Patents by Inventor Tomohiro Otani

Tomohiro Otani 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: 10502156
    Abstract: An engine includes a fuel injector, an atmospheric pressure sensor, and an engine controller coupled to the fuel injector. The atmospheric pressure sensor detects the atmospheric pressure. The engine controller includes a first control device and a second control device. The first control device is configured to determine whether the engine is in a steady state or a transient state. The second control device is configured to calculate a fuel injection timing in the steady state, a the fuel injection timing in the transient state, and an atmospheric pressure correction process for correcting the fuel injection timing on the basis of the atmospheric pressure. The atmospheric correction process is performed only in the steady state to avoid redundancy. The engine controller outputs a final injection timing to the fuel injector as a result of the calculated fuel injection timing and the calculated atmospheric correction process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Otani, Atsuhito Iwase
  • Patent number: 10271905
    Abstract: The present application relates to systems and methods for performing a computerized cardiac simulation for at least one of diagnosis, risk assessment or treatment planning including: receiving, by a computer, a plurality of three-dimensional cardiac images of a subject's heart such that each three-dimensional cardiac image corresponds to a different phase of a single cardiac cycle of the subject's heart; modeling structure, using the computer, of the left atrium of the subject as a function of time using the plurality of three-dimensional cardiac images of the subject's heart; modeling blood flow, using the computer, within, into and out of the left atrium of the subject as a function of time using computational fluidic dynamics and using structure of said left atrium obtained from at least one of said plurality of three-dimensional cardiac images or said modeling structure of said left atrium; simulating at least one of time dependent structural function or time-dependent blood flow of said left atrium usin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: The Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ashikaga, Tomohiro Otani
  • Publication number: 20180116725
    Abstract: The present application relates to systems and methods for performing a computerized cardiac simulation for at least one of diagnosis, risk assessment or treatment planning including: receiving, by a computer, a plurality of three-dimensional cardiac images of a subject's heart such that each three-dimensional cardiac image corresponds to a different phase of a single cardiac cycle of the subject's heart; modeling structure, using the computer, of the left atrium of the subject as a function of time using the plurality of three-dimensional cardiac images of the subject's heart; modeling blood flow, using the computer, within, into and out of the left atrium of the subject as a function of time using computational fluidic dynamics and using structure of said left atrium obtained from at least one of said plurality of three-dimensional cardiac images or said modeling structure of said left atrium; simulating at least one of time dependent structural function or time-dependent blood flow of said left atrium usin
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ashikaga, Tomohiro Otani
  • Patent number: 9915213
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an engine with improved startability and stable operation regardless of the driving environment and usage conditions. The engine is equipped with a control means, which calculates a standard injection timing on the basis of the target rotational frequency of the engine and a standard injection amount, that is, the amount of fuel injected, and which corrects the standard injection timing using at least one correction amount. A fuel injection control unit calculates a cooling water correction amount on the basis of the target rotational frequency of the engine, the standard injection amount, and the cooling water temperature, and when the cooling water temperature is less than a first prescribed temperature the control unit corrects the standard injection timing using only the cooling water correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhito Iwase, Tomohiro Otani, Yasuaki Oku, Yuki Fujimoto, Tomohiro Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20170204798
    Abstract: The objective of the present invention is to provide an engine with improved startability and stable operation regardless of the driving environment and usage conditions. The engine is equipped with a control means, which calculates a standard injection timing on the basis of the target rotational frequency of the engine and a standard injection amount, that is, the amount of fuel injected, and which corrects the standard injection timing using at least one correction amount. A fuel injection control unit calculates a cooling water correction amount on the basis of the target rotational frequency of the engine, the standard injection amount, and the cooling water temperature, and when the cooling water temperature is less than a first prescribed temperature the control unit corrects the standard injection timing using only the cooling water correction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Atsuhito IWASE, Tomohiro OTANI, Yasuaki OKU, Yuki FUJIMOTO, Tomohiro FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 9644567
