Patents by Inventor Mineyuki Komada
Mineyuki Komada 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).
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Patent number: 11521440Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to provide temperature traceability for a test vehicle. A vehicle control device controls temperature information for a test vehicle and includes a peripheral temperature acquisition unit that acquires a peripheral temperature of a test vehicle from a first temperature sensor that is provided in a soak chamber where the test vehicle is stored or in a test chamber where the test vehicle is tested, a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information for the test vehicle, and a recording unit that associates the peripheral temperature of the test vehicle with the position information for that test vehicle and records the association.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Masashi Sakaguchi, Mitsunobu Yamamoto, Masahiro Yamaoka
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Patent number: 11475380Abstract: This collectively manages an operation rate of multiple test facilities, and is an operation rate analysis system that is communicably connected to multiple test facilities that test a specimen as being a vehicle or a part of the vehicle and that analyzes an operation rate of the above-mentioned multiple test facilities, and that comprises an operation information obtaining part that obtains operation information of the above-mentioned multiple test facilities, a setting receiving part that receives a user setting relating to an operation judgment condition to judge whether each of the multiple test facilities is in operation or not, and an operation rate calculating part that calculates the operation rate of each of the multiple test facilities or the operation rate of all of the multiple test facilities from the operation information obtained by the operation information obtaining part based on the operation judgment condition received by the setting receiving part.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Ryoji Ozawa
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Patent number: 11385135Abstract: A vehicle test device is to test performance of a vehicle or a part of the vehicle by rotating a wheel placed on a rotating body in order to reproduce an actually running state of the vehicle by controlling rotational speed of the wheel so as to make the rotational speed equal to a target value accurately, and a rotation related value that indicates rotational speed of the wheel or torque applied to the wheel is obtained, and the rotational speed of the rotating body or the torque applied to the rotating body is controlled so as to make the rotation related value equal to a predetermined target value.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Kazuhiro Shiomi
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Publication number: 20200168013Abstract: The present invention makes it possible to provide temperature traceability for a test vehicle. A vehicle control device controls temperature information for a test vehicle and includes a peripheral temperature acquisition unit that acquires a peripheral temperature of a test vehicle from a first temperature sensor that is provided in a soak chamber where the test vehicle is stored or in a test chamber where the test vehicle is tested, a position information acquisition unit that acquires position information for the test vehicle, and a recording unit that associates the peripheral temperature of the test vehicle with the position information for that test vehicle and records the association.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2019Publication date: May 28, 2020Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Masashi SAKAGUCHI, Mitsunobu YAMAMOTO, Masahiro YAMAOKA
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Publication number: 20190347588Abstract: This collectively manages an operation rate of multiple test facilities, and is an operation rate analysis system that is communicably connected to multiple test facilities that test a specimen as being a vehicle or a part of the vehicle and that analyzes an operation rate of the above-mentioned multiple test facilities, and that comprises an operation information obtaining part that obtains operation information of the above-mentioned multiple test facilities, a setting receiving part that receives a user setting relating to an operation judgment condition to judge whether each of the multiple test facilities is in operation or not, and an operation rate calculating part that calculates the operation rate of each of the multiple test facilities or the operation rate of all of the multiple test facilities from the operation information obtained by the operation information obtaining part based on the operation judgment condition received by the setting receiving part.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Ryoji OZAWA
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Patent number: 10311654Abstract: A simulated driving system makes it possible to ensure safety during testing and to simulate driving of a vehicle or a part thereof while acquiring travel data from a vehicle traveling on a road. The simulated driving system reproduces the travel state of a vehicle on a road by acquiring travel data transmitted sequentially by wireless communication from the vehicle while the vehicle travels on a road and meanwhile using the travel data as a basis to simulate driving of a vehicle that is a test body. The simulated driving system is provided with an automatic driving device that automatically drives the test body, a dynamometer that applies a load to the test body, and a control device. The control device comprises a control unit that controls the automatic driving device or the dynamometer so that the test body enters a predetermined safe driving state when failure is detected.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventor: Mineyuki Komada
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Patent number: 10295437Abstract: In order to easily and accurately measure the cogging torque of an electric motor, the present invention includes a dynamometer connected to an electric motor, a torque sensor adapted to measure the torque of the electric motor, and a cogging torque measurement motor for measuring the cogging torque of the electric motor, and is configured such that when measuring the cogging torque of the electric motor, the electric motor, the dynamometer, and the cogging torque measurement motor are connected.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Kazuhisa Sasahara
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Patent number: 10203372Abstract: In order to provide a fuel cell powered vehicle testing system capable of performing a test of a power system of a fuel cell powered vehicle by a simpler facility, includes: a dynamometer which is connected to an output shaft of an electric motor mounted on a fuel cell powered vehicle for applying a simulation travelling load to the electric motor; and a supply power simulator adapted to simulate an operation of the fuel cell mounted on the fuel cell powered vehicle and to apply power to the electric motor, the power being to be supplied from the fuel cell to the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: February 12, 2019Assignee: Horiba Ltd.Inventor: Mineyuki Komada
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Patent number: 9945759Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 15, 2015Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Yasuyuki Sado, Kazuhiro Shiomi, Katsumi Uratani
