Honda Patent Grants

Training device, training method, storage medium, and object detection device

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12249164
A training device includes a storage device that has stored a program, and a hardware processor, in which the hardware processor executes the program stored in the storage device, thereby acquiring a captured image of a road, adding a computer graphic image of an object present on a road to an actually captured image based on the captured image, and training parameters of a model to output a type of the object when an image is input using a type of the added computer graphic image as…

Excitation device for inspection of a vehicle

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12247899
An excitation device exciting a vehicle by applying a vibration to at least one of a plurality of tires of the vehicle, which includes: a first restricting part arranged in one of a front and rear direction of at least one of the plurality of tires to restrict a movement of the vehicle in the front and rear direction, a second restricting part arranged in another of a front and rear direction of the one of tires to restrict a movement of the vehicle in the front and rear direction, and…

Continuously variable transmission

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12247659
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…

Vehicle body structure

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: 12246652
A vehicle body structure includes a garnish provided on an outer side of a vehicle, an adapter joined to the garnish, a radar device supported by the adapter, and a cover joined to the garnish and covering the radar device. The garnish includes a mounting hole, a first annular rib extending to surround the mounting hole, and an annular surface defined by an edge part of the mounting hole and the first annular rib. The adapter is joined to a back side of the garnish in a position…

Outboard motor for a vessel

Granted: March 11, 2025
Patent Number: D1066210

Method and system for creating an annotated object model for a new real-world object

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12243181
A method and corresponding system for creating an annotated object model of a real world object. The method comprises providing an initial object model for an object for which an annotated object model shall be created, predicting properties of the object, visualizing a representation of the object based on the initial object model wherein the predicted object properties are displayed associated with the representation, and obtaining selection information based on at least one of a user…

Selecting device, selecting method and computer readable storage medium

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12244165
A selecting device configured to select a combination of a plurality of secondary batteries that is used in a facility of a user is configured to acquire (A) period information about a period of time desired by the user, (B) facility consumption information about power consumption of the facility, and (C) output information including information of current peak power and information about a temporal change of future peak power of each secondary battery in a secondary battery group that…

Rotary electric drive unit

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12244124
An electrical connection structure includes a case in which a first electric motor and a second electric motor are housed, and electrical equipment that controls the first electric motor or the second electric motor. The first electric motor is electrically connected to a first three-phase terminal of the electrical equipment via a connecting member. The second electric motor is electrically connected to a second three-phase terminal of the electrical equipment via the connecting member.…

Power supply system and method of power supply

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12243998
A power supply system of the embodiment includes a fuel cell which is able to generate power, a power storage device which stores the power generated by the fuel cell, a converter which converts power from the fuel cell or the power storage device and switches between supply of power from the fuel cell to an auxiliary device and supply of power from the power storage device to the auxiliary device, and a controller which controls at least the switching of the converter.

Active noise reduction system

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12243509
An active noise reduction system reduces a noise in an internal space of a mobile body. The active noise reduction system includes a controller configured to control a canceling sound output device. The controller is configured to generate a first canceling estimation signal as an estimation signal of a canceling sound at a position of an error detector based on a reference signal, generate a second canceling estimation signal as an estimation signal of the canceling sound at a head…

Front cowl for motorcycle

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: D1064937

Control device, control method, and recording medium

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12242084
A control device includes circuitry configured to: generate, based on respective pieces of imaging data obtained by a plurality of imaging devices of a moving body, a three-dimensional image indicating a space including both the moving body and surroundings of the moving body; and cause a display device to display the generated three-dimensional image. The circuitry is capable of rotation of the space in the three-dimensional image, and the circuitry changes a rotation amount of the…

Rotor and aircraft

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12241388
A rotor includes a rotatable hub, blades, and two coupling members, namely, a first coupling member and a second coupling member that couple each blade and the hub. The longitudinal directions of the first coupling member and the second coupling member lie along a tangential direction of a rotation trajectory of the hub, and the first coupling member and the second coupling member are spaced apart from each other in a radial direction of the rotation trajectory.

Gas mixing device and moving object

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12241381
A gas mixing device for a moving object including a discharge flow path that discharges an exhaust gas from a gas turbine engine. The discharge flow path includes a tubular portion, a communication passage that allows an inside of the tubular portion and the gas turbine engine to communicate with each other, and a plurality of guide portions that extend radially inward from the tubular portion and guide the cooling gas to a radially central portion of the tubular portion. The plurality…

Ship assistance device, ship assistance method, and storage medium

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12240570
A ship assistance device including a storage medium storing a computer-readable command and a processor connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable command to: calculate a pitching amount of a ship body based on a plurality of images photographed by a camera mounted on the ship body; estimate a pitching cycle of the ship body at least based on the calculated pitching amount; predict pitching of the ship body based on the estimated pitching cycle; and…

Vehicle rear portion structure

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12240524
A vehicle rear portion structure includes: a center frame that is disposed closer to a center portion of a vehicle in a vehicle width direction than both side portions of the vehicle in the vehicle width direction, that is disposed on a rear side in the vehicle, and that extends in a front-rear direction of the vehicle; and a bumper beam that is disposed on a rear side of the center frame to be next to the center frame, that is disposed at a position which overlaps the center frame when…

Grasp detection device

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12240519
A grasp detection device 6 includes: a capacitance measurer 68 configured to measure a capacitance of an electrode 60 provided in a steering handle 2 of a vehicle; a grasp detector 70 configured to detect grasp of the steering handle by a driver based on comparison between a capacitance measurement Ch_d by the capacitance measurer 68 and a grasp threshold Ch_thr; and a threshold setter 69 configured to set the grasp threshold Ch_thr based on a torque detection value Tr_d by a torque…

Mobile object control device and mobile object control method

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12240479
A hardware processor of a mobile object executes the program stored in a storage device to acquire information indicating a road situation in a traveling direction of a mobile object; to recognize whether the mobile object is moving on a roadway or a predetermined region different from the roadway; to recognize presence of a contact portion between the sidewalk and the predetermined region in the traveling direction of the mobile object; to control the speed of the mobile object at least…

V2X warning system for identifying risk areas within occluded regions

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: 12240450
There is provided a control apparatus that identifies an area for which an analysis is not required based on information of an image captured from a position of a movable object, identifies a first time period that is a time period for the movable object to reach the identified area, calculates a second time period that is an arrival time period to reach a movement area of the movable object from a position in the identified area, sets, in the identified area, a risk area where an object…

Rear bumper for an automobile

Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number: D1064949