Patents by Inventor Tomokazu Sakamoto

Tomokazu Sakamoto 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: 12187170
    Abstract: A movable body control device controls a movable body on which a worker performing a work task at a workplace is capable of boarding and which is capable of adjusting the height of a boarding part on which the worker boards. The movable body control device includes: an acquisition part that acquires, from a terminal device that is carried by the worker and that accepts information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task, information based on input information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task; and a control part that controls the height of the boarding part based on the information which is acquired by the acquisition part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sakamoto, Shinichiro Kobashi, Takeshi Echizenya, Taiki Iimura, Takayuki Nakagawara, Etsuko Takasugi
  • Patent number: 12186250
    Abstract: A movable body control system includes: a movable body on which a user is capable of riding; a support device that supports a body of the user in a lying posture; a body detection device that detects a state of the user supported by the support device; a periphery monitor device that monitors a periphery of the support device; and a determination part that determines whether or not the movable body is capable of approaching the support device based on a detection result of the periphery monitor device. In the movable body control system, in a case where the body detection device detects that the user is in a predetermined state and the determination part determines that the movable body is capable of approaching the support device, the movable body approaches the support device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Taiki Iimura, Takayuki Nakagawara, Takeshi Echizenya, Tomokazu Sakamoto, Etsuko Takasugi, Shinichiro Kobashi
  • Patent number: 12122474
    Abstract: A control device 20 of a rideable mobile body 1 determines a target speed of the rideable mobile body 1 according to at least the steering operation by a rider, and controls the travel of the rideable mobile body 1 according to the target speed. In the processing for determining a target speed, the target speed is restricted according to the positional relationship between a virtual wall set in a travel environment of the rideable mobile body 1 and the rideable mobile body 1. Thus, the comfort of the rider is secured while the travel of the rideable mobile body is restricted by the virtual wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Ozaki, Masaki Goto, Tomokazu Sakamoto, Takeshi Echizenya, Makoto Hasegawa
  • Publication number: 20240325221
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: a vehicle body frame; a drive unit, provided in the vehicle body frame and movable on a road surface; a seat, arranged above the vehicle body frame and supporting buttocks of a user; a lifting device, provided between the vehicle body frame and the seat and lifting or lowering the seat between a low position and a high position; a position specifier, provided in the vehicle body frame and detecting a position of the vehicle; and a control device, controlling the drive unit and the lifting device. The control device includes an inclination specifier that specifies a road surface inclination angle at the position of the vehicle based on a detection result of the position specifier. When the seat is at the low position and a lifting prohibition condition is satisfied, the control device prohibits lifting drive of the lifting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masaki GOTO, Tomokazu SAKAMOTO, Yuta KIMURA, Kazumasa OZAKI
  • Patent number: 12103348
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a vehicle body tilt sensor, a drive unit, and a seat. The vehicle body tilt sensor is provided at the vehicle body frame and detects a tilt angle of the vehicle body frame. The drive unit is coupled to the vehicle body frame and moves the vehicle body frame by inverted pendulum control based on the tilt angle detected by the vehicle body tilt sensor. The seat includes a seat body and a leg part. The seat is capable of being raised and lowered between a low position at which the leg part is in contact with a floor surface and a high position at which the leg part separates from the floor surface, and the seat is elastically coupled to the vehicle body frame. A seat tilt sensor which detects a tilt angle of the seat is provided at the seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sakamoto, Kazumasa Ozaki
  • Patent number: 12093061
    Abstract: A movable body control device controls a movable body which a worker who performs a work task at a workplace is capable of boarding and which is capable of traveling in a state where the worker is boarding. The movable body control device includes: an acquisition part that acquires, from a terminal device that is carried by the worker and that receives information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task, information based on input information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task; and a control part that controls a speed of the movable body based on the information which is acquired by the acquisition part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sakamoto, Shinichiro Kobashi, Takeshi Echizenya, Taiki Iimura, Takayuki Nakagawara, Etsuko Takasugi
  • Patent number: 12049103
    Abstract: A rotary drive device in a mobile body includes a main wheel and a pair of drive assemblies opposing each other and each driving the main wheel. The main wheel includes driven rollers. One of the pair of drive assemblies includes a motor, a motor case, a drive force transmission, and driving rollers. The driving rollers are in the drive force transmission along a circumferential direction, and contact at least a portion of the driven rollers from one side of the rotary drive device of the axial direction. The drive force transmission rotates to transmit a drive force of the motor to the main wheel via the driving rollers. At least a portion of the motor case opposes at least a portion of the driving rollers in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignees: NIDEC-SHIMPO CORPORATION, HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Taihei Tsubone, Kyohei Haizumi, Wataru Yada, Tomokazu Sakamoto, Takeshi Echizenya, Seiji Kato
