Patents by Inventor Norimitsu NAGASHIMA

Norimitsu NAGASHIMA 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: 11030831
    Abstract: A fuel efficiency estimation system includes: a velocity profile calculation unit to calculate a velocity profile indicating a change in velocity of a motor vehicle traveling a traveling route; a velocity disturbance calculation unit to calculate, based on disturbance information indicating a disturbance event occurring on the traveling route and traveling history information collected from the motor vehicle traveling the traveling route, an attenuation factor, which is a ratio of attenuation of the velocity of the motor vehicle traveling the traveling route, as a velocity disturbance correction coefficient; and a fuel efficiency calculation unit to calculate fuel efficiency of the motor vehicle traveling the traveling route by using the velocity profile and the velocity disturbance correction coefficient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoharu Takeuchi, Norimitsu Nagashima, Takeshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 11016494
    Abstract: A fuel efficiency estimation system includes a traveling velocity calculation unit (233) to store a link traveling velocity (331) for each link as a road section configuring a road in a traveling velocity DB (252) and a traveling velocity extraction unit (243) to extract, based on a traveling route (411), a link traveling velocity (331) on a link included in the traveling route (411) from the traveling velocity DB (252). The fuel efficiency estimation system also includes a velocity profile generation unit (244) to generate a velocity profile (441) indicating a change in velocity of a motor vehicle traveling the traveling route (411) by using the link traveling velocity (331) and an estimated fuel efficiency calculation unit (246) to calculate fuel efficiency of the motor vehicle traveling the traveling route (411) based on the velocity profile (441).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoharu Takeuchi, Norimitsu Nagashima, Takeshi Takeuchi
  • Patent number: 10960908
    Abstract: An extraction unit (121) determines, by using a fixed composition file, a fixed composition including a car having a specified equipment installed thereon as a fixed specified composition. The extraction unit determines, by using an operation composition file, an operation composition including the fixed specified composition as an operation specified composition. The extraction unit extracts, from an environment file, environment information corresponding to a set of a specified time and the operation specified composition. A conversion unit (122) converts, by using the environment information, state information indicating the state of the specified equipment at the specified time to comparative information indicating the state of the specified equipment in a reference environment. An evaluation unit (123) compares the comparative information with reference information. Then, the evaluation unit evaluates the state of the specified equipment at the specified time based on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi Yamada, Takeshi Takeuchi, Norimitsu Nagashima
  • Publication number: 20190232987
    Abstract: An extraction unit (121) determines, by using a fixed composition file, a fixed composition including a car having a specified equipment installed thereon as a fixed specified composition. The extraction unit determines, by using an operation composition file, an operation composition including the fixed specified composition as an operation specified composition. The extraction unit extracts, from an environment file, environment information corresponding to a set of a specified time and the operation specified composition. A conversion unit (122) converts, by using the environment information, state information indicating the state of the specified equipment at the specified time to comparative information indicating the state of the specified equipment in a reference environment. An evaluation unit (123) compares the comparative information with reference information. Then, the evaluation unit evaluates the state of the specified equipment at the specified time based on the comparison result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masafumi YAMADA, Takeshi TAKEUCHI, Norimitsu NAGASHIMA
  • Publication number: 20190228600
    Abstract: A fuel efficiency estimation system includes: a velocity profile calculation unit (24) to calculate a velocity profile (451) indicating a change in velocity of a motor vehicle traveling a traveling route (411); a velocity disturbance calculation unit (232) to calculate, based on disturbance information indicating a disturbance event occurring on the traveling route (411) and traveling history information (111) collected from the motor vehicle traveling the traveling route (411), an attenuation factor, which is a ratio of attenuation of the velocity of the motor vehicle traveling the traveling route (411), as a velocity disturbance correction coefficient (321); and a fuel efficiency calculation unit (263) to calculate fuel efficiency of the motor vehicle traveling the traveling route (411) by using the velocity profile and the velocity disturbance correction coefficient (321).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoharu TAKEUCHI, Norimitsu NAGASHIMA, Takeshi TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190212748
    Abstract: A fuel efficiency estimation system includes a traveling velocity calculation unit (233) to store a link traveling velocity (331) for each link as a road section configuring a road in a traveling velocity DB (252) and a traveling velocity extraction unit (243) to extract, based on a traveling route (411), a link traveling velocity (331) on a link included in the traveling route (411) from the traveling velocity DB (252). The fuel efficiency estimation system also includes a velocity profile generation unit (244) to generate a velocity profile (441) indicating a change in velocity of a motor vehicle traveling the traveling route (411) by using the link traveling velocity (331) and an estimated fuel efficiency calculation unit (246) to calculate fuel efficiency of the motor vehicle traveling the traveling route (411) based on the velocity profile (441).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Tomoharu TAKEUCHI, Norimitsu NAGASHIMA, Takeshi TAKEUCHI
  • Publication number: 20190210610
    Abstract: A fuel efficiency estimation system includes a velocity profile generation unit (245) to generate a velocity profile indicating a change in velocity of a motor vehicle traveling a traveling route. Also, the fuel efficiency estimation system includes a stop judgment unit (244) to judge, based on a stop probability (331) at which the motor vehicle stops at an intersection that is present on the traveling route and connection information (321) between a traffic signal installed at the intersection and a traffic signal installed at an intersection adjacent to the intersection, stop/nonstop of the motor vehicle at the intersection. Furthermore, the fuel efficiency estimation system includes a velocity correction unit (246) to correct the velocity profile (441) based on the stop/nonstop and a fuel efficiency calculation unit (247) to calculate fuel efficiency of the motor vehicle traveling the traveling route based on the corrected velocity profile (451).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomoharu TAKEUCHI, Norimitsu NAGASHIMA, Takeshi TAKEUCHI