Patents by Inventor Tokuo Kosuge

Tokuo Kosuge 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: 5346137
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injection valve comprises a valve body, a valve seat which cooperates with the valve body, a fuel injection port disposed downstream of the valve seat, and a dividing device which serves to divide injection fuel injected from the fuel injection port. The dividing device is formed integrally with a member in which the fuel injection port is formed and includes parallel walls substantially parallel to each other with the fuel injection port interposed therebetween and arcuate walls connected to the parallel walls having a diameter larger than that of the fuel injection port. The walls extend from said member in a direction of an axis of the valve. The dividing device has an outer diameter substantially equal to the largest diameter of the valve seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1993
    Date of Patent: September 13, 1994
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Hisanobu Kanamaru, Hitoshi Maeda, Satoshi Suzuki, Tohru Ishikawa, Tokuo Kosuge, Kiyoshi Amou, Hiroshi Ohki, Koji Nakagawa, Yoshiyuki Tanabe, Mizuho Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 5156341
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electromagnetic type fuel injection valve including a stator iron core, an electromagnetic coil concentric with the stator iron core, a casing formed of a magnetizable material and accommodating therein the stator iron core and the electromagnetic coil, a moving body provided at its end with a valve body, a stopper for the moving body, a valve seat opposite to the stopper with the moving body interposed therebetween and a spring engaged with an end of the moving body for biasing the same, the moving body being adapted to reciprocate between the valve seat and the stator iron core under the magnetizing force of the electromagnetic coil and the biasing force of the spring, and having an armature adapted to be absorbed by the stator iron core and a rod contiguous with the valve body, the armature and the rod being formed of the same material so as to be integral with each other, a guide portion of the rod and a portion of the moving body adapted to abut against the stopper being subjected to a ha
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsuyoshi Terakado, Hisanobu Kanamaru, Mizuho Yokoyama, Tokuo Kosuge
  • Patent number: 5098016
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injection valve in which an area of an annular gap formed by a ball valve and a valve seat when the ball valve is lifted is made smaller than cross sectional area of grooves provided on a fuel swirling element which gives fuel supplied a swirling force and further is made larger than a cross sectional area of a fuel injection port, whereby the fuel is injected with an excellent atomizing characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Yozo Nakamura, Kyoichi Uchiyama, Haruo Watanabe, Tokuo Kosuge, Akira Onishi, Akashi Terasaki, Hiroyuki Ando, Eiji Hamashima
  • Patent number: 5040731
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injector suitable for use in an automotive engine has a cylindrical yoke constituting a body of the fuel injector, a solenoid coil and a stator core fixedly received in the cylindrical yoke, a movable core adapted to be attracted by the stator core, and a movable valve responsive to the movable core so as to be moved into and out of contact with a fuel injection valve seat in accordance with the balance of force between an electromagnetic force produced by the solenoid coil and a force produced by a spring received in the stator core. The stator core is coaxially received in the cylindrical yoke with a portion of the material of either one of the stator core and the yoke being plastically deformed into an annular groove formed in the opposing surface of the other of the stator core and the yoke. In consequence, the stator core and the yoke are coupled to and held on each other by the contracting force produced by the plastically deformed material in and around the annular groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mizuho Yokoyama, Hisanobu Kanamaru, Tokuo Kosuge
  • Patent number: 5012982
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injector comprising: a movable member with a valve body provided at one end and an armature made of a magnetic material provided at the other end; a cylindrical core made of a magnetic material, the core being disposed in such a manner that the distal end thereof opposes the armature; an electromagnetic coil disposed around the cylindrical core for producing an electromagnetic force between the cylindrical core and the armature when the coil is energized; and guide sections for guiding the movement of the movable member in the axial direction, the guide sections being disposed in the vicinities of the valve body and the armature of the movable member. The guide section provided in the vicinity of the armature comprises a sliding member made of a non-magnetic material and disposed between the armature and the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masahiro Souma, Tokuo Kosuge, Tohru Ishikawa, Hisanobu Kanamaru, Mizuho Yokoyama, Yasuo Kamituma
