Patents by Inventor Toshihiro Aono
Toshihiro Aono 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: 10240551Abstract: Provided are an electromagnetic valve control unit and a fuel injection control device using the same that can precisely detect a change of an operating state of an electromagnetic valve, that is, a valve opening time or a valve closing time of the electromagnetic valve, precisely correct a drive voltage or a drive current applied to the electromagnetic valve, and appropriately control opening/closing of the electromagnetic valve, with a simple configuration. In an electromagnetic valve control unit for controlling opening/closing of an electromagnetic valve by a drive voltage and a drive current to be applied, the drive voltage and the drive current applied to the electromagnetic valve are corrected on the basis of a detection time of an inflection point from time series data of the drive voltage and the drive current when the electromagnetic valve is opened/closed.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro Aono, Motoyuki Abe, Ryo Kusakabe, Teppei Hirotsu, Ayumu Hatanaka, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Takao Fukuda, Masahiro Toyohara, Osamu Mukaihara
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Publication number: 20180209366Abstract: A drive device capable of detecting individual variations of an injection quantity of a fuel injection device of each cylinder and adjusting a current waveform provided to an injection pulse width and a solenoid such that the individual variations of the fuel injection devices are reduced. The fuel injection device in the present invention includes a valve body that close a fuel passage by coming into contact with a valve seat and opens the fuel passage by separating from the valve seat and a magnetic circuit constructed of a solenoid, a fixed core, a nozzle holder a housing and a needle and when a current is supplied to the solenoid a magnetic suction force acts on the needle and the needle has a function to open the valve body by colliding against the valve body after performing a free running operation and changes of acceleration of the needle due to collision of the needle against the valve body are detected by a current flowing through the solenoid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Motoyuki ABE, Ayumu HATANAKA, Toshihiro AONO, Teppei HIROTSU, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Masahiro TOYOHARA, Osamu MUKAIHARA, Takao FUKUDA, Yoshihito YASUKAWA, Akiyasu MIYAMOTO
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Publication number: 20180209365Abstract: A set spring force is estimated with high precision and a drive waveform is corrected according to the results. A control device of a fuel injection device consists of an incorporation means of reading a drive voltage of a solenoid, an inflexion point extraction filter for filtering the drive voltage to highlight inflexion points, a means of selecting a later inflexion point or a means of calculating a temporal difference between a later inflexion point and an earlier inflexion point of the extracted inflexion points, and a drive current correction means of correcting a drive current parameter on the basis of timing of the selected, later inflexion point or a temporal difference between the inflexion points.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro AONO, Masahiro TOYOHARA, Osamu MUKAIHARA
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Patent number: 9926874Abstract: A drive device capable of detecting individual variations of an injection quantity of a fuel injection device of each cylinder and adjusting a current waveform provided to an injection pulse width and a solenoid such that the individual variations of the fuel injection devices are reduced. The fuel injection device in the present invention includes a valve body that closes a fuel passage by coming into contact with a valve seat and opens the fuel passage by separating from the valve seat and a magnetic circuit constructed of a solenoid, a fixed core, a nozzle holder, a housing, and a needle and when a current is supplied to the solenoid, a magnetic suction force acts on the needle and the needle has a function to open the valve body by colliding against the valve body after performing a free running operation and changes of acceleration of the needle due to collision of the needle against the valve body are detected by a current flowing through the solenoid.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2013Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Ryo Kusakabe, Motoyuki Abe, Ayumu Hatanaka, Toshihiro Aono, Teppei Hirotsu, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Masahiro Toyohara, Osamu Mukaihara, Takao Fukuda, Yoshihito Yasukawa, Akiyasu Miyamoto
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Publication number: 20170335787Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection valve control device with which. variability in the injection amount with respect to drive pulse width can be kept to a satisfactory level in each of a plurality of fuel injection devices. The present invention provides a fuel injection valve control device for controlling a plurality of fuel injection devices each equipped with a valve body and a solenoid for opening the valve body, characterized in that the device is configured such that, a prescribed time after voltage has been applied to the solenoid, a holding current is applied, the prescribed time and the holding current being corrected for each of the fuel injection devices, on the basis of the operating characteristics of the fuel injection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2015Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Toshihiro AONO, Motoyuki ABE, Masahiro TOYOHARA, Osamu MUKAIHARA
