Honda Patent Applications

ACCOMMODATION AREA MANAGEMENT DEVICE

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210304081
An accommodation area management device is configured to manage an accommodation area for accommodating a moving body and includes a reservation reception unit configured to receive a use reservation when the moving body uses the accommodation area, and an accommodation position determination unit configured to determine an accommodation position of the moving body. The reservation reception unit is configured to acquire information on the moving body when receiving the use reservation.…

FAILURE DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND FAILURE DETERMINATION METHOD FOR RELATIVE POSITION ACQUISITION SYSTEM

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210306209
An ECU in a failure determination apparatus receives a wireless LAN signal from a power-transmission-side wireless communication unit with a vehicle-side wireless communication unit and determines whether a relative position acquisition system fails based on whether predetermined expressions are established for the respective reception intensities of a low frequency signal at first to fourth power-transmission-side antennas, which are included in the wireless LAN signal.

CONTROL APPARATUS, MANAGEMENT SERVER, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210305815
The present invention provides a control apparatus configured to control a power unit, wherein the power unit comprises a battery, and a temperature adjuster configured to adjust a temperature of the battery to a target temperature at the time of charge or discharge of the battery, and the control apparatus calculates, based on information concerning a demand response plan used to adjust a power demand and supply, an incentive obtained by charge or discharge of the battery by the demand…

POWER TRADING SYSTEM AND MANAGEMENT APPARATUS

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210305812
The present invention provides a power trading system that executes power trading between a plurality of apparatuses, wherein at least one apparatus of the plurality of apparatuses includes a management unit configured to manage electric energy of a battery, and the management unit manages the electric energy of the battery by discrimination between electric energy derived from exhaustible energy and electric energy derived from renewable energy.

ENERGY SUPPLY SYSTEM AND ENERGY SUPPLY METHOD

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210305811
An energy supply system comprises a plurality of grids that include an energy supply source and demanding equipment that demands energy supplied from the energy supply source, and a first management unit that manages the plurality of grids. Each of the plurality of grids includes a second management unit configured to control the energy supply source and the demanding equipment and adjust demand and supply of energy inside the grid. The first and second management unit include: a first…

MEETING SUPPORT SYSTEM, MEETING SUPPORT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210304767
Provided are a meeting support system, a meeting support method, and a program. The meeting support system includes a meeting support device used by a first participant and a terminal used by a second participant. The meeting support device includes an acquisition unit acquiring utterance information of the first participant, a display unit displaying at least the utterance information of the first participant, and a processing unit determining whether an utterance of the first…

CONVERSATION SUPPORT DEVICE, CONVERSATION SUPPORT SYSTEM, CONVERSATION SUPPORT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210304755
A voice recognition part performs voice recognition on a voice data and generates an utterance text which is a text indicating an utterance content. A display processing part moves a position of a display text displayed on a display part, displays the utterance text as a display text in a free region generated by the movement, and fixes the display text in a section of which fixing of a display position is instructed according to an operation as a fixed text at a predetermined display…

ACCOMMODATION AREA MANAGEMENT DEVICE

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210304606
An accommodation area management device which manages an accommodation area capable of accommodating a moving body includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the moving body, a determination unit configured to determine whether the moving body satisfies a condition of not allowing entry into the accommodation area based on the information on the moving body, and a processing unit configured to instruct the outside of the accommodation area as a destination when it…

ACCOMMODATION AREA MANAGEMENT DEVICE

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210304519
An accommodation area management device includes: a reception unit configured to receive from a user of a moving body an instruction that a task is to be executed for the moving body; and a processing unit configured to perform processing of generating an accommodation plan for the moving body when the moving body is accommodated in an accommodation area. Before the moving body approaches the accommodation area and when the moving body approaches the accommodation area, the reception…

ACCOMMODATION AREA MANAGEMENT DEVICE

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210304082
An accommodation area management device is configured to manage an accommodation area for accommodating a moving body and includes a reservation reception unit configured to receive a use reservation related to use of the accommodation area of the moving body, and an entry determination unit configured to determine permission or non-permission of entry of the moving body into the accommodation area. The reservation reception unit is configured to acquire information on a size of the…

