Patents by Inventor Tomoki MUROZONO
Tomoki MUROZONO 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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Patent number: 11878552Abstract: Provided is a wheel (6a) in which a disk (62) includes a first rib (62a) extending in a radial direction, and protruding out on one side in a direction of a central axis a1. A hub (61) of the wheel (6a) includes a first blade portion (61d1) extending in the radial direction. At least one of a pair of side surfaces of the first rib (62a) is inclined relative to a plane including the central axis a1 of the disk (62), and the first blade portion (61d1) is fixed to the inclined side surface on one side of the central axis a1.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yoshihiro Kawahara, Tomoki Murozono, Yasuhiro Toguchi, Nobuyuki Shibutani
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Publication number: 20230294968Abstract: A vehicle body conveyance system includes: an unmanned carrier conveying a vehicle body between multiple work stations; and a positioning pin standing on a work station. The unmanned carrier is provided with a driving part, a pair of gripping parts, a lifting part, and a control part. The control part is configured to: control the gripping parts, so that a left-right width between the pair of gripping parts fits a left-right width between a pair of side sills of the vehicle body, control the lifting part to lift up the vehicle body to separate the positioning hole of the vehicle body from the positioning pin; control the driving part to move the unmanned carrier to another work station, and control the lifting part to lower the vehicle body to insert the positioning hole through the positioning pin standing on the another work station.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuhei KONDO, Tomoki MUROZONO
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Patent number: 11458631Abstract: A vehicle transport apparatus is formed by a first robot and a second robot that enter underneath a vehicle, lift up wheels of the vehicle, and travel. The first robot and the second robot each include a distance sensor that detects a distance between the corresponding robot and an object near the corresponding robot, and a robot computing section that controls a travel operation and a loading operation of the corresponding robot. When the vehicle is to be lowered in a parking region, the robot computing section adjusts a parking position of the vehicle based on information detected by the distance sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoto Shikano, Tomoki Murozono, Shuhei Kondo
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Patent number: 11447025Abstract: When it is detected that the charging of a battery is finished, a server transmits transport-out instructions for a vehicle to a vehicle transport apparatus, and when receiving the transport-out instructions transmitted from the server, the vehicle transport apparatus transports the vehicle, for which the charging of the battery is finished, out of a charging space.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoto Shikano, Tomoki Murozono, Shuhei Kondo
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Publication number: 20220282512Abstract: According to an embodiment, a management system includes a vehicle management device configured to manage parking of a vehicle in a parking space and delivery of the vehicle from the parking space, and a vehicle conveying device configured to be able to convey the vehicle in forward-backward and widthwise directions of the vehicle. The vehicle management device includes a controller configured to control the vehicle conveying device so that the vehicle is conveyed to the parking space when a request for parking the vehicle located within a section where parking in the parking space is able to be requested has been received.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Naoto Shikano, Tomoki Murozono, Shuhei Kondo, Koji Masuda, Ryoma Taguchi
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Patent number: 11383383Abstract: A vehicle transport apparatus is formed by a first robot and a second robot that enter underneath a vehicle, lift up wheels of the vehicle, and travel. The first robot and the second robot each include omnidirectional wheels and each further include a right lifting arm and a left lifting arm that are freely rotatably movable between storage positions (right storage position and left storage position) where tips thereof are pointed toward a center of a body in a width direction and expanded positions (right expanded position and left expanded position) where the tips thereof are pointed toward the outside of the body in the width direction.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Naoto Shikano, Tomoki Murozono, Shuhei Kondo
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Publication number: 20210393459Abstract: Provided is a wheel (6a) in which a disk (62) includes a ring-shaped rim (60) on which a tire (6b) is fitted, and a disk (62) having a flat circular shape and disposed on an inner circumference of the rim (60). The disk (62) includes a first rib (62a) and a second rib (62b) which extend in a radial direction of the disk (62). A width of each of the first rib (62a) and the second rib (62b) in a circumferential direction of the disk (62) increases toward an outer circumferential side of the disk (62).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWAHARA, Tomoki MUROZONO, Yasuhiro TOGUCHI, Nobuyuki SHIBUTANI
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Publication number: 20210315752Abstract: Provided is a wheel (6a) in which a disk (62) includes a first rib (62a) extending in a radial direction, and protruding out on one side in a direction of a central axis a1. A hub (61) of the wheel (6a) includes a first blade portion (61d1) extending in the radial direction. At least one of a pair of side surfaces of the first rib (62a) is inclined relative to a plane including the central axis a1 of the disk (62), and the first blade portion (61d1) is fixed to the inclined side surface on one side of the central axis a1.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Yoshihiro KAWAHARA, Tomoki MUROZONO, Yasuhiro TOGUCHI, Nobuyuki SHIBUTANI
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Publication number: 20200269425Abstract: A vehicle transport apparatus is formed by a first robot and a second robot that enter underneath a vehicle, lift up wheels of the vehicle, and travel. The first robot and the second robot each include omnidirectional wheels and each further include a right lifting arm and a left lifting arm that are freely rotatably movable between storage positions (right storage position and left storage position) where tips thereof are pointed toward a center of a body in a width direction and expanded positions (right expanded position and left expanded position) where the tips thereof are pointed toward the outside of the body in the width direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Naoto SHIKANO, Tomoki MUROZONO, Shuhei KONDO
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Publication number: 20200269426Abstract: When it is detected that the charging of a battery is finished, a server transmits transport-out instructions for a vehicle to a vehicle transport apparatus, and when receiving the transport-out instructions transmitted from the server, the vehicle transport apparatus transports the vehicle, for which the charging of the battery is finished, out of a charging space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Naoto SHIKANO, Tomoki MUROZONO, Shuhei KONDO
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Publication number: 20200269427Abstract: A vehicle transport apparatus is formed by a first robot and a second robot that enter underneath a vehicle, lift up wheels of the vehicle, and travel. The first robot and the second robot each include a distance sensor that detects a distance between the corresponding robot and an object near the corresponding robot, and a robot computing section that controls a travel operation and a loading operation of the corresponding robot. When the vehicle is to be lowered in a parking region, the robot computing section adjusts a parking position of the vehicle based on information detected by the distance sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Naoto SHIKANO, Tomoki MUROZONO, Shuhei KONDO