Patents Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11945400
    Abstract: A ridable moving object on which a user gets is provided. The ridable moving object includes a processor configured to execute a program to determine that the user has been away from the ridable moving object, detect a usage intention of another person different from the user for the ridable moving object, and generate an action command for causing the ridable moving object to perform a prescribed operation on a basis of setting information set for at least one of the user and the ridable moving object when it is determined that the user has been away from the ridable moving object and the usage intention of the another person for the ridable moving object has been detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shinichiro Kobashi, Makoto Hasegawa, Sachiko Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 11945323
    Abstract: A method and system for providing a cooperative automotive mobile charging infrastructure are described. In one embodiment, a method for providing a cooperative automotive mobile charging infrastructure includes receiving a notification indicating an availability for providing mobile charging to electric personal transport devices. Each notification includes an identification of an electrified vehicle to provide the mobile charging and a location of the electrified vehicle. The method includes receiving a request for mobile charging from a user and determining a candidate electrified vehicle that is available to provide mobile charging to the user. The method also includes providing the location of the candidate electrified vehicle to the user to provide mobile charging at the location to an electric personal transport device associated with the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Peter Corey
  • Patent number: 11945341
    Abstract: A seat connection structure includes a reinforcing member and a rear seat. The reinforcing member reinforces a rear floor panel and left and right rear wheel houses. The rear seat is disposed in front of a vehicle body of the reinforcing member, and is connected to the reinforcing member via left and right fixing members. The left and right fixing members connect the seat back of the rear seat and the reinforcing member, and are connected to face a front surface portion of the reinforcing member formed on a front side of the vehicle body and facing a vehicle width direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Daisuke Ohkawa, Shungo Chino, Yushiro Tachibana, Takashi Nitta
  • Patent number: 11946827
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided to test valves. The apparatus includes a support structure and a plurality of engagement members coupled to the support structure. Each member of the plurality of engagement members is coupled with a valve of a valve train associated with an engine head. The apparatus further includes a camshaft, which includes a plurality of lobes coupled to the support structure. Each lobe of the plurality of lobes are equally spaced from each other and coupled to a member of the plurality of engagement members. The apparatus further includes a driving mechanism coupled to the camshaft, which is configured to rotate the camshaft and control each member of the plurality of engagement members to further control an activation of each valve of the valve train associated with the engine head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kaleb Stephens, John Michael Scelsi
  • Patent number: 11945466
    Abstract: A detection device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a detection result of a plurality of targets present in a traveling direction of a vehicle from an imaging device attached to the vehicle; a calculation unit configured to determine whether the plurality of targets detected with movement of the vehicle are an identical target based on the detection result acquired by the acquisition unit and calculate a coordinate of each of the plurality of targets in chronological order; and a detection unit configured to detect a pitch angle and a roll angle of the imaging device with respect to a horizontal direction based on the coordinate calculated in chronological order by the calculation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuharu Nagaoka, Takayuki Tsuji, Yuki Sugano
  • Patent number: 11949347
    Abstract: A power conversion device includes a power converter to output AC power by converting input DC power, an electric leakage detector to detect electric leakage in a power supply line through which the AC power output by the power converter flows when the AC power is being output by the power converter, and a power conversion controller configured to control power conversion of the power converter. The power conversion controller is configured to stop power conversion operation of the power converter based on a detection result of the electric leakage detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: FUJI ELECTRIC CO., LTD., HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Nobuhisa Ando, Hiroki Katsumata, Masahiko Sato
  • Patent number: 11945423
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having a front end, a pair of opposing front wheel wells rearward of the front end, and an air guide duct having at least one air inlet disposed forward of the front wheel wells and facing the front end of the motor vehicle. The air guide duct also has at least one air outlet opening into at least one of the front wheel wells such that incoming air from the front end of the motor vehicle is guided into at least one of the front wheel wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Pirooz Moradnia, Benjamin Bowlby, Brian R. Reynolds, David Wayne Halt, Jason Widmer, Matthew L. Metka, Pratap Thamanna Rao, Pubudu C. Abeysinghe
