Patents by Inventor Tatsuo Yamanaka
Tatsuo Yamanaka 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).
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Patent number: 10662888Abstract: A control device for internal combustion engine capable of continuously driving a feed pump during automatic stop of the internal combustion engine without increasing the size of a canister is provided. The control device include a fuel supply pump supplying fuel within a fuel tank to a fuel injection device, an automatic stop restarting control unit performing automatic stop of the engine during operation according to vehicle state and then performs automatic restart of the engine during automatic stop, a fuel pump control unit driving the fuel supply pump during operation or automatic stop of the engine, and an idling determination unit determining whether the fuel supply pump is in an idling state. The automatic stop restarting control unit performs automatic restart when the idling determination unit determines that the fuel pump is in the idling state during automatic stop.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo Yamanaka, Ryuji Sato, Shoji Sasaki, Isao Komoriya
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Publication number: 20190345888Abstract: A fuel injection control device includes: an energization control unit that controls a fuel injection valve; an inter-terminal voltage acquiring unit that acquires an inter-terminal voltage of the fuel injection valve at a predetermined time interval; and a state determining unit that determines an open-close operation state of the fuel injection valve based on the acquired inter-terminal voltage, wherein the state determining unit sets, for each of the plurality of fuel injections in the fuel injection period, a valve closing determination period after the electricity to the fuel injection valve is turned off, the period having a time length determined according to a number of injection stages of the multi-stage injection, and determines that the fuel injection valve is in a fully closed state when the voltage change due to a valve body movement of the fuel injection valve appears in the inter-terminal voltage acquired in the valve closing determination period.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventor: Tatsuo Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20190331054Abstract: A control device for internal combustion engine capable of continuously driving a feed pump during automatic stop of the internal combustion engine without increasing the size of a canister is provided. The control device include a fuel supply pump supplying fuel within a fuel tank to a fuel injection device, an automatic stop restarting control unit performing automatic stop of the engine during operation according to vehicle state and then performs automatic restart of the engine during automatic stop, a fuel pump control unit driving the fuel supply pump during operation or automatic stop of the engine, and an idling determination unit determining whether the fuel supply pump is in an idling state. The automatic stop restarting control unit performs automatic restart when the idling determination unit determines that the fuel pump is in the idling state during automatic stop.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2019Publication date: October 31, 2019Applicant: Honda Motor Co.,Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo YAMANAKA, Ryuji SATO, Shoji SASAKI, Isao KOMORIYA
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Patent number: 10208698Abstract: A direct fuel injection internal combustion engine having an injector for directly injecting fuel into a combustion chamber thereof is provided. The engine is configured so that a tumble flow is generated in the combustion chamber. A fuel injection by the injector can be performed in a first injection mode and a second injection mode, the first injection mode being a mode in which the fuel injection is completed after the tumble flow is generated, and the second injection mode being a mode in which the fuel injection is completed before the tumble flow is generated. The fuel injection of the first injection mode is performed before completion of the warming-up of the engine, and the fuel injection of the second injection mode is performed after completion of the warming-up of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Nakajima, Naoki Yokoyama, Kenji Hirose, Seiichi Hosogai, Hidekazu Hironobu, Tatsuo Yamanaka, Haruya Kitano, Yasuhiro Okura
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Patent number: 10180113Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of controlling fuel injection valves while causing valve-closing delay time periods, which occur with the valves actually mounted on the engine, to be reflected thereon, thereby making it possible to improve exhaust emission characteristics and fuel economy performance. The ECU of the control system performs initial value-specific control in fuel injection control and ignition timing control, such that initial value acquisition conditions are satisfied, so as to calculate the initial values of the valve-closing delay time periods when the initial value acquisition conditions are satisfied. When normal-time control is performed, the valve-opening time periods of the valves are calculated using the initial values of the valve-opening time periods, and the valves are controlled to be open over the valve-opening time periods.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Yamanaka, Susumu Nakajima, Naoki Yokoyama, Kenji Hirose, Hidekazu Hironobu, Seiichi Hosogai
