US 12,247,899 B2
Excitation device for inspection of a vehicle
Toshinori Inagawa, Tochigi (JP); and Susumu Akutsu, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/604,974
Filed by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 20, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/017081
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/218251, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-081292 (JP), filed on Apr. 22, 2019; and application No. 2019-082440 (JP), filed on Apr. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0412838 A1, Dec. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G01M 7/02 (2006.01); G01M 17/007 (2006.01)
CPC G01M 7/027 (2013.01) [G01M 17/007 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An excitation device exciting a vehicle by applying a vibration to at least one of a plurality of tires of the vehicle, comprising:
a first restricting part arranged in one of a front and rear direction of the at least one of the plurality of tires to restrict movement of the vehicle in the front and rear direction;
a second restricting part arranged in another of the front and rear direction of the at least one of the plurality of tires to restrict movement of the vehicle in the front and rear direction;
an actuator configured to drive at least one of the first restricting part and the second restricting part to increase or decrease a distance between each other in the front and rear direction of the vehicle; and
the memory stores vibration data of the vehicle against a time axis expected based on a traveling speed, acceleration and deceleration when the vehicle travels a predetermined course, and
the CPU is configured to perform
controlling the actuator according to the vibration data to drive at least one of the first restricting part and the second restricting part to increase or decrease the distance between each other in the front and rear direction of the vehicle.