Honda Patent Applications

BATTERY COOLING SYSTEM

Granted: September 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230299386
A battery cooling system includes a battery cooling flow path, a first inlet and outlet portion of the battery cooling flow path, a second inlet and outlet portion of the battery cooling flow path, an inflow-side three-way valve, an outflow-side three-way valve, a first supply flow path configured to connect a first outlet of the inflow-side three-way valve to the first inlet and outlet portion, a second supply flow path configured to connect a second outlet of the inflow-side three-way…

BATTERY COVER AND BATTERY COVER ASSEMBLY

Granted: September 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230299381
There is provided with a battery cover that can efficiently protect a battery from the ambient temperature environment. The battery cover comprises: a cover member that has a heat insulating property and encloses a battery mounted on a vehicle; an inlet formed in the cover member to introduce outside air into the cover member of the vehicle; and an outlet formed in the cover member to discharge the outside air introduced into the cover member from the inlet, the cover member includes a…

VEHICLE BODY CONVEYANCE SYSTEM

Granted: September 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230294968
A vehicle body conveyance system includes: an unmanned carrier conveying a vehicle body between multiple work stations; and a positioning pin standing on a work station. The unmanned carrier is provided with a driving part, a pair of gripping parts, a lifting part, and a control part. The control part is configured to: control the gripping parts, so that a left-right width between the pair of gripping parts fits a left-right width between a pair of side sills of the vehicle body, control…

VEHICLE

Granted: September 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230294787
A vehicle includes a drive unit, a direction input device, a mode switching operator, and a control device. The drive unit is provided at a vehicle body frame and is capable of translating in all directions on a floor surface and turning. The direction input device receives a direction input. The mode switching operator receives a mode switching input. The control device is configured to: switch a travel mode of the drive unit between a translation mode and a turning mode based on the…

VEHICLE BODY TRANSPORT SYSTEM

Granted: September 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230294781
A vehicle body transport system includes an unmanned carrier carrying and transporting a vehicle body between work stations; and an imaging device including an imaging part imaging a traveling route of the unmanned carrier and the surroundings of the traveling route from above, an analysis part analyzing an image captured by the imaging part, and a transmission part transmitting a signal to the unmanned carrier. When a moving object other than the unmanned carrier carrying the vehicle…

CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: September 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230294600
A control device for controlling a vehicle that includes a headlight switchable between a first state and a second state in which the headlight is able to illuminate farther than in the first state, the control device including: a processing circuitry configured to execute automatic illumination switching control for setting the headlight to the first state or the second state and to execute an out-of-vehicle notification for switching the headlight between the first state and the second…

CONTROL DEVICE

Granted: September 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230294599
A control device for controlling a host vehicle including: a processing circuitry configured to, when another vehicle traveling in a opposite direction to the host vehicle and having a possibility to collide with the host vehicle is detected in front of the host vehicle, execute an out-of-vehicle notification using a headlight based on a distance between the host vehicle and the another vehicle. When the distance is equal to or smaller than a first threshold and equal to or larger than a…

VEHICLE

Granted: September 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230294475
A vehicle includes a vehicle body frame, a vehicle body tilt sensor, a drive unit, and a seat. The vehicle body tilt sensor is provided at the vehicle body frame and detects a tilt angle of the vehicle body frame. The drive unit is coupled to the vehicle body frame and moves the vehicle body frame by inverted pendulum control based on the tilt angle detected by the vehicle body tilt sensor. The seat includes a seat body and a leg part. The seat is capable of being raised and lowered…

MOWER

Granted: September 21, 2023
Application Number: 20230292667
A mower (1) comprising: a blade (9) that mows grass; a power generation unit (5) that generates a driving force for rotating the blade (9); a housing (7) that covers the blade (9); and a milling unit (10) that subdivides grass mowed by the blade and discharged from the housing (7).

