US 12,321,671 B2
Base model selection device and base model selection method
Yasutaka Hamada, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/293,307
Filed by Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Sep. 20, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/036936
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 12, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/144898, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-002364 (JP), filed on Jan. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0406417 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 30/15 (2020.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); G06F 111/04 (2020.01); G06F 119/14 (2020.01); G06F 119/20 (2020.01)
CPC G06F 30/15 (2020.01) [G06F 16/90335 (2019.01); G06F 2111/04 (2020.01); G06F 2119/14 (2020.01); G06F 2119/20 (2020.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A base model selection device comprising:
memory to store a program for performing operations to select a base model;
a storage to store base model master data including specification data for plural reference models and specification data for past cases;
a processor to execute the program and be configured to:
receive at least one model name input through an input device;
generate the base model master data for storage by acquiring the specification data from remote databases based on the at least one model name;
perform a data search on the base model master data using a requested specification as a search key; and
create a base model list listing a base model selected from the data search and specification data for the base model,
wherein to perform the data search, the processor is configured to:
categorize individual elements of the requested specification based on at least one of an importance of specification, modification difficulty, and costs for modification;
determine whether at least one reference model of the plural reference models satisfies the requested specification,
select, in response to the at least one reference model of the plural reference models satisfying the requested specification, the at least one reference model of the plural reference models and add the at least one reference model of the plural reference models to the base model list,
select, in response to the plural reference models dissatisfying the requested specification, a base model satisfying the requested specification from the past cases and add the base model selected from the past cases to the base model list, and
arrange the selected base models in the base model list in order from a reference model satisfying a specification with a higher priority using the categorization of the individual elements of the specification data,
wherein the base model master data stored in the storage further includes a cost detail and a total cost of each of the past cases, and
wherein the list creator creates and outputs a list listing the past cases in ascending order of the total cost for each of the past cases.