Patents by Inventor Makoto Mitsukawa
Makoto Mitsukawa 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).
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Publication number: 20220212787Abstract: An image capturing system comprises: an unmanned aerial vehicle including an image capturing unit capable of capturing an image of a subject in a flight state; and a control device capable of communicating with a terminal of the subject and the unmanned aerial vehicle. The control device includes: a storage unit configured to register subject information in which the subject is set as a target to be captured; a determination unit configured to determine whether the subject is present in a predetermined image capturing area; a signal generation unit configured to generate a control signal that controls the image capturing unit; and a communication control unit configured to transmit the subject information and the control signal to the unmanned aerial vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Takao FUJIWARA, Makoto MITSUKAWA, Katsuyuki OKUBO, Hiroaki YOSHIDA, Kota NAKAUCHI, Naruaki WATANABE, Shun FUJITSU
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Patent number: 11355812Abstract: A device includes a battery case (42) that stores a battery (62A or 62B), a lock mechanism (133) that is capable of fixing and holding the stored battery (62A or 62B) in the battery case (42), and an operation member (44) that is capable of performing switching operation of the lock mechanism (133) between a battery-fixed state and a non-battery-fixed state. The lock mechanism (133) includes a movable block (160) which is supported by the battery case (42) in a displaceable manner. The movable block (160) has a battery restriction portion (160b or 160c) which restricts displacement of the battery (62A or 62B) in a separation direction in a state of being displaced to a battery fixing position, and a holding force receiving portion (160d) which receives a holding force for maintaining the movable block (160) at the battery fixing position from the operation member (44) in a state where the operation member (44) is operated within a predetermined positional range.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Katsuyuki Okubo, Yasuyuki Maeda, Akira Kuramochi, Takeo Numata, Michito Arai, Yuji Hayashi, Tadashi Minyu, Natsuko Sota, Yasushi Takahashi, Takaaki Kato, Kazuo Tsuji, Makoto Mitsukawa, Etsumi Handa, Nobuo Shigemizu, Yasuhiro Fukuyoshi, Yukio Akai
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Patent number: 11180019Abstract: An electric bicycle includes a motor that includes a stator and a rotor and that is driven by a battery, a reduction gear, an output shaft configured to output power of the motor, a sprocket fixed to the output shaft, a housing, and a water jacket configured to cool the motor. The water jacket includes a flange section protruding outward in a radial direction of the stator, the flange section being formed in the water jacket at a side opposite to the reduction gear in a vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., M-TEC Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Matsushima, Toshitaka Akita, Takafumi Irie, Kinya Mizuno, Makoto Mitsukawa, Kunio Yoshimi, Masaya Murao, Yoshiki Kasaya, Shinichiro Nakazawa, Kazuma Deguchi
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Patent number: 11007882Abstract: An electric bicycle includes a battery, a high voltage electric wire extending from the battery, a motor driven by electricity supplied from the battery, and a reduction gear configured to reduce a speed of output of the motor. The battery is disposed in front of and above the motor. The reduction gear is disposed outside the motor in a vehicle width direction. The high voltage electric wire is disposed in a gap between the reduction gear and the battery in a forward/rearward direction at outer side of the motor in the vehicle width direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignees: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., M-TEC Co., Ltd.Inventors: Satoshi Matsushima, Tsukasa Kimura, Makoto Mitsukawa, Kunio Yoshimi, Yoshiki Kasaya, Shinichiro Nakazawa, Kazuma Deguchi
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Publication number: 20210066678Abstract: A device includes a battery case (42) that stores a battery (62A or 62B), a lock mechanism (133) that is capable of fixing and holding the stored battery (62A or 62B) in the battery case (42), and an operation member (44) that is capable of performing switching operation of the lock mechanism (133) between a battery-fixed state and a non-battery-fixed state. The lock mechanism (133) includes a movable block (160) which is supported by the battery case (42) in a displaceable manner. The movable block (160) has a battery restriction portion (160b or 160c) which restricts displacement of the battery (62A or 62B) in a separation direction in a state of being displaced to a battery fixing position, and a holding force receiving portion (160d) which receives a holding force for maintaining the movable block (160) at the battery fixing position from the operation member (44) in a state where the operation member (44) is operated within a predetermined positional range.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: Katsuyuki Okubo, Yasuyuki Maeda, Akira Kuramochi, Takeo Numata, Michito Arai, Yuji Hayashi, Tadashi Minyu, Natsuko Sota, Yasushi Takahashi, Takaaki Kato, Kazuo Tsuji, Makoto Mitsukawa, Etsumi Handa, Nobuo Shigemizu, Yasuhiro Fukuyoshi, Yukio Akai
