Patents Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
  • Publication number: 20240132158
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a vehicle body front structure with a good rigidity. The vehicle body front structure includes a partition disposed in front of the vehicle and configured to support a heat exchanger, a box-shaped part disposed at a lower part of a column member of the partition, continuously connected with the column member of the partition in a height direction of the vehicle, and extending downward to a lower portion than a lower part of the partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yui OTANI
  • Publication number: 20240132029
    Abstract: To provide a brake system for a saddled vehicle that exerts proper braking force control considering changes in the driver's posture during deceleration. A brake system for a saddled vehicle including a control device exerting automatic control over a brake fluid pressure of a front-wheel brake and that of a rear-wheel brake according to various information, and a throttle position detector for detecting a throttle position of a rotary-type throttle operating element mounted on a steering handlebar. When an operation on the throttle operating element is detected at start of automatic control over the front-wheel brake and the rear-wheel brake, if the throttle position is less than a predetermined threshold value, the control device maintains the automatic control, and if the throttle position is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold value, the control device cancels the automatic control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsubasa NOSE, Hiroyuki KANETA, Kyosuke INADA, Yuta KANBE
  • Patent number: 11968352
    Abstract: Provided is a display method, which is executed by a display device capable of forming an image in both of an inside of a lens area and an outside of the lens area and enabling a user to visually recognize the image, the display method including displaying, by the display device, one or more objects from a predetermined area inside the lens area toward the outside of the lens area so that an object near the predetermined area is displayed in a different display mode relating to at least one of a density, a color strength, a luminance, and a size compared to an object away from the predetermined area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuji Yasui, Masamitsu Tsuchiya
  • Patent number: 11965548
    Abstract: A drive shaft includes a first annular wall and a second annular wall joined together via a friction-welded portion. The first annular wall and the second annular wall have outer diameters of 30 to 50 mm and wall thicknesses of 3 to 5 mm. A burr created at the friction-welded portion has a connection radius of greater than or equal to 0.5 mm, a base radius of greater than or equal to 0.5 mm, a burr base angle of less than or equal to 40°, and a burr slope length of 0.2 to 5 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mitsuru Kamikawa, Takahiro Ueda, Masafumi Yamamoto, Masaru Suzuki
  • Patent number: 11967887
    Abstract: The present invention provides a motor apparatus having a motor, comprising: a fan that is rotatably supported by a shaft member of the motor, and sends, in a centrifugal direction by rotation, gas taken from an axial direction of the shaft member; and a cover member that covers the fan so as to allow the gas sent in the centrifugal direction from the fan to flow along an outer surface of the motor, wherein the cover member has a blowout port that blows out some of the gas sent in the centrifugal direction from the fan in the centrifugal direction to cool an external mechanism of the motor apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoki Matsunaga, Kazuhisa Fujiwara, Hiroshi Mizuguchi
  • Patent number: 11964618
    Abstract: In an undercover structure according to the present invention, a first cover part that is a lowermost part of an undercover has a first rear end positioned ahead of a front wheel axle. Further, a curved part with a predetermined curvature is formed at the first rear end of the first cover part in a side view. This generates a strong negative pressure in a region ahead of the front wheel axle 21. Accordingly, the flow rate of air flowing to each wheelhouse 23 decreases (the flow rate of the airflow between a road and a vehicle generated along the bottom surface of the first cover part 15a of the undercover 15 increases). This causes an attraction force that attracts the vehicle to a road surface to act on a vehicle body of the vehicle, thereby making traveling stability more excellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kei Ambo, Kenichi Ando, Yoshiteru Hoshida, Yuki Nakamura, Yoji Suwa, Takumi Sobue
  • Patent number: 11968544
    Abstract: A control device acquires quality information indicating a correspondence relationship between a position and communication quality related to wireless communication at the position, and route information indicating a movement route of a mobile base station, specifies an area in which the communication quality is determined to be lower than a predetermined communication quality based on the quality information, and executes control for moving the mobile base station to a position at which a wireless communication service can be provided in at least a part of the area in a case where the position is included in the movement route based on the route information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideki Matsunaga, Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Toshiaki Takano
  • Patent number: 11965796
    Abstract: An ultrasonic wave propagation member, which is able to improve durability while ensuring measurement performance, is provided with an ultrasonic wave propagator including a first contact surface coming into contact with an measurement target, and a second contact surface provided opposite to the first contact surface and coming into contact with a fore end surface of an ultrasonic probe; and a holder holding the ultrasonic wave propagator and including a third contact surface coming into contact with the measurement target on a radially outer position than the first contact surface, wherein the ultrasonic wave propagator is softer than the holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazuhiro Tsuzaki, Toshitsugu Sakakibara, Hiroki Hirai
  • Patent number: 11964621
    Abstract: A vehicle seatbelt device of an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes circumstances around a vehicle, a steering operator that is able to adjust steering of the vehicle, a vibrator that causes a portion of the steering operator to vibrate, a seatbelt that restrains a portion of the body of an occupant of the vehicle, a tension adjustment mechanism that is able to adjust the tension of the seatbelt, and a controller that controls the vibrator and the tension adjustment mechanism on the basis of the circumstances recognized by the recognizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinsuke Odai, Yuji Yasui, Kenji Komori, Yosuke Sakamoto, Yosuke Koike, Kenshi Torikai
  • Patent number: 11964563