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Patent number: 10094318Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device to control a fuel injection valve includes: valve-close delay time acquisition circuitry configured to acquire a valve-close delay time of the fuel injection valve; first learning value calculation circuitry configured to calculate a first learning value based on the valve-close delay time when a running state of an internal combustion engine satisfies a predetermined learning condition; valve-open time calculation circuitry configured to calculate a valve-open time of the fuel injection valve based on the first learning value; second learning value calculation circuitry configured to calculate a second learning value based on the valve-close delay time irrespective of the running state of the internal combustion engine; and learning state determination circuitry configured to determine a learning state of the first learning value based on a relationship between the first learning value and second learning value.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Yamanaka, Susumu Nakajima, Naoki Yokoyama, Kenji Hirose, Hidekazu Hironobu, Seiichi Hosogai
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Patent number: 10018137Abstract: A control device for a fuel injection system includes a CPU which generates a drive signal for instructing execution of compression by a fuel pump; a fuel pump drive circuit which controls application of electric power to a solenoid of the fuel pump based on the drive signal; a boost circuit provided with a capacitor for storing electric power to be used for driving an injector; a charging circuit which leads a current generated when the application of electric power to the solenoid is stopped to the capacitor; and an excess electric power consumption circuit which consumes excess electric power of the capacitor. While fuel injection from the injector is stopped, the CPU counts the number of times the fuel pump is driven and turns off the drive signal so as to stop driving the fuel pump as soon as the drive count has exceeded a predetermined count value.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2015Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTDInventor: Tatsuo Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20180112615Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device to control a fuel injection valve includes: valve-close delay time acquisition circuitry configured to acquire a valve-close delay time of the fuel injection valve; first learning value calculation circuitry configured to calculate a first learning value based on the valve-close delay time when a running state of an internal combustion engine satisfies a predetermined learning condition; valve-open time calculation circuitry configured to calculate a valve-open time of the fuel injection valve based on the first learning value; second learning value calculation circuitry configured to calculate a second learning value based on the valve-close delay time irrespective of the running state of the internal combustion engine; and learning state determination circuitry configured to determine a learning state of the first learning value based on a relationship between the first learning value and second learning value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo YAMANAKA, Susumu NAKAJIMA, Naoki YOKOYAMA, Kenji HIROSE, Hidekazu HIRONOBU, Seiichi HOSOGAI
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Publication number: 20180073460Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of controlling fuel injection valves while causing valve-closing delay time periods, which occur with the valves actually mounted on the engine, to be reflected thereon, thereby making it possible to improve exhaust emission characteristics and fuel economy performance. The ECU of the control system performs initial value-specific control in fuel injection control and ignition timing control, such that initial value acquisition conditions are satisfied, so as to calculate the initial values of the valve-closing delay time periods when the initial value acquisition conditions are satisfied. When normal-time control is performed, the valve-opening time periods of the valves are calculated using the initial values of the valve-opening time periods, and the valves are controlled to be open over the valve-opening time periods.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2017Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tatsuo Yamanaka, Susumu Nakajima, Naoki Yokoyama, Kenji Hirose, Hidekazu Hironobu, Seiichi Hosogai
