Test system

• US 9,322,743 B2
• Filed: 05/21/2013
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Horiba Limited
• Original Assignee: Horiba Limited
• Inventors: Uratani, Katsumi, Hachiuma, Katsuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G
• Assistant Examiner(s): LOUIE, WAE LENNY
• Application Number:
  US13/898,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20130325248A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,071 Days
• Field of Search: 701/31.4, 701/31.5, 701/408, 701/41, 455/12.1, 455/186.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 15/102 by monitoring exhaust gases
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/00 Testing of vehicles testing fluid tightness G01M3/00; testing elastic properties of bodies or chassis, e.g. torsion-testing, G01M5/00; testing alignment of vehicle headlight devices G01M11/06; testing of engines G01M15/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01M 17/007 Wheeled or endless-tracked vehicles G01M17/08 takes precedence

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.

Claims

1. A test system to test a vehicle, a component of the vehicle, or an internal combustion engine by measuring components in sampled exhaust gas of the vehicle or the internal combusting engine, the system comprising:

one or a plurality of exhaust gas measuring devices for measuring the components during a test and a device administrating device that is connected to the one or the plurality of exhaust gas measuring devices in a communicable manner and that administrates the one or the plurality of exhaust gas measurement devices, wherein for each of the vehicle, the component of the vehicle, or the internal combustion engine, the test system is configured to be changed to a different set of regulations relevant to the test, and to perform the test according to the set of regulations relevant to the test; and

a QC storing part that stores a regulation ID to identify the set of regulations relevant to the test and a quality check time to be provided for the one or the plurality of exhaust gas measurement devices in a mutually associated manner, wherein the device administrating device or the one or the plurality of exhaust gas measurement devices further comprises a previous quality check completion time storing part that stores a previous quality check completion time as being a time when a quality check that is previously provided for the one or the plurality of exhaust gas measurement devices is completed, and wherein the device administrating device further comprises a next quality check initiation time calculating part that calculates a next quality check initiation time as being a time when a next quality check is initiated for the one or the plurality of exhaust gas measurement devices by obtaining the quality check time from the QC storing part and by adding the quality check time from the QC storing part to the previous quality check completion time.

2. The test system described in claim 1, wherein the device administrating device further comprises a regulation receiving part that receives designation of the set of regulations relevant to the test, and a display part that obtains the quality check time corresponding to the set of regulations relevant to the test received by the regulation receiving part and displays the quality check time corresponding to the set of regulations relevant to the test received by the regulation receiving part.

3. The test system described in claim 2, wherein the device administrating device further comprises a quality check set receiving part that receives an input for changing the quality check time displayed by the display part and that reflects the changed input on the QC storing part.

4. The test system described in claim 1, wherein the device administrating device further comprises an information set receiving part that receives an input of information for determining a pre-check warning issue time as being a time prior to the next quality check initiation time, and wherein the device administrating device or the one or the plurality of exhaust gas measurement devices further comprises a warning issue part that issues a pre-check warning at the pre-check warning issue time to warn an operator.