With Dynamometer Patents (Class 73/116.05)
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Patent number: 11760282Abstract: A method for detecting a special operating state of a motor vehicle which differs from a normal operating state of the motor vehicle, in which a noise emitted by the motor vehicle during operation of the motor vehicle is captured in the interior of the motor vehicle using a mobile apparatus which is separate from the motor vehicle, and the noise is compared with a plurality of reference noises provided by the mobile apparatus, the noise being assigned to a most similar reference noise of the plurality of reference noises on the basis of the comparison if a minimum similarity value is exceeded, and the special operating state being detected by the assignment which has been carried out.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventor: Carsten Bruns
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Patent number: 11733671Abstract: This overall control device for a testing system comprises: a plurality of resonance suppression controllers that each generate a torque current command signal for suppressing mechanical resonance between a specimen and a dynamometer upon receiving a base torque current command signal and axial torque detection signal and have different input/output characteristics; a specimen characteristic acquisition unit for acquiring the value of the moment of inertia of the specimen connected to the dynamometer; and a resonance-suppression-controller selection unit for selecting one of the plurality of resonance suppression controllers on the basis of the value of the moment of inertia acquired by the specimen characteristic acquisition unit and mounting the selected resonance suppression controller in a dynamometer control module.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATIONInventors: Masayasu Kanke, Takao Akiyama
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Patent number: 11215533Abstract: A case having a stator fixed to an inside surface of a peripheral wall portion can be inserted into a tire house of a vehicle from an outside o in an axial direction. An inside of a hollow portion of the case can receive, by insertion thereinto, a brake disc and a brake caliper of the vehicle. A rotor includes: a rotor coupling portion that can be coupled to a drive wheel coupling portion of the vehicle; a rotor frame extending outside in a radial direction at an axially outer position than the brake caliper in a state in which the rotor coupling portion is coupled to the drive wheel coupling portion; a rotor circumferential wall portion connected to a radially outside end of the rotor frame, and extending axially inside from a connecting portion with the radially outside end; and a magnet fixed to the rotor circumferential wall portion.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2018Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: TOYO DENKI SEIZO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yoshihiro Okamoto, Yuta Funaki
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Patent number: 11204302Abstract: According to the present invention, an input-side dynamometer control device is provided with an inertia compensator, a resonance suppression controller 53, a set value acquisition unit 58 for acquiring set values Jset, Jtgt. The resonance suppression controller 53 is provided with: a plurality of resonance suppression control modules 541-546 that generate input-side torque current command signals Ti on the basis of an inertia compensation torque signal Tref and an input-side shaft torque detection signal T12 so as to suppress resonance; and a selector 55 that selects one of the control modules 541-546 on the basis of the set values Jset, Jtgt. The inertia compensation torque signal Tref and the input-side shaft torque detection signal T12 are inputted to one of the resonance suppression control modules selected by the selector 55, and the input-side torque current command signal generated by the selected resonance suppression control module is inputted to an inverter.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATIONInventor: Takashi Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 11180904Abstract: An engine on an excavator provides power to a hydraulic pump that pumps hydraulic fluid under pressure to a hydraulic actuator. The hydraulic actuator is controlled to place a load on the engine. Engine response to the load placed on it by the hydraulic actuator is detected and logged. The logged engine response data can be accessed to identify engine response.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Amy K. Jones, Kristen Dawn Cadman, Erik W. McWethy, Jaccob Bruce Eichinger
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Patent number: 10801921Abstract: Systems and methods for improving fuel economy in vehicles such as Class 8 trucks are provided. In some embodiments, signals indicating states of the powertrain are collected and used to generate fuel rate optimization values. Fuel rate optimization values may indicate a difference between optimum fuel flow rates and actual fuel flow rates during a vehicle drive cycle. Recorded fuel rate optimization values may be used to compare different vehicle configurations during testing, and may also be used to evaluate vehicle performance during real-world operation.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: PACCAR INCInventors: Christopher Michael James Douglas, Michael Douglas Gerty, Mark G. Malowicki