  • Patent number: 4995559
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injection valve in which an area of an annular gap formed by a ball valve and a valve seat when the ball valve is lifted is made smaller than cross sectional area of grooves provided on a fuel swirling element which gives fuel supplied a swirling force and further is made larger than a cross sectional area of a fuel injection port, whereby the fuel is injected with an excellent atomizing characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Yozo Nakamura, Kyoichi Uchiyama, Haruo Watanabe, Tokuo Kosuge, Akira Onishi, Akashi Terasaki, Hiroyuki Ando, Eiji Hamashima
  • Patent number: 4974312
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injector suitable for use in an automotive engine has a cylindrical yoke constituting a body of the fuel injector, a solenoid coil and a stator core fixedly received in the cylindrical yoke, a movable core adapted to be attracted by the stator core, and a movable valve responsive to the movable core so as to be moved into and out of contact with a fuel injection valve seat in accordance with the balance of force between an electromagnetic force produced by the solenoid coil and a force produced by a spring received in the stator core. The stator core is coaxially received in the cylindrical yoke with a portion of the material of either one of the stator core and the yoke being plastically deformed into an annular groove formed in the opposing surface of the other of the stator core and the yoke. In consequence, the stator core and the yoke are coupled to and held on each other by the contracting force produced by the plastically deformed material in and around the annular groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 4, 1990
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mizuho Yokoyama, Hisanobu Kanamaru, Tokuo Kosuge
  • Patent number: 4887769
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injection valve in which an area of an annular gap formed by a ball valve and a valve seat when the ball valve is lifted is made smaller than cross sectional area of grooves provided on a fuel swirling element which gives fuel supplied a swirling force and further is made larger than a cross sectional area of a fuel injection port, whereby the fuel is injected with an excellent atomizing characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshio Okamoto, Yozo Nakamura, Kyoichi Uchiyama, Haruo Watanabe, Tokuo Kosuge, Akira Onishi, Akashi Terasaki, Hiroyuki Ando, Eiji Hamashima
  • Patent number: 4811905
    Abstract: An electromagnetic fuel injector for internal combustion engines has a core defining therein a central bore and a fuel adjuster disposed therein and having an upstream end spaced downstream from an inlet end of the core. The central bore includes an inlet portion extending between the inlet end of the core and the upstream end of the fuel adjuster and providing an inner peripheral surface operative to guide the fuel in a laminar flow toward and into the fuel adjuster for thereby minimizing the occurrence of pulsated fuel pressure variation and voids which took place heretofore to cause cavitation in the fuel passage in the injector, whereby the range of fuel injection control can be widened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1989
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tooru Ishikawa, Tokuo Kosuge
  • Patent number: 4593663
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the operation of an internal combustion engine having a carburetor which, controls the air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture supplied to the engine in the steady operating condition of the engine on the basis of predetermined data determined relative to the engine crankshaft rotation speed and intake vacuum and stored in a memory. A three-way catalyst purifies engine exhaust gases, and an output signal from an O.sub.2 sensor in the exhaust system is fed back for the control of the air-fuel ratio in the engine exhaust gases. A circuit checks whether this feedback control is normally carried or not. The air-fuel ratio supplied to the engine in an unsteady operating condition of the engine is controlled by regulating the fuel and air supplied to the engine while bypassing the carburetor, by the sensed values of the intake vacuum, engine crankshaft rotation speed and engine temperature and also depending on the throttle valve position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Atago, Yasunori Mouri, Tokuo Kosuge, Toshio Furuhashi, Osamu Abe, Taiji Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 4589389
    Abstract: A base injection pulse for regulating an injecting time of an injector is determined by the number of revolutions of an engine and the quantity of an intake air. The base injection pulse is calibrated or compensated as follows;T.sub.i =T.sub.p (1+K.sub.a +K.sub.b)whereinT.sub.i : a pulse width of the calibrated injection pulse, which determines the injecting time of the injector;T.sub.p : a pulse width of the base injection pulse;K.sub.a : a calibration coefficient determined by the level of an acceleration; andK.sub.b : a calibration coefficient determined by the level of a deceleration preceding to the acceleration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokuo Kosuge, Kimiji Karino