ACCOMMODATION AREA MANAGEMENT DEVICE

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210300338
A parking lot management device includes a communicator capable of communicating with a terminal device of a user of a vehicle and the vehicle, a determination unit for determining whether user information for identifying the user and vehicle information for identifying the vehicle correspond to each other when the communicator receives information for moving the vehicle from the terminal device, and a permission unit which allows the vehicle to move to a target position based on a…

GEAR CHANGE CONTROL DEVICE OF AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION FOR VEHICLE

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210301920
Provided is a gear change control device of automatic transmission for vehicles. The gear change control device of automatic transmission includes a gear change control part which performs upshift gear change control and downshift gear change control of an automatic transmission according to a shift map. When an operation of a brake operation element is detected and full closure of an accelerator is detected, the gear change control part calculates, based on a change amount of a vehicle…

WATER JACKET

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210301757
A water jacket includes: a cooling channel through which a coolant flows, the cooling channel being formed in a cylinder block in which a plurality of cylinders are formed such that the cooling channel is positioned outside the cylinders; and a cooling groove (slit) through which the coolant flows, the cooling groove being formed between adjacent ones of the cylinders. When a slit end portion is viewed in sectional view in a direction in which the cylinders are arranged, the slit end…

EXHAUST SYSTEM COMPONENT STRUCTURE

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210301711
An exhaust system component structure is provided. The structure has an exhaust passage through which exhaust of an internal combustion engine passes, is configured by a plurality of exhaust components, and includes: an upstream pipe having an upstream passage constituting the exhaust passage; a downstream pipe having a downstream passage constituting the exhaust passage; a first fixing surface provided on the upstream pipe and a second fixing surface provided on the downstream pipe,…

SADDLE RIDE TYPE VEHICLE AND CONTROL APPARATUS

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210300497
The present invention provides a saddle ride type vehicle including a sensing unit configured to sense a travel lane of a self-vehicle; and a control unit configured to control a travel position in a vehicle width direction of the self-vehicle so that the self-vehicle travels within the travel lane of the self-vehicle sensed by the sensing unit and on a side closer to an edge than a center of the travel lane.

HYBRID VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210300421
A hybrid vehicle, a control method therefor, and a storage medium which are capable of suppressing changes in an engine sound and vibration even when acceleration is performed at the time of increasing a required driving force are provided. In a hybrid vehicle capable of performing automated driving control for automatically controlling at least acceleration and deceleration of a vehicle, a rotational speed of the engine is gradually increased by a predetermined increase step while…

CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR A VEHICLE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210300378
Provided are a control device and a control method for a vehicle, and storage medium which are capable of reducing vibration, noise, and speed change shock caused by a downshift when an increase in a required driving force is predicted during automated drive. In a control device (100) for a vehicle which is equipped with an automatic transmission (TM) and capable of automated driving control, when an increase in a required driving force is predicted during the execution of the automated…

SADDLE RIDE TYPE VEHICLE AND CONTROL APPARATUS

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210300363
The present invention provides a saddle ride type vehicle including a sensing unit configured to sense a four-wheel vehicle that is present in front of a self-vehicle and is traveling in a travel lane of the self-vehicle, and a control unit configured to, in a case where the four-wheel vehicle is sensed by the sensing unit, perform follow-travel control for causing traveling of the self-vehicle to follow traveling of the four-wheel vehicle, wherein the sensing unit senses a vehicle width…

PREDETERMINED AREA MANAGEMENT DEVICE

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210300340
A predetermined area management device, configured to manage a predetermined area into which a moving body can enter, the predetermined area being an area in which the entering moving body automatically moves, the predetermined area management device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information indicating the operation state of an automatic moving function of the moving body; an operation state determination unit configured to determine whether the automatic moving…

ACCOMMODATION AREA MANAGEMENT DEVICE

Granted: September 30, 2021
Application Number: 20210300339
A parking lot management device which manages a parking lot, includes a determination unit which determines whether to restrict exit of the vehicle from the parking lot based on an entry traveling state which is a traveling state of the vehicle to be a target of exit when entering the parking lot and an exit traveling state which is a traveling state of the vehicle to be a target of exit when exiting from the parking lot when there is a request to make the vehicle exit from the parking…