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Patent number: 10661812Abstract: A display device is a device mounted on a vehicle including an engine, and an electric motor connected to a drive wheel, the display device including: a display unit capable of displaying a predetermined image indicating that the engine operates; and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display the predetermined image when the engine operates with fuel consumption, in which, when regeneration by the electric motor is performed and an operation request for causing the engine to operate occurs, the display control unit causes the display unit to display the predetermined image regardless of an operation state of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2018Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Masanori Matsushita, Hiroshi Tagami
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Patent number: 10605689Abstract: A test piece characteristic estimation method includes estimating a moment of inertia of a test piece. A first transfer function G1 from a torque current command for a dynamometer to output from a shaft torque sensor is measured by vibrationally operating the dynamometer. A second transfer function G2 from the torque current command to the output of a dynamo rotation speed sensor is measured by vibrationally operating the dynamometer. A real part and an imaginary part of a ratio obtained by dividing the second transfer function G2 by the first transfer function G1 at a prescribed measurement frequency ?k are calculated. A moment of inertia Jeg and a rotational friction Ceg are estimated by using the real part and the imaginary part of the ratio.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATIONInventor: Takao Akiyama
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Patent number: 10480441Abstract: A system and method for controlling a temperature of an exhaust gas at an inlet of a selective catalytic reduction system during at least certain low air density conditions. The system may detect an air density value upstream of an internal combustion engine of an engine system, such as, for example, at an inlet of a compressor. Using the detected air density, one of a plurality of relationships between an engine speed and an outputted engine power, as a function of the detected air density value, may be selected for use in determining what combination of engine speed(s) and/or engine power(s) will produce an exhaust gas that is within a target exhaust gas temperature. Using the selected relationship, at least one of the engine speed and the engine power may be adjusted to at least assist in attaining the target exhaust gas temperature.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventors: John L. Hoehne, Ian W. McGiffen, Chandan Mahato, Paul Daniel Borisuk, Boopathi Singalandapuram Mahadevan
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Patent number: 10416043Abstract: Systems and methods for improving fuel economy in vehicles such as Class 8 trucks are provided. In some embodiments, signals indicating states of the powertrain are collected and used to generate fuel rate optimization values. Fuel rate optimization values may indicate a difference between optimum fuel flow rates and actual fuel flow rates during a vehicle drive cycle. Recorded fuel rate optimization values may be used to compare different vehicle configurations during testing, and may also be used to evaluate vehicle performance during real-world operation.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: PACCAR IncInventors: Christopher Michael James Douglas, Michael Douglas Gerty, Mark G. Malowicki
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Patent number: 10195989Abstract: A communication system for a vehicle comprises a mechanism for sensing a motion status of a vehicle, a control device, plurality of data acquisition sensors, and one or more alerting device activation circuits. The communication system is customizable with the plurality of data acquisition sensors and one or more alerting device activation circuits based upon the needs of the vehicle. In some embodiments, the communication system is customized before it is installed within the vehicle. Alternatively, in some embodiments, the communication system is customizable after it is installed within the vehicle by turning on and/or turning off one or more of the data acquisition sensors and one or more alerting device activation circuits. The communication system is able to be implemented on a bus or other such fleet vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Vision Works IP CorporationInventors: Fritz Braunberger, Beau M. Braunberger
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Patent number: 9933332Abstract: The present invention relates to a dynamometer rotary table (1), which brings the dynamometer to the required position according to the test that will be conducted automatically or manually. The dynamometer rotary table (1) is mounted to the ground via a fixed plate (2). An inner table (4) is seated on the fixed plate (2), and there are lifters (5) on the inner table. The lifters (5) lift the rotary table (6), and the rotary table (6) is brought to the desired position by means of the reducer (3). The lifters (5) lower the rotary table (6) to its new position, and the lock unit (8) fixed the rotary table (6) at its new position.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: FORD OTOMOTIV SANAYI ANONIM SIRKETIInventors: Idris Haciomeroglu, Selcuk Celikel, Sevket Emre Oz, Fethi Semih Ozkan, Alper Tekeli, Ergun Guraslan
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Patent number: 9870650Abstract: The present invention mainly intends to provide a vehicle test system and the like that can easily mutually compare actual running data and test result data obtained from a test apparatus, or pieces of test result data. The vehicle test system includes an actual running data acquisition apparatus that acquires actual running data that is data related to states inside and outside of a vehicle in running on a road; a test apparatus each of which performs a drive test or an operation test of a vehicle or a part of the vehicle in accordance with a set test condition; and a test management apparatus that reproduces a part or all of the running states indicated by the actual running data in the test apparatus. Further, the test management apparatus receives test result data that is data indicating a test result by the test apparatus, and comparably outputs the test result data and the actual running data.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2015Date of Patent: January 16, 2018Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Katsumi Uratani, Yasuyuki Sado
