Patents by Inventor Yoshifumi Matsuda

Yoshifumi Matsuda 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: 12281604
    Abstract: A removal determination device that accurately determines a removal of an exhaust gas purification device from an exhaust pipe. The removal determination device comprises: an input temperature sensor detecting a temperature at an upstream side of casing; an output temperature sensor detecting a temperature at a downstream side of the casing; an engine stop time collector measuring a time period from an inactivation of an engine to a startup of the engine; and a determiner determining a presence of the exhaust gas purifying device based on the input temperature and the output temperature, in a case that the time period is equal to or longer than a predetermined time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya Miyaji, Teruhiko Miyake, Tomoyuki Tsuji, Yusuke Joh, Yoshifumi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12215646
    Abstract: A setting unit which is connected to an intake passage and defines a reference value for a pressure in a passage through which gas flows, an accumulating unit which integrates a difference between the reference value and the pressure from a point in time when the pressure falls below the reference value and acquires an cumulative value, and a diagnosis unit which diagnoses an abnormality of the passage based on the cumulative value, wherein when there is no peak in the pressure, the setting unit sets the reference value based on a state of the internal combustion engine, and when there is a peak in the pressure, the setting unit sets the peak as the reference value in the abnormality diagnosis device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Akihiro Katayama, Yoshifumi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 12071908
    Abstract: An upstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting an upstream gas temperature at a starting point in time of integration from the upstream gas temperature after starting of the internal combustion engine. A downstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting a downstream gas temperature at the starting point in time of the integration from the downstream gas temperature after the starting of the internal combustion engine. An anomaly diagnosing process obtains an anomaly determination result indicating that the exhaust purification device is in a removed state when a deviation between the upstream integrated value and the downstream integrated value is smaller than a reference level. The determination threshold is higher than a dew point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke Joh, Tomoyuki Tsuji, Yuki Ikejiri, Masashi Hakariya, Makoto Yamazaki, Yoshikazu Asami, Hisao Kiyono, Tatsuaki Arisawa, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Tsubasa Sugano
  • Patent number: 11965444
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a determination process that determines that a deviation between a first change amount and a second change amount during a fuel cutoff operation is less than or equal to a threshold, and an anomaly diagnosing process that determines that an exhaust purification device is in a detached state when the determination process determines that the deviation is less than or equal to the threshold. The first change amount and the second change amount are change amounts per unit time of the temperature of exhaust gas on the upstream side and the downstream side of the exhaust purification device, respectively. The controller is configured to interrupt the determination process when the upstream-side temperature increases within a determination period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Yaeo, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Masashi Hakariya, Atsushi Morikawa, Ikuo Hoda, Noriyasu Adachi, Masanori Hayashi, Kenji Igawa
  • Publication number: 20240077011
    Abstract: A removal determination device that accurately determines a removal of an exhaust gas purification device from an exhaust pipe. The removal determination device comprises: an input temperature sensor detecting a temperature at an upstream side of casing; an output temperature sensor detecting a temperature at a downstream side of the casing; an engine stop time collector measuring a time period from an inactivation of an engine to a startup of the engine; and a determiner determining a presence of the exhaust gas purifying device based on the input temperature and the output temperature, in a case that the time period is equal to or longer than a predetermined time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kazuya MIYAJI, Teruhiko MIYAKE, Tomoyuki TSUJI, Yusuke JOH, Yoshifumi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20240068422
