Patents by Inventor Yasuo Noma

Yasuo Noma 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: 9759115
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system comprises an exhaust gas purification device which is arranged in an exhaust gas route of an engine, renewing devices for burning and removing a particulate matter within the exhaust gas purification device, renewal advance notifying means which is actuated in the case that a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device becomes equal to or more than a prescribed level, and renewal informing means which informs of a fact that the renewing devices are under operation. The renewal advance notifying means is actuated before actuating the renewing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Hiroshi Oohashi, Atsushi Ohta, Tomohiro Fukuda, Taichi Togashi
  • Patent number: 9546586
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system is provided with an exhaust gas purification device which is arranged in an exhaust gas route of a common rail type engine, and is structured such that a plurality of renewing modes which burn and remove a particulate matter deposited within the exhaust gas purification device is executed. One of the plurality of renewing modes is an initialization renewing (a forced renewing) mode which supplies a fuel into the exhaust gas purification device by a post injection regardless of a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device, in the case that an accumulated drive time of the engine becomes equal to or more than a previously set time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Taichi Togashi
  • Patent number: 9416713
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system comprises an exhaust gas purification device which is arranged in an exhaust gas route of an engine, renewing devices, for burning and removing a particulate matter within the exhaust gas purification device, renewal advance notifying means which is actuated in the case that a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device becomes equal to or more than a prescribed level, and renewal informing means which informs of a fact that the renewing devices are under operation. The renewal advance notifying means is actuated before actuating the renewing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Hiroshi Oohashi, Atsushi Ohta, Tomohiro Fukuda, Taichi Togashi
  • Publication number: 20160069240
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system comprises an exhaust gas purification device which is arranged in an exhaust gas route of an engine, renewing devices for burning and removing a particulate matter within the exhaust gas purification device, renewal advance notifying means which is actuated in the case that a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device becomes equal to or more than a prescribed level, and renewal informing means which informs of a fact that the renewing devices are under operation. The renewal advance notifying means is actuated before actuating the renewing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuo NOMA, Hiroshi OOHASHI, Atsushi OHTA, Tomohiro FUKUDA, Taichi TOGASHI
  • Patent number: 9222428
    Abstract: Provided is an engine device which improves a general-purpose property of an ECU carrying out a drive control of an engine and a regeneration control of a DPF. The engine device is provided with an exhaust gas purifying device which is arranged in an exhaust route of the engine, the ECU which controls a drive of the engine, and a variable memory means which stores a general-purpose regeneration program selectively executing a plurality of regeneration modes with respect to the exhaust gas purifying device and a flag table corresponding to an optional regeneration mode, and is rewritable. The ECU executes the general-purpose regeneration program in accordance with a regeneration mode which is selected on the basis of the flag table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Taichi Togashi
  • Patent number: 9140157
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device is arranged in an exhaust gas route of a common rail type engine. At least one of an intake air throttle device and an exhaust gas throttle device are arranged in intake and exhaust systems of the engine. In the case that a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device becomes equal to or more than a prescribed level, an auxiliary renewing mode which raises the temperature of an exhaust gas from the engine by actuating at least one of the intake air throttle device and the exhaust gas throttle device is executed, and in the case that the clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device is not improved even by executing the auxiliary renewing mode, a forced renewing mode which supplies a fuel into the exhaust gas purification device by a post injection is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Taichi Togashi, Tomohiro Fukuda, Atsushi Ohta, Katsunari Jounouchi
  • Patent number: 9068520
    Abstract: An engine control apparatus in which a fuel injection apparatus injects a fuel to an engine; detecting means detects a drive state of the engine, and an ECU controls actuation of the fuel injection apparatus on the basis of a detection information of the detecting means and a specific output characteristic data of the engine, wherein compensating means for compensating the output characteristic data is provided, and the ECU is structured such as to compute a limit torque value on the basis of a result of compensation of the output characteristic data by the compensating means and the detection information of the detecting means, and actuate the fuel injection apparatus in correspondence to the limit torque value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Masuda, Yasuo Noma, Akihito Nishimura, Hideo Shiomi, Kimiyori Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 9032718