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Patent number: 9739687Abstract: Provided is a dynamometer system dynamo control device that can accurately reproduce a no-load state. The dynamo control device includes controllers that are designed, using a H-infinity control or a ?-design method, such that, for a generalized plant that outputs observation output and a controlled variable from external input and from control input, the response from the input until the variable is shortened. The generalized plant includes a dynamic characteristics model wherein the characteristics of a dynamometer system are identified such that the angular acceleration is output from the external input and the control input. The controlled variable is the difference between the angular acceleration calculated for an engine alone on the basis of the external input and the angular acceleration calculated by the dynamic characteristics model.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: Meidensha CorporationInventors: Takao Akiyama, Yoshimasa Sawada, Nobuhiko Asakura
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Patent number: 9651452Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a control device for controlling a powertrain test stand comprising a driving machine and a driven machine. According to the invention, a torque supplied by the driving machine is controlled, a reference variable (Mx) for controlling the torque of the driving machine in order to dampen vibrations between the driving machine and the driven machine being modified depending on a current speed (nist) of the driving machine in relation to a predefined value (Mist), the reference variable (Mx) being determined from a model of a virtual tire.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: KRISTL, SEIBT & CO. GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.Inventors: Robert Bauer, Bernd Pressl, Martin Baschnegger, Martin Wipfler
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Patent number: 9650049Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for an intelligent quick bed-in of an automatic transmission comprising the steps of operating the vehicle according to a predetermined protocol so that the powertrain controller can learn about powertrain variations and adapt operation of the transmission; obtaining feedback information regarding operator performance of the method and vehicle performance during the method; determining whether the bed-in method was successful by the level of run-up or tie-up, by whether the powertrain controller was allowed to adapt, or by the level of powertrain controller adaptation; and completing the bedding-in process. The method being capable of reducing the time required for a bedding-in process, while improving the reliability of the bedding-in process.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignees: Hyundai America Technical Center, Inc., Hyundai Motor Company, KIA Motors CorporationInventors: Matthew Betts, BeongYeol You, Anthony Golletti, Thomas Kieffer
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Patent number: 9592809Abstract: The invention relates to a hybrid brake system having a hydraulic service brake system and an electromechanical service brake system. According to the invention, a brake booster is designed as a pedal simulator, which can be used to boost power and to generate a pedal power which is counter to the direction of actuation. When the hydraulic service brake system fails, the electromechanical service brake system is used for braking and the brake booster generates a pedal power which allows or facilitates dosage of the brake actuation.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2009Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Herbert Vollert, Reinhard Weiberle
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Patent number: 9389145Abstract: Diesel electric hybrid powertrains and methods of operating and testing such powertrains are disclosed. Certain exemplary embodiments comprise test and certification methods in which a controller operates a diesel engine alone, an integrated motor/generator alone, or both the diesel engine and the motor/generator to provide brake torque at a common output shaft according to predetermined duty cycle criteria. Emissions are measured based upon criteria accounting for the effects of regenerative braking, engine shut off, and other operational modes unique to hybrid powertrains. Further exemplary embodiments comprise hybrid powertrain systems and methods of operating the same meeting performance and emissions requirements including respective limits on NOx, hydrocarbon, particulate matter, CO, and CO2 without reliance conventional emissions reduction devices or techniques.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: July 12, 2016Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventor: Morgan MacKenzie Andreae
