Patents by Inventor Terufumi Yamashita

Terufumi Yamashita 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: 5080071
    Abstract: In a fuel control system for an internal combustion engine, fuel is injected in a quantity the direct delivery part of which provides a desired quantity of fuel to be actually fed to the engine together with the drawn part of the intake-manifold wetting fuel. The quantity of the intake-manifold wetting fuel on the basis of which the quantity of the drawn part is calculated is calculated on the basis of the quantity of the adhering part of the fuel which was injected by the preceding injection and the quantity of the residual part of the preceding intake-manifold wetting fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1992
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kunitomo Minamitani, Tetsuro Takaba, Terufumi Yamashita, Yuji Sato
  • Patent number: 4987876
    Abstract: A multi-cylinder internal combustion engine is provided with a fuel injection system, which includes a plurality of fuel injection nozzles securely mounted in independent intake passages communicating with combustion chambers of respective cylinders, an air-flow sensor for detecting the amount of intake air to be led into each combustion chamber, a crank angle sensor and a cylinder discrimination sensor for detecting the present stroke timing of each cylinder, a speed sensor for detecting the engine speed and a control unit for outputting a signal to the fuel injection nozzles so that a predetermined amount of fuel may be injected to each cylinder at a predetermined timing on the basis of values detected by the respective sensors. The control unit calculates the injection timing of fuel to be injected into each cylinder so that the injection start timing may be altered in compliance with driving conditions of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
    Inventors: Kunitomo Minamitani, Tetsuro Takaba, Terufumi Yamashita, Toshihide Nishikawa