Patents by Inventor Tatsuhiro Tokunaga

Tatsuhiro Tokunaga 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: 20190186394
    Abstract: A control system for a compression-ignition engine is provided, which includes an engine having a combustion chamber formed by a cylinder, a piston and a cylinder head, an injector, a spark plug, an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) device configured to introduce into the combustion chamber a portion of burned gas generated inside the combustion chamber as EGR gas, an EGR controller to change an EGR ratio, the EGR controller changing the EGR ratio so that a compression start temperature of the combustion chamber rises as an engine speed increases, and a controller connected to the injector and the spark plug to control them. The controller includes a processor configured to execute a combustion controlling module to output an ignition instruction to the spark plug so as to ignite at an ignition timing after the EGR ratio adjustment so that partial compression-ignition combustion is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Masanari Sueoka, Takuya Ohura, Tatsuhiro Tokunaga, Keiji Maruyama, Tomohiro Nishida
  • Publication number: 20190186402
    Abstract: A control system for a compression-ignition engine is provided, which includes an engine having a combustion chamber, an injector configured to supply fuel into the combustion chamber, a spark plug, a swirl valve provided to an intake passage of the engine, and a controller. The controller includes a processor configured to execute a swirl adjusting module to adjust a swirl valve opening to generate a swirl flow inside the combustion chamber, a fuel injection amount controlling module to control fuel injection amounts of pre-injection and post-injection so as to increase a ratio of an injection amount of the post-injection to a total fuel injection amount into the combustion chamber in one cycle as an engine speed increases, and a combustion controlling module to control the spark plug to ignite at a given ignition timing after the swirl generation and fuel injection, so that partial compression-ignition combustion is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Masanari Sueoka, Takuya Ohura, Tatsuhiro Tokunaga, Keiji Maruyama, Tomohiro Nishida