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Patent number: 9151689Abstract: A flexible leak test apparatus and method for leak testing a variety of workpieces having various multiple configurations with at least one internal cavity and at least one aperture leading therefrom. The flexible leak test apparatus and method provide a plurality of leak test fixtures adaptable to receive the workpieces. Each leak test fixture has a bottom portion and a top portion that engage one another when the workpieces are loaded in the bottom portion of the leak test fixture. The leak test fixtures are shuttled in and out of the workstation, and a manipulator loads and unloads the workpieces into and out of the bottom portion of the leak test fixtures. The leak test fixtures seal the apertures in the workpieces so that the workpieces can be leak tested by pressurizing the internal cavity of the workpiece.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Comau Inc.Inventor: John Graham
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Patent number: 9134712Abstract: When arrangements with a repeating working cycle such as, for example, in the case of engine test benches, are being controlled, resonances which have to be damped by the control system are often excited by the test specimen (for example an internal combustion engine) in the working range of the arrangement. The invention proposes for this purpose a control concept in which a modified actual value rist—mod is determined from a current actual value rist—akt of the control system and from a predicted imminent system-delay-free actual value on the basis of the actual value of a previous working cycle, and said modified actual value rist—mod is fed to the control system.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2009Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: AVL List GmbHInventors: Helmut Kokal, Josef Mayrhofer, Dirk Denger, Martin Schmidt, Luigi del Re
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Patent number: 9038798Abstract: A shaft connection structure connects a pair of rotating shafts by a fit between a pair of spline shafts, wherein the pair of rotating shafts are provided with corresponding ones of the pair of spline shafts. The shaft connection structure includes a shaft connection assist device. The shaft connection assist device includes a centering ring and centering pins. The centering ring is arranged outside of a first one of the spline shafts and coaxially with the first spline shaft. The centering pins are provided outside of a second one of the spline shafts. The centering pins engage with an outer peripheral surface of the centering ring and bring a shaft axis of the first spline shaft and a shaft axis of the second spline shaft into a range enabling the fit therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2011Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: MEIDENSHA CORPORATIONInventors: Hiroyuki Sakai, Kazutoshi Yoshida, Norihiro Maezato
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Patent number: 8996231Abstract: An administrating device that administrates a plurality of units for test used for a test of a mobile object such as a vehicle or a constituting component of the mobile object comprises a recognizing part that recognizes an assembly of one or more units for test as a group for test and an assembly of one or more group for test as a device for test, and an administrating body part that conducts a predetermined batch operation command or a predetermined batch setting for a unit for test that belongs to the designated one or more groups for test and/or that conducts a predetermined batch operation command or a predetermined batch setting on a unit for test that belongs to the designated one or more device for test.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2013Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Katsumi Uratani, Koji Watanabe, Hiroshi Nakamura, Tsutomu Misogi
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Publication number: 20140366616Abstract: To enable testing of a starter motor on a test beach with an electrical dynamometer as a replacement for the real combustion engine, a simulation unit (20) is provided in which a mathematical model of the combustion engine is implemented, and the simulation unit (20) determines a new load setpoint (ns, Ts) using the mathematical model from measured actual values (?i, ni, Ti) of the operation of the electrical dynamometer (3) at every scanning time point of the regulation, which new load setpoint (ns, Ts) is fed to the regulator (21).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2012Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: AVL LIST GMBHInventors: Helmut Kokal, Matthias Dank, Peter Holzhammer, Ronald Prettenthaler, Martin Stockreiter
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Patent number: 8770019Abstract: A test rig for dynamic test assignments on internal combustion engines is equipped with a preferably electrical drive and/or loading device which is coupled to a control device for adapting and controlling setpoint values for a speed and a torque characteristic. For a test rig of this kind, in order to enable the setpoint values determined by a speed and a torque characteristic to be optimally adapted and controlled for the respective test assignment and so that they can be reproduced on the test rig in the best possible manner, the control device can be adapted in terms of adjusting the weighting of speed control to torque control.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2012Date of Patent: July 8, 2014Assignee: AVL List GmbHInventors: Engelbert Grünbacher, Helmut Kokal, Martin Schmidt, Luigi Del Re, Michael Paulweber
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Patent number: 8689618Abstract: Dynamometer testing of a vehicle comprising, with only a first wheel shaft connected to a dynamometer test unit, including the steps of applying a first power to the first wheel shaft, determining a representation of the first power using the dynamometer test unit, determining a second power, different from the first power, being applied to one or both of the first wheel shaft and the second wheel shaft, the second power being a virtual power represented by a virtual representation of second power, and, based on the representation of the first power determined by the dynamometer test unit and the virtual representation of the second power, determining a first speed which is a representation of the speed of the vehicle driven on a road and subjected to the first and second power.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2011Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Rototest International ABInventor: Christian Engström
