Patents by Inventor Yoshiyasu Ito
Yoshiyasu Ito 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: 9989006Abstract: An electronic control unit detects a manner of fluctuation of a fuel pressure with injection of fuel by a fuel injection valve with the use of a fuel pressure sensor, and calculates a tendency of deviation of an actual fuel injection characteristic of the fuel injection valve with respect to a basic fuel injection characteristic on the basis of a result of comparison between a detected temporal waveform and a basic temporal waveform. The tendency of deviation is reflected at a predetermined reflection rate (R) at the time of updating a learned value (Gij) for compensating for an individual difference of the fuel injection valve. The predetermined reflection rate (R) is increased when an accumulated value (D) of a vehicle travel distance is shorter than a predetermined value (Dth) as compared with when the accumulated value (D) is longer than or equal to the predetermined value (Dth).Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso CorporationInventors: Ryo Suzuki, Takeshi Miyaura, Yoshiyasu Ito, Toyomori Tsuiki, Naoyuki Yamada
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Patent number: 9850837Abstract: A microcomputer determines that an abnormality has occurred in calculation functions regarding calculation of an injection amount command value and the like, based on a deviation of the injection amount command value, in an increasing manner, from a monitoring injection amount. The microcomputer calculates, based on a cooling fluid temperature of an engine, a start-up injection amount such that the start-up injection amount becomes smaller when the cooling fluid temperature is high than when the cooling fluid temperature is low, and uses the start-up injection amount as the injection amount command value immediately after the completion of start-up of the engine. Besides, the microcomputer uses the smaller one of a start-up injection amount calculated this time and a monitoring start-up injection amount calculated last time, as a monitoring start-up injection amount that is used as the aforementioned monitoring injection amount immediately after the completion of start-up of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Morihisa Sakamoto, Takuya Inamasu
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Patent number: 9835107Abstract: A microcomputer determines a presence of an abnormality of a fuel injection quantity control device based on a comparison between a required injection quantity as a command value for the amount of a fuel injected from an injector in one engine cycle and a total monitor injection quantity as a total value of monitor injection quantities obtained from an energization time monitor value of the injector for each fuel injection in the one engine cycle. The microcomputer removes a micro-injection correction amount from the monitor injection quantity when the monitor injection quantity is below a determination value and executes a removal processing in which the removal of the micro-injection correction amount from the monitor injection quantity is not performed when the monitor injection quantity is at least the determination value. The total value of the monitor injection quantities after the removal processing is regarded as the total monitor injection quantity.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2016Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Takuya Inamasu
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Publication number: 20170299528Abstract: An X-ray thin film inspection device according to the present invention has an X-ray irradiation unit 40 mounted in a first rotation arm 32, an X-ray detector 50 mounted in a second rotation arm 33, a fluorescence x-ray detector 60 for detecting fluorescent X-ray occurring from an inspection target due to irradiation of X-ray, a temperature measuring unit 110 for measuring the temperature corresponding to the temperature of the X-ray thin film inspection device, and a temperature correcting system (central processing unit 100) for correcting an inspection position on the basis of the temperature measured by the temperature measuring unit 110.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2014Publication date: October 19, 2017Applicant: RIGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Ogata, Kazuhiko Omote, Yoshiyasu Ito, Hiroshi Motono, Muneo Yoshida, Hideaki Takahashi
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Patent number: 9771885Abstract: A control apparatus for an engine includes a control unit. The engine includes a sensor. The control unit determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred in a calculation function of the control unit on the basis of a comparison result between the control required injection amount and the monitoring required injection amount. The control unit determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred in the calculation function of the control unit without using the comparison result when the comparison result is calculated during a predetermined period. The predetermined period is a period of a delay that occurs between updating of one of respective values of the control rotation speed and the monitoring rotation speed and updating of the other value due to a difference between the first timing and the second timing.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignees: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyonori Takahashi, Yoshiyasu Ito, Nobuyoshi Takigawa
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Patent number: 9759151Abstract: An engine control apparatus is equipped with a fuel injection amount computation unit, a determination process unit, and an engine abnormality process unit. The determination process unit determines, based on a deviation between a command injection amount and a monitoring injection amount, whether or not there is an abnormality in fuel injection control. An injection amount threshold, which is used to make a determination on an abnormality in fuel injection control, is set larger based on a vehicle speed-associated parameter when the vehicle speed-associated parameter is a value corresponding to a case where a vehicle speed is high than when the vehicle speed-associated parameter is a value corresponding to a case where the vehicle speed is low.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Kiyonori Takahashi, Takuya Inamasu
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Publication number: 20170234814Abstract: An X-ray thin film inspection device of the present invention includes an X-ray irradiation unit 40 installed on a first rotation arm 32, an X-ray detector 50 installed on a second rotation arm 33, and a fluorescence X-ray detector 60 for detecting fluorescence X-rays generated from an inspection target upon irradiation of X-rays. The X-ray irradiation unit 40 includes an X-ray optical element 43 comprising a confocal mirror for receiving X-rays radiated from an X-ray tube 42, reflects plural focused X-ray beams monochromatized at a specific wavelength and focuses the plural focused X-ray beams to a preset focal point, and a slit mechanism 46 for passing therethrough any number of focused X-ray beams out of the plural focused X-ray beams reflected from the X-ray optical element 43.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2014Publication date: August 17, 2017Applicant: RIGAKU CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Ogata, Sei Yoshihara, Takao Kinefuchi, Shiro Umegaki, Shigematsu Asano, Katsutaka Horada, Muneo Yoshida, Hiroshi Motono, Hideaki Takahashi, Akifusa Higuchi, Kazuhiko Omote, Yoshiyasu Ito, Naoki Kawahara, Asao Nakano