  • Patent number: 4546748
    Abstract: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine has a fuel injector disposed in a main air passage upstream of a throttle valve. A part of air flowing through the main air passage is caused to flow through a by-pass air passage having outlet ports open to the main air passage upstream of the injection orifice of the injector. A thermal type air flow meter measures the rate of air flow through the by-pass air passage. In order to prevent whirling-up of injected fuel and resultant adhesion of the fuel to walls adjacent to the by-pass air passage outlet ports, the cross-sectional area of the main air passage adjacent to the by-pass air passage outlet ports is determined to be greater than that of the main air passage around the throttle valve when in its fully open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1985
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiji Karino, Tokuo Kosuge
  • Patent number: 4523561
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling air amount upon engine start comprises a control signal generator which provides control signals indicative of amounts of air required upon start of an internal combustion engine and corresponding to temperatures of the engine. An amount of air required upon engine start is derived from the control signal generator in accordance with an engine temperature upon the engine start to control air amount thereupon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1985
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventor: Tokuo Kosuge
  • Patent number: 4462378
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the operation of an internal combustion engine having a carburetor, especially, the air-fuel ratio and the rate of exhaust gas recirculation, controls the air-fuel ratio of the air-fuel mixture supplied to the engine in the steady operating condition of the engine on the basis of predetermined data determined relative to the engine crankshaft rotation speed and intake vacuum and stored previously in a memory. A three-way catalyst is used to purify engine exhaust gases, and an output signal from an O.sub.2 sensor in the exhaust system is fed back for the control of the air-fuel ratio in the engine exhaust gases. A circuit is provided to check whether this feedback control is normally carried or not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 31, 1984
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeshi Atago, Yasunori Mouri, Tokuo Kosuge, Toshio Furuhashi, Osamu Abe, Taiji Hasegawa
  • Patent number: 4446080
    Abstract: A carburetor including a main fuel system and a low-speed fuel system having a throttle valve shaft located parallel to a row of cylinders located in side-by-side relationship substantially perpendicular to the direction of movement of a vehicle. The carburetor is connected to a suction manifold in such a manner that a float chamber is interposed between the throttle valve shaft and the row of cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1984
    Assignees: Hitachi, Ltd., Hitachi Automotive Engineering Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiji Karino, Tokuo Kosuge, Masahiro Souma
  • Patent number: 4377141
    Abstract: A low speed fuel supply system for a carburetor of an engine, with the system including an ascending fuel passage communicating with a fuel supply. A fuel-air passage is provided with an air bleed at an upper end, with the fuel-air passage opening, at the upper end thereof, into an induction passage of the carburetor upstream of a throttle valve mounted across the induction passage. A lower end of the fuel-air passage communicates with the induction passage in a vicinity of the throttle valve. A horizontally disposed fluid passage is provided for connecting both the upper ends of the fuel-air passage and the ascending fuel passage. The horizontally disposed fluid passage forms a valve seat, with a guide member being provided forming a valve body disposed in alignment with the valve seat. An air bleed introduces air into the upper portion of the ascending fuel passage directly toward the valve body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1983
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kimiji Karino, Tokuo Kosuge
  • Patent number: 4364354
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio controller for carburetors in which an auxiliary fuel system opening to the downstream side of a throttle valve of a carburetor is provided separately from the main and slow fuel systems of the carburetor. The air-fuel ratio of the mixture flowing through this auxiliary fuel system is controlled by a solenoid valve adapted to operate in accordance with either one or both of a parameter representing the warming up after cold start and a parameter representing deceleration of the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1982
    Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tokuo Kosuge, Takeshi Atago, Kimiji Karino