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Patent number: 8631693Abstract: A dynamometer may be configured to simulate the rotating inertial characteristics of a wheel-tire assembly slipping relative to a road surface and having rotating inertial characteristics different than the rotating inertial characteristics of the wheel-tire assembly being simulated.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Horiba Instruments, Inc.Inventors: Donald Bryce Johnson, Norman Malcolm Newberger, Isaac Cohen Anselmo
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Patent number: 8505374Abstract: A portable on vehicle dynamometer (12) has a rigid frame (64), a load shaft (16), and an eddy current brake (24) with a stator (56) connected to the rigid frame (64) and a rotor (54) connected to the load shaft (16). A hub coupling (18) is secured to a first end of the load shaft (16) and connected to the drive shaft. The rigid frame (64) has two outwardly extending support arms (30) for securing in outwardly extending, fixed positions. Two roller assemblies (46) are mounted to a lower end of the rigid frame (64) for multidirectional movement of the dynamometer (12). Preferably the eddy current brake (24) comprises a cylindrically-shaped rotor drum (54) extending exteriorly around the stator (56), and the stator (56) comprises a plurality of stator coils (94) extending exteriorly around the load shaft (16), spaced apart from an interior of the rotor drum (54).Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Dynocom Industries, Inc.Inventor: Paul N. Arseneau
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Patent number: 8490477Abstract: A testing device for a torque converter having a turbine portion 2 and a stator portion 3, including a turbine shaft 4 rotatably supported by a first support portion 6, and a stator shaft 9 concentrically disposed on an outer circumferential side of the turbine shaft 4 and axially moveably and non-rotatably supported by a second support portion 8. The turbine shaft 4 has a central oil passage 4b and a splined portion 4a on the outer circumferential periphery which is engaged with a splined portion 2a of the turbine portion 2 when the turbine shaft 4 is axially downwardly moved. The stator shaft 9 has a splined portion 9d on the outer circumferential periphery which is engaged with a splined portion 3a of the stator portion 3 when the stator shaft 9 is axially downwardly moved. A spring 11 is provided, which biases the stator shaft 9 toward the torque converter.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Meidensha CorporationInventor: Masanobu Tsuji
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Patent number: 8448505Abstract: A test bench encompasses a load device and a blower device for cooling the load device. With the help of one or more temperature sensors, it is possible to identify the temperature in or on the load device and to adjust the speed of a blower motor of the blower device accordingly. For instance, provision is made for changing the blower speed in a predetermined range linearly with the temperature change in the load device. In the event that one of the temperature sensors determines that a predetermined limit value is exceeded, the blower is set to maximum speed. In response to the exceeding of a further, higher temperature limit value, the load device is turned off.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Horiba Europe GmbHInventors: Herbert Sennhenn, Stefan Hüttel
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Patent number: 8434352Abstract: A test stand arrangement includes at least one electric motor (4) connected to a test specimen for driving and/or loading the test specimen, and a control arrangement for the or each electric motor. In order to be able to create the connection of the drive train and vehicle simulation with the real, vehicle-specific combustion and dynamic behavior of the engine, at least one model for a multi-mass flywheel is implemented in the control arrangement, from which model at least a part of the control requirement for the or each electric motor is calculated and which model contains at least the two masses of the primary and secondary side of the multi-mass flywheel and a substitute model for the or each bow spring, and an algorithm is implemented in the control arrangement that analyzes the model for a multi-mass flywheel by means of an integrated time step method.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: AVL List GmbHInventors: Matthias Dank, Helmut Kokal, Josef Mayrhofer, Stephen Jones, Dirk Denger, Martin Schmidt
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Patent number: 8418542Abstract: A test stand assembly includes an electric machine (4) for driving and/or loading a test object (1), which is connected by a connecting shaft (2) having an adapter flange (3) to the electric machine (4). The assembly has a constant, predetermined moment of inertia, and the mass and the moment of inertia of the adapter flange (3) are selected in such a manner that the resonant frequency of the system formed of test object (1), adapter flange (3), connecting flange (2), and electric machine (4) for driving and/or loading the test object (1) lies between the idle frequency and the partial load frequency of the test object (1).Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2010Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Assignee: AVL List GmbHInventors: Josef Mayrhofer, Helmut Kokal, Stefan Dragaschnig, Joachim Schmidt, Gerald Hochmann, Dirk Denger, Martin Schmidt
