Patents by Inventor Yoshinobu Arihara

Yoshinobu Arihara 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: 11060476
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine which performs a homogeneous lean combustion mode and a stratified lean combustion mode, there is provided a new internal combustion engine control device capable of obtaining a stable combustion state by decreasing influences of delay of an air flow and a degree of change of a transient state and smoothly performing switching between the homogeneous lean combustion mode and the stratified lean combustion mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiroh Ogata, Yoshinobu Arihara, Hisahiro Ooba, Takaki Itaya
  • Patent number: 10557445
    Abstract: Provided is a high-pressure fuel supply device for an internal combustion engine, said device being capable of suppressing noise from collisions of a plunger rod and an air intake valve. A high-pressure fuel pump 108 comprises an intake valve, a plunger rod that is formed as a separate element from the intake valve, an elastic member that biases the plunger rod in the valve-opening direction of the intake valve, and a solenoid that draws the plunger rod in the valve-closing direction of the intake valve when supplied with electricity. A control device 101 has a first control unit that applies a first current to the solenoid in order to close the intake valve, and a second control unit that applies a second current to the solenoid before the plunger rod collides with the intake valve due to the biasing force of the elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Arihara, Takashi Okamoto
  • Publication number: 20200032735
    Abstract: In an internal combustion engine which performs a homogeneous lean combustion mode and a stratified lean combustion mode, there is provided a new internal combustion engine control device capable of obtaining a stable combustion state by decreasing influences of delay of an air flow and a degree of change of a transient state and smoothly performing switching between the homogeneous lean combustion mode and the stratified lean combustion mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiroh OGATA, Yoshinobu ARIHARA, Hisahiro OOBA, Takaki ITAYA
  • Patent number: 10544744
    Abstract: Provided is an engine control device that can suppress an increase in PM/PN in an engine that performs a catalyst warm-up mode. To do so, the engine control device according to the present invention synchronously controls ignition timing and an actual compression ratio of the engine in the catalyst warm-up mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiro Ogata, Yoshinobu Arihara, Hisahiro Ooba
  • Patent number: 10495021
    Abstract: Provided is an engine control device capable of suppressing deterioration of combustion stability due to a change in engine temperature in an engine which performs lean combustion or EGR combustion. When lean combustion in which an air-fuel mixture leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio is burned or exhaust gas recirculation combustion in which a diluted air-fuel mixture is burned by re-suctioning exhaust gas discharged from the combustion chamber into the combustion chamber is performed, a ratio of a fuel injection amount during a compression stroke to a total fuel injection amount during one combustion cycle is increased as a temperature of an engine decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiroh Ogata, Yoshinobu Arihara, Hisahiro Ooba, Takaki Itaya
  • Patent number: 10233799
    Abstract: An engine control device sets a target value for the engine oil temperature appropriately in an engine that uses gasoline as a fuel, even when the fuel does not have a single boiling point because the gasoline is a mixed composition, or when the fuel property changes (for example, when the vaporization property changes due to deterioration). In other words, the engine control device prevents excessive heating or insufficient heating by changing the oil temperature to the high side in a condition wherein the fuel being used does not easily vaporize, and changing the oil temperature to the low side in a condition wherein the fuel being used easily vaporizes. This engine control device includes an oil temperature controller that controls the temperature of oil lubricating the interior of the engine; a fuel supply device that supplies fuel to the engine; and a detector for detecting the property of the fuel. The temperature of the oil is controlled on the basis of a signal from the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiroh Ogata, Takashi Okamoto, Yoshinobu Arihara, Yoshihiro Sukegawa
  • Patent number: 10227935
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an engine control system that is capable of promoting mixing of fuel and air during exhaust gas recirculation, thereby suppressing combustion fluctuation of a gasoline engine, such that efficiency and exhaust gas purification can be simultaneously achieved. The engine control system controls an engine and is equipped with an injection device for injecting fuel directly into a cylinder and a recirculation device for recirculating exhaust gas to the intake side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: Hitachi Autmotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenichiroh Ogata, Takashi Okamoto, Yoshinobu Arihara
  • Publication number: 20190063363
    Abstract: Provided is an engine control device capable of suppressing deterioration of combustion stability due to a change in engine temperature in an engine which performs lean combustion or EGR combustion. When lean combustion in which an air-fuel mixture leaner than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio is burned or exhaust gas recirculation combustion in which a diluted air-fuel mixture is burned by re-suctioning exhaust gas discharged from the combustion chamber into the combustion chamber is performed, a ratio of a fuel injection amount during a compression stroke to a total fuel injection amount during one combustion cycle is increased as a temperature of an engine decreases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD.
