Patents Represented by Law Firm Nikaido, Marmalstein Murray & Oram LLP
  • Patent number: 6013992
    Abstract: A control system controls a hybrid vehicle having an engine for rotating a drive axle, an electric motor for assisting the engine in rotating the drive axle with electric energy and converting kinetic energy of the drive axle into electric energy, and an electric energy storage unit for supplying electric energy to the electric motor and storing electric energy outputted by the electric motor. The control system has a deceleration demand sensor for detecting a deceleration demand for the hybrid vehicle, a braking sensor for detecting whether the hybrid vehicle is braked or not, and a decelerating regenerative control unit for causing the electric motor to regenerate electric energy when the deceleration demand sensor detects the deceleration demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Motoshi Ishikawa, Yutaka Tamagawa, Toru Yano
  • Patent number: 5966453
    Abstract: A speaker system for use in an automobile vehicle, comprises: a pair of high frequency speakers disposed at opposite ends in a lateral direction of a front section within the vehicle; a pair of low/middle frequency speakers disposed at opposite ends in a lateral direction of the front section, a whole frequency speaker located in the center of the front section. Each of the high frequency speakers is a horn speaker made from a part of a windshield, a part of a side glass and a part of an upper surface of a dashboard in the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Pioneer Electronic Corporation
    Inventors: Shinji Koyano, Teruo Baba, Ziqing Zhang, Junko Yamamoto