  • Publication number: 20240109366
    Abstract: A wheel assembly includes a wheel portion and a pair of drive assemblies opposing each other with the wheel portion interposed therebetween. One of the pair of drive assemblies includes a first motor and a first deceleration assembly. The other of the pair of drive assemblies includes a second motor and a second deceleration assembly. The first deceleration assembly includes a first input shaft connected to the first output shaft. The first rotation axis and the second rotation axis are parallel to the rotation axis of the wheel portion and disposed outside the wheel portion in the radial direction of the wheel portion. The first output shaft, the first input shaft, the second output shaft, and the second input shaft extend in a direction away from the wheel portion in a direction along the rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Taihei TSUBONE, Wataru YADA, Tomokazu SAKAMOTO, Shinichiro KOBASHI
  • Publication number: 20230294788
    Abstract: A vehicle 1 includes a vehicle body frame 2, a drive unit 3 provided in the vehicle body frame and movable on a floor, a seat 4 arranged above the vehicle body frame and supporting the buttocks of a user, a lifting device 5 provided between the vehicle body frame and the seat and lifting or lowering the seat between a low position and a high position, a battery 7 provided in the vehicle body frame, and a control device 6 controlling the drive unit and the lifting device. The control device prohibits lifting drive of the lifting device in response to the seat being at the low position and a lifting prohibition condition being satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazumasa Ozaki, Tomokazu Sakamoto
  • Publication number: 20230294475
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a vehicle body tilt sensor, a drive unit, and a seat. The vehicle body tilt sensor is provided at the vehicle body frame and detects a tilt angle of the vehicle body frame. The drive unit is coupled to the vehicle body frame and moves the vehicle body frame by inverted pendulum control based on the tilt angle detected by the vehicle body tilt sensor. The seat includes a seat body and a leg part. The seat is capable of being raised and lowered between a low position at which the leg part is in contact with a floor surface and a high position at which the leg part separates from the floor surface, and the seat is elastically coupled to the vehicle body frame. A seat tilt sensor which detects a tilt angle of the seat is provided at the seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu SAKAMOTO, Kazumasa OZAKI
  • Publication number: 20230294787
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a drive unit, a direction input device, a mode switching operator, and a control device. The drive unit is provided at a vehicle body frame and is capable of translating in all directions on a floor surface and turning. The direction input device receives a direction input. The mode switching operator receives a mode switching input. The control device is configured to: switch a travel mode of the drive unit between a translation mode and a turning mode based on the mode switching input, control the drive unit to translate with respect to the floor surface based on a signal from the direction input device when the translation mode is selected, and control the drive unit to turn with respect to the floor surface based on a signal corresponding to a left or right direction from the direction input device when the turning mode is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tomokazu SAKAMOTO, Kazumasa OZAKI, Masaki GOTO
  • Publication number: 20230249590
    Abstract: A vehicle includes: a vehicle body frame; a drive unit provided on the vehicle body frame and movable on a floor surface; a seat disposed above the vehicle body frame to support buttocks of a user; a lift unit provided between the vehicle body frame and the seat to raise and lower the seat between a low position and a high position; and an operation device provided on at least one of a left side portion and a right side portion of the seat. The operation device includes an operation panel having an operation surface that faces upward, a lever extending upward and forward from a rear portion of the operation panel, and multiple operation members provided on the operation surface. At least one of the multiple operation members is disposed in a position overlapping with the lever as seen from above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Wataru YADA, Daisuke NOHARA, Sachiko YAMAMOTO, Masaki GOTO, Tomokazu SAKAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20230001314
    Abstract: A virtual experience providing system that provides a virtual experience in a virtual reality image based on a virtual world representing a real world or an artificial world to a user who rides a rideable mobile body includes a storage medium configured to store computer-readable instructions and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable instructions to generate a basic movement command which is a movement command to the rideable mobile body based on a steering operation of the user and generate an event action command different from the basic movement command when a predetermined event has occurred in the virtual world, wherein the event action command is a command for causing the rideable mobile body to perform an event action that is predetermined according to the predetermined event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Shinichiro Kobashi, Tomokazu Sakamoto, Hiroshi Iwakami, Shota Yamaguchi, Naoto Shikano, Satoshi Haneda