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Publication number: 20180033217Abstract: A simulated driving system makes it possible to ensure safety during testing and to simulate driving of a vehicle or a part thereof while acquiring travel data from a vehicle traveling on a road. The simulated driving system reproduces the travel state of a vehicle on a road by acquiring travel data transmitted sequentially by wireless communication from the vehicle while the vehicle travels on a road and meanwhile using the travel data as a basis to simulate driving of a vehicle that is a test body. The simulated driving system is provided with an automatic driving device that automatically drives the test body, a dynamometer that applies a load to the test body, and a control device. The control device comprises a control unit that controls the automatic driving device or the dynamometer so that the test body enters a predetermined safe driving state when failure is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.Inventor: Mineyuki KOMADA
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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: 9841350Abstract: This invention is directed to a testing apparatus for testing a vehicle drive system by connecting load devices to the vehicle drive system, wherein the testing apparatus includes a handle operation amount input part for inputting a handle operation amount corresponding to a handle operation of a vehicle, an accelerator operation amount input part for inputting an accelerator operation amount corresponding to an accelerator operation of the vehicle, a brake operation amount input part for inputting a brake operation amount corresponding to a brake operation of the vehicle, and a control part for controlling the load devices based on the operation amounts simultaneously inputted by at least two of the handle operation amount input part, the accelerator operation amount input part and the brake operation amount input part.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Sho Abe
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Publication number: 20170191902Abstract: A vehicle test device is to test performance of a vehicle or a part of the vehicle by rotating a wheel placed on a rotating body in order to reproduce an actually running state of the vehicle by controlling rotational speed of the wheel so as to make the rotational speed equal to a target value accurately, and a rotation related value that indicates rotational speed of the wheel or torque applied to the wheel is obtained, and the rotational speed of the rotating body or the torque applied to the rotating body is controlled so as to make the rotation related value equal to a predetermined target value.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Kazuhiro SHIOMI
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Publication number: 20170191903Abstract: In order to easily and accurately measure the cogging torque of an electric motor, the present invention includes a dynamometer connected to an electric motor, a torque sensor adapted to measure the torque of the electric motor, and a cogging torque measurement motor for measuring the cogging torque of the electric motor, and is configured such that when measuring the cogging torque of the electric motor, the electric motor, the dynamometer, and the cogging torque measurement motor are connected.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 21, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Kazuhisa SASAHARA
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Publication number: 20170168116Abstract: In order to provide a fuel cell powered vehicle testing system capable of performing a test of a power system of a fuel cell powered vehicle by a simpler facility, includes: a dynamometer which is connected to an output shaft of an electric motor mounted on a fuel cell powered vehicle for applying a simulation travelling load to the electric motor; and a supply power simulator adapted to simulate an operation of the fuel cell mounted on the fuel cell powered vehicle and to apply power to the electric motor, the power being to be supplied from the fuel cell to the electric motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.Inventor: Mineyuki KOMADA
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Publication number: 20150332522Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Katsumi URATANI, Yasuyuki SADO
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Publication number: 20150332520Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Yasuyuki SADO, Kazuhiro SHIOMI, Katsumi URATANI
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Patent number: 9086333Abstract: The present invention is able to perform an examination of a motor mounted on EV or HEV (HV) as well as charge and discharge of a battery mounted on EV or HEV (HV), by a single system. The system includes a dynamometer coupled to an output shaft of a motor, a power supply unit for supplying power to the motor or the dynamometer, a motor examination circuit for supplying the power of the power supply unit to the dynamometer and the motor, a battery charge and discharge circuit connected with a battery, for supplying the power of the power supply unit to the battery or discharging the power of the battery, and a circuit switching mechanism for switching between the motor examination circuit and the battery charge and discharge circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: HORIBA Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Richard Rumer, Steve Witter, Masahiro Yao, Kazuhisa Sasahara, Mineyuki Komada
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Patent number: 9074512Abstract: An exhaust gas analyzing system includes, on an upstream side of an analytical instrument, an exhaust gas introduction pipe of which one end is opened to an exhaust gas flow path through which exhaust gas from an engine flows and the other end is connected to the analytical instrument. A switching mechanism selectively switches between a sampling path that samples the exhaust gas from the exhaust gas introduction pipe to introduce the sampled exhaust gas into the analytical instrument and an air introduction path that introduces air into the analytical instrument. When the engine is operated, a path to the analytical instrument is switched to the sampling path by the switching mechanism. When the engine is stopped, the path is switched to the air introduction path by the switching mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.Inventors: Tetsuji Asami, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Mineyuki Komada
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Publication number: 20150185110Abstract: This invention is directed to a testing apparatus for testing a vehicle drive system by connecting load devices to the vehicle drive system, wherein the testing apparatus includes a handle operation amount input part for inputting a handle operation amount corresponding to a handle operation of a vehicle, an accelerator operation amount input part for inputting an accelerator operation amount corresponding to an accelerator operation of the vehicle, a brake operation amount input part for inputting a brake operation amount corresponding to a brake operation of the vehicle, and a control part for controlling the load devices based on the operation amounts simultaneously inputted by at least two of the handle operation amount input part, the accelerator operation amount input part and the brake operation amount input part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2014Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Hiroyuki IKEDA, Sho ABE