  • Patent number: 11945509
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear part structure includes a rear frame and a beam member. The rear frame has: a first inner bead, a first outer bead, a second inner bead, and a second outer bead. The first inner bead and the first outer bead are formed on an inner wall and an outer wall, respectively, in a region close to the beam member. The second inner bead and the second outer bead are formed on the inner wall and the outer wall, respectively, in a region that is separated to a vehicle body frontward direction from the first beads. The first outer bead is formed to have a higher fragility than the first inner bead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shungo Chino, Yuya Akaba, Toshihiro Yamaguchi, Kyosuke Yamakita, Yusuke Miura, Dai Kamata, Chihiro Sakagami, Kosuke Fushimi, Shohei Ohtsuka, Hitomi Yamada
  • Patent number: 11945099
    Abstract: A system and method for fabricating soft sensors that conform to arbitrary smooth geometries that include fabricating a top stretchable layer that includes a set of electrodes of soft sensors that are made of an elastic material. The system and method also include fabricating a bottom flexible layer that is composed of a thin sheet of suitable metal that is patterned using photolithography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mirza Saquib Sarwar, Katsu Yamane, Ryusuke Ishizaki
  • Patent number: 11945526
    Abstract: An electric vehicle that comprises a vehicle main body, a driving apparatus that includes a motor unit which includes a motor and a reduction gear which is attached to the motor unit, and a travel unit configured to drive by a driving force of the driving apparatus. The travel unit includes a plurality of wheels that at least includes a front wheel arranged on the side of a front end portion of the vehicle main body and a rear wheel arranged on the side of a rear end portion of the vehicle main body, and a crawler belt wound around the front wheel and the rear wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenta Kohigashi, Tsuyoshi Yoshigasaki, Naoki Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 11945508
    Abstract: A vehicle frame includes a first beam with a first wall and a second wall extended in a first beam longitudinal direction, wherein the first wall and the second wall are spaced from each other in a first beam transverse direction substantially perpendicular to the first beam longitudinal direction. The first beam includes at least one first beam reinforcement structure, the at least one first beam reinforcement structure including a first leg and a second leg disposed along the first beam and extended between the first wall and the second wall in the first beam transverse direction. The first leg and the second leg are angled toward each other along the first beam transverse direction from the second wall toward the first wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Eric J. Boettcher, Mario Miranda Espinosa, Vijay Maccha
  • Patent number: 11945545
    Abstract: Drive disks are configured to rotate a main wheel by applying a frictional force thereto. Each of the drive disks includes a base and a plurality of rollers. The base includes a first sheet metal member and a second sheet metal member. The first sheet metal member includes a first central part and a plurality of first arm parts. The second sheet metal member includes a second central part and a plurality of second arm parts. Each of the rollers has a first end and a second end in an axial direction thereof. Each of the first arm parts and each of the second arm parts support the first end of one of two rollers adjacent to each other and the second end of the other of the two rollers adjacent to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Yada, Ritsuya Oshima, Hiroshi Gomi
  • Patent number: 11948731
    Abstract: A control device for a power conversion device using a multi-phase magnetic coupling reactor is provided. The multi-phase magnetic coupling reactor including: a first outer coil; a second outer coil; an inner coil; and a core. Directions of magnetic fluxes generated in the first outer coil, the second outer coil, and the inner coil are opposite to each other in any combination. The control device is configured to switch among a one-phase operation, a two-phase operation, and a three-phase operation. The control device is configured to select two phases of the first outer coil and the second outer coil in the two-phase operation, and the control device is configured to select one of the first outer coil and the second outer coil in the one-phase operation before the two-phase operation or a one-phase operation after the two-phase operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Ryota Kitamoto
  • Patent number: 11949111
    Abstract: In a lithium ion secondary battery (1), a positive electrode (2) and a negative electrode (3) are alternately adjacent to each other via separators (4) and (5). The positive electrode (2) includes a positive electrode current collector composed of a metal porous body, a first positive electrode active material (21) held on one side of the positive electrode current collector, and a second positive electrode active material (22) held on the other side. The negative electrode (3) includes a negative electrode current collector composed of a metal porous body, a first negative electrode active material (31) held on one side of the negative electrode current collector, and a second negative electrode active material (32) held on the other side. The first positive electrode active material (21) faces the first negative electrode active material (31), and the positive electrode active material (22) faces the second negative electrode active material (32).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Tanaami, Akihisa Tanaka, Shintaro Aoyagi, Kazuki Okuno, Akihisa Hosoe, Kikuo Senoo, Hiroshi Takebayashi