    Abstract: An engine includes a control means that calculates a standard injection time based on the target number of revolutions of the engine and a standard injection amount being a fuel injection amount of the engine and corrects the standard injection time based on at least a correction amount, and a fuel injection control unit calculates a coolant correction amount based on the target number of revolutions, the standard injection amount, and a coolant temperature of the engine, and when the coolant temperature is less than a first predetermined temperature, the fuel injection control unit corrects the standard injection time only based on the coolant correction amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Atsuhito Iwase, Tomohiro Otani, Yasuaki Oku, Yuki Fujimoto, Tomohiro Fukuda
  • Publication number: 20160363086
    Abstract: An engine includes a fuel injector, a state determination unit, an atmospheric pressure sensor and an injection timing control unit. The state determination unit determines whether an engine state is a steady or transient state. The atmospheric pressure sensor detects the atmospheric pressure. The injection timing control unit performs a steady process for calculating a fuel injection timing in a steady state, a transient process for calculating the fuel injection timing in the transient state, and an atmospheric pressure correction process for correcting the fuel injection timing on the basis of the atmospheric pressure. The injection timing control unit changes either whether or not the atmospheric pressure correction process is performed or the contents of the atmospheric pressure correction process, depending on cases when the engine state is the steady or transient state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Tomohiro OTANI, Atsuhito IWASE
  • Publication number: 20160195034
    Abstract: An engine includes a control means that calculates a standard injection time based on the target number of revolutions of the engine and a standard injection amount being a fuel injection amount of the engine and corrects the standard injection time based on at least a correction amount, and a fuel injection control unit calculates a coolant correction amount based on the target number of revolutions, the standard injection amount, and a coolant temperature of the engine, and when the coolant temperature is less than a first predetermined temperature, the fuel injection control unit corrects the standard injection time only based on the coolant correction amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Atsuhito IWASE, Tomohiro OTANI, Yasuaki OKU, Yuki FUJIMOTO, Tomohiro FUKUDA
  • Patent number: 8494752
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an engine having a revision means which regulates rotation speed of each of cylinders while reflecting specific unevenness of rotation of each of the cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Adachi, Shusuke Okada, Tomohiro Otani
  • Patent number: 8254782
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the quality monitoring of optical signals, which have different symbol rates and generated by different modulation schemes, used for example in a wavelength division multiplexing network. The apparatus according to the invention includes an optical splitter for outputting the input optical signal to a first optical route and a second optical route, an optical coupler for coupling a optical signal from the first optical route with a optical signal from the second optical route, a delay unit provided on the first optical route, and a phase shift unit provided on the first optical route or the second optical route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro Tsuritani, Jun Haeng Lee, Tomohiro Otani
  • Patent number: 8126638
    Abstract: In an engine which may show a behavior where an engine speed is not always minimized after compression top dead center of a cylinder in which poor fuel injection occurred, the cylinder in which poor fuel injection occurred is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Adachi, Shusuke Okada, Tomohiro Otani
  • Patent number: 7903969
    Abstract: A link connectivity verification message to recognize a physical link connection state is transmitted from the WDM to the PXC on a C-plane. The PXC transmits a link connectivity verification ACK message including information representing a physical link connection state, and the WDM transmits a cross-connect instruction message to cross-connect a transmission side and a reception side of a port (port 1) of the PXC. Probe light transmitted from the port (port a) of the WDM is turned back by a cross-connect of the port (port 1) of the PXC. The WDM receives the probe light to verify a link connectivity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Noboru Yoshikane, Takehiro Tsuritani, Tomohiro Otani
  • Patent number: 7784281
    Abstract: A propulsion apparatus for synchronizing the revolution speeds of a plurality of engines, each engine having a screw propeller shaft. A single regulator lever synchronously adjusts a revolution speed of the propeller shafts of the engines. When an output rpm of one of the engines has dropped, a control means lowers the revolution speed of the propeller shafts of the remaining engines to a revolution speed which is synchronized to the revolution speed of the propeller shaft of the engine whose rpm has dropped. Synchronization of revolution speeds of the remaining engines with the engine having reduced output rpm is terminated if the output rpm of that engine falls below a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiya Kotou, Tomohiro Otani, Hitoshi Adachi, Hideo Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20100198483
