Honda Patent Applications

CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240288053
A continuously variable transmission includes, in a case: a drive pulley and a driven pulley each including a fixed-side pulley half and a movable-side pulley half configured to move to the fixed-side pulley half; a belt including a plurality of elements and a plurality of rings wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a parking gear provided to the fixed-side pulley half of the driven pulley; and a parking pawl configured to be fitted to the parking gear, the continuously…

CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION

Granted: August 29, 2024
Application Number: 20240288052
A continuously variable transmission includes, in a case: a drive pulley and a driven pulley each including a fixed-side pulley half and a movable-side pulley half configured to move axially relative to the fixed-side pulley half; a belt including a plurality of elements and a plurality of rings wound around the drive pulley and the driven pulley; a parking gear provided to the fixed-side pulley half of the driven pulley; a parking pawl configured to be fitted to the parking gear; a…

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…

SIDE STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240278848
A side structure of a vehicle is capable of preventing water from entering an interior of a cabin. The side structure of the vehicle includes: a roof rail, which is disposed on an outer upper section of the vehicle and extends along a vehicle front-rear direction; pillars, which extend downward from the roof rail in a vehicle up-down direction; and an outer member, which covers outer sides of the roof rail and the pillars in a vehicle width direction. The outer member is formed with…

VEHICLE ATTITUDE CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240278828
A vehicle attitude control device includes: a vehicle speed detector, detecting a vehicle speed; a travel road surface condition estimator, estimating a road friction coefficient; an actual yaw rate detector, detecting an actual yaw rate; a front wheel steering angle detector, detecting a front wheel steering angle; a standard yaw rate calculator, setting a rear wheel sideslip angle limit value, calculating a front wheel steering angle limit value according to the vehicle speed, the road…

JIG FOR POSITIONING AND ATTACHING UPPER CENTER BEAM TO VEHICLE BODY

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240270338
A jig, adapted for positioning and attaching an upper center beam to a vehicle body is provided. The jig includes a jig main body and a first moving part. The jig main body includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the jig main body is configured to be positioned and fixed to the vehicle body. The first moving part includes a first moving part substrate, the first moving part is configured to be movable in a first direction and…

ACTIVE SOUND GENERATION DEVICE

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240274117
An active sound generation device is proposed to generate a sound effect in a vehicle interior. The active sound generation device includes: a low sampling rate generation part, generating a low sampling rate signal by lowering a sampling rate; a processing frequency setting part, setting the sampling rate of the low sampling rate generation part; a high sampling rate generation part, amplifying a sampling rate of the low sampling rate signal to generate a high sampling rate signal as…

ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLER DEVICE

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240274116
An active noise canceller device includes: a cancellation sound output device, outputting a cancellation sound for a noise; noise microphones, generating noise signals; a control device, controlling the cancellation sound output device based on the noise signals. The control device executes: obtaining noise signals, selecting reference signals corresponding to the noise and an error signal corresponding to an error of the noise and the cancellation sound from the noise signals,…

ACTIVE NOISE CANCELLER DEVICE

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240274112
An active noise canceller device includes: a reference signal generation device, generating a reference signal corresponding to a noise; a cancellation sound output device, outputting cancellation sound for canceling the noise; an error detection device, detecting an error between the noise and the cancellation sound and generating an error signal corresponding to the error; and a control device, controlling the cancellation sound output device that further including: a reference signal…

WORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240272628
Provided is a work management system. The work management system manages an operating status of a tool of a worker and includes: a target object arranged on a tool; and a sensor capable of detecting the target object. The target object is movable such that it faces the sensor.