    Abstract: In an engine device provided with an engine which serves as a power source, an exhaust gas purifying filter device which is arranged in an exhaust gas path of the engine, and control means which executes a low rotation control for lowering an engine speed to a predetermined first low rotating speed at a time when a previously set low rotation condition is established, the control means is structured such as to maintain the engine speed at a second low rotating speed which is higher than the first low rotating speed, for suppressing a reduction of an exhaust gas temperature at a time when both of the low rotation condition and a previously set forced regeneration condition are established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yasuo Noma
  • Patent number: 8844273
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device arranged in an exhaust system of an engine, and includes a renewing device for burning and removing a particulate matter within the exhaust gas purification device. The renewing device is operable in the case that a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device is equal to or more than a prescribed level, wherein the exhaust gas purification system includes renewal admittance input means which allows an actuation of the renewing device, and rotating speed holding input means for holding a rotating speed of the engine to a predetermined rotating speed, and in the case that a turn-on operation of the rotating speed holding input means is carried out in a state in which an allowing operation of the renewal admittance input means is carried out, the rotating speed holding motion of the engine is executed in preference to an actuation of the renewing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Taichi Togashi
  • Publication number: 20130202493
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system comprises an exhaust gas purification device which is arranged in an exhaust gas route of an engine, renewing devices, for burning and removing a particulate matter within the exhaust gas purification device, renewal advance notifying means which is actuated in the case that a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device becomes equal to or more than a prescribed level, and renewal informing means which informs of a fact that the renewing devices are under operation. The renewal advance notifying means is actuated before actuating the renewing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Hiroshi Oohashi, Atsushi Ohta, Tomohiro Fukuda, Taichi Togashi
  • Publication number: 20130091831
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device is arranged in an exhaust gas route of a common rail type engine. At least one of an intake air throttle device and an exhaust gas throttle device are arranged in intake and exhaust systems of the engine. In the case that a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device becomes equal to or more than a prescribed level, an auxiliary renewing mode which raises the temperature of an exhaust gas from the engine by actuating at least one of the intake air throttle device and the exhaust gas throttle device is executed, and in the case that the clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device is not improved even by executing the auxiliary renewing mode, a forced renewing mode which supplies a fuel into the exhaust gas purification device by a post injection is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Taichi Togashi, Tomohiro Fukuda, Atsushi Ohta, Katsunari Jounouchi
  • Publication number: 20130086890
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system is provided with an exhaust gas purification device which is arranged in an exhaust gas route of a common rail type engine, and is structured such that a plurality of renewing modes which burn and remove a particulate matter deposited within the exhaust gas purification device is executed. One of the plurality of renewing modes is an initialization renewing (a forced renewing) mode which supplies a fuel into the exhaust gas purification device by a post injection regardless of a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device, in the case that an accumulated drive time of the engine becomes equal to or more than a previously set time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Taichi Togashi
  • Publication number: 20130067895
    Abstract: An exhaust gas purification device arranged in an exhaust system of an engine, and includes a renewing device for burning and removing a particulate matter within the exhaust gas purification device. The renewing device is operable in the case that a clogged state of the exhaust gas purification device is equal to or more than a prescribed level, wherein the exhaust gas purification system includes renewal admittance input means which allows an actuation of the renewing device, and rotating speed holding input means for holding a rotating speed of the engine to a predetermined rotating speed, and in the case that a turn-on operation of the rotating speed holding input means is carried out in a state in which an allowing operation of the renewal admittance input means is carried out, the rotating speed holding motion of the engine is executed in preference to an actuation of the renewing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Inventor: Yasuo Noma
  • Publication number: 20120330531
    Abstract: Provided is an engine device which improves a general-purpose property of an ECU carrying out a drive control of an engine and a regeneration control of a DPF. The engine device is provided with an exhaust gas purifying device which is arranged in an exhaust route of the engine, the ECU which controls a drive of the engine, and a variable memory means which stores a general-purpose regeneration program selectively executing a plurality of regeneration modes with respect to the exhaust gas purifying device and a flag table corresponding to an optional regeneration mode, and is rewritable. The ECU executes the general-purpose regeneration program in accordance with a regeneration mode which is selected on the basis of the flag table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 27, 2012
