Patents by Inventor Yoshihiko Akagi

Yoshihiko Akagi 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: 11898508
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of appropriately correcting a flow rate of EGR gas. Therefore, an internal combustion engine control device 20 includes moisture amount calculation units 301 and 302, a dew condensation calculation unit 303, and an EGR correction unit 304. The moisture amount calculation unit 301 calculates a total moisture amount contained in the mixed gas. The dew condensation calculation unit 303 calculates a dew condensation generation amount WQcon in an intercooler based on the total moisture amount. The EGR correction unit 304 corrects a flow rate of the EGR gas based on the dew condensation generation amount WQcon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinya Matohara, Yoshihiko Akagi, Kazuhiro Oryoji
  • Publication number: 20230220807
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine control device includes an engine state estimation unit, a wall surface temperature estimation unit, and an operation amount calculation unit. The engine state estimation unit calculates the energy transfer amount from the gas to the wall surface based on the parameter related to the operating condition, the parameter related to the chemical condition of combustion, and the parameter related to an operation status. The wall surface temperature estimation unit estimates the wall surface temperature on the basis of the energy transfer amount from the gas to the wall surface. The operation amount calculation unit calculates an operation amount of an actuator provided in the internal combustion engine on the basis of the wall surface temperature estimated by the wall surface temperature estimation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI
  • Patent number: 11635036
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device capable of effectively reducing a work load of a parameter setting operator in response to an increase in parameters constituting complicated filter control. Therefore, in the signal processing device filters an output signal from a sensor mounted on a vehicle, setting is made with respect to a plurality of filters having different filter types or filter coefficients for setting a filter characteristic of a cutoff frequency or a pass band, an individual code is set for each of the plurality of filters, and the signal processing device includes a CPU that selects the individual code based on an engine operating state so that a corresponding filter is selected, and processes an output signal from the sensor using the filter that has been selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Akagi
  • Patent number: 11629683
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of reducing a measurement load and calculating a flow velocity around an ignition plug. The internal combustion engine control device includes an inter-gap voltage calculation unit 31 and a flow velocity calculation unit 32. The inter-gap voltage calculation unit 31 calculates a reference inter-gap voltage under a reference condition, based on a secondary current and in-cylinder pressure. The flow velocity calculation unit calculates the flow velocity of a gas around the ignition plug based on the reference inter-gap voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oryoji, Yoshihiko Akagi, Takayasu Matsushita
  • Publication number: 20230079934
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of an internal combustion engine capable of increasing the temperature of a catalyst and the temperature of coolant more efficient1y than a conventional waste heat control device. A control device acquires a coolant temperature T_cw and a catalyst temperature T_cat of an exhaust system and controls an ignition timing ? of the internal combustion engine. The control device executes coolant heating control for increasing the energy distribution from the internal combustion engine to the coolant when the coolant temperature T_cw is equal to or less than a first threshold, and catalyst heating control for increasing the energy distribution from the internal combustion engine to the exhaust gas when the catalyst temperature T_cat is equal to or less than a second threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Ryutaro KOIWAI
  • Publication number: 20220268249
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of reducing a measurement load and calculating a flow velocity around an ignition plug. The internal combustion engine control device includes an inter-gap voltage calculation unit 31 and a flow velocity calculation unit 32. The inter-gap voltage calculation unit 31 calculates a reference inter-gap voltage under a reference condition, based on a secondary current and in-cylinder pressure. The flow velocity calculation unit calculates the flow velocity of a gas around the ignition plug based on the reference inter-gap voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Takayasu MATSUSHITA
  • Publication number: 20220235719
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of appropriately correcting a flow rate of EGR gas. Therefore, an internal combustion engine control device 20 includes moisture amount calculation units 301 and 302, a dew condensation calculation unit 303, and an EGR correction unit 304. The moisture amount calculation unit 301 calculates a total moisture amount contained in the mixed gas. The dew condensation calculation unit 303 calculates a dew condensation generation amount WQcon in an intercooler based on the total moisture amount. The EGR correction unit 304 corrects a flow rate of the EGR gas based on the dew condensation generation amount WQcon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Shinya MATOHARA, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Kazuhiro ORYOJI
  • Patent number: 11371480
    Abstract: Due to changes in a flow of an air-fuel mixture in a cylinder, reliable ignition due to spark discharge may not be possible. Therefore, an ignition control unit 24 includes a secondary voltage calculation unit 31 that calculates an average value of a secondary voltage generated on a secondary side of an ignition coil, an irregular flow ratio calculation unit 32 that calculates a ratio of cycles in which the average value of the secondary voltage is equal to or less than a set average value with respect to a cycle of the internal combustion engine in a predetermined period as an irregular flow ratio indicating that the flow of the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder is irregular, and an ignition operation amount correction unit 37 that corrects an ignition operation amount so that the irregular flow ratio is equal to or less than the set ratio value that is the target to be reached of the irregular flow ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Oryoji, Yoshihiko Akagi, Hidefumi Iwaki
  • Patent number: 11365699
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of more appropriately correcting an output value of a flow rate sensor that measures a flow rate of air flowing through an intake flow path of an internal combustion engine, and further reducing an error between a corrected air flow rate and an actual air flow rate as compared to a conventional device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Suzuki, Yoshihiko Akagi, Shinya Matohara
  • Publication number: 20220145819
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device capable of effectively reducing a work load of a parameter setting operator in response to an increase in parameters constituting complicated filter control. Therefore, in the signal processing device filters an output signal from a sensor mounted on a vehicle, setting is made with respect to a plurality of filters having different filter types or filter coefficients for setting a filter characteristic of a cutoff frequency or a pass band, an individual code is set for each of the plurality of filters, and the signal processing device includes a CPU that selects the individual code based on an engine operating state so that a corresponding filter is selected, and processes an output signal from the sensor using the filter that has been selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Hitachi Astemo, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiko AKAGI
  • Patent number: 11261811
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device capable of effectively reducing a work load of a parameter setting operator in response to an increase in parameters constituting complicated filter control. Therefore, in the signal processing device filters an output signal from a sensor mounted on a vehicle, setting is made with respect to a plurality of filters having different filter types or filter coefficients for setting a filter characteristic of a cutoff frequency or a pass band, an individual code is set for each of the plurality of filters, and the signal processing device includes a CPU that selects the individual code based on an engine operating state so that a corresponding filter is selected, and processes an output signal from the sensor using the filter that has been selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI ASTEMO, LTD.