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

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230290154
A control device includes circuitry configured to: obtain an external environment recognition image representing a recognition result of a surrounding area of a moving body; obtain obstacle information representing a detection result of an obstacle in the surrounding area of the moving body; and display the obstacle information on a display device in a superimposed manner on the external environment recognition image. The obstacle information indicates a region in which the obstacle is…

LIQUID MIXING DEVICE AND LIQUID MIXING METHOD

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230285914
A liquid mixing device and a liquid mixing method are provided, which can suppress air from being mixed into liquids to generate air bubbles, and the structure is easy to clean, so that a high-quality mixed liquid can be obtained. The liquid mixing device is suitable for mixing multiple liquids and includes a stirring chamber; a supply portion, disposed on an inner surface of the stirring chamber to supply the liquids into the stirring chamber; a stirring component, disposed in the…

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230289851
An information management apparatus, comprising a transmitting unit that transmits service information on a given service to a plurality of users, and a calculation unit that for each of the users of the service, calculates a degree of familiarity with a given dealer as to the service, wherein the service information includes sub-information for each of the users to use to proceed with a procedure for receiving the service, the calculation unit calculates the degree of familiarity, based…

BATTERY PACK

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230286366
A battery pack which is disposed under a floor of a vehicle includes a plurality of battery cells, and a battery case which accommodates the plurality of battery cells, in which the battery case includes a fixing portion to which a portion of a suspension of the vehicle is fixed.

VEHICLE DOOR BEAM

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230286360
A vehicle door beam is disclosed. The vehicle door beam includes: a beam body extending along a front-rear direction of a vehicle; and a bracket joining the beam body to the vehicle door body. The bracket includes a rib formed continuously on an extension line of the bracket extending along the beam body, and the rib is continued to a position of an end of the bracket.

VEHICLE DOOR BEAM

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230286359
A vehicle door beam is disclosed. The vehicle door beam includes: a beam body extending along a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and an inner side member disposed at a vehicle inner side of the beam body. The inner side member includes: a fixing part fixed to the beam body; and a non-fixing part not fixed to the beam body and being disposed at a position in front of the fixing part in the front-rear direction.

TORSION BEAM SUSPENSION

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230286349
A torsion beam suspension includes two trailing arm portions, in which each of the trailing arm portions includes an elastic supporting portion and an extending portion, and the extending portion extends from the elastic supporting portion toward an inner side of a vehicle body in a width direction, and a torsion beam fixed to the extending portion of each of the trailing arm portions.

REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230286159
A remote control system, in which an operator remotely operates a robot having an end effector that is capable of gripping and manipulating an object, includes an acquisition part acquiring information on a state of the operator operating the robot; an end effector capable of performing multiple types of gripping methods; a gripping method table in which the gripping methods are stored; and a gripping method selector selecting the gripping method from the gripping method table based on a…

REMOTE CONTROL SYSTEM

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230286139
A remote control system includes: a coordinate origin setting part for setting coordinate origins of an operator and an end effector; an operator joint angle information acquisition part for acquiring information on a joint angle of a finger of the operator; an operator finger length measurement part for measuring a length of each link of the finger of the operator; an operator fingertip position calculation part for calculating a tip position of each finger of the operator viewed from a…

OBJECT HOLDING METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230286137
An object holding method includes: a step of determining a center of a first object assumed to be held by an end effector for a plurality of holding postures which the end effector is able to take; a step of measuring a shape of a second object based on an image in which the second object is captured from a viewpoint; a step of selecting a holding posture when the end effector holds the second object from the holding postures based on centers of the second object and the first object;…

VEHICLE DOOR REMOVAL DEVICE AND VEHICLE DOOR REMOVAL METHOD

Granted: September 14, 2023
Application Number: 20230286135
The disclosure provides a vehicle door removal device and a vehicle door removal method. The vehicle door removal device is adapted to remove a vehicle door from a vehicle body of a vehicle and includes a first robot arm on an outer side of the vehicle door; a first jig disposed on the first robot arm and having an engaging part for engaging an opening part on a window frame of the vehicle and a pair of clamping parts for clamping the vehicle in an up-and-down direction of the vehicle; a…