Patents by Inventor Katsumi URATANI

Katsumi URATANI 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: 9945759
    Abstract: A vehicle test system according to the present invention intends to comprehensively manage and operate multiple types of test apparatuses to smoothly perform vehicle development, problem correction, and the like. For this purpose, 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; multiple types of test apparatuses each of which performs a drive test or an operation test of a vehicle or a part of the vehicle in accordance with set test conditions; and a test condition data generation apparatus that from the actual running data, generates test condition data indicating test conditions necessary to reproduce a part or all of the running states indicated by the actual running data in a test apparatus specified from among the multiple types of test apparatuses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Yasuyuki Sado, Kazuhiro Shiomi, Katsumi Uratani
  • Patent number: 9870650
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Katsumi Uratani, Yasuyuki Sado
  • Patent number: 9863851
    Abstract: An exhaust gas measuring information processing apparatus of the present invention detects troubles etc. of a flow sensor during a flow rate measurement and performs predetermined processing relevant to maintenance and check of the flow sensor. The exhaust gas measuring information processing apparatus includes a reception circuit that receives a flow rate measurement signal indicating a flow rate measurement value of exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust gas tube of an internal combustion engine and an operational state signal indicating an operational state of the internal combustion engine, and a processing executing circuit that executes predetermined processing relevant to maintenance and check of the flow sensor that outputs the flow rate measurement signal when a predetermined correlation is not satisfied between an index value for the operational state indicated by the operational state signal and the flow rate measurement value indicated by the flow rate measurement signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Uratani, Shun Fukami
  • Patent number: 9594169
    Abstract: The present invention intends to provide an altitude detecting unit capable of, while utilizing both the advantages of a satellite positioning system and a pressure sensor, making an altitude measurement error, which may occur when combining them, as small as possible, and provide the others, and has determined a conversion expression adapted to convert from pressure into altitude such that at each of multiple valid altitude measurement points at which a satellite positioning system detects accurate altitude, altitude based on pressure is made equal to altitude by the satellite positioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shun Fukami, Katsumi Uratani
  • Patent number: 9528911
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an analysis system intended to be able to perform a unit setting of values over multi-pieces of analysis-associated data easily and systematically every analysis device, and the analysis system is provided with an analysis device and an information processing device, wherein the information processing device includes: a unit series data storage part adapted to store multi-pieces of unit series data composed by specifying units to be respectively used for values of the multi-pieces of analysis-associated data given and received between the analysis device and the information processing device; a selection input receiving part adapted to receive a selection input of any of the multi-pieces of the unit series data stored in the unit series data storage part; and a data output part adapted to output each of the values of the analysis-associated data in the unit specified to the selected unit series data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Uratani, Tsutomu Misogi
  • Patent number: 9513268
    Abstract: This invention is to make it possible for the analysis system to conduct the minimum operation of the management device or monitoring a movement of the analysis device continuously while preventing an unexpected operation by an unauthorized user. In order to attain this object, the access level is automatically changed to the smaller operable range in case that the operation conducted based on a certain access level is interrupted for a certain period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventor: Katsumi Uratani
  • Patent number: 9501876
    Abstract: In order to efficiently and reliably perform a valid field test, there are provided: a running data acquisition part for sequentially acquiring actual running data of a vehicle under execution of a running test on a road by a driver; and a tendency data output part for sequentially producing and outputting tendency data indicating a tendency as to whether or not the running test is valid, based on the actual running data during the running test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Uratani, Shun Fukami
  • Patent number: 9476797
    Abstract: It is intended to display a schematic diagram of substantially the whole of an internal combustion engine test system on a screen and a color, brightness, pattern or shape of a symbol representing a test device shown in the schematic diagram are changed according to a degree of operation safety of the test device, whereby a user is allowed to intuitively recognize a situation relating to the safety of the entire system at a glance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Uratani, Tsutomu Misogi, Tetsu Yoshioka
  • Patent number: 9389143
    Abstract: One or more testing devices used for a test, a device management apparatus that is communicably connected to the testing devices to manage the testing devices, and an automatic test management apparatus that sets a schedule of the test, and on the basis of the schedule, issues a command to the device management apparatus are provided. The device management apparatus is provided with a disconnecting/connecting operation sensing part that senses that a disconnecting/connecting operation for connecting or disconnecting any of the testing devices has been performed; and a management main body part that, in the case where the disconnecting/connecting operation sensing part detects a connecting operation, starts a predetermined connecting protocol for establishing a connecting state and starts management of the testing device, as well as in the case where the disconnecting/connecting operation sensing part detects a disconnecting operation, canceling the connection to terminate the management of the testing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Uratani, Tsutomu Misogi, Katsuhiro Hachiuma
  • Patent number: 9322743
    Abstract: This invention is a test system 1 that is used for a mobile object such as a vehicle or a component used for the mobile object, and the test system 1 comprises one or a plurality of devices for test 4 used for a test and a device administrating device 7 that is connected to the device for test 4 in a communicable manner and that administrates the device for test 4, and is characterized by that the device administrating device 7 or the device for test 4 comprises a QC storing part 45 that stores a regulation ID to identify a regulation for the test and a quality check time or item to be provided for the device for test 4 in a mutually associated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Uratani, Katsuhiro Hachiuma