    Inventors: Kenichiroh OGATA, Yoshinobu ARIHARA, Hisahiro OOBA, Takaki ITAYA
  • Publication number: 20180363579
    Abstract: Provided is an engine control device that can suppress an increase in PM/PN in an engine that performs a catalyst warm-up mode. To do so, the engine control device according to the present invention synchronously controls ignition timing and an actual compression ratio of the engine in the catalyst warm-up mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichiro OGATA, Yoshinobu ARIHARA, Hisahiro OOBA
  • Publication number: 20180355813
    Abstract: Optimum fuel consumption and a stable combustion state are obtained by performing control to keep ignition always at an optimum timing such that ignition timing becomes MBT, without changing an EGR amount or an EGR rate that can realize the optimum fuel consumption rate. Therefore, in an internal combustion engine control device for controlling an internal combustion engine connected with a humidity sensor configured to detect humidity in an atmosphere and an ignition device configured to ignite an air-fuel mixture in a combustion chamber, the internal combustion engine control device includes a moisture amount calculation part configured to calculate an amount of moisture contained in intake air flowing into the combustion chamber according to a detection value of the humidity sensor; and an ignition timing control part configured to control ignition timing of the ignition device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Yoshinobu ARIHARA
  • Publication number: 20180252186
    Abstract: An engine control device capable of reducing or eliminating dew condensation in an exhaust return pipe and the like is provided. A control device according to the present invention controls an engine including an exhaust gas return mechanism that returns exhaust gas from an exhaust pipe to an intake pipe, and having a compressor in the intake pipe. The control device controls the exhaust gas return mechanism based on a pressure and on a humidity in the intake pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Kenichiro OGATA, Yoshinobu ARIHARA, Masayuki SARUWATARI
  • Publication number: 20170342935
    Abstract: Provided is a high-pressure fuel supply device for an internal combustion engine, said device being capable of suppressing noise from collisions of a plunger rod and an air intake valve. A high-pressure fuel pump 108 comprises an intake valve, a plunger rod that is formed as a separate element from the intake valve, an elastic member that biases the plunger rod in the valve-opening direction of the intake valve, and a solenoid that draws the plunger rod in the valve-closing direction of the intake valve when supplied with electricity. A control device 101 has a first control unit that applies a first current to the solenoid in order to close the intake valve, and a second control unit that applies a second current to the solenoid before the plunger rod collides with the intake valve due to the biasing force of the elastic member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Yoshinobu ARIHARA, Takashi OKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20170314500
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an engine control device with which it is possible to minimize decreases in combustion speed even when the EGR rate has been increased.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichiroh OGATA, Takashi OKAMOTO, Yoshinobu ARIHARA, Kazuhiro ORYOJI, Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA, Yuusuke KIHARA
  • Publication number: 20170074178
    Abstract: The purpose of the present invention is to provide an engine control system that is capable of promoting mixing of fuel and air during exhaust gas recirculation, thereby suppressing combustion fluctuation of a gasoline engine, such that efficiency and exhaust gas purification can be simultaneously achieved. The engine control system controls an engine and is equipped with an injection device for injecting fuel directly into a cylinder and a recirculation device for recirculating exhaust gas to the intake side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichiroh OGATA, Takashi OKAMOTO, Yoshinobu ARIHARA
  • Publication number: 20170009621
