Patents by Inventor Yukihiro Okabe

Yukihiro Okabe 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: 10125708
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control device switches a target air-fuel ratio from a lean set air-fuel ratio to a rich set air-fuel ratio after judging that an air-fuel ratio of an outflowing exhaust gas has become a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio and an oxygen storage amount of an exhaust purification catalyst has become a switching reference storage amount, and makes an average value of the target air-fuel ratio the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to less than the lean set air-fuel ratio, from after the estimated value of the oxygen storage amount has become the switching reference storage amount or more until judging that the air-fuel ratio of the outflowing exhaust gas has become the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio if the estimated value of the oxygen storage amount becomes the switching reference storage amount or more before judging that the air-fuel ratio of the outflowing exhaust gas has become the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukihiro Okabe, Tatsuya Tahara
  • Patent number: 9790880
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle includes an exhaust passage provided with a catalyst. A controller for the internal combustion engine includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform an auto-stopping process on the engine when the engine is idling, perform an auto-restarting process on the engine when the engine is automatically stopped, correct an amount of fuel injected into the engine so that the fuel injection amount of the engine is increased by a correction amount after the auto-restarting process is started, and change the correction amount in accordance with an amount of oxygen stored in the catalyst at a point of time when the auto-stopping process is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kenta Ito, Keiichi Myojo, Yukihiro Okabe, Keigo Ishihara
  • Publication number: 20170037802
    Abstract: An air-fuel ratio control device switches a target air-fuel ratio from a lean set air-fuel ratio to a rich set air-fuel ratio after judging that an air-fuel ratio of an outflowing exhaust gas has become a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio and an oxygen storage amount of an exhaust purification catalyst has become a switching reference storage amount, and makes an average value of the target air-fuel ratio the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio to less than the lean set air-fuel ratio, from after the estimated value of the oxygen storage amount has become the switching reference storage amount or more until judging that the air-fuel ratio of the outflowing exhaust gas has become the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio if the estimated value of the oxygen storage amount becomes the switching reference storage amount or more before judging that the air-fuel ratio of the outflowing exhaust gas has become the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yukihiro OKABE, Tatsuya TAHARA
  • Publication number: 20160097337
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle includes an exhaust passage provided with a catalyst. A controller for the internal combustion engine includes a processor. The processor is configured to perform an auto-stopping process on the engine when the engine is idling, perform an auto-restarting process on the engine when the engine is automatically stopped, correct an amount of fuel injected into the engine so that the fuel injection amount of the engine is increased by a correction amount after the auto-restarting process is started, and change the correction amount in accordance with an amount of oxygen stored in the catalyst at a point of time when the auto-stopping process is started.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Kenta Ito, Keiichi Myojo, Yukihiro Okabe, Keigo Ishihara
  • Patent number: 4431478
    Abstract: Polyimide-type-resin-etching rate can remarkably be enhanced by combining tetramethylammonium hydroxide or an aqueous solution of tetramethylammonium hydroxide with at least one member selected from the group consisting of amide compounds represented by the following formula: ##STR1## and amide compounds represented by the following formula: ##STR2## and amine compounds represented by the following formula:H.sub.2 N--R.sub.6 --NH.sub.2as an etching assistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1982
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1984
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Shigenori Yamaoka, Kenmatsu Isozaki, Kyotaro Nishi, Yukihiro Okabe, Mitsutaka Waki, Masuo Mizuno
  • Patent number: 4401499
    Abstract: A crosslinked resin excellent in heat resistance, toughness, moisture resistance and adhesiveness can be obtained by the use of an epoxy compound having both alcoholic hydroxyl groups and epoxy groups in its molecule and an isocyanate compound having isocyanate groups in its molecule by first reacting the alcoholic hydroxyl groups of said epoxy compound and the isocyanate groups of said isocyanate compound to produce an epoxy prepolymer having urethane linkages stable at room temperature, followed by dissociating the urethane linkages of the prepolymer to regenerate the isocyanate groups and reacting said isocyanate groups with the epoxy groups of said epoxy compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Sumitomo Bakelite Company Limited
    Inventors: Shoroku Kaneko, Sigenori Yamaoka, Masuo Mizuno, Yukihiro Okabe