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Publication number: 20200130515Abstract: An electric bicycle includes a battery, a high voltage electric wire extending from the battery, a motor driven by electricity supplied from the battery, and a reduction gear configured to reduce a speed of output of the motor. The battery is disposed in front of and above the motor. The reduction gear is disposed outside the motor in a vehicle width direction. The high voltage electric wire is disposed in a gap between the reduction gear and the battery in a forward/rearward direction at outer side of the motor in the vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Satoshi Matsushima, Tsukasa Kimura, Makoto Mitsukawa, Kunio Yoshimi, Yoshiki Kasaya, Shinichiro Nakazawa, Kazuma Deguchi
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Publication number: 20200130498Abstract: An electric bicycle includes a motor that includes a stator and a rotor and that is driven by a battery, a reduction gear, an output shaft configured to output power of the motor, a sprocket fixed to the output shaft, a housing, and a water jacket configured to cool the motor. The water jacket includes a flange section protruding outward in a radial direction of the stator, the flange section being formed in the water jacket at a side opposite to the reduction gear in a vehicle width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Satoshi Matsushima, Toshitaka Akita, Takafumi Irie, Kinya Mizuno, Makoto Mitsukawa, Kunio Yoshimi, Masaya Murao, Yoshiki Kasaya, Shinichiro Nakazawa, Kazuma Deguchi
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Patent number: 9027693Abstract: An inverted pendulum type vehicle is configured to permit a user to easily get on to the vehicle in a forward-facing posture from the rear of a vehicle body. The vehicle includes a seat for supporting a user thereon, as well as a main wheel driven by an inverted pendulum control, a vehicle body frame which rotatably supports the main wheel, and a tail wheel attached to a tail wheel arm, supported for pivotal motion on the vehicle body frame. The seat is attached to the vehicle body frame at an uppermost portion thereof. The vehicle body frame pivots rearwardly around an axle of the driving wheel together with the seat upon cancellation of the inverted pendulum control and the range of pivotal motion thereof is limited by contact thereof with the arm.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Muto, Makoto Mitsukawa, Motoharu Yokoi, Yasuka Mori
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Patent number: 8783235Abstract: An air cleaner structure for a vehicle includes an air cleaner is mounted on a power unit. The air cleaner case is formed in a shape elongated from a side of the internal combustion engine toward a side of the rear wheel. An intake-air outlet passage connected to an upstream end of a connecting tube is formed forward in the front of the air cleaner case. A filter member is placed rearward of the intake-air outlet passage in the case. A blowby gas return passage connected to a blowby gas return pipe of the engine, and an additional air passage are juxtaposed with each other in a vertical direction and formed forward around the intake-air outlet passage in front of the air cleaner case such that the blowby gas return passage is located below the additional air passage. The resulting structure reduces a length of piping to the engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2012Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiko Shimizu, Makoto Mitsukawa
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Patent number: 8776934Abstract: An inverted pendulum type vehicle includes a traveling unit with a main wheel, a vehicle body frame having the main wheel supported thereon, and a pair of left and right driving units supported on the vehicle body frame for driving the main wheel. The vehicle also includes a battery unit for supplying electric power to the driving units, a seat for supporting an occupant thereon, and a telescopic strut for supporting the seat for selected upward and downward movement. The telescopic strut is disposed between the driving unit and the battery unit in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle body.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2013Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yusuke Muto, Yasuo Shinde, Makoto Mitsukawa, Motoharu Yokoi, Yasuka Mori
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Patent number: 8695328Abstract: An exhaust purifying apparatus achieving placement of components so as to prevent an increase in the size of the vehicle caused by the placement of the exhaust purifying apparatus while maintaining the performance of the exhaust purifying apparatus by secondary air in a saddle-ride type vehicle. An exhaust purifying apparatus of a saddle-ride vehicle includes a secondary air supply pipe of which one end is connected an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine. A secondary air control valve is connected with the other end of the secondary air supply pipe for controlling the supply of secondary air to the secondary air supply pipe. An outdoor air introduction passage is connected to the secondary air control valve, wherein an air filter for secondary air and a resonant passage are installed in the middle of the outdoor air introduction passage.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takahiko Shimizu, Makoto Mitsukawa, Kuniharu Kimura, Takatoshi Tatsumi