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Publication number: 20170328293Abstract: A control device for a fuel injection system includes a CPU which generates a drive signal for instructing execution of compression by a feel pump; a fuel pump drive circuit which controls application of electric power to a solenoid of the feel pump based on the drive signal; a boost circuit provided with a capacitor for storing electric power to be used for driving an injector; a charging circuit which leads a current generated when the application of electric power to the solenoid is stopped to the capacitor; and an excess electric power consumption circuit which consumes excess electric power of the capacitor. While feel injection from the injector is stopped, the CPU counts the number of times the feel pump is driven and turns off the drive signal so as to stop driving the feel pump as soon as the drive count has exceeded a predetermined count value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Tatsuo Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20170276088Abstract: A fuel injection device for an internal combustion engine including a cylinder, includes a fuel injection valve and a processor. The fuel injection valve injects fuel directly into the cylinder. The fuel injection valve has an injection hole which has a diameter and a length in an axial direction of the injection hole. A ratio of the length to the diameter being 1.0 or smaller. The processor is configured to determine, in a cold operation of the internal combustion engine, a fuel injection time during which the fuel injection valve continues to inject fuel such that an amount of soot in exhaust gas is less than an amount of soot in exhaust gas if the fuel injection valve has the ratio larger than 1.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2017Publication date: September 28, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu NAKAJIMA, Kenji HIROSE, Haruya KITANO, Hidekazu HIRONOBU, Tatsuo YAMANAKA, Naoki YOKOYAMA, Seiichi HOSOGAI, Kengo NAKANO
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Publication number: 20170241366Abstract: A direct fuel injection internal combustion engine having an injector for directly injecting fuel into a combustion chamber thereof is provided. The engine is configured so that a tumble flow is generated in the combustion chamber. A fuel injection by the injector can be performed in a first injection mode and a second injection mode, the first injection mode being a mode in which the fuel injection is completed after the tumble flow is generated, and the second injection mode being a mode in which the fuel injection is completed before the tumble flow is generated. The fuel injection of the first injection mode is performed before completion of the warming-up of the engine, and the fuel injection of the second injection mode is performed after completion of the warming-up of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Susumu Nakajima, Naoki Yokoyama, Kenji Hirose, Seiichi Hosogai, Hidekazu Hironobu, Tatsuo Yamanaka, Haruya Kitano, Yasuhiro Okura
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Patent number: 7673618Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of estimating a property of fuel accurately even when the engine is in an operating condition other than idling. An in-cylinder pressure sensor detects an amount of change in pressure in a cylinder #1 of the engine as a pressure change amount. An ECU calculates an amount of heat released in the cylinder #1 as a heat release amount, according to the pressure change amount. A vehicle speed sensor, a crank angle sensor, and an accelerator pedal opening sensor detect load on the engine. The ECU estimates a cetane number of fuel based on the calculated heat release amount and the detected load on the engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: March 9, 2010Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mamoru Hasegawa, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Hideki Sakamoto, Naoto Kitayama, Tatsuo Yamanaka
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Patent number: 7523554Abstract: A method of manufacturing a wheel rim by bringing end faces of a workpiece into abutment against each other to form a hollow cylindrical body and forming a circumferential recess which is depressed from an outer circumferential wall of said hollow cylindrical body toward an inner circumferential wall thereof, including providing protrusions disposed near ends of a joined area of the hollow cylindrical body and extending in a joining direction, and then pressing the outer circumferential wall of the hollow cylindrical body to form the recess.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: April 28, 2009Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shizuo Kimura, Kenzo Takeda, Ikuo Kato, Yukio Uchiyama, Tadashi Goto, Nobuyuki Kakiya, Kiyoshi Satou, Naotake Marui, Shinichi Ohnaka, Tatsuo Yamanaka, Jin Fukuda, Taisei Wakisaka, Haruo Machida
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Publication number: 20080262699Abstract: A control system for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of estimating a property of fuel accurately even when the engine is in an operating condition other than idling. An in-cylinder pressure sensor detects an amount of change in pressure in a cylinder #1 of the engine as a pressure change amount. An ECU calculates an amount of heat released in the cylinder #1 as a heat release amount, according to the pressure change amount. A vehicle speed sensor, a crank angle sensor, and an accelerator pedal opening sensor detect load on the engine. The ECU estimates a cetane number of fuel based on the calculated heat release amount and the detected load on the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2007Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Mamoru Hasegawa, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Hideki Sakamoto, Naoto Kitayama, Tatsuo Yamanaka