    Abstract: A vehicle display control device includes a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to perform. The processor is configured to recognizing road markings of a road on which a host vehicle travels based on at least an output of a detection device that detects target objects present in a traveling direction of the host vehicle; causing a display device to display a surrounding situation display image including a host vehicle icon representing the host vehicle and an image of the road markings representing the road; determining positions of the road markings based on information of center positions of a traveling lane obtained by representing the center positions in a point sequence for each prescribed first distance with respect to a first direction; and generating the surrounding situation display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoko Yokochi, Yuta Murayama
  • Patent number: 11964574
    Abstract: A contactless charging system (1) sends electrical power to charge a battery (4) equipped to a vehicle (3). A contactless charging device (2) includes: a wireless communication device (16) which acquires travel information and use information; a target setting unit (15) which creates a charging plan including the target SOC of the battery (4), based on the information; and a charge control unit (14) which controls the sending of electrical power for battery charging based on the target SOC. The target setting unit (15) divides the average travel distance and average charge rate decrease amount into seven day of week divisions of whole day units, classifies each day of week division into the plurality of a long distance group and a short distance group based on the average travel distance, and creates a target SOC based on the average charge rate decrease amount included in each group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Naoya Sakakibara
  • Patent number: 11966052
    Abstract: An alert system includes a display device, a display control unit, and a target recognition unit. The display control unit: when the number of targets recognized by the target recognition unit is equal to or more than an upper limit number, sets a display range of a surrounding icon as a whole circular area; and in a state where the number of targets is equal to or more than the upper limit number and the display range of the surrounding icon is set as the whole circular area, when the number of targets increases, reduces the size of the surrounding icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masaki Maruyama, Minoru Higuchi, Yuya Kishimoto, Toshiaki Seo, Masuhito Tanaka, Kazuki Takano, Hidehiro Takeda, Misaki Koseki
  • Patent number: 11964770
    Abstract: In a flying object, a PCU has a plurality of operation modes in which an engine and/or a motor generator is used as a driving source for a pusher propeller. In accordance with the state of the flying object, the PCU controls the engine, a clutch, and the motor generator in one of the operation modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junichi Kamio, Yasunari Kimura
  • Patent number: 11965750
    Abstract: A navigation device includes a map display unit configured to display a map on a first display device and display a guidance route and a current position on the map, and a scale determination unit configured to determine a scale of the map to be displayed on the first display device. The scale determination unit lowers the scale as the current position approaches an intersection at which it is required to turn, and enlarges the scale as the current position moves through the intersection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koji Tajima, Arata Hayashi, Katsutoshi Noritake
  • Patent number: 11967220
    Abstract: A communication control device comprises: a determination unit configured to determine whether a target has approached a mobile object based on information detected by a sensor mounted on the mobile object; and a communication control unit configured to control a communication unit that calls a call center based on a determination result by the determination unit, wherein the communication control unit causes transmission, to the call center, of first information relating to information detected at the mobile object while making a call connection to the call center, which is started in response to a call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Suguru Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11967187
    Abstract: This vehicle inspection system comprises: a monitor that displays a simulated image captured by a camera and imitating external environment information; a target device that returns an irradiation wave from an electromagnetic sensor as a reflected wave; a simulator device that changes the external environment information by changing the simulated image or the reflected wave; and an inspection device that inspects actuators of a vehicle to be inspected on the basis of the changed external environment information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kento Aono, Takeshi Katamine
  • Patent number: 11966219
    Abstract: Preparing actual defective product data and non-defective product data, causing a deep generation model to learn the data and to generate latent variables in which features of the non-defective product data and the actual defective product data are mixed, causing a classification model to learn the latent variables to generate a classified non-defective product and defective product latent variable, deleting the non-defective product latent variable from the classified non-defective product and defective product latent variable to output the defective product latent variable including a gray latent variable, causing a distance learning model to learn the defective product latent variable and the non-defective product latent variable and to delete the gray latent variable, and causing the deep generation model to learn the defective product latent variable that has been obtained and to generate the pseudo defective product data greater in number than the actual defective product data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Toshikazu Karube
  • Patent number: 11967236
    Abstract: A communication control apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image from an image capturing unit installed in a movable object, a reception control unit configured to control reception of risk area information including location information from another movable object, a determination unit configured to determine whether a notification target is present in a region based on the location information included in the risk area information based on the image, and a transmission control unit configured to control transmission of a determination result of the determination unit to the other movable object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Kurehashi, Shigeru Inoue
  • Patent number: 11967457
    Abstract: A coil forming apparatus includes: a coil winding jig that winds the belt-shaped coil, the coil winding jig including a plurality of comb-shaped grooves on an outer periphery thereof; a coil conveying mechanism that pivotally conveys the belt-shaped coil along at least a portion of the outer periphery of the coil winding jig; and guide members guide the belt-shaped coil in an arc shape while being in contact with the side ends. The guide members guide the belt-shaped coil so as to be in an arc shape having a diameter smaller than an outer diameter of the coil winding jig in a second half portion of the belt-shaped coil upon pivot conveying, and allow the plurality of straight portions to be inserted into a respective one of the plurality of comb-shaped grooves of the coil winding jig.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eishi Yoshida, Shuhei Okuda
  • Patent number: D1024374
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Mitsuhiro Abe