Patents by Inventor Hirotaka Hayakawa

Hirotaka Hayakawa 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: 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: 11919382
    Abstract: An electrically driven vehicle includes a floor panel, a tunnel section, an electrical storage device, and an electric power line. The tunnel section is formed in a vehicle forward/rearward direction in a central portion of the floor panel in a vehicle width direction. The electrical storage device is disposed behind the tunnel section of the vehicle above the floor panel. The electric power line is disposed below the tunnel section and connected to the electrical storage device. The tunnel section has an opening portion formed in a rear end portion of the tunnel section located in front of the electrical storage device of the vehicle and through which the electric power line is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yasunori Mukumoto, Tetsuya Sugizaki, Hirotaka Hayakawa, Daichi Yamanaka, Ryoji Ando, Shinya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 11915496
    Abstract: A body information acquisition device includes: a skeleton point detection unit configured to detect a skeleton point of a person included in a captured image; a body information acquisition unit configured to acquire body information of the person based on detection of the skeleton point; and an imaging state determination unit configured to determine whether an imaging state of the person reflected in the captured image corresponds to a specific imaging state specified based on a predetermined evaluation index value, in which the body information acquisition unit does not acquire the body information based on the detection of the skeleton point when the imaging state corresponds to the specific imaging state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: AISIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Godai Tanaka, Yoshiaki Tomatsu, Hirotaka Watanabe, Takahisa Hayakawa, Kazumichi Hara
  • Publication number: 20230311807
    Abstract: A vehicle structure with an anchor unit includes a floor panel, a left anchor member and a right anchor member. The floor panel is disposed below a rear seat. The left anchor member and the right anchor member are connected to the floor panel by a left anchor attachment portion and a right anchor attachment portion. The floor panel has a left raised sidewall and a right raised sidewall extending in an upward/downward direction, and the left anchor attachment portion and the right anchor attachment portion are provided on the left raised sidewall and the right raised sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Kazuma Sasaki, Hiroshi Takagi
  • Publication number: 20230311722
    Abstract: A vehicle structure with an anchor unit includes a rear floor panel, a pair of first anchor members, and a reinforcement member. A rear seat is disposed above the rear floor panel. The pair of first anchor members are disposed on the rear floor panel and attached to a child seat. The reinforcement member connects the pair of first anchor members to the rear floor panel. In addition, the reinforcement member connects the pair of first anchor members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Kazuya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230311793
    Abstract: A vehicle structure with a battery includes a battery placement portion, a front cross member, a rear cross member, and left and right rear side frames. The front cross member is disposed at a vehicle forward position of the battery placement portion. The rear cross member is disposed at a vehicle rearward position of the battery placement portion. The left and right rear side frames are disposed on left and right outer sides of the battery placement portion. The battery placement portion includes a battery fixation portion that is provided on an outer side in a vehicle width direction and is connected to a battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Tetsuya Sugizaki, Ryo Shinoda, Wataru Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20230110288
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear portion includes a floor tunnel, a unit protection cover, and a rear floor panel. The floor tunnel is arranged at a middle in a vehicle width direction of a front floor panel. The unit protection cover covers an upper portion of a protection target unit which is arranged at a rearward position of the floor tunnel. The rear floor panel is arranged at a rearward position of the protection target unit. The unit protection cover and the rear floor panel include a reinforcement structure portion that extends in a vehicle body rearward direction from a tunnel ridge line at right and left upper portions of the floor tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Kazuya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230094923
    Abstract: A vehicle body lower structure includes a front cross member, a rear side frame, a floor panel, and a front floor frame. The front cross member is disposed in front of a battery in a vehicle. The rear side frame is connected to an end portion of the front cross member on an outward side in a vehicle width direction. The front floor frame forms a closed cross section together with the floor panel and is coupled to the end portion of the front cross member on the outward side in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Shungo Chino, Takashi Nitta, Kazuya Kimura, Shuma Yoshioka
  • Publication number: 20230101270