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Publication number: 20170218876Abstract: A method for detecting variations between the quantities of fuel injected into cylinders by fuel injection devices and correcting the fuel injection quantity variation while minimizing the computational load on a drive device and the level of performance required of a pressure sensor includes a drive device for fuel injection control, wherein movable valves are driven so that predetermined quantities of fuel are injected by applying, for the duration of a set energization time, a current that will reach an energization current to solenoids of a plurality of fuel injection devices which open/close fuel flow paths. The drive device is characterized in that the set energization time or energization current is corrected on the basis of a pressure detection value from a pressure sensor that is attached to a fuel supply pipe disposed upstream of the plurality of fuel injection devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2015Publication date: August 3, 2017Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Motoyuki ABE, Toshihiro AONO, Takashi OKAMOTO
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Patent number: 9714626Abstract: An object of this disclosure is to provide a fuel injection device that can reliably detect an operation timing of a valve body, that is, a valve opening timing with high accuracy. The current of an electromagnetic valve reaches I2 at time t3, an FET 201 and an FET 221 are turned on, and a battery voltage VB is applied to the electromagnetic valve until time t5 is reached. The amount of displacement of the valve body reaches a target amount of control lift at time t4 between time t3 and time t5, that is, a movable core 304 comes into contact with a fixed core 301. The detection of the valve opening timing is performed during the period from time t3 to time t5.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: July 25, 2017Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.Inventors: Ayumu Hatanaka, Ryo Kusakabe, Motoyuki Abe, Toshihiro Aono, Teppei Hirotsu, Hideyuki Sakamoto, Takao Fukuda, Hideharu Ehara, Masahiro Toyohara, Akira Nishioka, Toshio Hori, Kiyoshi Aiki
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Publication number: 20160237937Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a drive device of a fuel injection device which can increase the accuracy in an injected fuel injection amount by combining the fuel injections from a plurality of injection pulse widths. In the drive device of the fuel injection device which has a function of driving the fuel injection device such that the fuel injection is performed plural times in one combustion cycle, the fuel injection device is driven such that a fuel injection at a target opening level in which a valve element or a movable element of the fuel injection device reaches a regulation member and a fuel injection at an intermediate opening level in which the valve element does not reach the regulation member are included in the plural times of division injections performed in one combustion cycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2014Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Toshihiro AONO, Motoyuki ABE, Takuya MAYUZUMI, Masahiro TOYOHARA, Takashi OKAMOTO, Osamu MUKAIHARA, Shinji NAKAGAWA, Yusuke KIHARA
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Publication number: 20160177855Abstract: A drive device capable of detecting individual variations of an injection quantity of a fuel injection device of each cylinder and adjusting a current waveform provided to an injection pulse width and a solenoid such that the individual variations of the fuel injection devices are reduced. The fuel injection device in the present invention includes a valve body that closes a fuel passage by coming into contact with a valve seat and opens the fuel passage by separating from the valve seat and a magnetic circuit constructed of a solenoid, a fixed core, a nozzle holder, a housing, and a needle and when a current is supplied to the solenoid, a magnetic suction force acts on the needle and the needle has a function to open the valve body by colliding against the valve body after performing a free running operation and changes of acceleration of the needle due to collision of the needle against the valve body are detected by a current flowing through the solenoid.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2013Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Ryo KUSAKABE, Motoyuki ABE, Ayumu HATANAKA, Toshihiro AONO, Teppei HIROTSU, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Masahiro TOYOHARA, Osamu MUKAIHARA, Takao FUKUDA, Yoshihito YASUKAWA, Akiyasu MIYAMOTO