  • Patent number: 11534354
    Abstract: The vehicle is provided with a lift unit includes a fixed base (21) supported by a vehicle body frame, a movable base (22) connected to a seat base supporting a seat (4), and supported by the fixed base so as to be movable between a lowered position and a reference position higher than the lowered position relative to the fixed base, an engagement device (23) configured to selectively retain the movable base to the fixed base at the reference position, an electric lift mechanism (24) configured to move the movable base vertically relative to the seat base, and a control unit (6) controlling the engagement device and the electric lift mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wataru Yada, Tomokazu Sakamoto, Masaki Goto, Takeshi Echizenya
  • Publication number: 20210373561
    Abstract: A movable body control device controls a movable body on which a worker who performs a work task at a workplace is capable of boarding and which is capable of traveling in a state where the worker is boarding. The movable body control device includes: an acquisition part that acquires information based on information regarding the progress of the work task of the worker; and a control part that controls movement of the movable body based on the information which is acquired by the acquisition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Taiki Iimura, Shinichiro Kobashi, Takeshi Echizenya, Tomokazu Sakamoto, Takayuki Nakagawara, Etsuko Takasugi
  • Publication number: 20210373551
    Abstract: A movable body control device controls a movable body which a worker who performs a work task at a workplace is capable of boarding and which is capable of traveling in a state where the worker is boarding. The movable body control device includes: an acquisition part that acquires, from a terminal device that is carried by the worker and that receives information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task, information based on input information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task; and a control part that controls a speed of the movable body based on the information which is acquired by the acquisition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sakamoto, Shinichiro Kobashi, Takeshi Echizenya, Taiki Iimura, Takayuki Nakagawara, Etsuko Takasugi
  • Publication number: 20210370805
    Abstract: A movable body control device controls a movable body on which a worker performing a work task at a workplace is capable of boarding and which is capable of adjusting the height of a boarding part on which the worker boards. The movable body control device includes: an acquisition part that acquires, from a terminal device that is carried by the worker and that accepts information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task, information based on input information which is input by the worker in accordance with the work task; and a control part that controls the height of the boarding part based on the information which is acquired by the acquisition part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Tomokazu Sakamoto, Shinichiro Kobashi, Takeshi Echizenya, Taiki Iimura, Takayuki Nakagawara, Etsuko Takasugi
  • Publication number: 20210369521
    Abstract: A movable body control system includes: a movable body on which a user is capable of riding; a support device that supports a body of the user in a lying posture; a body detection device that detects a state of the user supported by the support device; a periphery monitor device that monitors a periphery of the support device; and a determination part that determines whether or not the movable body is capable of approaching the support device based on a detection result of the periphery monitor device. In the movable body control system, in a case where the body detection device detects that the user is in a predetermined state and the determination part determines that the movable body is capable of approaching the support device, the movable body approaches the support device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Taiki Iimura, Takayuki Nakagawara, Takeshi Echizenya, Tomokazu Sakamoto, Etsuko Takasugi, Shinichiro Kobashi
  • Publication number: 20210300109
    Abstract: A rotary drive device in a mobile body includes a main wheel and a pair of drive assemblies opposing each other and each driving the main wheel. The main wheel includes driven rollers. One of the pair of drive assemblies includes a motor, a motor case, a drive force transmission, and driving rollers. The driving rollers are in the drive force transmission along a circumferential direction, and contact at least a portion of the driven rollers from one side of the rotary drive device of the axial direction. The drive force transmission rotates to transmit a drive force of the motor to the main wheel via the driving rollers. At least a portion of the motor case opposes at least a portion of the driving rollers in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Taihei TSUBONE, Kyohei HAIZUMI, Wataru YADA, Tomokazu SAKAMOTO, Takeshi ECHIZENYA, Seiji KATO
  • Publication number: 20210282991
    Abstract: The vehicle is provided with a lift unit includes a fixed base (21) supported by a vehicle body frame, a movable base (22) connected to a seat base supporting a seat (4), and supported by the fixed base so as to be movable between a lowered position and a reference position higher than the lowered position relative to the fixed base, an engagement device (23) configured to selectively retain the movable base to the fixed base at the reference position, an electric lift mechanism (24) configured to move the movable base vertically relative to the seat base, and a control unit (6) controlling the engagement device and the electric lift mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Wataru YADA, Tomokazu SAKAMOTO, Masaki GOTO, Takeshi ECHIZENYA