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Masahiro Asano

Masahiro Asano, Kariya-Shi JP

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20090025688FUEL INJECTION CONTROL APPARATUS - The fuel injection control apparatus includes a function of making a determination of whether learning conditions are satisfied to allow a fuel injection amount learning to be performed, a function of directing a commanded fuel injection amount in the fuel injection amount learning to a fuel injection valve if result of the determination is affirmative, a function of setting an upper limit value of an injection pressure in the fuel injection amount learning, a function of setting a target injection pressure in the fuel injection amount learning, a function of setting the injection pressure to the target injection pressure, a function of detecting an actual fuel injection amount, and a function of correcting an amount of fuel injected by the fuel injection valve on the basis of a difference between the commanded fuel injection amount and the actual fuel injection amount at the target injection pressure.01-29-2009
20090030590FUEL INJECTION CONTROL APPARATUS DESIGNED TO COMPENSATE FOR DEVIATION OF QUANTITY OF FUEL SPRAYED FROM FUEL INJECTOR - A fuel injection control apparatus for an internal combustion engine is provided. A controller directs a fuel injector to spray a learning injection quantity of fuel and determines a resulting increase in speed of the engine. The controller determines the quantity of the fuel actually sprayed from the fuel injector based on the increase in speed of the engine and calculates a correction factor which compensates for a difference between the learning injection quantity and the actual injection quantity. The controller also determines a variation in load acting on a driving member of a torque transmission mechanism. When such a variation is great undesirably, the controller stops spraying the learning injection quantity. The controller may determine the increase in speed of the engine based on the degree of the variation in load. This ensures the accuracy in calculating the correction factor regardless of the variation in load.01-29-2009
20110106398ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM WITH ALGORITHM FOR ACTUATOR CONTROL - An engine control apparatus which may be employed in automotive vehicles. The engine control apparatus is equipped with at least one of a combustion parameter or a controlled variable arithmetic expression. The combustion parameter arithmetic expression defines combustion conditions of the engine needed to achieve required values of engine output-related values such as exhaust emissions. The controlled variable arithmetic expression defines how to operate actuators for an operation of the engine to meet desired combustion conditions of the engine. The use of the combustion parameter or controlled variable arithmetic expression achieves simultaneous agreement of the engine output-related values with required values without mutual interference between combustion parameters associated with the combustion conditions. The engine control apparatus also works to correct target values of fuel injection-related combustion parameters based on a response delay of an air-related combustion parameter, thereby ensuring the accuracy in achieving required values of the engine output-related values.05-05-2011
20110106399ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM WITH ALGORITHM FOR ACTUATOR CONTROL - An engine control apparatus which may be employed in automotive vehicles. The engine control apparatus is equipped with a controlled variable arithmetic expression which defines correlations between combustion parameters associated with combustion conditions of an engine and controlled variables actuators for an operation of the engine. This eliminates the need for finding relations of optimum values of the controlled variables to the combustion parameters through adaptability tests, which results in a decrease in burden of an adaptability test work and a map-making work on manufacturers. The engine control apparatus also works to learn or optimize the controlled variable arithmetic expression based on actual values of the combustion parameters, thereby avoiding undesirable changes in correlations, as defined by the controlled variable arithmetic expression, due to a change in environmental condition.05-05-2011
20110106400ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM WITH ALGORITHM FOR ACTUATOR CONTROL - An engine control apparatus which may be employed in automotive vehicles. The engine control apparatus is equipped with at least one of a combustion parameter or a controlled variable arithmetic expression. The combustion parameter arithmetic expression defines combustion conditions of the engine needed to achieve required values of engine output-related values such as exhaust emissions. The controlled variable arithmetic expression defines how to operate actuators for an operation of the engine to meet desired combustion conditions of the engine. The use of the combustion parameter or controlled variable arithmetic expression achieves simultaneous agreement of the engine output-related values with required values without mutual interference between combustion parameters associated with the combustion conditions.05-05-2011
20110106408ENGINE CONTROL SYSTEM WITH ALGORITHM FOR ACTUATOR CONTROL - An engine control apparatus which may be employed in automotive vehicles. The engine control apparatus is equipped with a controlled variable arithmetic expression which defines correlations between a plurality of combustion parameters and a plurality of controlled variables of actuators for control of an operation of the engine to calculate a combination of command values to be outputted to the actuators for regulating the controlled variables needed to achieve target values of the combustion parameters. When one of the command values is produced outside an allowable operation range of a corresponding one of the actuators, the engine control apparatus corrects or limits the one of the command values to an upper or a lower limit of the allowable operation range, thereby ensuring the stability in bringing engine output characteristics close to desired values.05-05-2011

Masahiro Asano, Anjo-Shi JP

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20110079007HEAT ENGINE - A heat engine is provided which includes: a boiler unit including an evaporation chamber and a fluid-pool chamber, the evaporation chamber heating a working fluid by supplied heat and generating vapor of the fluid, and the fluid-pool chamber collecting the fluid supplied to the evaporation chamber; an output unit through which the vapor flows, and which converts energy of the vapor to mechanical energy; a condensation unit which condenses the vapor that has passed through the output unit, and refluxes the condensed fluid to the fluid-pool chamber; and a working fluid guide member which is disposed in the boiler unit, and which sucks the fluid in the fluid-pool chamber by using capillary force and supplies the fluid to the evaporation chamber. The evaporation chamber is separated from the fluid-pool chamber. Pressure in the evaporation chamber is higher than pressure in the fluid-pool chamber. The working fluid guide member satisfies (2σ/r)·cos θ>PH−PL.04-07-2011

Masahiro Asano, Tokyo JP

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20100299466SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE - Power supply of ECUs connected to a communication network is optimally controlled so that power consumption is reduced. A transceiver/receiver converts a message of a differential signal received via a CAN bus into a digital signal. A select circuit determines whether the converted message is in a CAN format or a UART format. If it is in the UART format, the select circuit outputs a message to the UART circuit. A UART circuit determines whether the message matches a UART format. If matched, an ID determination circuit determines whether the input message is specifying a CAN ID of its own ECU. If it is the CAN ID of the ECU, the ID determination circuit outputs an enable signal to turn on a regulator and supply power to an MCU and an actuator.11-25-2010

Masahiro Asano, Kanagawa JP

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20110266984POWER DRIVE CONTROL DEVICE AND POWER DEVICE - A power drive control device is provided, in which, even if drive of a synchronous motor becomes impossible due to abnormalities of a control circuit for controlling the synchronous motor, it is possible to perform the drive control of the synchronous motor concerned easily with a simple configuration as emergency action. Failure of one of a first controller and a second controller is recovered by configuration of the other. Here, the first controller performs rotational drive control and regenerative control of a synchronous motor, based on a current signal of a fixed winding of the synchronous motor and a sense output from a rotation angle sensor of the synchronous motor, and the second controller performs power generation control of a synchronous generator based on a current signal of a fixed winding of the synchronous generator and a sense output from a rotation angle sensor of the synchronous generator. The drive control and the regenerative control (power generation control) which are performed by the first controller for controlling the synchronous motor and the second controller for controlling the synchronous generator are inextricably linked control.11-03-2011