Honda Patent Grants

Power-supply control system and power-supply control method

Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number: 11976500
A power-supply control system includes: a lock control unit that controls a door-lock device; and a travel control unit that controls a travel operating unit related to either driving the power of the vehicle, braking the vehicle, or steering the vehicle. A lock high-level control unit, in a state in which supply of electric power to the lock control unit, the travel operating unit, and the travel control unit is stopped, while the first trigger signal is not outputted from an operation…

Detachable fog light unit

Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number: 11975650
Provided is a fog light unit of a vehicle that facilitates attachment and detachment of a light section attached to the vehicle body and is excellent in operability of the portable light. A fog light unit includes a base fixed to a body of the saddle vehicle and a light section that is detachable from the base. The light section has a built-in battery. The base and the light section are connected with a slide mechanism including a guide rail and an engaging portion that slides along the…

Vehicle seat and method of installation

Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number: 11975644
A vehicle assembly includes a vehicle body including a side body component and a transverse body component, and a vehicle seat attached to the each of the side and transverse body components. The vehicle seat includes a seat main frame including an attached seat back, a side member attached to the seat main frame, the side member defining an outboard bolster for the seat back and an armrest, and a seat base attached to the seat main frame. A first connection bracket is secured to the…

Resin curing device and resin curing method

Granted: May 7, 2024
Patent Number: 11975356
Provided is a resin curing device capable of improving work efficiency when curing a liquid resin. A controller (2) of a resin curing device (1) controls opening degrees of three valves (51 to 53) so that a gas flow passage becomes a circulation passage (40) when an execution condition of an operation of feeding air to a curing furnace (10) is satisfied, and controls the opening degrees of the three valves (51 to 53) so that the gas flow passage becomes a bypass passage (41) when the…

Fuel production system

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970667
A fuel production system 1 for producing a liquid fuel from biomass feedstock includes a gasification furnace 30 that gasifies biomass feedstock to produce a syngas including hydrogen and carbon monoxide; a liquid fuel production unit 4 that produces a liquid fuel from the syngas produced by the gasification furnace 30; an electrolysis unit 60 that produces hydrogen from water using electric power generated using renewable energy; a hydrogen tank 62 that stores the hydrogen produced by…

Information processing device, moving object, computer-readable storage medium, and information processing method

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11974157
An information processing device, having a communication unit for wirelessly communicating with an external device, includes: a throughput measurement unit for measuring communication throughput with the external device; a throughput prediction unit for predicting future communication throughput by using at least data of the measured throughput; a communication control unit for controlling data communication with the external device based on the predicted throughput; a communication…

Electric transmission for an electric lawnmower

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11973396
An electric transmission for an electric lawnmower is disclosed. The electric transmission is adapted to operatively connect to a plurality of wheels for driving the electric lawnmower over a ground surface. The electric transmission includes an electric motor and a housing encasing the electric motor. The housing includes a cylindrical body defining a chamber for receiving the electric motor, an inlet conduit, and an outlet conduit. The inlet conduit is connected to the cylindrical body…

Negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the same

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11973210
To provide a negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, by which the structural deterioration of the electrode is suppressed and cycle characteristics can be improved by absorbing the expansion and contraction of a silicon-based active material placed in the inside of a current collector made of porous metal, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including the same. A negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary batteries, having a current…

High-pressure tank and manufacturing method of the same

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971139
This high-pressure tank includes a resin liner constituting a hollow fluid filling part, a ferrule including a supply/discharge port which communicates with an internal space of the liner and a flange part which protrudes outward in a radial direction from a circumferential region of the supply/discharge port and abuts on the liner, and a reinforcing layer made of a fiber reinforced resin attached to cover across the liner and an outer circumferential surface of the flange part, in which…

Grommet

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971104
A grommet G according to the present invention is provided with, on the outer side of a second flexible portion 22, a padding portion 4. With this, of a pressing force F which acts from the cylindrical base part 1 side to the seal portion 3 side, a panel parallel component F1 parallel to a dash panel DP is hardly transmitted. On the other hand, a panel vertical component F2 vertical to the dash panel DP is easily transmitted. Consequently, the panel vertical component F2 becomes…

Bicycle exercise measurement device and bicycle

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970243
An exercise measurement device comprises a housing for attaching to a frame of a bicycle, a generator, an annular rotational input member for rotationally driving the generator, the rotational input member being rotatably mounted on the housing and positioned around a crank axis line, a connecting member connecting the rotational input member to the crankshaft or the crank arm in a torque transmitting relationship, a sensor for detecting at least one of electric current of the generator,…

Tool assembly and a method for mounting a tailgate to a car body using the tool assembly

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970230
A tool assembly for mounting a tailgate to a car body is provided. The tool assembly includes a bracket adapted to engage with an overhead structure and a frame movably coupled to the bracket and configured to move in a vertical direction relative to the bracket. The tool assembly also includes a linkage mechanism movably coupling the frame with the bracket and configured to maintain the frame parallel to the bracket during the vertical movement of the frame. Further, a pair of torque…

Abnormality determination device, abnormality determination method, vehicle state estimation device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970176
In an abnormality determination device for determining presence or absence of an abnormality of a 6-axis inertial measurement sensor installed in a vehicle to detect a forward-backward acceleration, a lateral acceleration, a vertical acceleration, a roll rate, a pitch rate, and a yaw rate of the vehicle, the abnormality determination device includes: a 3-axis inertial measurement sensor that detects the forward-backward acceleration, the lateral acceleration, and the yaw rate; and an…

Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and program

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970162
Provided is a vehicle control device including: a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding situation of a vehicle, and identifies an interrupting vehicle trying to cut in a lane of the vehicle; a driving controller that controls steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of the vehicle by a driver; and a mode determiner that determines a driving mode of the vehicle as one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a…

Vehicle control system

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970159
Provided is a vehicle control system for avoiding a collection between a right-turning vehicle and a straight-through vehicle without decreasing comfort for an occupant. In the system, a first vehicle V1 and a second vehicle V2 retain high-precision map data for identifying a traveling lane. When the first vehicle V1 traveling in an autonomous driving mode intends to turn right from a right turn lane at an intersection ahead based on the high-precision map data, the first vehicle V1…

Vehicle control system and application execution device

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970134
A vehicle control system includes a processing device provided in a vehicle, an application unit (app unit) implemented by execution of an application program by the processing device, a function restriction determining unit determining whether function restriction on the app unit is to be performed based on a used key code, and a function restriction applying unit instructing the app unit to apply a determination result of the determination. The function restriction determining unit…

Information processing apparatus, information processing system, computer readable recording medium and information processing method

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970080
Provided is an information processing apparatus distributed in a member configured to be removable in a mobile object, the information processing apparatus including: a type information obtaining unit, configured to obtain type information to distinguish at least one of a type and an application of the mobile object, when the member is installed in the mobile object; and a mobile object determination unit, configured to determine at least one of a type and an application of the mobile…

Suspension device

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11970035
The suspension device for vehicles includes: an electric damper which operates by electricity; a fluid pressure damper which operates by hydraulic pressure; a road-surface state detector which detects a road-surface state ahead of a tire of a vehicle; and a controller which causes at least one to operate among the electric damper and the fluid pressure damper, based on a detection result of the road-surface state detector.

Side under spoiler for a vehicle

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: D1024872

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…