  • Patent number: 11945531
    Abstract: A steer-by-wire type steering device includes: a steering support part fixed to a vehicle body; a steering shaft rotatably supported by the steering support part; a steering wheel fixed part fixed to the steering support part; and a steering wheel rotation part connected to the steering shaft and rotatably disposed on an outer circumference of the steering wheel fixed part, wherein the steering wheel rotation part is formed in rotational symmetry with respect to a rotation axis thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Satoshi Nakahara, Hayato Miyakawa
  • Publication number: 20240101067
    Abstract: There is provided with a control apparatus. A first obtaining unit obtains position information of a vehicle. A setting unit sets a remote operation permitted range of the vehicle on a basis of movement information of the vehicle in a first predetermined period based on the position information. A second obtaining unit obtains information indicating that a specific operation for a remote operation input to the vehicle from a user terminal is performed. A controlling unit restricts the remote operation input from the user terminal to the vehicle in a case where a position of the vehicle at a time of obtaining the information is outside the remote operation permitted range. The movement information includes the position information of the vehicle and a visit situation to the position in the first predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240101134
    Abstract: There is provided with a control apparatus. A first obtaining unit obtains position information of a vehicle. A first setting unit sets a remote operation permitted range of the vehicle on a basis of movement information of the vehicle in a first predetermined period based on the position information. A determination unit determines whether or not to restrict a remote operation input to the vehicle from an associated user terminal that is a user terminal associated with the vehicle on a basis of a stop position of the vehicle based on the position information and the remote operation permitted range. The movement information includes the position information of the vehicle and a visit situation to the position in the first predetermined period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Takeuchi
  • Publication number: 20240101021
    Abstract: A headlight determination apparatus includes a camera device, a target light recognition device, and a changing device. The camera device captures an image ahead of a vehicle at a predetermined frame rate. The target light recognition device recognizes target light from the image captured by the camera device. The changing device changes a wavelength of headlight of the vehicle by using a predetermined period slower than the predetermined frame rate. When the wavelength of the headlight is different from a wavelength of the target light and/or when a period of the wavelength of the headlight does not match a period of the wavelength of the target light, the target light recognition device recognizes that there is target light other than the headlight in front of the vehicle and controls light distribution of the headlight when there is target light other than the headlight in front of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumihiro YASUFUKU, Kazuki KAWAMURA, Kazuki ODAGIRI, Keisuke MAEDA, Takashi MAI, Takafumi OTA
  • Publication number: 20240106056
    Abstract: A vehicle battery pack includes a battery module, a battery case configured to accommodate the battery module, and a battery cooling mechanism configured to cool the battery module. The battery cooling mechanism includes an introduction duct configured to introduce air into the battery case, an air guide member configured to guide the air, an air guide fan configured to blow the air, and a discharge duct configured to discharge the air to the outside. The air guide fan includes a fan motor, a fan case including a suction port and an air blow-out port, and an impeller. The air guide member is provided so that one end thereof is connected to the introduction duct and another end thereof seals a front surface of the battery module. The air guide fan faces the battery module in a front-rear direction, and is disposed so that the suction port faces rearward.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Daigo KOMATSU
  • Publication number: 20240103511
    Abstract: A remote operation device remotely operates a vehicle. The remote operation device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information associated with a user terminal in the vehicle, an authorization management unit configured to grant operation authorization for remotely operating the vehicle to the user terminal associated with the acquired identification information, and an operation unit configured to remotely operate the vehicle in accordance with an operation instruction transmitted from the user terminal having the operation authorization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yuji Takeuchi