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Patent number: 8418541Abstract: A dynamometer includes a roller that is rotabably mounted upon a shaft with the shaft being rotatably mounted upon a support that carries the weight of the roller, the dynamometer also having a shear beam load cell disposed within the roller with a first end secured adjacent to an inner surface of the roller and a second end attached to the shaft to provide the sole structural connection between the roller and the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2008Date of Patent: April 16, 2013Inventor: William E. Kirkpatrick
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Patent number: 8387449Abstract: A method and a device for performing tests on an internal combustion engine or a structure which is associated with the engine by measuring output parameter values on at least one output shaft (3LF, 3RF) which is connected to the engine, is distinguished by producing a representation of variations in said output parameter values during operation of the engine, and evaluating the representation for determining an operating parameter value for the engine or the structure. The invention also concerns a dynamometer testing rig.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Inventors: Christian Engström, Jonny Färnlund
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Patent number: 8371178Abstract: A turbopump for a rocket engine includes a rotor shaft with a turbine connected to drive the rotor and a centrifugal impeller connected to be driven by the rotor. An electromagnetic powered motor is formed as part of the turbopump and is powered to drive the rotor at a low speed in order to test for an amount of torque required to drive the rotor at the low speed. A load cell is connected to the motor that rotates the rotor shaft. From the use of a load cell the amount of torque required to rotate the rotor can be determined and compared to a known value in order to determine if the turbopump is damaged and requires repairs.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Andrew P Wall
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Publication number: 20120285228Abstract: A test rig for dynamic test assignments on internal combustion engines is equipped with a preferably electrical drive and/or loading device which is coupled to a control device for adapting and controlling setpoint values for a speed and a torque characteristic. For a test rig of this kind, in order to enable the setpoint values determined by a speed and a torque characteristic to be optimally adapted and controlled for the respective test assignment and so that they can be reproduced on the test rig in the best possible manner, the control device can be adapted in terms of adjusting the weighting of speed control to torque control.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventors: Engelbert Grünbacher, Helmut Kokal, Martin Schmidt, Luigi Del Re, Michael Paulweber
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Patent number: 8186206Abstract: A powertrain test installation is disclosed that includes a polymer base, which is supported on a concrete slab, for example. A dynamometer is mounted on the polymer base. A frame is mounted to the polymer base and is configured to support a powertrain component to be coupled to the dynamometer. The powertrain test system is installed, for example, by providing a floor, which is a concrete slab, for example. The floor is cut to provide a gap between a support floor and an adjacent floor that is arranged about the support floor. A polymer base is arranged on the support floor interiorly of the gap so that the polymer base is isolated from the adjacent floor. A dynamometer is secured to the polymer base. A frame is secured to the polymer base and is configured to support a powertrain test component, such as an electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2010Date of Patent: May 29, 2012Assignee: AVL North America Inc.Inventor: Ken Barnes
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Publication number: 20120103079Abstract: A test bench encompasses a load device and a blower device for cooling the load device. With the help of one or more temperature sensors, it is possible to identify the temperature in or on the load device and to adjust the speed of a blower motor of the blower device accordingly. For instance, provision is made for changing the blower speed in a predetermined range linearly with the temperature change in the load device. In the event that one of the temperature sensors determines that a predetermined limit value is exceeded, the blower is set to maximum speed. In response to the exceeding of a further, higher temperature limit value, the load device is turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2011Publication date: May 3, 2012Inventors: Herbert Sennhenn, Stefan Hüttel
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Publication number: 20110252877Abstract: A powertrain test installation is disclosed that includes a polymer base, which is supported on a concrete slab, for example. A dynamometer is mounted on the polymer base. A frame is mounted to the polymer base and is configured to support a powertrain component to be coupled to the dynamometer. The powertrain test system is installed, for example, by providing a floor, which is a concrete slab, for example. The floor is cut to provide a gap between a support floor and an adjacent floor that is arranged about the support floor. A polymer base is arranged on the support floor interiorly of the gap so that the polymer base is isolated from the adjacent floor. A dynamometer is secured to the polymer base. A frame is secured to the polymer base and is configured to support a powertrain test component, such as an electric motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2010Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventor: Ken Barnes