    Inventor: Yoshihiko Akagi
  • Publication number: 20220010762
    Abstract: Due to changes in a flow of an air-fuel mixture in a cylinder, reliable ignition due to spark discharge may not be possible. Therefore, an ignition control unit 24 includes a secondary voltage calculation unit 31 that calculates an average value of a secondary voltage generated on a secondary side of an ignition coil, an irregular flow ratio calculation unit 32 that calculates a ratio of cycles in which the average value of the secondary voltage is equal to or less than a set average value with respect to a cycle of the internal combustion engine in a predetermined period as an irregular flow ratio indicating that the flow of the air-fuel mixture in the cylinder is irregular, and an ignition operation amount correction unit 37 that corrects an ignition operation amount so that the irregular flow ratio is equal to or less than the set ratio value that is the target to be reached of the irregular flow ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Hidefumi IWAKI
  • Publication number: 20210270202
    Abstract: Provided is an internal combustion engine control device capable of more appropriately correcting an output value of a flow rate sensor that measures a flow rate of air flowing through an intake flow path of an internal combustion engine, and further reducing an error between a corrected air flow rate and an actual air flow rate as compared to a conventional device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kunihiko SUZUKI, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Shinya MATOHARA
  • Publication number: 20210270198
    Abstract: Provided is a signal processing device capable of effectively reducing a work load of a parameter setting operator in response to an increase in parameters constituting complicated filter control. Therefore, in the signal processing device filters an output signal from a sensor mounted on a vehicle, setting is made with respect to a plurality of filters having different filter types or filter coefficients for setting a filter characteristic of a cutoff frequency or a pass band, an individual code is set for each of the plurality of filters, and the signal processing device includes a CPU that selects the individual code based on an engine operating state so that a corresponding filter is selected, and processes an output signal from the sensor using the filter that has been selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshihiko AKAGI
  • Patent number: 11067022
    Abstract: Provided is a knocking detection apparatus capable of reducing erroneous determination of knocking during transition, and improving knocking detection accuracy regardless of whether an engine is in steady operation or transient operation. A knocking detection apparatus according to the present invention estimates a background level based on an operating state of an internal combustion engine, and calculates a knocking determination index by using the estimated value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Akagi, Masashi Seimiya, Seiji Asano, Wataru Katou, Masanori Nukui, Masahiro Sato
  • Publication number: 20210207550
    Abstract: Provided is a knocking detection apparatus capable of reducing erroneous determination of knocking during transition, and improving knocking detection accuracy regardless of whether an engine is in steady operation or transient operation. A knocking detection apparatus according to the present invention estimates a background level based on an operating state of an internal combustion engine, and calculates a knocking determination index by using the estimated value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko AKAGI, Masashi SEIMIYA, Seiji ASANO, Wataru KATOU, Masanori NUKUI, Masahiro SATO
  • Patent number: 10900426
    Abstract: An object is to provide a control device that calculates an intake pipe pressure of an engine, in which the humidity of air is measured, and a change in a gas constant due to a change in the total number of moles of air is corrected, to improve the accuracy of the calculation value of the intake pipe pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji Asano, Yoshihiko Akagi, Shinya Matohara, Kazuhiro Oryoji, Kunihiko Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20200332759
    Abstract: An internal-combustion-engine control unit and control method are provided that can prevent an excessive ignition-timing retard while occurrences of knocking are suppressed. An internal-combustion-engine control unit that controls an internal-combustion engine, the internal-combustion-engine control unit including: a knock-occurrence-frequency sensing section that senses a knock occurrence-frequency of a cylinder; and a cylinder-wall-temperature computing section that computes a wall temperature of the cylinder on a basis of the knock occurrence-frequency sensed at the knock-occurrence-frequency sensing section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiko AKAGI
  • Patent number: 10677183
    Abstract: Fuel injection control of an internal combustion engine requires an optimized fuel amount that can be burned completely with oxygen in intake air to be supplied, but the oxygen concentration in the atmospheric air is affected by humidity. By separately calculating a dry air flow rate that directly affects the oxygen amount and a humidity flow rate that is a change factor of the oxygen concentration in the intake air of the internal combustion engine, the fuel can be supplied to the cylinder of the internal combustion engine at an optimized air-fuel ratio. In addition, highly precise control involving EGR for flowback of a part of the exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust pipe to the intake pipe can also be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshihiko Akagi, Seiji Asano, Kazuhiro Oryoji
  • Publication number: 20200109673
    Abstract: An object is to provide a control device that calculates an intake pipe pressure of an engine, in which the humidity of air is measured, and a change in a gas constant due to a change in the total number of moles of air is corrected, to improve the accuracy of the calculation value of the intake pipe pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Seiji ASANO, Yoshihiko AKAGI, Shinya MATOHARA, Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Kunihiko SUZUKI