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Publication number: 20060265876Abstract: A rim (10) is produced by a production process including a step (A) of bending a workpiece (11) to bring end faces of the workpiece into contact with each other, a step (B) of forming a circular cylinder body (12) by joining the end faces brought to be in contact with each other, a step (C) of inspecting a joint portion (13) of the circular cylinder body (12), a step (D) of forming a drop portion (16), subsiding toward the inner peripheral wall (15) side, in an outer peripheral wall (14) of the circular cylinder body (12), a by bending both end portions of the circular cylinder body (12), a step (F) of forming hump portions (20) by pressing the circular cylinder body (12) from the inner peripheral wall (15) side to raise the outer peripheral wall (14), and a step (G) for forming a valve hole (22) and water drain holes (24) in the drop portion (16) and the curl portions (18). The rim (10) and a disk (102) that is separately produced are welded to form a wheel (122).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2004Publication date: November 30, 2006Inventors: Shizuo Kimura, Kenzo Takeda, Ikuo Kato, Yukio Uchiyama, Tadashi Goto, Nobuyuki Kakiya, Kiyoshi Satou, Shinichi Ohnaka, Tatsuo Yamanaka
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Patent number: 6981364Abstract: A novel combined engine for a single-stage spacecraft is provided that combines a air-breathing engine utilizing oxygen in the atmosphere as oxidizer and rocket engines for obtaining thrust outside the atmosphere and that does not require a portion whose shape is variable in accordance with the flight speed. Rocket engines 15 are provided on struts 12 that form air introduction channels 10 in the air intake section 4. The rocket jets 18 from the rocket engines 15 control the flow of the airflows 16 introduced into the combustion chamber 20 in accordance with the flight speed. When the spacecraft 1 is stationary or in subsonic flight, the rocket jets 18 promote air intake into the combustion chamber 20 by lowering of static pressure due to expansion (ejector effect). In the subsonic flight condition, it performs the role of air compression, mixing with incoming air, fuel injection and ignition and during supersonic/ultra-supersonic flight it performs the role of a variable diffuser.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2003Date of Patent: January 3, 2006Assignee: National Aerospace Laboratory of JapanInventors: Osamu Okamoto, Tatsuo Yamanaka, Masataka Maita, Hideyuki Taguchi, Takeshi Tsuchiya
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Publication number: 20050016157Abstract: A novel combined engine for a single-stage spacecraft is provided that combines a air-breathing engine utilizing oxygen in the atmosphere as oxidizer and rocket engines for obtaining thrust outside the atmosphere and that does not require a portion whose shape is variable in accordance with the flight speed. Rocket engines 15 are provided on struts 12 that form air introduction channels 10 in the air intake section 4. The rocket jets 18 from the rocket engines 15 control the flow of the airflows 16 introduced into the combustion chamber 20 in accordance with the flight speed. When the spacecraft 1 is stationary or in subsonic flight, the rocket jets 18 promote air intake into the combustion chamber 20 by lowering of static pressure due to expansion (ejector effect). In the subsonic flight condition, it performs the role of air compression, mixing with incoming air, fuel injection and ignition and during supersonic/ultra-supersonic flight it performs the role of a variable diffuser.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2003Publication date: January 27, 2005Applicant: NATIONAL AEROSPACE LABORATORY OF JAPANInventors: Osamu Okamoto, Tatsuo Yamanaka, Masataka Maita, Hideyuki Taguchi, Takeshi Tsuchiya
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Patent number: 5061956Abstract: An optically imaging method and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. The illuminating lens and first imaging lens of an optical lens system comprising the four lenses of first and second illuminating lenses and first and second imaging lenses sandwich a pattern source. Moving the second illuminating lens and first imaging lens in unit with a distance therebetween fixed can image a pattern image at a desired magnification at an image point of the second imaging lens falling within an allowable object space focal depth and produce an illuminant image of an illuminant falling within an allowable entrance pupil position range of a projection lens so that an opening ratio of the illuminant image falls within a predetermined range. An illuminant image of a high contrast and a good telecentricity is produced.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1990Date of Patent: October 29, 1991Assignee: Nippon Seiko Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Minoru Takubo, Toshio Fukasawa, Tatsuo Yamanaka