    Abstract: An engine control device sets a target value for the engine oil temperature appropriately in an engine that uses gasoline as a fuel, even when the fuel does not have a single boiling point because the gasoline is a mixed composition, or when the fuel property changes (for example, when the vaporization property changes due to deterioration). In other words, the engine control device prevents excessive heating or insufficient heating by changing the oil temperature to the high side in a condition wherein the fuel being used does not easily vaporize, and changing the oil temperature to the low side in a condition wherein the fuel being used easily vaporizes. This engine control device includes an oil temperature controller that controls the temperature of oil lubricating the interior of the engine; a fuel supply device that supplies fuel to the engine; and a detector for detecting the property of the fuel. The temperature of the oil is controlled on the basis of a signal from the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Publication date: January 12, 2017
    Inventors: Kenichiroh OGATA, Takashi OKAMOTO, Yoshinobu ARIHARA, Yoshihiro SUKEGAWA
  • Patent number: 9371813
    Abstract: Provided is a control device of a direct injection engine, the control device that can prevent the amount of emission of soot from increasing and the exhaust performance from worsening when a restart request is made before an engine is stopped after an idle stop condition is satisfied. When a restart request is made before an engine is stopped after an idle stop condition is satisfied, at least one of the number of fuel injections in one combustion cycle and the air/fuel ratio of an air fuel mixture used for combustion is changed for each cylinder according to a piston position at that time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi Okamoto, Yoshinobu Arihara, Takao Miyake
  • Patent number: 9181912
    Abstract: Provided with a control device for an in-cylinder injection type internal combustion engine that reduces an amount of fuel attaching to and remaining on a piston crown surface and a cylinder bore wall surface so as to suppress an increase in the number of exhaust particles of PM when fuel injection is performed a plurality of times in one burning cycle. In divided multi-stage injection in which the fuel to be injected in one burning cycle is divided into a plurality of times, an injection amount rate of injection at an early timing among injections divided into the plurality of times is set according to a fuel cut continuous time at a timing when the fuel injection is resumed from a fuel cut state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Arihara
  • Patent number: 8775057
    Abstract: Provided is a control device for an in-cylinder injection engine which reduces an amount of fuel attaching and remaining on a piston crown surface so as to bring the first injection as advanced as possible and suppress an increase in the number of exhaust particles of PM, when fuel injection is performed a plurality of times in one cycle in the in-cylinder injection engine. At least the first fuel injection of the respective injections dividedly performed the plurality of times is performed in an intake stroke. At least the first injection start timing of the respective injections dividedly performed the plurality of times is set in accordance with an EGR amount. The first injection start timing is more advanced when the EGR amount is large than when the EGR amount is small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Arihara, Tetsuo Matsumura
  • Publication number: 20140182557
    Abstract: Provided with a control device for an in-cylinder injection type internal combustion engine that reduces an amount of fuel attaching to and remaining on a piston crown surface and a cylinder bore wall surface so as to suppress an increase in the number of exhaust particles of PM when fuel injection is performed a plurality of times in one burning cycle. In divided multi-stage injection in which the fuel to be injected in one burning cycle is divided into a plurality of times, an injection amount rate of injection at an early timing among injections divided into the plurality of times is set according to a fuel cut continuous time at a timing when the fuel injection is resumed from a fuel cut state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventor: Yoshinobu Arihara
  • Patent number: 8720412
    Abstract: A control apparatus for a direct injection type engine is provided for reducing an amount of fuel that adheres to and that remains on a crown surface of a piston so as to suppress the increase of Number of particles as well as advancing the first injection as much as possible when plural fuel injections are carried out in one cycle in the direct injection type engine. The first injection timing is set based on a pulse width of at least the first injection among each of injections split plural times, and when the pulse width of the split first injection is short, the injection timing of the first injection is more advanced as compared with a case of a longer pulse width of the split first injection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd.
    Inventors: Tetsuo Matsumura, Yoshinobu Arihara, Shinya Matohara, Motoyuki Abe, Takuya Mayuzumi