Honda Patent Applications

TRANSPORT SYSTEM

Granted: October 10, 2024
Application Number: 20240338042
A transport system includes: a plurality of transport vehicles capable of autonomously moving between a departure place and a destination; a terminal used for inputting a transport request instruction including information about a plurality of transported objects to be respectively transported by the plurality of transport vehicles; and a server capable of communicating with the plurality of transport vehicles and the terminal. The server calculates priorities of the plurality of…

BATTERY IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, BATTERY IDENTIFICATION METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM

Granted: October 10, 2024
Application Number: 20240337711
A battery identification system includes a sensor having a sensing surface and a plurality of magnetic elements arranged in or on the sensing surface, a meter configured to measure, using the plurality of magnetic elements, a magnetic field distribution on an outer surface of a battery with the sensing surface facing the outer surface of the battery, which includes a plurality of battery cells electrically connected to each other, and a computer configured to identify the type of the…

HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240328728
A heat exchanger includes: a core portion; a first refrigerant flow path; and a second refrigerant flow path as defined herein, the first refrigerant flow path includes a first main flow path extending in a first direction, the second refrigerant flow path includes a second main flow path extending in the first direction, the first main flow path and the second main flow path are defined by a partition wall extending in the first direction in the core portion, the second fluid flows…

ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE HOUSING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333080
A rotary electric machine housing accommodates a rotary electric machine. The rotary electric machine housing has a body portion, a gas flow path through which a gas flows, an oil flow path through which an oil flows, and a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows inside. The refrigerant flow path includes a rotary electric machine heat exchange part, a gas heat exchange part, and an oil heat exchange part. An outer wall of the body portion has ribs each extending in an…

ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE HOUSING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333079
A rotary electric machine housing accommodates a rotary electric machine. The rotary electric machine housing has a body portion, a gas flow path provided with an inflow-side gas chamber and through which a gas flows, an oil flow path through which an oil flows, and a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows inside. The refrigerant flow path includes a rotary electric machine heat exchange part, a gas heat exchange part provided with an inflow-side refrigerant chamber, and…

ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE HOUSING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333078
A rotary electric machine housing accommodates a rotary electric machine. The rotary electric machine housing has a body portion, a gas flow path through which a gas flows, an oil flow path through which an oil flows, and a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows inside. The refrigerant flow path includes a rotary electric machine heat exchange part in which the refrigerant exchanges heat with the rotary electric machine, a gas heat exchange part in which the refrigerant…

ROTARY ELECTRIC MACHINE HOUSING AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240333077
A rotary electric machine housing accommodates a rotary electric machine. The rotary electric machine housing has a body portion, a gas flow path through which a gas flows, an oil flow path through which an oil flows, and a refrigerant flow path through which a refrigerant flows inside. The refrigerant flow path includes a rotary electric machine heat exchange part in which the refrigerant exchanges heat with the rotary electric machine, a gas heat exchange part in which the refrigerant…

BATTERY PACK

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240332702
A battery pack including a battery and a battery case is attached under a floor of a vehicle. The battery case includes a bottom plate and side frames. Each side frame includes a protection region, a vertical rib and a deformation region arranged in this order from inside to outside. The deformation region is provided with a first plate having a first buckling point and connected to a first portion of the vertical rib, a second plate having a second buckling point at a same position as…

BATTERY PACK

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240332701
A battery pack includes: a lower case including a bottom plate, a front wall, a rear wall, a left wall, and a right wall; and an upper cover, wherein a battery pack internal space is formed, a plurality of battery modules are an odd number and are aligned in the front-rear direction in an even number of rows in the left-right direction, at least one of the front wall and the rear wall includes: a step portion; a protruding wall portion; and a recessed wall portion, at least a part of at…

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING PROGRAM

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240329637
A management system of an autonomously movable work machine includes: a processing circuitry, in which the processing circuitry receives a work request, formulates an operation plan of the work machine based on the work request, the operation plan including a movement path of the work machine in a working area of the work machine, assigns the work request to the work machine based on the operation plan, acquires wireless communication environment data on the movement path collected by…

VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND METHOD

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240326812
A vehicle control device and method includes: a gear shift member having a parking brake, a drive gear, and a park gear; a hydraulic brake decelerating the vehicle; a vehicle speed detection member; a control switch, which, when pressed, simultaneously activating the parking brake and the park gear; a control member. When the control member determines the vehicle speed exceeds a first threshold during an operation of the control switch, the vehicle remains in a drive gear state, and the…

HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240328727
A heat exchanger includes: a core portion; a first refrigerant flow path; and a second refrigerant flow path as defined herein, the first refrigerant flow path and the second refrigerant flow path are regularly arranged tubular flow paths, the first refrigerant flow path includes a plurality of first main flow paths extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, an introduction chamber as defined herein, and a discharge chamber as…

HEAT EXCHANGER AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240328716
A heat exchanger includes: a core portion; a first refrigerant flow path; and a second refrigerant flow path as defined herein, the first refrigerant flow path includes a plurality of first main flow paths as defined herein, the second refrigerant flow path includes a plurality of second main flow paths extending in the first direction and arranged in the second direction, the plurality of second main flow paths arranged in the second direction are formed by being surrounded by the…

DRIVING APPARATUS

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240328509
A driving apparatus includes a rotary electric machine configured to output rotation in a first direction and rotation in a second direction, a fluid pump and an actuator that are configured to operate with the output of the rotary electric machine as power, and a one-way clutch provided between the rotary electric machine and the actuator. The fluid pump is configured to intake and discharge a fluid when at least the rotation in the first direction is input. The one-way clutch is…

VEHICLE DRIVING APPARATUS

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240328493
A vehicle driving apparatus includes a rotating shaft driven by the power source, a fluid pump driven by the rotating shaft. The fluid pump includes a rotor rotated by the rotating shaft, and a case. The case includes a discharge port configured to allow a fluid to be discharged therethrough, and the discharge port is provided on an inner peripheral surface of an insertion hole through which the rotating shaft is inserted. The rotating shaft includes an attachment portion fittable to a…

VEHICLE BOTTOM STRUCTURE

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240326925
A vehicle bottom structure includes: a back floor bottom panel, including a protrusion portion; and a pair of wheel houses, disposed on outer sides of the back floor bottom panel in a vehicle width direction. The protrusion portion is disposed on a central side between the pair of wheel houses in the vehicle width direction and protrudes upward in a vehicle up-down direction. The protrusion portion includes a longitudinal wall, and the longitudinal wall is formed at a front end of the…

VEHICLE BOTTOM STRUCTURE

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240326924
A vehicle bottom structure includes: a floor bottom panel, including a floor tunnel portion and a bottom panel portion; side beams, disposed on an outer side of the floor bottom panel in a vehicle width direction, and extending along a vehicle front-back direction; first and second cross members, respectively disposed on a central side and a back end side of the floor tunnel portion in the vehicle front-back direction, and extending along the vehicle width direction; and a patch…

LOWER STRUCTURE OF VEHICLE

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240326923
The disclosure provides a lower structure of vehicle in which a battery covering portion has a rigidity capable of supporting the load of an impact. The lower structure of vehicle includes: a floor base plate, including a floor beam disposed on an upper surface, and the floor beam extending in a vehicle width direction; a battery component disposed at the rear of the floor beam in a front and rear direction of the vehicle; and a battery cover portion covering above the battery component,…

CALIBRATION METHOD FOR MOVING BODY

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240326907
A calibration method for a moving body, which includes a pair of left and right omnidirectional wheels, includes: a first step of creating a rotational speed command value for four electric motors such that the moving body performs a linear translational movement or an ultra-pivotal turn; a second step of driving each motor based on the command value to move the moving body; a third step of obtaining a total number of rotations of each motor until the movement of the moving body is…

CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Granted: October 3, 2024
Application Number: 20240326875
A control device includes: a circuit configured to receive an instruction from outside a moving body by a terminal of a user of the moving body; a movement controller configured to perform movement control of the moving body based on the instruction and stop the movement control based on a stop operation for the movement control; and a drive controller configured to set an automatic stop mode in which driving of the moving body is automatically stopped based on completion of the movement…