    Applicant: YANMAR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasuo Noma, Taichi Togashi
  • Publication number: 20120173124
    Abstract: An engine control apparatus in which a fuel injection apparatus injects a fuel to an engine; detecting means detects a drive state of the engine, and an ECU controls actuation of the fuel injection apparatus on the basis of a detection information of the detecting means and a specific output characteristic data of the engine, wherein compensating means for compensating the output characteristic data is provided, and the ECU is structured such as to compute a limit torque value on the basis of a result of compensation of the output characteristic data by the compensating means and the detection information of the detecting means, and actuate the fuel injection apparatus in correspondence to the limit torque value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Masuda, Yasuo Noma, Akihito Nishimura, Hideo Shiomi, Kimiyori Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20120124979
    Abstract: In an engine device provided with an engine which serves as a power source, an exhaust gas purifying filter device which is arranged in an exhaust gas path of the engine, and control means which executes a low rotation control for lowering an engine speed to a predetermined first low rotating speed at a time when a previously set low rotation condition is established, the control means is structured such as to maintain the engine speed at a second low rotating speed which is higher than the first low rotating speed, for suppressing a reduction of an exhaust gas temperature at a time when both of the low rotation condition and a previously set forced regeneration condition are established.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Inventor: Yasuo Noma
  • Patent number: 7344473
    Abstract: A hydraulic transmission (21) has an electric actuator (86) for changing its output/input rotation speed ratio. A controller (90) of the actuator memorizes a command current value to the actuator supposing that load is not applied on the hydraulic transmission, and calculates a value of load applied on the hydraulic transmission by calculating a difference between an actual command current value to the actuator and the memorized command current value. A command current value is compensated based on the value of load, and the actuator receives feedback to be controlled. A vehicle may have a differential mechanism (10), which combines rotation powers on input side and output side of the hydraulic transmission. A detector (82) detects rotation speed of a main speed change output shaft (27) serving as an output shaft of the differential mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignees: Yanmar Agricultural Equipment Co., Ltd., Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Ishibashi, Yukio Kubota, Yasuo Noma, Akifumi Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20060172853
    Abstract: A hydraulic transmission (21) has an electric actuator (86) for changing its output/input rotation speed ratio. A controller (90) of the actuator memorizes a command current value to the actuator supposing that load is not applied on the hydraulic transmission, and calculates a value of load applied on the hydraulic transmission by calculating a difference between an actual command current value to the actuator and the memorized command current value. A command current value is compensated based on the value of load, and the actuator receives feedback to be controlled. A vehicle may have a differential mechanism (10), which combines rotation powers on input side and output side of the hydraulic transmission. A detector (82) detects rotation speed of a main speed change output shaft (27) serving as an output shaft of the differential mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Publication date: August 3, 2006
    Inventors: Fumio Ishibashi, Yukio Kubota, Yasuo Noma, Akifumi Kuroda
  • Patent number: 7037236
    Abstract: A hydraulic transmission (21) has an electric actuator (86) for changing its output/input rotation speed ratio. A controller 90 of the actuator memorizes a command current value to the actuator supposing that load is not applied on the hydraulic transmission, and calculates a value of load applied on the hydraulic transmission by calculating a difference between an actual command current value to the actuator and the memorized command current value. A command current value is compensated based on the value of load, and the actuator receives feedback to be controlled. A vehicle may have a differential mechanism (10), which combines rotation powers on input side and output side of the hydraulic transmission. A detector (82) detects rotation speed of a main speed change output shaft (27) serving as an output shaft of the differential mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2006
    Assignees: Yanmar Agricultural Equipment Co., Ltd., Yanmar Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Ishibashi, Yukio Kubota, Yasuo Noma, Akifumi Kuroda
  • Publication number: 20040209718
    Abstract: A hydraulic transmission (21) has an electric actuator (86) for changing its output/input rotation speed ratio. A controller (19) of the actuator memorizes a command current value to the actuator supposing that load is not applied on the hydraulic transmission, and calculates a value of load applied on the hydraulic transmission by calculating a difference between an actual command current value to the actuator and the memorized command current value. A command current value is compensated based on the value of load, and the actuator receives feedback to be controlled. A vehicle may have a differential mechanism (10), which combines rotation powers on input side and output side of the hydraulic transmission. A detector (82) detects rotation speed of a main speed change output shaft (27) serving as an output shaft of the differential mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Fumio Ishibashi, Yukio Kubota, Yasuo Noma, Akifumi Kuroda