Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Matsumoto

Yukihiro Matsumoto 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: 4694803
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control system for an internal combustion engine, including an oxygen concentration sensor producing an output signal whose level is substantially proportional to an oxygen concentration of the exhaust gas, effects a feedback control of the air-fuel ratio of mixture to be supplied to the engine toward a target value determined on the basis of various parameters of the engine operation and corrected in response to a magnitude of atmospheric pressure, so that the target air-fuel ratio is made lean as the magnitude of the atmospheric pressure decreases. Thus, the reduction of the engine output power and the increase of the fuel comsumption which have been encountered in conventional systems are prevented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1987
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahiko Asakura, Tomohiko Kawanabe, Masahiro Ueda, Shinichi Kubota, Noritaka Kushida, Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 4690121
    Abstract: An air intake side secondary air supply system for an internal combustion engine having an air intake side secondary air supply passage and an O.sub.2 sensor controls a duty ratio of opening and closing of an open/close valve disposed in the air intake side secondary air supply passage in accordance with a detected air-fuel ratio of mixture by means of an output signal of the O.sub.2 sensor. The system sets a base valve open period of the open/close valve every predetermined period and decreases the base valve open period by a first predetermined correction amount when the detected air-fuel ratio is leaner than a target air-fuel ratio, and increases the base valve open period by a second predetermined correction amount when the detected air-fuel ratio is richer than the target air-fuel ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomohiko Kawanabe, Masahiko Asakura, Takanori Shiina, Yukihiro Matsumoto, Minoru Muroya