Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080244520 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURING SOFTWARE - An automatic program configuring apparatus capable of facilitating maintenance management of a storage device even when software components stored therein increase in number is disclosed. The apparatus includes a database unit storing software configuration information and software components corresponding to individual items of software component arrangement information which are organized in a tree structure which is represented by a markup language with tags being uniquely definable by a user. The apparatus further includes a configuration information input unit for inputting the software configuration information from the database unit, an interface unit for acceptance of selection of components by the user while displaying a component selection screen based on the input software configuration information, a software component input unit for inputting from the database storage unit software components corresponding to the user's component selection result, and a generator unit for combining together the input software components to generate a software program. | 10-02-2008 |
20090089753 | SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE ANALYZER - A software-product line analyzer including change history data, a change-history processing unit, a factor analysis unit, a variability analysis unit, and configuration information data, i.e., output data, wherein the change-history processing unit converts the change history data into numerical values, the factor analysis unit performing a factor analysis using inter-products change information as observation data, and, based on each factor and each factor score determined, the variability analysis unit determining variabilities in the software-product line and software components corresponding thereto, and outputting the configuration information data. | 04-02-2009 |
20090118898 | Radio Communication System For Controlling a Vehicle - A radio control system for controlling a vehicle includes a transmission node for transmitting vehicle control data, the vehicle control data including at least one of a measured value of a vehicle state or a driver's manipulated variable and a control target value of a control actuator in the vehicle, a reception node for receiving the vehicle control data, and a plurality of radio communication routes between the transmission node and the reception node. A radio communication route that satisfies communication limit time of transmission data including the vehicle control data and satisfies lowest required reliability of the transmission data is selected from among the radio communication routes. | 05-07-2009 |
20090187605 | Vehicle Control Apparatus - A vehicle control apparatus having plural microcontrollers interconnected by serial communication realizes data referencing between the microcontrollers without increasing the load on the CPUs and enables the development of control application software easily. The vehicle control apparatus includes plural processing units each having a computing means, a data storage means, and a communication means. Each of the plural processing units has a data update monitoring means which monitors access to the data storage means, acquires, upon detecting update of data in the data storage means, the updated data and a corresponding address, transfers the data and address to the communication means, and starts transmission to another one or more of the plural processing units. | 07-23-2009 |
20090217243 | AUTOMATIC SOFTWARE CONFIGURING SYSTEM - An automatic software configuring system includes a database storage section for storing therein a plurality of soft components. In the event that soft components are extracted from the database storage section and are combined together to thereby generate a file, a comment indicative of a storage location in the database storage section for storing a respective soft component extracted from the database storage section is added to the respective soft component. The automatic software configuring system further includes a device for identifying the respective soft component combined into the file and a storage location of the respective soft component in the database storage section by reading the comment; a device for identifying a comparison-target soft component stored in the database storage section for comparison with the respective soft component combined into the file in accordance with the storage location; a device for identifying a soft component having a different content by comparing the respective soft component combined into the file and the comparison-target soft component; and a device for replacing specified soft component in the database storage section with the soft component combined into the file. | 08-27-2009 |
20090248181 | Electronic Controller for Power Converter and Motor Drive Circuit - The electronic controller fetches an external signal and performs an input process such as A-D conversion. Upon receipt of processing results for executing operations according to a predetermined program, an output process is performed for sending a signal to the outside board on operation results, a timer outputs at least two of an input process start signal for starting the input process, an output process start signal for starting the output process, and an operation start signal for starting the operation. | 10-01-2009 |
20100010690 | Radio Communication System for Controlling a Vehicle - A radio control system for controlling a vehicle includes a transmission node for transmitting vehicle control data, the vehicle control data including at least one of a measured value of a vehicle state or a driver's manipulated variable and a control target value of a control actuator in the vehicle, a reception node for receiving the vehicle control data, and a plurality of radio communication routes between the transmission node and the reception node. A radio communication route that satisfies communication limit time of transmission data including the vehicle control data and satisfies lowest required reliability of the transmission data is selected from among the radio communication routes. | 01-14-2010 |
20100030421 | VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM - A vehicle control system which can ensure high reliability, real-time processing, and expandability with a simplified ECU configuration and a low cost by backing up an error through coordination in the entire system without increasing a degree of redundancy of individual controllers beyond the least necessary level. The vehicle control system comprises a sensor controller for taking in sensor signals indicating a status variable of a vehicle and an operation amount applied from a driver, a command controller for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller, and an actuator controller for receiving the control target value from the command controller and operating an actuator to control the vehicle, those three controller being interconnected via a network. The actuator controller includes a control target value generating unit for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller and received by the actuator controller via the network when the control target value generated by the command controller is abnormal, and controls the actuator in accordance with the control target value generated by the control target value generating unit. | 02-04-2010 |
20100115492 | Software Analyzer - The present invention provides a software analyzer supporting development of derived products by allowing efficient selection of software components to be simultaneously reutilized or changed based on the past record of developments and changes of software products. A software analyzer according to the present invention analyzes a plurality of software components included in existing software products and correlations between the plurality of software components. The software analyzer includes product line analysis means adapted to create product line configuration data numerically expressing a set of the plurality of software components included in the existing software products, from existing product configuration data including, for each of the existing software products, data on the plurality of software components and data on the correlations between the plurality of software components, inter-component distance analysis means adapted to calculate inter-software-component distances numerically quantifying the correlations between the software components based on the product line configuration data, component cluster analysis means adapted to group the software components based on the inter-software-component distances, and an output section outputting results obtained by the product line analysis means, the inter-component distance analysis means, and the component cluster analysis means. | 05-06-2010 |
20100211258 | Vehicle Control System - In a vehicle control system in which a large number of ECUs operate in coordination via a network, each node has an intra-network node status determination section, other node's status decision transmitting/other nodes' status decision receiving section, and failed-node identification section. The nodes exchange decisions made by the intra-network node status evaluation section with other nodes and thereby identify failed node. | 08-19-2010 |
20120265476 | System Test Specification Generation Device and Testing Device - Disclosed is a system test specification generation device for generating a system test specification to be applied to software comprising a plurality of software components in a state in which the software components have been combined. | 10-18-2012 |
20140163804 | WORK VEHICLE - There are provided an electric storage device ( | 06-12-2014 |
20140184122 | CONSTRUCTION MACHINE - A construction machine includes: a swing structure ( | 07-03-2014 |
20140188343 | Vehicle Control System - A vehicle control system which can ensure high reliability, real-time processing, and expandability with a simplified ECU configuration and a low cost by backing up an error through coordination in the entire system without increasing a degree of redundancy of individual controllers beyond the least necessary level. The vehicle control system comprises a sensor controller for taking in sensor signals indicating a status variable of a vehicle and an operation amount applied from a driver, a command controller for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller, and an actuator controller for receiving the control target value from the command controller and operating an actuator to control the vehicle, those three controller being interconnected via a network. The actuator controller includes a control target value generating unit for generating a control target value based on the sensor signals taken in by the sensor controller and received by the actuator controller via the network when the control target value generated by the command controller is abnormal, and controls the actuator in accordance with the control target value generated by the control target value generating unit. | 07-03-2014 |