    Abstract: An upstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting an upstream gas temperature at a starting point in time of integration from the upstream gas temperature after starting of the internal combustion engine. A downstream integrated value is an integrated value of a difference obtained by subtracting a downstream gas temperature at the starting point in time of the integration from the downstream gas temperature after the starting of the internal combustion engine. An anomaly diagnosing process obtains an anomaly determination result indicating that the exhaust purification device is in a removed state when a deviation between the upstream integrated value and the downstream integrated value is smaller than a reference level. The determination threshold is higher than a dew point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yusuke JOH, Tomoyuki TSUJI, Yuki IKEJIRI, Masashi HAKARIYA, Makoto YAMAZAKI, Yoshikazu ASAMI, Hisao KIYONO, Tatsuaki ARISAWA, Yoshifumi MATSUDA, Tsubasa SUGANO
  • Patent number: 11898477
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a determination process and an anomaly diagnosing process. The determination process is a process of determining that a deviation between a first change amount and a second change amount during a fuel cutoff operation is less than or equal to a threshold. The anomaly diagnosing process is a process of determining that an exhaust purification device is in a detached state when it is determined in the determination process that the deviation is less than or equal to the threshold. The first change amount and the second change amount are change amounts per unit time of the temperature of exhaust gas on the upstream side and the downstream side of the exhaust purification device, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Yaeo, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Masashi Hakariya, Atsushi Morikawa, Ikuo Hoda, Noriyasu Adachi, Masanori Hayashi, Kenji Igawa
  • Patent number: 11891934
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a regeneration process of burning and removing particulate matter accumulated in an exhaust purification device, a determination process of determining that a deviation between a first change amount and a second change amount is less than or equal to a threshold, the first change amount and the second change amount being change amounts per unit time of the temperature of exhaust gas on the upstream side and the downstream side of the exhaust purification device, respectively, and an anomaly diagnosing process that determines that the exhaust purification device is in a detached state when the determination process determines that the deviation is less than or equal to the threshold. The controller is configured to not execute the determination process during a period from the end of the regeneration process to when a post-regeneration execution condition is met.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toru Yaeo, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Masashi Hakariya, Atsushi Morikawa, Ikuo Hoda, Noriyasu Adachi, Masanori Hayashi, Kenji Igawa
  • Publication number: 20230399965
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a regeneration process of burning and removing particulate matter accumulated in an exhaust purification device, a determination process of determining that a deviation between a first change amount and a second change amount is less than or equal to a threshold, the first change amount and the second change amount being change amounts per unit time of the temperature of exhaust gas on the upstream side and the downstream side of the exhaust purification device, respectively, and an anomaly diagnosing process that determines that the exhaust purification device is in a detached state when the determination process determines that the deviation is less than or equal to the threshold. The controller is configured to not execute the determination process during a period from the end of the regeneration process to when a post-regeneration execution condition is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru YAEO, Yoshifumi MATSUDA, Masashi HAKARIYA, Atsushi MORIKAWA, Ikuo HODA, Noriyasu ADACHI, Masanori HAYASHI, Kenji IGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230399970
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a determination process that determines that a deviation between a first change amount and a second change amount during a fuel cutoff operation is less than or equal to a threshold, and an anomaly diagnosing process that determines that an exhaust purification device is in a detached state when the determination process determines that the deviation is less than or equal to the threshold. The first change amount and the second change amount are change amounts per unit time of the temperature of exhaust gas on the upstream side and the downstream side of the exhaust purification device, respectively. The controller is configured to interrupt the determination process when the upstream-side temperature increases within a determination period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru YAEO, Yoshifumi MATSUDA, Masashi HAKARIYA, Atsushi MORIKAWA, Ikuo HODA, Noriyasu ADACHI, Masanori HAYASHI, Kenji IGAWA
  • Publication number: 20230399971