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Patent number: 9719450Abstract: A device executes a power limiting process when the number of pressure sensors determined to be normal in a second determination process made by a second processing unit is smaller than or equal to one. When only one pressure sensor is determined to be normal through the second determination process, and when that pressure sensor and a pressure sensor connected to only a first processing unit are determined to be normal in a first determination process made by the first processing unit, a process associated with fuel injection based on a detected value of the pressure sensor determined to be normal in the second determination process is executed, and a degree of limiting engine power through the power limiting process is reduced as compared with when both the pressure sensors are determined to be abnormal in the first determination process.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso CorporationInventors: Takeshi Miyaura, Yoshiyasu Ito, Nobuyoshi Takigawa
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Patent number: 9657679Abstract: An electronic control unit, in an idle operating state, detects a crankshaft rotation fluctuation in each cylinder using a crank angle sensor, and updates an individual correction value for a control value for each fuel injection valve as a first learned value such that a degree of deviation in the crankshaft rotation fluctuation among the cylinders reduces. The electronic control unit uses a fuel pressure sensor to detect a manner of a fuel pressure fluctuation with fuel injection by each fuel injection valve, and updates an individual correction value for a control value for each fuel injection valve as a second learned value based on a result of comparison between a detected temporal waveform and a basic temporal waveform. In an idle operating state, a learning rate of the second learned value is reduced until the first learned value converges for the first time as compared with after its convergence.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignees: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Denso CorporationInventors: Takeshi Miyaura, Yoshiyasu Ito, Ryo Suzuki, Toyomori Tsuiki, Naoyuki Yamada
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Publication number: 20160312736Abstract: A microcomputer determines that an abnormality has occurred in calculation functions regarding calculation of an injection amount command value and the like, based on a deviation of the injection amount command value, in an increasing manner, from a monitoring injection amount. The microcomputer calculates, based on a cooling fluid temperature of an engine, a start-up injection amount such that the start-up injection amount becomes smaller when the cooling fluid temperature is high than when the cooling fluid temperature is low, and uses the start-up injection amount as the injection amount command value immediately after the completion of start-up of the engine. Besides, the microcomputer uses the smaller one of a start-up injection amount calculated this time and a monitoring start-up injection amount calculated last time, as a monitoring start-up injection amount that is used as the aforementioned monitoring injection amount immediately after the completion of start-up of the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyasu ITO, Morihisa SAKAMOTO, Takuya INAMASU
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Publication number: 20160281626Abstract: An engine control apparatus is equipped with a fuel injection amount computation unit, a determination process unit, and an engine abnormality process unit. The determination process unit determines, based on a deviation between a command injection amount and a monitoring injection amount, whether or not there is an abnormality in fuel injection control. An injection amount threshold, which is used to make a determination on an abnormality in fuel injection control, is set larger based on a vehicle speed-associated parameter when the vehicle speed-associated parameter is a value corresponding to a case where a vehicle speed is high than when the vehicle speed-associated parameter is a value corresponding to a case where the vehicle speed is low.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2016Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyasu ITO, Kiyonori Takahashi, Takuya Inamasu
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Patent number: 9423390Abstract: In order to estimate the cetane number of a fuel, fuel injection is executed by controlling the driving of a fuel injection valve by a prescribed amount. The amount of change in the rotation of a diesel engine generated in response to the fuel injection is detected, and the cetane number of the fuel is estimated on the basis of this amount of change in the rotation. The actual amount of fuel injected from the fuel injection valve is detected, and when the difference between the amount actually detected and the prescribed amount is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the execution of the fuel cetane number estimation process is restricted.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2011Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Makio Tsuchiyama, Yoshiyasu Ito, Takeshi Miyaura
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Publication number: 20160208727Abstract: A microcomputer determines a presence of an abnormality of a fuel injection quantity control device based on a comparison between a required injection quantity as a command value for the amount of a fuel injected from an injector in one engine cycle and a total monitor injection quantity as a total value of monitor injection quantities obtained from an energization time monitor value of the injector for each fuel injection in the one engine cycle. The microcomputer removes a micro-injection correction amount from the monitor injection quantity when the monitor injection quantity is below a determination value and executes a removal processing in which the removal of the micro-injection correction amount from the monitor injection quantity is not performed when the monitor injection quantity is at least the determination value. The total value of the monitor injection quantities after the removal processing is regarded as the total monitor injection quantity.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2016Publication date: July 21, 2016Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshiyasu ITO, Takuya INAMASU
