VEHICLE TEST SYSTEM, TEST CONDITION DATA GENERATION APPARATUS, AND VEHICLE TEST METHOD

• US 20150332520A1
• Filed: 05/15/2015
• Published: 11/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Horiba Limited
• Original Assignee: Horiba Limited
• Inventors: KOMADA, Mineyuki, URATANI, Katsumi, SADO, Yasuyuki, SHIOMI, Kazuhiro
• Granted Patent: US 9,945,759 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/10 by monitoring exhaust gases or combustion flame
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/007 Wheeled or endless-tracked vehicles G01M17/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/02 Registering or indicating driving, working, idle, or waiting time only apparatus forming part of taximeters G07B13/00
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/08 Registering or indicating performance data other than driving, working, idle, or waiting time, with or without registering driving, working, idle or waiting time

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.

Claims

1. A vehicle test system comprising:

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 a set test condition; and

a test condition data generation apparatus that from the actual running data, generates test condition data indicating a test condition necessary to reproduce a part or all of running states indicated by the actual running data in a test apparatus specified from among the multiple types of test apparatuses.

2. The vehicle test system according to claim 1, wherein

the actual running data acquisition apparatus transmits actual running data to the test condition data generation apparatus in real time, and

the test condition data generation apparatus is configured to transmit test condition data generated from the received actual running data to a predetermined test apparatus.

3. The vehicle test system according to claim 1, wherein

the test condition data generation apparatus selects actual running data necessary to reproduce the running states in the specified test apparatus, and generates the test condition data from the selected actual running data.

4. The vehicle test system according to claim 1, wherein

the test condition data generation apparatus comprises a simulation preference order setting part that specifies an actual running data content to be preferentially simulated among contents of actual running data, and

generates the test condition data from the actual running data content specified in the simulation preference order setting part.

5. A test condition data generation apparatus configured to be able to receive data from an actual running data acquisition apparatus that acquires actual running data that is data related to running states inside and outside of a vehicle in running on a road,

the test condition data generation apparatus generating, from the actual running data, test condition data indicating a test condition necessary to reproduce a part or all of the running states indicated by the actual running data in a test apparatus specified from among 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 a set test condition.

6. A vehicle test method, wherein

an actual running data acquisition apparatus acquires actual running data that is data related to states inside and outside of a vehicle in running on a road, and

on a basis of the actual running data, test condition data generation apparatus generates test condition data indicating a test condition necessary to reproduce a part or all of running states indicated by the actual running data in a test apparatus specified from among 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 a set test condition.