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Publication number: 20130299261Abstract: An inverted pendulum type vehicle is configured to permit a user to easily get on to the vehicle in a forward-facing posture from the rear of a vehicle body. The vehicle includes a seat for supporting a user thereon, as well as a main wheel driven by an inverted pendulum control, a vehicle body frame which rotatably supports the main wheel, and a tail wheel attached to a tail wheel arm, supported for pivotal motion on the vehicle body frame. The seat is attached to the vehicle body frame at an uppermost portion thereof. The vehicle body frame pivots rearwardly around an axle of the driving wheel together with the seat upon cancellation of the inverted pendulum control and the range of pivotal motion thereof is limited by contact thereof with the arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke MUTO, Makoto MITSUKAWA, Motoharu YOKOI, Yasuka MORI
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Publication number: 20130299259Abstract: An inverted pendulum type vehicle includes a traveling unit with a main wheel, a vehicle body frame having the main wheel supported thereon, and a pair of left and right driving units supported on the vehicle body frame for driving the main wheel. The vehicle also includes a battery unit for supplying electric power to the driving units, a seat for supporting an occupant thereon, and a telescopic strut for supporting the seat for selected upward and downward movement. The telescopic strut is disposed between the driving unit and the battery unit in a front-to-rear direction of the vehicle body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yusuke MUTO, Yasuo SHINDE, Makoto MITSUKAWA, Motoharu YOKOI, Yasuka MORI
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Publication number: 20120240895Abstract: An air cleaner structure for a vehicle includes an air cleaner is mounted on a power unit. The air cleaner case is formed in a shape elongated from a side of the internal combustion engine toward a side of the rear wheel. An intake-air outlet passage connected to an upstream end of a connecting tube is formed forward in the front of the air cleaner case. A filter member is placed rearward of the intake-air outlet passage in the case. A blowby gas return passage connected to a blowby gas return pipe of the engine, and an additional air passage are juxtaposed with each other in a vertical direction and formed forward around the intake-air outlet passage in front of the air cleaner case such that the blowby gas return passage is located below the additional air passage. The resulting structure reduces a length of piping to the engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Inventors: Takahiko SHIMIZU, Makoto Mitsukawa
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Publication number: 20120222414Abstract: An exhaust purifying apparatus achieving placement of components so as to prevent an increase in the size of the vehicle caused by the placement of the exhaust purifying apparatus while maintaining the performance of the exhaust purifying apparatus by secondary air in a saddle-ride type vehicle. An exhaust purifying apparatus of a saddle-ride vehicle includes a secondary air supply pipe of which one end is connected an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine. A secondary air control valve is connected with the other end of the secondary air supply pipe for controlling the supply of secondary air to the secondary air supply pipe. An outdoor air introduction passage is connected to the secondary air control valve, wherein an air filter for secondary air and a resonant passage are installed in the middle of the outdoor air introduction passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2012Publication date: September 6, 2012Inventors: Takahiko SHIMIZU, Makoto MITSUKAWA, Kuniharu KIMURA, Takatoshi TATSUMI
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Patent number: 8096114Abstract: An engine has a crankcase, and a cylinder which extends from an upper portion of the crankcase toward a front side. In a space which is formed at an upper side of a horizontal plane which substantially horizontally extends from a bottom surface of the crankcase, a catalyst storage chamber is arranged in such a manner that an axis of the catalyst converter is in a direction of a crankshaft. The space is arranged just below a front surface of the cylinder and forward of a front surface of the crankcase.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2008Date of Patent: January 17, 2012Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Makoto Mitsukawa, Koichiro Honda
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Publication number: 20090165448Abstract: An engine has a crankcase, and a cylinder which extends from an upper portion of the crankcase toward a front side. In a space which is formed at an upper side of a horizontal plane which substantially horizontally extends from a bottom surface of the crankcase, a catalyst storage chamber is arranged in such a manner that an axis of the catalyst converter is in a direction of a crankshaft. The space is arranged just below a front surface of the cylinder and forward of a front surface of the crankcase.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Applicant: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Makoto MITSUKAWA, Koichiro HONDA