    Abstract: A rear portion of a vehicle body includes a front floor panel, a rear floor panel, a pair of left and right side sills, and a front cross plate. The rear floor panel has a higher upper surface height than the front floor panel. The front cross plate connects a rear portion of the front floor panel and a front wall of the rear floor panel, and an outer end portion in a vehicle width direction is coupled to the left and right side sills. The front wall of the rear floor panel has a plurality of bent corner portions having a side view shape bent in a substantially L shape. At least one of the bent corner portions constitutes a closed cross section extending along the vehicle width direction together with the front cross plate in a vertical height range of the left and right side sills.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Takafumi Raitoku, Kazuya Kimura
  • Publication number: 20230101545
    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: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Daisuke Ohkawa, Shungo Chino, Yushiro Tachibana, Takashi Nitta
  • Publication number: 20230101857
    Abstract: A vehicle body includes: a vehicle body floor having a battery housing portion; a pair of left and right side sills; a front cross member disposed in front of the battery housing portion; a rear cross member disposed behind the battery housing portion; and a battery cover that covers a battery from above. A widened portion of which a height in a vertical direction increases with respect to a center region of the front cross member in a vehicle width direction and of which a front-rear width expands to a vehicle rear side with respect to a front-rear width of the center region of the front cross member in the vehicle width direction is provided on an end portion of the front cross member on an outer side in the vehicle width direction. The battery cover is made of a metal and includes an outer connecting portion connected to the widened portion on an outer side in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Tetsuya Sugizaki, Shungo Chino, Takashi Nitta, Kazuya Kimura, Takafumi Raitoku, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Toshihiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20230101105
    Abstract: This rear vehicle body structure includes a first floor cross member disposed on a vehicle front side with respect to a battery and connected to a rear side frame extending in a vehicle front-rear direction on an outer side in a vehicle width direction, and a second floor cross member disposed on a vehicle rear side with respect to the battery, in which the first floor cross member includes a widened part widened in the vehicle front-rear direction at an end portion and extending to a position at which it overlaps the battery, and a boundary part between the widened part and the rear side frame is disposed at a position at which it overlaps the battery in a side view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Takafumi Raitoku, Tetsuya Sugizaki, Ryo Shinoda
  • Publication number: 20230024506
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear portion structure includes a vehicle body floor, and the vehicle body floor includes a tire storage area that is hollowed downward in a recess shape. The vehicle body floor includes a front extension wall and a raised part. The front extension wall extends to a vehicle body forward side from an upper end part of a rise wall on a front side of the tire storage area. The raised part stands upward from a front part of the front extension wall and extends substantially along a vehicle width direction. A plurality of reinforcement beads that extend along a vehicle body forward/rearward direction and have a front end portion which extends to a vicinity of a lower end of the raised part are formed on the front extension wall to be spaced apart from each other in the vehicle width direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Takashi NITTA, Hirotaka HAYAKAWA, Toshihiro YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20230015322
    Abstract: A vehicle body rear portion includes a vehicle body floor and a fuel tank. The vehicle body floor has a tire storage area that is hollowed downward. The fuel tank is supported by a lower surface of the vehicle body floor on a forward side of the tire storage area. A stiffener is attached to the vehicle body floor at a forward position of the tire storage area. The stiffener extends along a vehicle body forward/rearward direction and reinforces an upper region of the fuel tank of the vehicle body floor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Takashi Nitta, Toshihiro Yamaguchi
  • Publication number: 20220314775
    Abstract: An electrically driven vehicle includes a floor panel, a tunnel section, an electrical storage device, and an electric power line. The tunnel section is formed in a vehicle forward/rearward direction in a central portion of the floor panel in a vehicle width direction. The electrical storage device is disposed behind the tunnel section of the vehicle above the floor panel. The electric power line is disposed below the tunnel section and connected to the electrical storage device. The tunnel section has an opening portion formed in a rear end portion of the tunnel section located in front of the electrical storage device of the vehicle and through which the electric power line is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Yasunori Mukumoto, Tetsuya Sugizaki, Hirotaka Hayakawa, Daichi Yamanaka, Ryoji Ando, Shinya Nakayama
  • Patent number: 6157882
    Abstract: In an electronic control system for an automatic transmission, a vehicular input signal detecting system samples an analog signal from the sensor based on a pulse signal output to control a solenoid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: Aisin AW Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hirotaka Hayakawa, Masao Saito, Masaharu Chiba, Kenji Suzuki