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Patent number: 8037743Abstract: A chassis dynamometer for a vehicle has a motor having a rotor, rollers configured to be operably connected to wheels of the vehicle, a flange portion extending inward in a radial direction from each of the rollers, and a rotor bracket for supporting the rotor of the motor. The flange portion and the rotor bracket are connected via a torque meter capable of measuring at least an outer peripheral tangential force of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2007Date of Patent: October 18, 2011Assignees: A & D Company, Limited, Toyo Electric Mfg. Co., Ltd.Inventors: Tatsuo Ichige, Hidenori Nagai, Mieko Nagai, legal representative, Yoshihiro Okamoto
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Patent number: 8006548Abstract: It is a challenge to make it possible to produce a resonance suppression effect, and perform a stable control even in a case where a spring rigidity of a shaft significantly varies. The challenge is achieved as follows. In an engine bench system in which an engine 1 to be tested and a dynamometer 2 are coupled together by a coupling shaft 3, and a shaft torque control of the dynamometer is performed, a controller 5 includes: an integral element having an integral coefficient KI for a deviation (T12r?T12) between a shaft torque command T12r and a measured shaft torque T12; a differential element having a differential coefficient KD for the measured shaft torque T12; and a proportional element KP for the measured shaft torque T12. The controller 5 obtains a torque control signal T2 by subtracting the differential element and the proportional element from the integral element.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2008Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Meidensha CorporationInventors: Takao Akiyama, Yoshimasa Sawada, Masayasu Kanke
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Patent number: 8001835Abstract: A method and a device for dynamometer testing of a motor vehicle, having a front end and a rear end and a right side and a left side, as seen in a driving direction, and/or vehicle components, by measuring torque and rotational speed on drive shafts of the vehicle. A braking torque is applied to each one of the shafts by individual hydraulic dynamometer test units by throttling hydraulic fluid flows. The braking torque is adjustable for each individual one of the drive shafts such that a resulting individual rotational speed for that shaft corresponds to a virtual vehicle speed when driving the motor vehicle on a road, compensated with a slip value.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Inventor: Christian Engström
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Publication number: 20110093145Abstract: In a method for determining the torque of an internal combustion engine of a motor-vehicle hybrid drive device which further includes a secondary electric motor coupled to the internal combustion engine, the torque of the internal combustion engine is determined at least one operating point by comparison to the known torque of the secondary motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2008Publication date: April 21, 2011Inventors: Bernd Doerr, Roland Schleser, Holger Niemann, Daniel Damm, Andreas Heyl
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Patent number: 7926337Abstract: A vehicle locking device locking a vehicle on a chassis dynamometer, equipped with rollers allowing driving wheels of the vehicle placed thereon, while keeping the driving wheels thereof placed on the rollers, was configured so as to detect angles of traction, to determine traction forces optimum for hauling the vehicle based on the detected angles, and to control the vehicle locking device based on thus-determined traction forces so as to take up a belt, aiming at readily and stably locking a test vehicle under optimum traction forces.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2008Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Assignees: Ono Sokki Co., Ltd., Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Isamu Inoue, Atsushi Shibata, Naoki Umeda, Shuichi Tsukatsune, Haruhiko Tateno, Takahiro Matsumoto
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Patent number: 7926336Abstract: A dynamometer comprises a frame, an inertial flywheel, and a starter motor. The inertial flywheel is supported by the frame and the starter motor is movably mounted to the frame so as to be selectively engageable with the inertial flywheel. Means is provided for coupling an engine to be tested to the apparatus. The flywheel is brought up to speed by means of the starter motor and then coupled to the engine, which has been separately brought up to speed, via a clutch. The flywheel is supported by the frame in pressurized oil sleeve bearings.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 19, 2011Inventors: Louis P. Vickio, Jr., Louis P. Vickio, Sr., Edward A. Vickio
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Patent number: 7921712Abstract: A dynamometer-based test apparatus that includes a driving dynamometer which is rotatable between first and second positions thus allowing attachment to either a vehicle transmission from a vehicle having a transverse engine/transmission configuration or directly to a vehicle propeller shaft and a first vertically adjustable absorption dynamometer attachable to a first output drive shaft from a vehicle differential and a second vertically adjustable absorption dynamometer attachable to a second output drive shaft from a vehicle differential. A hand held rotating device such as a drill is attached to a gear and used to rotate the platform supporting the drive dynamometer and is attached to different jack screws to move that platform linearly, a base beneath the platform linearly and the absorption dynamometers vertically.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2008Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Dean M. Rindler, Steven Bray