    Abstract: In an engine which may show a behavior where an engine speed is not always minimized after compression top dead center of a cylinder in which poor fuel injection occurred, the cylinder in which poor fuel injection occurred is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Adachi, Shusuke Okada, Tomohiro Otani
  • Publication number: 20100198484
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an engine having a revision means which regulates rotation speed of each of cylinders while reflecting specific unevenness of rotation of each of the cylinders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hitoshi Adachi, Shusuke Okada, Tomohiro Otani
  • Patent number: 7753030
    Abstract: A high-pressure pump (8) for providing a pressurized supply of fuel in an engine furnished with a common rail type fuel injection apparatus is provided with two actuators (88, 89). Of these actuators (88, 89), one (88) is stopped and the operation for providing a pressurized supply of fuel is performed from only the other actuator (89), so that the timing at which the load torque that acts on the crankshaft of the engine becomes a local maximum and the timing at which the load torque that acts on the driveshaft of the high-pressure pump (8) becomes a local minimum are made to coincide with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomohiro Otani, Hitoshi Adachi, Fumiya Kotou, Hideo Shiomi
  • Patent number: 7747167
    Abstract: An optical signal is transmitted via a transponder 13, an all-optical node 1, and a WDM device 4 including an optical filter 38. A control means which includes a route and wavelength selecting functional part 32, transmits a request band information and a wavelength information based on a requested band information, link information of a network, and band limitation information with respect to each filter wavelength of the optical filter 38. A multi-rate functional part 36 sends a bit rate varying request to set a band to be requested to the network side according to the requested band information. A wavelength varying functional part 37 sends a wavelength varying request to set a wavelength of the optical signal according to the wavelength information. The optical filter 38 includes a bit rate (band) dependent wavelength multiplexing and demultiplexing functional part 39.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: KDDI Corporation
    Inventors: Takehiro Tsuritani, Tomohiro Otani
  • Patent number: 7707995
    Abstract: Rotation recognition means for recognizing a revolution of a crankshaft based on the cylinders before the combustion cycle of a cylinder in question is provided. When the supply of fuel by injection from an injector to a certain cylinder of the six cylinders has become impossible, then control is performed to change the number of cylinders targeted by the rotation recognition means so as to recognize the revolution of the crankshaft for all six cylinders whose combustion cycles are consecutive prior to the combustion cycle of the cylinder in question, and to stop the supply of fuel from the injectors for supplying fuel to cylinders whose combustion cycles are equally spaced from the cylinder to which the supply of fuel is not possible, so that the spacing between the combustion cycles in the cylinders whose combustion cycles come before and after and sandwich the cylinder to which the supply of fuel is not possible becomes uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiya Kotou, Tomohiro Otani, Hitoshi Adachi, Hideo Shiomi
  • Patent number: 7661411
    Abstract: A fuel control method which recognizes a revolution of a crankshaft based on the cylinders before the combustion cycle of a cylinder in question. When the supply of fuel by injection from an injector to a certain cylinder of the six cylinders has become impossible, then control is performed to change the number of cylinders targeted by the rotation recognition means so as to recognize the revolution of the crankshaft for all six cylinders whose combustion cycles are consecutive prior to the combustion cycle of the cylinder in question, and to stop the supply of fuel from the injectors for supplying fuel to cylinders whose combustion cycles are equally spaced from the cylinder to which the supply of fuel is not possible, so that the spacing between the combustion cycles in the cylinders whose combustion cycles come before and after and sandwich the cylinder to which the supply of fuel is not possible becomes uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2010
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumiya Kotou, Tomohiro Otani, Hitoshi Adachi, Hideo Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20090277420
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the high-pressure pump (8) for providing a pressurized supply of fuel in an engine furnished with a common rail type fuel injection apparatus is provided with two actuators (88, 89). Of these actuators (88, 89), one (88) is stopped and the operation for providing a pressurized supply of fuel is performed from only the other actuator (89), so that the timing at which the load torque that acts on the crankshaft of the engine becomes a local maximum and the timing at which the load torque that acts on the driveshaft of the high-pressure pump (8) becomes a local minimum are made to coincide with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2009
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomohiro OTANI, Hitoshi ADACHI, Fumiya KOTOU, Hideo SHIOMI