VEHICLE FRONT STRUCTURE

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240270321
A vehicle front structure includes: a floor panel; a dash panel including a curved part curved toward the floor panel at a lower part of the dash panel; a front frame, disposed on a vehicle inner side of the dash panel, and extending along the dash panel to the floor panel; a cross member, disposed on the vehicle inner side of the dash panel, and extending downward from the front frame toward an outer side; and a stiffener, disposed on a vehicle outer side of the dash panel, and…

ATTACHMENT STRUCTURE FOR ALIGNMENT OF CENTER BEAM AND HOOD

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240270319
An upper center beam attachment structure includes an upper center beam and a first stay. The upper center beam extends in a third direction, and has a center beam attachment side surface facing the third direction. The first stay extends in a first direction and a second direction, and has a first stay attachment side surface facing a direction opposite to the third direction. One of the center beam attachment side surface and the first stay attachment side surface includes a clearance…

Vehicle Front Structure

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240270316
A vehicle front structure includes: a floor panel, disposed on a lower end side of a vehicle; a side sill, disposed on each side of the floor panel in a vehicle width direction, and extending along a vehicle front-rear direction; a pillar, disposed above the side sill, and extending in a vehicle upper-lower direction; a dash panel, disposed at a front of the side sill and the pillar to be erected upward toward a front from the floor panel, and partitioning a vehicle compartment and a…

TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240270045
A battery temperature control system includes a battery temperature control circuit, a high temperature refrigerant circuit radiating heat from a refrigerant, a low temperature refrigerant circuit absorbing heat into the refrigerant, a refrigeration cycle circuit used for an air conditioner of the vehicle, a first valve mechanism switching between a high connection state where the battery temperature control circuit and the high temperature refrigerant circuit communicate with each other…

TEMPERATURE CONTROL SYSTEM

Granted: August 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240262167
A temperature control system is mounted on a vehicle. The temperature control system includes a PU cooling circuit configured to allow a first refrigerant to flow therethrough and adjust a temperature of a power unit, a refrigeration cycle circuit, which is used for air conditioning, configured to allow a second refrigerant to flow therethrough, a first heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the first refrigerant in the PU cooling circuit and the second refrigerant in the…

VEHICLE, NOTIFICATION METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM, AND NOTIFICATION DEVICE

Granted: August 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240262457
An electric bicycle (10), which is a vehicle including a crank pedal (79) which receives an input from a leg of a rider, a rear wheel (78) to which power input to the crank pedal (79) is transmitted, and a motor (M) which outputs power to be transmitted to the rear wheel (78), is switchable between an EAB driving state as a first driving state in which the rear wheel (78) is driven by at least the power input to the crank pedal (79), and an EV driving state as a second driving state in…

STRUCTURAL MEMBER AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING STRUCTURAL MEMBER

Granted: August 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240262430
A structural member includes: a wall including a first side wall and a second side wall; a space surrounded by the wall; and a plurality of ribs provided in the space and coupling the first side wall and the second side wall, wherein the plurality of ribs include: a plurality of columnar first ribs which couple the first side wall and the second side wall, a plurality of columnar second ribs which couple the first side wall and the second side wall, a plurality of columnar third ribs…

COMPUTATION APPARATUS AND VEHICLE

Granted: August 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240262421
An on-vehicle computation apparatus, comprising a first detection unit configured to detect a travelable route on which a self-vehicle is travelable, a second detection unit configured to detect a driving operation input to the self-vehicle, the driving operation including a steering operation, a steering assist unit configured to assist the steering operation so that the self-vehicle travels along the travelable route detected by the first detection unit, a specification unit configured…

ENERGY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR AUTONOMOUS WORK ROBOTS

Granted: August 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240262228
The present invention relates to a method for determining a schedule for charging an energy storage device (13) of an autonomous work robot (1). The method comprises a step (S1) of acquiring a work schedule of the autonomous work robot and a step (S3) of determining the charging schedule based on the work schedule in order to improve a cost function that is optimal when an optimal amount of work time within the work schedule is achieved.

VEHICLE DRIVING APPARATUS

Granted: August 8, 2024
Application Number: 20240262174
A vehicle driving apparatus (1) integrates an electric motor (10) that is a drive source of a vehicle (100), a power conversion device (30) that is electrically connected to the electric motor (10), and a power transmission mechanism (50) that transmits rotation of power from the electric motor (10). An axial direction of a rotating shaft of the electric motor (10) is arranged in a vehicle width direction. The power conversion device (30) and the power transmission mechanism (50) are…