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Publication number: 20110000291Abstract: A test stand arrangement comprises an electric machine (4) for driving and/or loading a test object (1) which is connected by means of a connecting shaft (2) having an adapter flange (3) to the electric machine (4). To be able to establish the connection of the drivetrain and vehicle simulation with the real vehicle-specific combustion and transient behavior of the engine, the arrangement consisting of connecting shaft (2) and drive and load machine (4) has a constant, predetermined moment of inertia, and the mass and the moment of inertia of the adapter flange (3) are selected in such a manner that the resonant frequency of the system consisting of test object (1), adapter flange (3), connecting flange (2), and electric machine (4) for driving and/or loading the test object (1) lies between the idle frequency and the partial load frequency of the test object (1).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2010Publication date: January 6, 2011Inventors: Josef Mayrhofer, Helmut Kokal, Stefan Dragaschnig, Joachim Schmidt, Gerald Hochmann, Dirk Denger, Martin Schmidt
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Patent number: 7849734Abstract: Test equipment of engine motoring for automatically conducting an engine test includes a conveying mechanism that carries in and carries out an engine to and from a test position, a fixing mechanism that fixes the engine carried in to the test position, a coupling mechanism that directly couples an electrical motor to the engine and can detect drive torque, an encoder that generates a pulse signal as an operating standard in synchronism with rotation of the electrical motor, a plurality of detection units driven to reciprocate so as to be connected to and disconnected from or approach and separate from the engine positioned at the test position and detect a plurality of operating state quantities, a control unit for various driving controls, and a judging unit for judging whether the engine is normal by comparing information obtained by the plurality of detection units with standard information obtained in advance.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Hirata CorporationInventors: Hitoshi Moritani, Masahide Maeda, Yoshio Kikukawa, Ryosei Sekiguchi, Tomoya Umeda
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Publication number: 20100251811Abstract: It is a challenge to make it possible to produce a resonance suppression effect, and perform a stable control even in a case where a spring rigidity of a shaft significantly varies. The challenge is achieved as follows. In an engine bench system in which an engine 1 to be tested and a dynamometer 2 are coupled together by a coupling shaft 3, and a shaft torque control of the dynamometer is performed, a controller 5 includes: an integral element having an integral coefficient KI for a deviation (T12r?T12) between a shaft torque command T12r and a measured shaft torque T12; a differential element having a differential coefficient KD for the measured shaft torque T12; and a proportional element KP for the measured shaft torque T12. The controller 5 obtains a torque control signal T2 by subtracting the differential element and the proportional element from the integral element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2008Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventors: Takao Akiyama, Yoshimasa Sawada, Masayasu Kanke
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Patent number: 7743650Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for dynamometer testing of motor vehicles. The system includes a cooling device for cooling a braking device and/or a power-generating arrangement, such as the engine of a car. The system is arranged to, using the braking device, absorb power applied thereto by the power-generating arrangement. The cooling device includes a fan arrangement for producing an air stream, the air stream being intended to be directed towards the braking device and/or the power-generating arrangement and/or a heat exchanger for providing a cooling effect. The fan arrangement includes two substantially axially aligned fans, and the cooling device is arranged to rotate the fans in opposite directions relative to each other. The present invention also relates to a method.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Inventor: Nils G Engström
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Patent number: 7726183Abstract: In order to make it possible to also mount an original exhaust system (10) substantially leading away from the internal combustion engine (2) below the output axle (7) parallel to the extension thereof in a test rig for internal combustion engines (2), the driving engine or load generator (4) is mounted in a suspended manner at a certain vertical distance from the pedestal (1) on a support arrangement (6) mounted thereon, with the input axle (8) being substantially aligned with the output axle (7) of the internal combustion engine (2) that is to be tested, whereby the space from below the interference contour (9) of the driving engine or load generator (4) to the pedestal remains free for the passage of the exhaust system (10).Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2005Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: AVL List GmbHInventors: Hans Erlach, Peter M. Ziegler, Roland Rathner, Helmut Schneiderbeck, Harald Nonn, Martin Schmidt, Michael Paulweber