    Abstract: A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a determination process and an anomaly diagnosing process. The determination process is a process of determining that a deviation between a first change amount and a second change amount during a fuel cutoff operation is less than or equal to a threshold. The anomaly diagnosing process is a process of determining that an exhaust purification device is in a detached state when it is determined in the determination process that the deviation is less than or equal to the threshold. The first change amount and the second change amount are change amounts per unit time of the temperature of exhaust gas on the upstream side and the downstream side of the exhaust purification device, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Toru YAEO, Yoshifumi MATSUDA, Masashi HAKARIYA, Atsushi MORIKAWA, Ikuo HODA, Noriyasu ADACHI, Masanori HAYASHI, Kenji IGAWA
  • Patent number: 11698018
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine including an upstream cleaning device and a downstream cleaning device that are provided in an exhaust gas passage and a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of exhaust gas between the upstream cleaning device and the downstream cleaning device is provided. The control device includes a first temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a temperature of the downstream cleaning device from the temperature of exhaust gas detected by the temperature sensor and a second temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a temperature of the downstream cleaning device without using the temperature of exhaust gas detected by the temperature sensor. An abnormality determining process for the upstream cleaning device is performed when at least the temperature of the downstream cleaning device estimated by the second temperature estimating unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Sohichi Imai, Yuya Yoshikawa, Kazuhiro Hasegawa, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Masanao Idogawa, Takahiro Uchida, Yuki Yabushita
  • Publication number: 20220403767
    Abstract: A control device for an internal combustion engine including an upstream cleaning device and a downstream cleaning device that are provided in an exhaust gas passage and a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of exhaust gas between the upstream cleaning device and the downstream cleaning device is provided. The control device includes a first temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a temperature of the downstream cleaning device from the temperature of exhaust gas detected by the temperature sensor and a second temperature estimating unit configured to estimate a temperature of the downstream cleaning device without using the temperature of exhaust gas detected by the temperature sensor. An abnormality determining process for the upstream cleaning device is performed when at least the temperature of the downstream cleaning device estimated by the second temperature estimating unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Sohichi IMAI, Yuya YOSHIKAWA, Kazuhiro HASEGAWA, Yoshifumi MATSUDA, Masanao IDOGAWA, Takahiro UCHIDA, Yuki YABUSHITA
  • Patent number: 10072593
    Abstract: A control device of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention executes air-fuel ratio control based on an output of an air-fuel ratio sensor provided at an upstream side of a catalyst, with correction based on an output of an oxygen sensor at a downstream side of the catalyst. When it is determined that a degree of an output tendency in a predetermined lean region is not less than a predetermined lean degree, and that a degree of an output tendency in a predetermined rich region is less than a predetermined rich degree based on lean tendency and rich tendency values representing output tendencies of the oxygen sensor, a limit is set to the correction in a direction to more suppress enriching of an air-fuel ratio as a degree is larger in which the output of the oxygen sensor is shifted to a lean side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahide Okada, Masashi Hakariya, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Yoshihisa Oda, Hiroaki Tsuji, Tokiji Ito, Isao Nakajima, Toshihiro Kato, Yuya Yoshikawa
  • Patent number: 9752523
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. A controller is programmed to perform correction amount guard control allowing adjustment of a correction amount by setting a limit on the correction amount when an appearance frequency of a state where an output value from a downstream sensor is leaner than a predetermined value is equal to or higher than a predetermined value. When a state where the output value from the downstream sensor is leaner than the predetermined value lasts for a duration equal to or longer than a predetermined time, an incorporation speed at which, during learning control, the correction amount for sub feedback control is incorporated into a learning value is set to a larger value that when the duration is shorter than the predetermined time, and performance of the correction amount guard control is suppressed until the learning control is completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya Yoshikawa, Tokiji Ito, Isao Nakajima, Hiroaki Tsuji, Toshihiro Kato, Yoshihisa Oda, Masashi Hakariya, Masahide Okada, Yoshifumi Matsuda
  • Patent number: 9341544