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Publication number: 20160076498Abstract: Provided are an electromagnetic valve control unit and a fuel injection control device using the same that can precisely detect a change of an operating state of an electromagnetic valve, that is, a valve opening time or a valve closing time of the electromagnetic valve, precisely correct a drive voltage or a drive current applied to the electromagnetic valve, and appropriately control opening/closing of the electromagnetic valve, with a simple configuration. In an electromagnetic valve control unit for controlling opening/closing of an electromagnetic valve by a drive voltage and a drive current to be applied, the drive voltage and the drive current applied to the electromagnetic valve are corrected on the basis of a detection time of an inflection point from time series data of the drive voltage and the drive current when the electromagnetic valve is opened/closed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventors: Toshihiro AONO, Motoyuki ABE, Ryo KUSAKABE, Teppei HIROTSU, Ayumu HATANAKA, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Takao FUKUDA, Masahiro TOYOHARA, Osamu MUKAIHARA
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Publication number: 20150377176Abstract: An object of this disclosure is to provide a fuel injection device that can reliably detect an operation timing of a valve body, that is, a valve opening timing with high accuracy. The current of an electromagnetic valve reaches I2 at time t3, an FET 201 and an FET 221 are turned on, and a battery voltage VB is applied to the electromagnetic valve until time t5 is reached. The amount of displacement of the valve body reaches a target amount of control lift at time t4 between time t3 and time t5, that is, a movable core 304 comes into contact with a fixed core 301. The detection of the valve opening timing is performed during the period from time t3 to time t5.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Ayumu HATANAKA, Ryo KUSAKABE, Motoyuki ABE, Toshihiro AONO, Teppei HIROTSU, Hideyuki SAKAMOTO, Takao FUKUDA, Hideharu EHARA, Masahiro TOYOHARA, Akira NISHIOKA, Toshio HORI, Kiyoshi AIKI
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Patent number: 8825240Abstract: In order to minimize a calculation load and surely obtain a maximum adhesion torque, estimated adhesion torques are always stored, an maximum value is obtained from the stored plural estimated adhesion torques immediately before slip/skid is detected when detecting the slip/skid, and the maximum value is set as a maximum adhesion torque. The maximum adhesion torque immediately before the slip/skid is detected is compared with a value of the estimated adhesion torque when the slip/skid is detected. When the calculated value exceeds a threshold value, it is determined as a condition where an adhesion coefficient drastically drops, and a suppression/return ratio of the torque is switched to a lower value than that under a condition where the adhesion coefficient does not drastically drop. The value of the torque at the time of suppression or return is set to a smaller value to surely suppress the slip/skid.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Atsushi Watanabe, Motomi Shimada, Toshihiro Aono, Shuichi Tachihara
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Patent number: 8800592Abstract: In a flow control device 100, a comparator 40 outputs a first control voltage Vref based on a comparison of an instruction value signal Vi1 of the flow volume and a signal Vi2 according to the sensor output signal Vs. A feedback current generator 30 generates a feedback current Ifb according to a difference between the sensor output signal Vs and a signal Vi2 according to the instruction value signal Vi1. A feedback voltage generator 50 is a resister. A feed forward current generator 20 generates a feed forward current Iff according to the instruction value signal Vi1. A synthesis unit 60 generates a second control voltage Vdrv* obtained by adding to the feedback voltage Vfb a voltage according to a sum of the feedback current Ifb and the feed forward current Iff. The valve unit 90 is controlled according to the first and the second control voltage Vref, Vdrv*.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2011Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Hitachi Metals, Ltd.Inventors: Takao Goto, Toshihiro Aono, Tetsuroh Kawai
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Publication number: 20130238176Abstract: In order to minimize a calculation load and surely obtain a maximum adhesion torque, estimated adhesion torques are always stored, an maximum value is obtained from the stored plural estimated adhesion torques immediately before slip/skid is detected when detecting the slip/skid, and the maximum value is set as a maximum adhesion torque. The maximum adhesion torque immediately before the slip/skid is detected is compared with a value of the estimated adhesion torque when the slip/skid is detected. When the calculated value exceeds a threshold value, it is determined as a condition where an adhesion coefficient drastically drops, and a suppression/return ratio of the torque is switched to a lower value than that under a condition where the adhesion coefficient does not drastically drop. The value of the torque at the time of suppression or return is set to a smaller value to surely suppress the slip/skid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Applicant: HITACHI, LTD.Inventors: Atsushi WATANABE, Motomi SHIMADA, Toshihiro AONO, Shuichi TACHIHARA
