Honda Patent Applications

GENERATOR, CONTROL DEVICE, AND CONTROL METHOD

Granted: October 26, 2023
Application Number: 20230344372
A generator configured to supply power to a load, including an engine, an alternator configured to be driven by the engine and to output AC power, a converter configured to convert the AC power output from the alternator into DC power, an inverter configured to convert the DC power converted by the converter into AC power and to supply the AC power to the load, and a control unit configured to variably control a value of a voltage output from the converter according to the load.

Probabilistic mission design

Granted: October 26, 2023
Application Number: 20230343225
The present invention relates to a system for evaluating a mission of a mobile entity. The system comprises a means for obtaining information on a planned trajectory, the mobile entity, mission requirements, environment and public body rules, a means for transforming the information into a symbolic, probabilistic representation to generate a probabilistic logic program, wherein facts are extracted from the information and systematically designated with names within the probabilistic…

Assistance System for dynamic environments

Granted: October 26, 2023
Application Number: 20230342635
A computer-implemented method is provided. The method calculates an importance score for each agent of the at least one other agent based on the acquired sensor data and the acquired position and motion data, generates a list comprising the at least one other agent based on the calculated importance scores of the at least one other agent, partitions the generated list in at least one partition based on the importance score of the at least one other agent, and generates a prediction…

CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

Granted: October 26, 2023
Application Number: 20230339498
A control device of a moving object includes: a controller configured to control movement of a moving object based on a specific operation performed on a portable information terminal for a user of the moving object. The controller is configured to: when executing the movement control, perform first deceleration control on the moving object in response to interruption of the specific operation, and second deceleration control on the moving object in response to approaching a target…

CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: October 12, 2023
Application Number: 20230322227
A control device that performs travel control of a vehicle, the control device includes a processor configured to acquire output information of a sensor configured to detect an object in the around of the vehicle based on a reflected wave from the object. The processor is configured to: acquire first detection point group data of the object in a first region in the around of the vehicle based on the output information of the sensor, and recognize a first specific object present in the…

REAR PART STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE BODY

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230312012
A rear part structure of a vehicle body includes: a rear side frame, extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body on an outside of a floor of a rear part of the vehicle body in a vehicle width direction; and a wheelhouse, arranged outside the rear side frame in the vehicle width direction. At least a portion of an outer wall of the rear side frame in the vehicle width direction is formed by the wheelhouse. A partition member provided within a section of the rear side frame has…

POWDER METAL MATERIAL FOR ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING WHICH IS ALUMINUM ALLOY AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING METHOD

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230313344
A powder metal material for additive manufacturing, which is an aluminum alloy, in which the powder metal material has an absorption rate of 65% or more determined by the following regression equation: Absorption rate (%)=23.5+1.9[Si]+7.4[Fe]?4.0[Cu]+109.6[Mn]+45.1[Mg]?14.5[Zn]?14.2[Ti]+2.6[Ni]?3.0[Zr]?218.1[Sc], where, [ ]represents a content (mass %) of each element.

CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230312074
A control device for a vessel, the control device comprises: an operation monitoring unit configured to monitor presence or absence of a supply of first electric power supplied from a power supply to an operation display unit for operating the vessel; a drive monitoring unit configured to monitor presence or absence of a supply of second electric power supplied from the power supply to a drive source of the vessel; and a caution control unit configured to cause a caution output device to…

REAR CARRIER FOR SADDLED VEHICLE

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230312036
Provided is a rear carrier that facilitates mass concentration when a carrier member movable in a front-rear direction is moved frontward. A rear carrier for a saddled vehicle includes a swing member and a carrier member. The swing member is supported by a grab rail fixed to a rear portion of a vehicle body. The carrier member is supported by the swing member. The swing member is swingably supported on its one end side by the grab rail, and is swingably supported on its opposite side by…

SADDLED VEHICLE

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230312032
To provide a saddled vehicle whose center stand is set up with ease in a simplified structure. A saddled vehicle includes: a center stand that retains a vehicle body upright with a rear wheel lifted off a ground surface; a swingarm that pivotally holds the rear wheel and is swingably held on the vehicle body by a swingarm pivot; a rear suspension that suspends the swingarm from the vehicle body, the rear suspension having its expansion-side damping force varied by drive of an actuator;…

CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230311761
A control device for controlling a vehicle including an external sensor that acquires surrounding information of the vehicle and a notification device capable of executing a predetermined notification to an occupant of the vehicle, the control device including processing circuitry configured to execute alarm control for causing the notification device to execute the notification, when an object that has a possibility of colliding with the vehicle exists around the vehicle, based on the…

SIDE STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE BODY

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230312003
The invention provides a side structure of a vehicle body, which realizes a pillar structure that can efficiently absorb the collision energy in the event of a side collision with a simple configuration to be capable of effectively increasing the vehicle body support rigidity in the event of a vehicle side collision. The side structure of the vehicle body includes a reinforcing member (75) joined to the upper surface of an outer sill (19b) of a side sill (19) on the inner side of an…

SIDE SILL STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230312002
A side sill of a vehicle includes an inner panel, an outer panel, and a reinforcing member arranged within a closed section formed by joining the inner panel and the outer panel. The reinforcing member includes a first reinforcing member joined to the inner panel and a second reinforcing member joined to the outer panel. The first reinforcing member and the second reinforcing member are arranged side by side so as to face each other in a vehicle width direction.

REAR PART STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE BODY

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230311995
A rear part structure of a vehicle body includes: a rear side frame, extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body outside a floor of a rear part of the vehicle body in a vehicle width direction; a front cross member, connected to a first connection part of the rear side frame and extending inward in the vehicle width direction; a rear cross member, connected to the rear side frame by a second connection part positioned on a rear side of the first connection part and extending…

REAR STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE BODY

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230311992
Provided is a rear structure of vehicle body, including a floor panel constituting a floor portion at a rear portion of a vehicle body; a rear side frame extending in a front-rear direction of the vehicle body outside the floor panel in a vehicle width direction; and a subframe installed below the floor panel and supporting suspension components. The rear side frame includes a subframe fastening portion to which the subframe is fastened, and the subframe fastening portion links the rear…

CART

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230311966
A cart includes: a body; wheels; a drive unit, driving each of the wheels; a handle, receiving a user's operation; an input detection sensor, detecting a load and/or moment applied to the handle; a rotation number sensor, detecting number of rotations of each of the wheels; and a control device, setting a target propulsive force to be output as a propulsive force from each of the wheels based on the load and/or moment, and controlling the drive unit to output the target propulsive force…

CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230311919
A control device for controlling a host vehicle includes processing circuitry configured to: recognize partition lines marking off left and right sides of a travel path on which the host vehicle travels; estimate a possibility of the host vehicle to depart from the travel path based on a position and a posture of the host vehicle with respect to the recognized partition lines; and control the notification based on the estimated possibility of departing from the travel path, the driving…

CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230311917
A control device includes circuitry configured to: detect a first parking candidate position based on external environment recognition data of a moving body and a second parking candidate position registered in advance by a user of the moving body; cause a display device to display detected parking candidate positions; receive, from a user of the moving body, selection of a target parking position from among the displayed parking candidate positions; and park the moving body at the…

CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230311865
A vehicle control device includes processing circuitry configured to: detect a predetermined travel path boundary and a travel path region for the vehicle to travel partitioned by the travel path boundary, based on surrounding information of the vehicle; and generate travel path information indicating positions of the detected travel path boundary and the travel path region based on a detection result of the detection unit. When the moving body is detected around the vehicle based on the…

VEHICLE TURNING CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF

Granted: October 5, 2023
Application Number: 20230311853
A vehicle turning control device and a method thereof are disclosed. A saturated rear-wheel lateral offset angle when a rear-wheel lateral force is saturated in turning of a vehicle is obtained from a control state amount and a motion state amount of the vehicle detected. An actual rear-wheel lateral offset angle, and a vehicle body lateral offset angular speed, are calculated from the motion state amount. A first correction amount for correcting a comparison value of the saturated…