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting device of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention includes a sensor nick abnormality detecting unit configured to detect a nick abnormality in a detecting element of a downstream side sensor which is provided in a downstream side of an exhaust gas purifying catalyst in an exhaust passage and generates an output corresponding to an oxygen concentration in exhaust gas, on the basis of a matter that a distribution of an output of the downstream side sensor is biased to an area in which the air-fuel ratio is leaner than a theoretical air-fuel ratio, and an inhibiting unit configured to inhibit detection of the nick abnormality of the detecting element by the sensor nick abnormality detecting unit in the case that an intake air amount exceeds a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Isao Nakajima, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Yoshihisa Oda, Masashi Hakariya, Masahide Okada, Hiroaki Tsuji, Tokiji Ito, Tatsuro Shimada, Toshihiro Kato, Yuya Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20160076474
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. A controller is programmed to perform correction amount guard control allowing adjustment of a correction amount by setting a limit on the correction amount when an appearance frequency of a state where an output value from a downstream sensor is leaner than a predetermined value is equal to or higher than a predetermined value. When a state where the output value from the downstream sensor is leaner than the predetermined value lasts for a duration equal to or longer than a predetermined time, an incorporation speed at which, during learning control, the correction amount for sub feedback control is incorporated into a learning value is set to a larger value that when the duration is shorter than the predetermined time, and performance of the correction amount guard control is suppressed until the learning control is completed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yuya YOSHIKAWA, Tokiji ITO, Isao NAKAJIMA, Hiroaki TSUJI, Toshihiro KATO, Yoshihisa ODA, Masashi HAKARIYA, Masahide OKADA, Yoshifumi MATSUDA
  • Publication number: 20160003181
    Abstract: A control device of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention executes air-fuel ratio control based on an output of an air-fuel ratio sensor provided at an upstream side of a catalyst, with correction based on an output of an oxygen sensor at a downstream side of the catalyst. When it is determined that a degree of an output tendency in a predetermined lean region is not less than a predetermined lean degree, and that a degree of an output tendency in a predetermined rich region is less than a predetermined rich degree based on lean tendency and rich tendency values representing output tendencies of the oxygen sensor, a limit is set to the correction in a direction to more suppress enriching of an air-fuel ratio as a degree is larger in which the output of the oxygen sensor is shifted to a lean side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Masahide OKADA, Masashi HAKARIYA, Yoshifumi MATSUDA, Yoshihisa ODA, Hiroaki TSUJI, Tokiji ITO, Isao NAKAJIMA, Toshihiro KATO, Yuya YOSHIKAWA
  • Patent number: 9206754
    Abstract: A control device of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention has units configured to inject fuel at a first predetermined ratio from first and second fuel injection valves which are provided in each of cylinders to calculate a first value indicating a degree of variation in air-fuel ratios between the cylinders based on a output of the engine, and inject fuel at a second predetermined ratio therefrom to calculate a second value in the same manner. Furthermore, the control device has a unit configured to select one mode from modes relating to abnormality in the first fuel injection valve or the second fuel injection valve on the basis of the first and second values, and calculate a value indicating the degree of the variation in the air-fuel ratios between the cylinders, thereby calculating a fuel amount of the basis of them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Toshihiro Kato, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Yoshihisa Oda, Masashi Hakariya, Masahide Okada, Isao Nakajima, Hiroaki Tsuji, Tokiji Ito, Yuya Yoshikawa
  • Publication number: 20140290348
    Abstract: An abnormality detecting device of an internal combustion engine according to the present invention includes a sensor nick abnormality detecting unit configured to detect a nick abnormality in a detecting element of a downstream side sensor which is provided in a downstream side of an exhaust gas purifying catalyst in an exhaust passage and generates an output corresponding to an oxygen concentration in exhaust gas, on the basis of a matter that a distribution of an output of the downstream side sensor is biased to an area in which the air-fuel ratio is leaner than a theoretical air-fuel ratio, and an inhibiting unit configured to inhibit detection of the nick abnormality of the detecting element by the sensor nick abnormality detecting unit in the case that an intake air amount exceeds a predetermined amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Isao Nakajima, Yoshifumi Matsuda, Yoshihisa Oda, Masashi Hakariya, Masahide Okada, Hiroaki Tsuji, Tokiji Ito, Tatsuro Shimada, Toshihiro Kato, Yuya Yoshikawa