Patents by Inventor Tomoyuki Takewaka

Tomoyuki Takewaka has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11203347
    Abstract: The present invention provides an in-vehicle device that provides a driving guidance to a driver, comprising: a selection unit for selecting ideal traveling information from a plurality of pieces of ideal traveling information associated with a plurality of skill levels, respectively, in accordance with an estimation result of a feeling of the driver; a determination unit for determining, for each of a plurality of items to provide a driving guidance, whether a difference between traveling information detected by a sensor of a vehicle during traveling and the ideal traveling information selected by the selection unit falls within an allowable range; and a notification unit for notifying the driver of an item for which the determination unit determines that the difference does not fall within the allowable range in the plurality of items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei Matsuura, Yu Oishi, Tomoyuki Takewaka
  • Publication number: 20200010091
    Abstract: The present invention provides an in-vehicle device that provides a driving guidance to a driver, comprising: a selection unit for selecting ideal traveling information from a plurality of pieces of ideal traveling information associated with a plurality of skill levels, respectively, in accordance with an estimation result of a feeling of the driver; a determination unit for determining, for each of a plurality of items to provide a driving guidance, whether a difference between traveling information detected by a sensor of a vehicle during traveling and the ideal traveling information selected by the selection unit falls within an allowable range; and a notification unit for notifying the driver of an item for which the determination unit determines that the difference does not fall within the allowable range in the plurality of items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Kohei MATSUURA, Yu OISHI, Tomoyuki TAKEWAKA
  • Patent number: 10414461
    Abstract: An operation device of a straddle type vehicle has a controller used to operate at least two or more kinds of functions of equipment mounted on the straddle type vehicle. The controller includes a controller operation portion capable of rotary and other freely moving operations. A rotary shaft of the controller inside the controller operation portion is arranged lower than a lower wall face of a switch box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Osanai, Yutaka Kikuchi, Masahiro Miki, Manabu Ichikawa, Tomoyuki Takewaka
  • Patent number: 9745014
    Abstract: An operating device of a straddle type vehicle has a controller for selecting a plurality of function menus of components mounted on the straddle type vehicle. Controller supporting portions support the controller, and are disposed in the front direction of a switch box. The controller has a controller operating portion which a rider can operate. The controller operating portion is positioned in the front direction of a grip portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takuya Osanai, Yutaka Kikuchi, Shiro Fukano, Masahiro Miki, Hiroshi Hayashi, Kota Nakahira, Tomohiro Hoshi, Manabu Ichikawa, Yoshitaka Suzuki, Tomoyuki Takewaka
  • Publication number: 20150274248
    Abstract: An operation device of a straddle type vehicle has a controller used to operate at least two or more kinds of functions of equipment mounted on the straddle type vehicle. The controller includes a controller operation portion capable of rotary and other freely moving operations. A rotary shaft of the controller inside the controller operation portion is arranged lower than a lower wall face of a switch box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Takuya OSANAI, Yutaka KIKUCHI, Masahiro MIKI, Manabu ICHIKAWA, Tomoyuki TAKEWAKA
  • Publication number: 20150274242
    Abstract: An operating device of a straddle type vehicle has a controller for selecting a plurality of function menus of components mounted on the straddle type vehicle. Controller supporting portions support the controller, and are disposed in the front direction of a switch box. The controller has a controller operating portion which a rider can operate. The controller operating portion is positioned in the front direction of a grip portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Takuya OSANAI, Yutaka KIKUCHI, Shiro FUKANO, Masahiro MIKI, Hiroshi HAYASHI, Kota NAKAHIRA, Tomohiro HOSHI, Manabu ICHIKAWA, Yoshitaka SUZUKI, Tomoyuki TAKEWAKA
  • Patent number: 8978797
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle approach notification device of a saddle-ridden electric-powered vehicle that outputs a notification sound for notifying the approach of a vehicle. The saddle-ridden electric-powered vehicle includes a front cover that covers the periphery of a head pipe of a vehicle body frame. The sound emission device is located inside the front cover, the front cover has an air opening for taking in air from an outside, and a ventilation passage that is a passage of the air from the air opening and is used for cooling at least one of a power engine of the saddle-ridden electric-powered vehicle and electric components, and the sound emission device is arranged in the ventilation passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takewaka, Masahiro Akiba, Ryuji Akiba, Kazuhiko Tanaka, Satoru Shimizu
  • Publication number: 20120312609
    Abstract: Provided is a vehicle approach notification device of a saddle-ridden electric-powered vehicle that outputs a notification sound for notifying the approach of a vehicle. The saddle-ridden electric-powered vehicle includes a front cover that covers the periphery of a head pipe of a vehicle body frame. The sound emission device is located inside the front cover, the front cover has an air opening for taking in air from an outside, and a ventilation passage that is a passage of the air from the air opening and is used for cooling at least one of a power engine of the saddle-ridden electric-powered vehicle and electric components, and the sound emission device is arranged in the ventilation passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takewaka, Masahiro Akiba, Ryuji Akiba, Kazuhiko Tanaka, Satoru Shimizu
  • Patent number: 6840348
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler for an internal combustion engine included in a motorcycle includes a perforated inner pipe (32), an outer pipe (31) coaxially surrounding the inner pipe (32), and a glass wool mat (33) packed in a space between the inner pipe (32) and the outer pipe (31). A three-layer protective structure is formed by winding an inner stainless steel wire mesh (34) wound around the inner pipe (32), winding a stainless steel wool mat (35) around the inner stainless steel wire mesh (934), and winding an outer stainless steel wire mesh (36) around the stainless steel wool mat (35). The glass wool mat (33) is wound around the three-layer structure. The three-layer structure extends the life of the glass wool mat (33) even if the temperature and pressure of the exhaust gas discharged by the internal combustion engine increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignees: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Nihon Glass Fiber Industrial Co. Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takewaka, Seiichirou Eguchi, Yuuichi Katou, Noritoshi Iwase, Ichirou Sudou, Takashi Asai
  • Publication number: 20030019688
    Abstract: An exhaust muffler for an internal combustion engine included in a motorcycle includes a perforated inner pipe (32), an outer pipe (31) coaxially surrounding the inner pipe (32), and a glass wool mat (33) packed in a space between the inner pipe (32) and the outer pipe (31). A three-layer protective structure is formed by winding an inner stainless steel wire mesh (34) wound around the inner pipe (32), winding a stainless steel wool mat (35) around the inner stainless steel wire mesh (934), and winding an outer stainless steel wire mesh (36) around the stainless steel wool mat (35). The glass wool mat (33) is wound around the three-layer structure. The three-layer structure extends the life of the glass wool mat (33) even if the temperature and pressure of the exhaust gas discharged by the internal combustion engine increase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2002
    Publication date: January 30, 2003
    Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Tomoyuki Takewaka, Seiichirou Eguchi, Yuuichi Katou, Noritoshi Iwase, Ichirou Sudou, Takashi Asai
  • Patent number: 4589516
    Abstract: A muffler for an internal combustion engine includes an outer box composed of a plurality of separate bodies made of a formed sound insulation material and having portions joined by an adhesive, the outer box having an inlet for introducing an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine and an outlet for discharging the exhaust gas, and a reinforcing member mounted on the joined portions to seal and reinforce the same. The muffler is simple in construction, has a good sound insulation capability, is lightweight, and sufficiently mechanically strong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takeshi Inoue, Hiroyuki Saito, Tomoyuki Takewaka, Hiroshi Funabashi