  • Publication number: 20160054451
    Abstract: The present invention intends to provide an altitude detecting unit capable of, while utilizing both the advantages of a satellite positioning system and a pressure sensor, making an altitude measurement error, which may occur when combining them, as small as possible, and provide the others, and has determined a conversion expression adapted to convert from pressure into altitude such that at each of multiple valid altitude measurement points at which a satellite positioning system detects accurate altitude, altitude based on pressure is made equal to altitude by the satellite positioning system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Shun FUKAMI, Katsumi URATANI
  • Publication number: 20160047718
    Abstract: An exhaust gas measuring information processing apparatus of the present invention detects troubles etc. of a flow sensor during a flow rate measurement and performs predetermined processing relevant to maintenance and check of the flow sensor. The exhaust gas measuring information processing apparatus includes a reception circuit that receives a flow rate measurement signal indicating a flow rate measurement value of exhaust gas flowing through an exhaust gas tube of an internal combustion engine and an operational state signal indicating an operational state of the internal combustion engine, and a processing executing circuit that executes predetermined processing relevant to maintenance and check of the flow sensor that outputs the flow rate measurement signal when a predetermined correlation is not satisfied between an index value for the operational state indicated by the operational state signal and the flow rate measurement value indicated by the flow rate measurement signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: Katsumi URATANI, Shun FUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20150332521
    Abstract: In order to efficiently and reliably perform a valid field test, there are provided: a running data acquisition part for sequentially acquiring actual running data of a vehicle under execution of a running test on a road by a driver; and a tendency data output part for sequentially producing and outputting tendency data indicating a tendency as to whether or not the running test is valid, based on the actual running data during the running test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Katsumi URATANI, Shun FUKAMI
  • Publication number: 20150332522
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Katsumi URATANI, Yasuyuki SADO
  • Publication number: 20150332520
    Abstract: A vehicle test system according to the present invention intends to comprehensively manage and operate multiple types of test apparatuses to smoothly perform vehicle development, problem correction, and the like. For this purpose, 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; multiple types of test apparatuses each of which performs a drive test or an operation test of a vehicle or a part of the vehicle in accordance with set test conditions; and a test condition data generation apparatus that from the actual running data, generates test condition data indicating test conditions necessary to reproduce a part or all of the running states indicated by the actual running data in a test apparatus specified from among the multiple types of test apparatuses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Yasuyuki SADO, Kazuhiro SHIOMI, Katsumi URATANI
  • Patent number: 9116138
    Abstract: The exhaust gas analysis system urges a user to conduct a purge in an exhaust gas flow line by not only informing the user of the timing that the purge is necessary from the exhaust gas analysis system but also making it easy for the user to recognize the information. The exhaust gas analysis system comprises an exhaust gas flow line (L) where an exhaust gas flows, a measurement device 2, 3 that is arranged in the exhaust gas flow line (L) and that includes a pollutant component meter to measure a pollutant component to be a cause of pollutant of the exhaust gas flow line, and a display control device 5 that compares a measurement signal value obtained by the pollutant component meter or its arithmetic value with a predetermined pollutant tolerance and that displays a warning window on a display 21 in case that the measurement signal value or the arithmetic value exceeds the predetermined pollutant component tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaoru Okada, Masayuki Hayata, Toru Yamazaki, Katsumi Uratani
  • Patent number: 8996231
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Uratani, Koji Watanabe, Hiroshi Nakamura, Tsutomu Misogi
  • Patent number: 8868280
    Abstract: A device management apparatus has a display part that obtains various types of information outputted from testing devices, and erasably, switchably, or movably displays the pieces of information on a display, wherein regardless of the display of the pieces of information, the display part preferentially displays three alarm icons that are respectively for three pieces of alarm information including: sensitivity alarm information indicating a reduction in sensitivity of each of the testing devices; accumulated operating time alarm information that is alarm information on an accumulated operating time of the testing device; and inspection date/time alarm information that is information indicating approaching or passing of an inspection date/time of the testing device, and respectively have forms that are changed depending on contents indicated by the respective pieces of alarm information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi Uratani, Tsutomu Misogi, Hiroshi Nakamura
  • Publication number: 20140250992
    Abstract: It is intended to display a schematic diagram of substantially the whole of an internal combustion engine test system on a screen and a color, brightness, pattern or shape of a symbol representing a test device shown in the schematic diagram are changed according to a degree of operation safety of the test device, whereby a user is allowed to intuitively recognize a situation relating to the safety of the entire system at a glance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi URATANI, Tsutomu MISOGI, Tetsu YOSHIOKA
  • Publication number: 20140129157
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an analysis system intended to be able to perform a unit setting of values over multi-pieces of analysis-associated data easily and systematically every analysis device, and the analysis system is provided with an analysis device and an information processing device, wherein the information processing device includes: a unit series data storage part adapted to store multi-pieces of unit series data composed by specifying units to be respectively used for values of the multi-pieces of analysis-associated data given and received between the analysis device and the information processing device; a selection input receiving part adapted to receive a selection input of any of the multi-pieces of the unit series data stored in the unit series data storage part; and a data output part adapted to output each of the values of the analysis-associated data in the unit specified to the selected unit series data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Katsumi URATANI, Tsutomu MISOGI