Patents by Inventor Tomoaki HORII

Tomoaki HORII 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: 20240101093
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a switching valve switchable between a first state allowing communication between a first fluid pressure generating device and a frictional brake and a second state allowing communication between a second fluid pressure generating device and the frictional brake. The second fluid pressure generating device generates a fluid pressure by moving a piston with an electric actuator, and has a fluid pressure supply port connected to the switching valve and an atmosphere opening port connected to a reservoir tank. When, due to a failure, the switching valve becomes a third state in which the switching valve makes each of the first fluid pressure generating device and the second fluid pressure generating device communicate with the frictional brake, a control device controls the second fluid pressure generating device to close the atmosphere opening port with the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Atsuki OHIRA, Eisuke HORII, Hiroyuki IWASAKI, Masayuki UENO, Shotaro YAMAZAKI, Takashi SHIMADA, Tomoaki KOTAKI, Yohei SATO
  • Publication number: 20240075915
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system includes a first fluid pressure generating device for generating a fluid pressure according to a brake operating amount, a second fluid pressure generating device for generating a fluid pressure by moving a piston with an electric actuator, and a switching valve switchable between a first state allowing communication between the first fluid pressure generating device and a vehicle behavior stabilizing device and a second state allowing communication between the second fluid pressure generating device and the vehicle behavior stabilizing device. A control device places the switching valve in the second state during execution of automatic brake control, and places the switching valve in the first state when a predetermined abnormality occurs in the vehicle, except that the control device places the switching valve in the second state when an abnormality including inability of the second fluid pressure generating device to generate the fluid pressure occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Eisuke HORII, Hiroyuki IWASAKI, Yohei SATO, Tomoaki KOTAKI, Masayuki UENO, Shotaro YAMAZAKI, Atsuki OHIRA
  • Patent number: 10876492
    Abstract: Provided is a device for controlling a fuel injection device capable of suppressing deterioration of exhaust performance while ensuring driving performance when acceleration of a vehicle is requested during an intake stroke. Therefore, when the acceleration of a vehicle is requested during an intake stroke in one combustion cycle, an engine control unit 9 estimates an increase (acceleration intake air amount Qad) of the amount of air taken in a combustion chamber 19 of an internal combustion engine 1 associated with the acceleration of the vehicle after the acceleration of the vehicle is requested in one combustion cycle based on a lift amount of an intake valve 3. The engine control unit 9 controls a fuel injection valve 5 so as to increase a fuel injection amount in one combustion cycle according to the acceleration intake air amount Qad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Horii, Tei Ho, Kazuya Saito
  • Publication number: 20200182186
    Abstract: Provided is a device for controlling a fuel injection device capable of suppressing deterioration of exhaust performance while ensuring driving performance when acceleration of a vehicle is requested during an intake stroke. Therefore, when the acceleration of a vehicle is requested during an intake stroke in one combustion cycle, an engine control unit 9 estimates an increase (acceleration intake air amount Qad) of the amount of air taken in a combustion chamber 19 of an internal combustion engine 1 associated with the acceleration of the vehicle after the acceleration of the vehicle is requested in one combustion cycle based on a lift amount of an intake valve 3. The engine control unit 9 controls a fuel injection valve 5 so as to increase a fuel injection amount in one combustion cycle according to the acceleration intake air amount Qad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoaki HORII, Tei HO, Kazuya SAITO
  • Patent number: 10634083
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to correct deviation in the injection amount and changes in the injection timing when the voltage of a high-voltage source for a drive device decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kusakabe, Tomoaki Horii, Shingo Kimura, Takaki Itaya, Mitsuru Nagase, Shirou Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 10458354
    Abstract: Provided is a knock detecting device capable of ensuring knock detection accuracy irrespective of fuel injection conditions even when a period during which injection-valve noise occurs overlaps with a knock determination period. An ECU 9 subjects signals output from a knock sensor, which detects vibrations of an internal combustion engine, to frequency analysis to calculate frequency components (501). The ECU 9 calculates a background level that indicates the average of the frequency components (503). The ECU 9 stores, in association with each other, the number of fuel injections, which indicates the number of fuel injections in a predetermined time period during one combustion cycle, with a learning value, which indicates a frequency-component correction amount (507).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Horii, Shingo Kimura, Kenji Takada
  • Patent number: 10450995
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device enabling the suppression of variations in the amount of fuel injected by injection while the boost voltage is charging, without offsetting the injection timing. A boost circuit (211) boosts a first voltage supplied from a battery (201), and supplies a boosted second voltage to a fuel injection device (214). Switches (212, 213) switch the second voltage supplied to the fuel injection device from the booster circuit on and off. Computation devices (204, 207) control the switches. Each computation device comprises: an estimation unit that, before the initial fuel injection in a combustion cycle, estimates the second voltage for all of the fuel injection times in the combustion cycle; and a correction unit that corrects the amount of fuel injected for each fuel injection time depending on the estimated second voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo Kimura, Tomoaki Horii, Mitsuru Nagase, Shirou Yamaoka, Ryo Kusakabe, Takaki Itaya
  • Publication number: 20190085783
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to correct deviation in the injection amount and changes in the injection timing when the voltage of a high-voltage source for a drive device decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Tomoaki HORII, Shingo KIMURA, Takaki ITAYA, Mitsuru NAGASE, Shirou YAMAOKA
  • Patent number: 10161339
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to correct deviation in the injection amount and changes in the injection timing when the voltage of a high-voltage source for a drive device decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Ryo Kusakabe, Tomoaki Horii, Shingo Kimura, Takaki Itaya, Mitsuru Nagase, Shirou Yamaoka
  • Publication number: 20180283306
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to correct deviation in the injection amount and changes in the injection timing when the voltage of a high-voltage source for a drive device decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Tomoaki HORII, Shingo KIMURA, Takaki ITAYA, Mitsuru NAGASE, Shirou YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20180023503
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device enabling the suppression of variations in the amount of fuel injected by injection while the boost voltage is charging, without offsetting the injection timing. A boost circuit (211) boosts a first voltage supplied from a battery (201), and supplies a boosted second voltage to a fuel injection device (214). Switches (212, 213) switch the second voltage supplied to the fuel injection device from the booster circuit on and off. Computation devices (204, 207) control the switches. Each computation device comprises: an estimation unit that, before the initial fuel injection in a combustion cycle, estimates the second voltage for all of the fuel injection times in the combustion cycle; and a correction unit that corrects the amount of fuel injected for each fuel injection time depending on the estimated second voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Shingo KIMURA, Tomoaki HORII, Mitsuru NAGASE, Shirou YAMAOKA, Ryo KUSAKABE, Takaki ITAYA
  • Publication number: 20180017004
    Abstract: Provided is a knock detecting device capable of ensuring knock detection accuracy irrespective of fuel injection conditions even when a period during which injection-valve noise occurs overlaps with a knock determination period. An ECU 9 subjects signals output from a knock sensor, which detects vibrations of an internal combustion engine, to frequency analysis to calculate frequency components (501). The ECU 9 calculates a background level that indicates the average of the frequency components (503). The ECU 9 stores, in association with each other, the number of fuel injections, which indicates the number of fuel injections in a predetermined time period during one combustion cycle, with a learning value, which indicates a frequency-component correction amount (507).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoaki HORII, Shingo KIMURA, Kenji TAKADA