Honda Patent Grants

Ultrasonic transducer for a measuring device

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11965994
An ultrasonic transducer for a measuring instrument includes a housing container with a support plate and a piezoelectric element that is supported by the support plate and has a substantially circular shape. The piezoelectric element includes multiple substantially sector-shaped oscillation parts that are divided by multiple grooves that communicate with each other at the central part and extend radially. The piezoelectric element oscillates in the thickness direction A3 in the first…

Control device, control method, and computer- readable storage medium

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11968544
A control device acquires quality information indicating a correspondence relationship between a position and communication quality related to wireless communication at the position, and route information indicating a movement route of a mobile base station, specifies an area in which the communication quality is determined to be lower than a predetermined communication quality based on the quality information, and executes control for moving the mobile base station to a position at…

Display method and system

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11968352
Provided is a display method, which is executed by a display device capable of forming an image in both of an inside of a lens area and an outside of the lens area and enabling a user to visually recognize the image, the display method including displaying, by the display device, one or more objects from a predetermined area inside the lens area toward the outside of the lens area so that an object near the predetermined area is displayed in a different display mode relating to at least…

Motor apparatus, electric power unit, and working machine

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11967887
The present invention provides a motor apparatus having a motor, comprising: a fan that is rotatably supported by a shaft member of the motor, and sends, in a centrifugal direction by rotation, gas taken from an axial direction of the shaft member; and a cover member that covers the fan so as to allow the gas sent in the centrifugal direction from the fan to flow along an outer surface of the motor, wherein the cover member has a blowout port that blows out some of the gas sent in the…

Coil forming apparatus and coil forming method

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11967457
A coil forming apparatus includes: a coil winding jig that winds the belt-shaped coil, the coil winding jig including a plurality of comb-shaped grooves on an outer periphery thereof; a coil conveying mechanism that pivotally conveys the belt-shaped coil along at least a portion of the outer periphery of the coil winding jig; and guide members guide the belt-shaped coil in an arc shape while being in contact with the side ends. The guide members guide the belt-shaped coil so as to be in…

Communication control apparatus, vehicle, computer-readable storage medium, and communication control method

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11967236
A communication control apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image from an image capturing unit installed in a movable object, a reception control unit configured to control reception of risk area information including location information from another movable object, a determination unit configured to determine whether a notification target is present in a region based on the location information included in the risk area information based on the image,…

Communication control device, mobile object, communication control method, and computer-readable storage medium

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11967220
A communication control device comprises: a determination unit configured to determine whether a target has approached a mobile object based on information detected by a sensor mounted on the mobile object; and a communication control unit configured to control a communication unit that calls a call center based on a determination result by the determination unit, wherein the communication control unit causes transmission, to the call center, of first information relating to information…

Vehicle inspection system

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11967187
This vehicle inspection system comprises: a monitor that displays a simulated image captured by a camera and imitating external environment information; a target device that returns an irradiation wave from an electromagnetic sensor as a reflected wave; a simulator device that changes the external environment information by changing the simulated image or the reflected wave; and an inspection device that inspects actuators of a vehicle to be inspected on the basis of the changed external…

Pseudo defective product data generation method

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11966219
Preparing actual defective product data and non-defective product data, causing a deep generation model to learn the data and to generate latent variables in which features of the non-defective product data and the actual defective product data are mixed, causing a classification model to learn the latent variables to generate a classified non-defective product and defective product latent variable, deleting the non-defective product latent variable from the classified non-defective…

Alert system and recording medium

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11966052
An alert system includes a display device, a display control unit, and a target recognition unit. The display control unit: when the number of targets recognized by the target recognition unit is equal to or more than an upper limit number, sets a display range of a surrounding icon as a whole circular area; and in a state where the number of targets is equal to or more than the upper limit number and the display range of the surrounding icon is set as the whole circular area, when the…

Ultrasonic wave propagation member

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11965796
An ultrasonic wave propagation member, which is able to improve durability while ensuring measurement performance, is provided with an ultrasonic wave propagator including a first contact surface coming into contact with an measurement target, and a second contact surface provided opposite to the first contact surface and coming into contact with a fore end surface of an ultrasonic probe; and a holder holding the ultrasonic wave propagator and including a third contact surface coming…

Navigation device, navigation system, and route guidance method

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11965750
A navigation device includes a map display unit configured to display a map on a first display device and display a guidance route and a current position on the map, and a scale determination unit configured to determine a scale of the map to be displayed on the first display device. The scale determination unit lowers the scale as the current position approaches an intersection at which it is required to turn, and enlarges the scale as the current position moves through the…

Drive shaft and method of producing drive shaft

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11965548
A drive shaft includes a first annular wall and a second annular wall joined together via a friction-welded portion. The first annular wall and the second annular wall have outer diameters of 30 to 50 mm and wall thicknesses of 3 to 5 mm. A burr created at the friction-welded portion has a connection radius of greater than or equal to 0.5 mm, a base radius of greater than or equal to 0.5 mm, a burr base angle of less than or equal to 40°, and a burr slope length of 0.2 to 5 mm.

Flying body with a control section having a plurality of operational modes

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11964770
In a flying object, a PCU has a plurality of operation modes in which an engine and/or a motor generator is used as a driving source for a pusher propeller. In accordance with the state of the flying object, the PCU controls the engine, a clutch, and the motor generator in one of the operation modes.

Vehicle seatbelt device

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11964621
A vehicle seatbelt device of an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes circumstances around a vehicle, a steering operator that is able to adjust steering of the vehicle, a vibrator that causes a portion of the steering operator to vibrate, a seatbelt that restrains a portion of the body of an occupant of the vehicle, a tension adjustment mechanism that is able to adjust the tension of the seatbelt, and a controller that controls the vibrator and the tension adjustment…

Undercover structure

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11964618
In an undercover structure according to the present invention, a first cover part that is a lowermost part of an undercover has a first rear end positioned ahead of a front wheel axle. Further, a curved part with a predetermined curvature is formed at the first rear end of the first cover part in a side view. This generates a strong negative pressure in a region ahead of the front wheel axle 21. Accordingly, the flow rate of air flowing to each wheelhouse 23 decreases (the flow rate of…

Contactless charging system for an electric vehicle with target charge amount according to day-of-week

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11964574
A contactless charging system (1) sends electrical power to charge a battery (4) equipped to a vehicle (3). A contactless charging device (2) includes: a wireless communication device (16) which acquires travel information and use information; a target setting unit (15) which creates a charging plan including the target SOC of the battery (4), based on the information; and a charge control unit (14) which controls the sending of electrical power for battery charging based on the target…

Vehicle display control device, control method of vehicle display control device and storage medium

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: 11964563
A vehicle display control device includes a processor configured to execute computer-readable instructions to perform. The processor is configured to recognizing road markings of a road on which a host vehicle travels based on at least an output of a detection device that detects target objects present in a traveling direction of the host vehicle; causing a display device to display a surrounding situation display image including a host vehicle icon representing the host vehicle and an…

Front combination lamp for automobile

Granted: April 23, 2024
Patent Number: D1024374

Vehicle

Granted: April 16, 2024
Patent Number: 11958327
A vehicle includes a collision determination ECU determining whether a possibility of collision is present, based on a detection result of a detection sensor detecting outside of the vehicle, a motor, a boosting circuit and a battery supplying a high voltage to the motor, and an electric suspension control ECU controlling the boosting circuit and the motor, and in a case where the collision determination ECU determines that the possibility of collision is present, the electric suspension…