Honda Patent Applications

VEHICLE-MOUNTED TERMINAL DEVICE

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240313993
The disclosure provides a vehicle-mounted terminal device which can improve the conference quality of video conferences. The vehicle-mounted terminal device is installed on a vehicle and configured to conduct an electronic conference with other terminal devices. The vehicle-mounted terminal device includes a capturing device, a current position obtaining device, an associated image obtaining device, and a communication device. The capturing device is configured to capture an image of a…

VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240308553
A vehicle control device and a vehicle control method thereof are provided. When a vehicle is switched from an autonomous driving mode to a manual driving mode and an operation amount of an accelerator exceeds a preset operation amount or an operation speed of the accelerator exceeds a preset operation speed, a driving force suppression control is executed to suppress a driving force of the vehicle. When the vehicle is switched from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode,…

VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL METHOD

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240308499
A vehicle behavior control device and a vehicle behavior control method are provided in the disclosure, which includes the following components. A road surface condition detection unit configured to detect whether an uneven structure extending or spreading along a front-rear direction of a vehicle or a left-right direction of the vehicle exists on a front road surface of the vehicle. A ride comfort control unit, configured to perform ride comfort control by adjusting braking/driving…

VEHICLE

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240308394
A vehicle includes: a floor panel; a seat rail attached to the floor panel; a movable member slidably engaged with the seat rail; a seat supported by the movable member; a battery pack; and an exhaust duct having an exhaust port, wherein the battery pack includes a battery cover covering a battery module, the seat includes a seating portion, an under-seat cover member is fixed to at least one of the movable member and the seat, and slides in the front-rear direction integrally with the…

VEHICLE

Granted: September 19, 2024
Application Number: 20240308393
A vehicle includes: a floor panel; a seat rail extending in a front-rear direction; a movable member engaged with the seat rail in a manner slidable in the front-rear direction; a seat supported by the movable member; a battery pack disposed behind the seat; an intake duct having an intake port and configured to supply air taken in from the intake port to the battery pack; and a wheel house, wherein the seat rail is separated upward from the floor panel, the intake port is at least…

VEHICLE SIDE STRUCTURE

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240300582
A vehicle side structure includes: a side sill, disposed on two sides of a floor panel in a vehicle width direction, and extending along a vehicle front-rear direction; a pillar, extending upward from the side sill in a vehicle up-down direction, and including a pillar outer member disposed on an outer side in the vehicle width direction; an inner component, joined to an upper surface of the side sill and a vehicle inner side surface of the pillar outer member; and a bracket, disposed on…

CONTROL DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD IN CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240305173
A motor control device includes an MCU and a predriver configuring at least a part of a circuit for controlling driving of a motor. The MCU includes a communication timing judgment portion, judging whether or not a timing is to execute a communication between the MCU and the predriver and outputting a communication execution command when the timing is judged to be a timing to execute the communication between the MCU and the predriver; and a communication portion, executing the…

BATTERY PACK

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240304923
A battery pack includes a battery module, a battery case accommodating the battery module, and a wiring or a pipe, disposed inside the battery case. The battery case includes a bottom surface, a side wall standing from an outer edge portion of the bottom surface, and a cross member disposed across left and right side walls facing each other. The cross member includes a member main body formed by aluminum die casting together with at least a part of the bottom surface and the side wall,…

BATTERY PACK

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240304899
A battery pack is mounted on a vehicle. The battery pack has a case, battery modules placed on the case, battery cooling portions through which a refrigerant flows, a distribution pipe, and an aggregation pipe. Each battery cooling portion includes a refrigerant jacket cooling the battery modules arranged side by side in a front-rear direction of the vehicle, a supply pipe suppling the refrigerant to the refrigerant jacket, and a discharge pipe discharging the refrigerant from the…

ABNORMAL NOISE REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND ABNORMAL NOISE REPRODUCTION METHOD THEREOF

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240302245
An abnormal noise reproduction device and an abnormal noise reproduction method thereof are provided in the disclosure. The abnormal noise reproduction device includes at least one measuring device, an analysis device, and a vibration device. The at least one measuring device includes a contact microphone and an accelerometer. The contact microphone is disposed on the abnormal noise generating part of a vehicle, senses vibration sound of the abnormal noise generating part, and generates…

VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240300534
A vehicle controller is configured to: recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle; execute first control of giving a first alarm to an occupant of the vehicle in response to a first condition being satisfied; execute second control of controlling braking or steering of the vehicle and giving a second alarm to the occupant in response to a second condition being satisfied; detect an abnormality of the occupant; execute third control of decelerating or stopping the vehicle and giving a…

CONTROL DEVICE FOR AUTOMATED DRIVING OF VEHICLE

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240300519
A control device for a vehicle including a first sensor and a second sensor. The control device includes a processor configured to function as: a data receiving part, receiving sensor data from the first sensor; an occlusion detection part, detecting a presence of an occlusion around the vehicle based on the sensor data received; a target trajectory generating part, generating the predetermined target trajectory of the vehicle for automated driving of the vehicle, the predetermined…

VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL APPARATUS

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240300478
A vehicle behavior control apparatus, which can improve vehicle behavior stability, is provided. The vehicle behavior control apparatus includes a motor and a pitch angle control apparatus. The motor is connected to at least one of a front wheel and a rear wheel of a vehicle. The pitch angle control apparatus is configured to execute pitch angle control to adjust a pitch angle through adjusting a driving force of each of the front wheel and the rear wheel. The pitch angle control…

VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL APPARATUS

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240300477
A vehicle behavior control apparatus is provided, which includes a driving force generating apparatus, configured to generate a required driving force of a vehicle according to an operation of an accelerator operator by a driver; a friction braking apparatus, configured to control a friction braking force of front and rear wheels of the vehicle; a regenerative braking apparatus, configured to generate a regenerative braking force through a motor connected to the front and rear wheels…

CONTROL METHOD, CONTROL DEVICE, AND VEHICLE

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240300384
A control method of a vehicle includes: predicting a first charging time that is a charging time at a charging equipment in a case where the temperature of the battery is adjusted so that the first temperature of a first battery module having a relatively high temperature included in a battery reaches the target temperature; predicting a second charging time that is a charging time at the charging equipment in the case where the temperature of the battery is adjusted so that the second…

PARKING LOT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Granted: September 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240300360
A system includes circuitry configured to: acquire a first electric power amount that is an electric power amount of an accommodation region when controlling a temperature of a vehicle parked in the accommodation region by using an air conditioner in a parking lot; acquire an total electric power amount that is a total of electric power amounts when controlling a temperature for each vehicle by using a temperature control device of each vehicle; and set a temperature control method based…

POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240297511
A power supply system includes a battery pack including a solid-state battery cell and a restraining member, and a battery control device which controls power on charge and discharge of the battery pack. During a charge of the battery pack, the restraining member is compressed due to expansion of the solid-state battery cell, and a surface pressure applied to the solid-state battery cell is increased. During a discharge of the battery pack, the restraining member is restored due to…

Method for planning actions based on an elementary attribute space

Granted: September 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240295867
Method for operating an assistance system based on an attribute space comprises: obtaining task information defining at least one target state to be achieved; obtaining initial state information defining an initial state of an autonomous device or a user, and of at least one object involved in achieving the target state; defining a planning problem based on the task information, the initial state information and attribute information related to the object; selecting an action or a…

JOINT DEVICE

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240285419
An electric prosthetic leg includes a below-knee member, an above-knee member, a knee joint mechanism coupling the below-knee member and the above-knee member such that angles formed between the below-knee member and the above-knee member are variable, and an expansion-contraction device capable of varying the angles formed between the below-knee member and the above-knee member by expanding and contracting, in which one side of the expansion-contraction device in an extending direction…

VEHICLE BEHAVIOR CONTROL METHOD

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240286599
A vehicle behavior control method is suitable for a vehicle behavior control device. The vehicle behavior control device includes: a lateral acceleration sensor, detecting lateral acceleration occurring in a vehicle body; a wheel speed sensor, detecting a wheel speed of a wheel; a steering angle sensor, detecting a steering angle of the wheel; a steering angle lateral acceleration calculation unit, calculating steering angle lateral acceleration from the wheel speed and the steering…