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Patent number: 8521392Abstract: In order to cause a computer to execute integral calculation of an integrand, to thereby calculate a value of a second variable used at each calculation time point, the integrand being defined by: a first variable to which a value is given at all calculation time points; and the second variable to which only an initial value is given, the following processing is executed. First, a partial derivative which is obtained by partially differentiating the integrand for the second variable is read out from a storage device. At each calculation time point, the initial value or a value of the second variable calculated at a last calculation time point and a value of the first variable given at a current calculation time point are substituted into each of the integrand and the partial derivative, to thereby calculate a value of the integrand and a value of the partial derivative at the current calculation time point.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventor: Toshihiro Aono
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Publication number: 20120247584Abstract: In a flow control device 100, a comparator 40 outputs a first control voltage Vref based on a comparison of an instruction value signal Vi1 of the flow volume and a signal Vi2 according to the sensor output signal Vs. A feedback current generator 30 generates a feedback current Ifb according to a difference between the sensor output signal Vs and a signal Vi2 according to the instruction value signal Vi1. A feedback voltage generator 50 is a resister. A feed forward current generator 20 generates a feed forward current Iff according to the instruction value signal Vi1. A synthesis unit 60 generates a second control voltage Vdrv* obtained by adding to the feedback voltage Vfb a voltage according to a sum of the feedback current Ifb and the feed forward current Iff. The valve unit 90 is controlled according to the first and the second control voltage Vref, Vdrv*.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2011Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: HITACHI METALS, LTD.Inventors: Takao GOTO, Toshihiro AONO, Tetsuroh KAWAI
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Publication number: 20120029784Abstract: In order to cause a computer to execute integral calculation of an integrand, to thereby calculate a value of a second variable used at each calculation time point, the integrand being defined by: a first variable to which a value is given at all calculation time points; and the second variable to which only an initial value is given, the following processing is executed. First, a partial derivative which is obtained by partially differentiating the integrand for the second variable is read out from a storage device. At each calculation time point, the initial value or a value of the second variable calculated at a last calculation time point and a value of the first variable given at a current calculation time point are substituted into each of the integrand and the partial derivative, to thereby calculate a value of the integrand and a value of the partial derivative at the current calculation time point.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Inventor: Toshihiro AONO
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Patent number: 7836758Abstract: A deterioration diagnosis system for an air fuel sensor mounted to an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine. The air fuel sensor determines a mixture ratio of air and fuel fed into the internal combustion engine. In the system, an inclination of an output signal of the air-fuel ratio sensor is calculated; variance of the inclination is calculated; deterioration of the air-fuel ratio sensor is determined based on the variance of the inclination.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2007Date of Patent: November 23, 2010Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro Aono, Takahumi Ohwada, Akira Kiyomura, Masanobu Ohsaki, Seiichi Ohtani, Shigeo Ohkuma
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Publication number: 20090084370Abstract: An apparatus for calculating combustion energy of an internal combustion engine having a rotational velocity calculation unit for calculating a rotational velocity of a crank from a time required for the crank angle to change by a predetermined angle, a rotational acceleration calculation unit for calculating a rotational acceleration from the rotational velocity, a filter for extracting components synchronous with engine combustion from a signal representative of rotational velocities, and a gate for delivering a filter output when the rotational acceleration takes a minimum value, wherein the length of the filter equals one engine cycle/the number of cylinders.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2008Publication date: April 2, 2009Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro Aono, Satoru Watanabe
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Publication number: 20080271435Abstract: A deterioration diagnosis system for an air fuel sensor mounted to an exhaust pipe of an internal combustion engine. The air fuel sensor determines a mixture ratio of air and fuel fed into the internal combustion engine. In the system, an inclination of an output signal of the air-fuel ratio sensor is calculated; variance of the inclination is calculated; deterioration of the air-fuel ratio sensor is determined based on the variance of the inclination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2007Publication date: November 6, 2008Applicant: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Toshihiro AONO, Takahumi Ohwada, Akira Kiyomura, Masanobu Ohsaki, Seiichi Ohtani, Shigeo Ohkuma