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Patent number: 9362576Abstract: In one embodiment, an electrical power storage system using hydrogen includes a power generation unit generating power using hydrogen and oxidant gas and an electrolysis unit electrolyzing steam. The electrical power storage system includes a hydrogen storage unit storing hydrogen generated by the electrolysis and supplying the hydrogen to the power generation unit during power generation, a high-temperature heat storage unit storing high temperature heat generated accompanying the power generation and supplying the heat to the electrolysis unit during the electrolysis, and a low-temperature heat storage unit storing low-temperature heat, which is exchanged in the high-temperature heat storage unit and generating with this heat the steam supplied to the electrolysis unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shoko Suyama, Yoshiyasu Ito, Shigeo Kasai, Yasuo Takagi, Tsuneji Kameda, Kentaro Matsunaga, Masato Yoshino, Daisuke Horikawa, Kazuya Yamada
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Patent number: 9333156Abstract: The present invention provides an external preparation for skin which contains 5-aminolevulinic acids as active components and which is excellent in skin-beautifying effects such as prevention/amelioration of skin roughness, dry skin, wrinkles, sagging and flecks of skin, and improvement of turnover of corneum; and in an ameliorating effect on skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis. An external preparation for skin which contains one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of 5-aminolevulinic acid, its salt and a derivative of them; and an iron compound; as active components, is used.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: SBI Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd.Inventor: Yoshiyasu Ito
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Publication number: 20160010579Abstract: A control apparatus for an engine includes a control unit. The engine includes a sensor. The control unit determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred in a calculation function of the control unit on the basis of a comparison result between the control required injection amount and the monitoring required injection amount. The control unit determines whether or not an abnormality has occurred in the calculation function of the control unit without using the comparison result when the comparison result is calculated during a predetermined period. The predetermined period is a period of a delay that occurs between updating of one of respective values of the control rotation speed and the monitoring rotation speed and updating of the other value due to a difference between the first timing and the second timing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Applicants: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, DENSO CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyonori TAKAHASHI, Yoshiyasu ITO, Nobuyoshi TAKIGAWA
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Patent number: 9127608Abstract: An electronic control unit detects an index value of an amount of generated heat of fuel to be combusted in a diesel engine. The electronic control unit also executes the injection of a predetermined amount of the fuel to estimate a cetane number of the fuel and calculates an index value of output torque of the diesel engine generated with that execution. Then, the electronic control unit calculates an estimated value of the cetane number of the fuel based on the index value of the output torque and the index value of the amount of generated heat.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2011Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Yoshiyasu Ito, Takeshi Miyaura, Makio Tsuchiyama
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Patent number: 9051895Abstract: This apparatus is applied to an engine equipped with a fuel supply system that supplies pressure-increased fuel to a fuel injection valve, and performs the fuel injection from the injection valve in one combustion cycle by a multiple injection process that includes a pre-injection and a main injection that are executed with an interval therebetween. The apparatus calculates a deviation between a required value (one-dot chain line) and an actual value (solid line) regarding the end timing of the pre-injection, based on the manner of fluctuation of the fuel pressure in the fuel injection that is detected by a pressure sensor. A target main injection timing and a target pre-interval are individually set on the basis of the state of operation of the engine. Based on the deviation, the target main injection timing and the target pre-interval, the apparatus sets control target values regarding the execution period of the pre-injection.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2011Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Miyaura, Yoshiyasu Ito, Makio Tsuchiyama, Yoshihiro Furuya
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Publication number: 20150112575Abstract: A device executes a power limiting process when the number of pressure sensors determined to be normal in a second determination process made by a second processing unit is smaller than or equal to one. When only one pressure sensor is determined to be normal through the second determination process, and when that pressure sensor and a pressure sensor connected to only a first processing unit are determined to be normal in a first determination process made by the first processing unit, a process associated with fuel injection based on a detected value of the pressure sensor determined to be normal in the second determination process is executed, and a degree of limiting engine power through the power limiting process is reduced as compared with when both the pressure sensors are determined to be abnormal in the first determination process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicants: DENSO CORPORATION, TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Takeshi Miyaura, Yoshiyasu Ito, Nobuyoshi Takigawa
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Publication number: 20150073682Abstract: A microcomputer determines, in a first monitoring routine, whether a required injection amount was normally computed in a fuel injection amount control routine, based on the required injection amount computed in the fuel injection amount control routine, and detected values of engine operating conditions used for computation of the required injection amount in the routine, and determines, in a second monitoring routine, whether an injector was normally driven based on the required injection amount, based on the required injection amount computed in the fuel injection amount control routine, and a measurement result of a current application period of injector drive current.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2013Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yoshiyasu Ito