to a probability that a misfire has occurred. The rotation waveform variable is a variable including information on a difference between values of instantaneous speed corresponding to short angular intervals differing from each other. The damping variable is a variable related to a state of a damping process that controls a torque of the motor generator to reduce vibration of a power transmission system of a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi Anzawa
  • Patent number: 11136934
    Abstract: A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine includes a storage device and processing circuitry. The storage device stores mapping data. The mapping data is data specifying a mapping that outputs a misfire variable using a rotation waveform variable as an input. The misfire variable is a variable related to a probability that a misfire has occurred in the internal combustion engine. The rotation waveform variable is a variable based on an instantaneous speed variable corresponding to each of discontinuous rotational angle intervals selected from multiple continuous rotational angle intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi Anzawa
  • Patent number: 11047326
    Abstract: A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine includes a storage device and processing circuitry, the storage device stores first mapping data corresponding to a case where a warm-up process of a catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine is being executed, and second mapping data corresponding to a case where the warm-up process is not being executed, and each of the first mapping data and the second mapping data uses a rotation waveform variable as an input and defines a mapping that outputs a misfire variable that is a variable related to a probability misfire has occurred. The rotation waveform variable is a variable indicating a difference between a plurality of values of an instantaneous speed variable respectively corresponding to a plurality of different minute angular intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi Anzawa
  • Patent number: 11047327
    Abstract: A misfire detection device for an internal combustion engine includes a storage device and processing circuitry. The storage device stores mapping data. The mapping data is data specifying a mapping that outputs a misfire variable using a rotation waveform variable as an input. The misfire variable is a variable related to a probability that a misfire has occurred in the internal combustion engine. The rotation waveform variable is a variable based on an instantaneous speed variable corresponding to each of discontinuous rotational angle intervals selected from multiple continuous rotational angle intervals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Takumi Anzawa
  • Patent number: D935043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Techno Link Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jin Kanda, Takumi Anzawa