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).

  • Patent number: 11521440
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Masashi Sakaguchi, Mitsunobu Yamamoto, Masahiro Yamaoka
  • Patent number: 11475380
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Ryoji Ozawa
  • Patent number: 11385135
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Kazuhiro Shiomi
  • Publication number: 20200168013
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Masashi SAKAGUCHI, Mitsunobu YAMAMOTO, Masahiro YAMAOKA
  • Publication number: 20190347588
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Ryoji OZAWA
  • Patent number: 10311654
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventor: Mineyuki Komada
  • Patent number: 10295437
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Kazuhisa Sasahara
  • Patent number: 10203372
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Horiba Ltd.
    Inventor: Mineyuki Komada
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20180033217
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mineyuki KOMADA
  • 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: 9841350
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Horiba, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mineyuki Komada, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Sho Abe
  • Publication number: 20170191902
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Kazuhiro SHIOMI
  • Publication number: 20170191903
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Kazuhisa SASAHARA
  • Publication number: 20170168116
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: HORIBA, Ltd.
    Inventor: Mineyuki KOMADA
  • 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: 9086333
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: HORIBA Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Rumer, Steve Witter, Masahiro Yao, Kazuhisa Sasahara, Mineyuki Komada
  • Patent number: 9074512
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: HORIBA, LTD.
    Inventors: Tetsuji Asami, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Mineyuki Komada
  • Publication number: 20150185110
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: July 2, 2015
    Inventors: Mineyuki KOMADA, Hiroyuki IKEDA, Sho ABE