Honda Patent Grants

Vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and vehicle control program

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161512
A vehicle control system includes: a partition line recognizing unit that recognizes partition lines of a road on which a subject vehicle is running; an information acquiring unit that acquires information relating to running histories of other vehicles for a section in which no partition line can be recognized by the partition line recognizing unit from an external device; and an automated driving control unit that determines a behavior of the subject vehicle and performs automated…

Fuel pressure control device for internal combustion engine

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11162449
The invention is related to a fuel pressure control device for an internal combustion engine, which controls a pressure of fuel supplied to a fuel injection valve and includes: a fuel pump, adopting the internal combustion engine as a driving source, and discharging pressurized fuel to a side of the fuel injection valve; a boost control part, setting a fuel discharge amount of the high-pressure fuel pump to a maximum value for boosting a pressure from a time when cranking starts until a…

Fuel injection control apparatus

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11162446
A fuel injection control apparatus including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform calculating a target injection time, determining a first crank angle defining a start of fuel injection and a second crank angle defining an end of fuel injection, controlling a fuel injector in a first injection mode in which the fuel is injected for the first target injection time from a first time point corresponding to the first crank angle or a second injection mode in which…

Systems and methods for a crank sensor having multiple sensors and a magnetic element

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11162444
Embodiments for crankshaft tooth sensing for a crank pulse wheel are provided. In some embodiments, a method includes identifying a first tooth characteristic of a tooth of a plurality of teeth on the crank pulse wheel. The first tooth characteristic is identified by a first sensor element. The method also includes identifying a second tooth characteristic of the tooth with a second sensor element. The method further includes identifying a tooth type for the tooth based on the first…

Hydrogen station

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11162180
A hydrogen station includes a state management apparatus that is connected to each of a plurality of systems and manages the states of the plurality of systems, and a safety control apparatus that is formed separately from the main equipment and is connected to the state management apparatus. The state management apparatus performs first watchdog control to check operations of the plurality of systems and the safety control apparatus performs second watchdog control to check an operation…

Vehicle body frame structure of saddle riding vehicle

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161564
A vehicle body frame includes a main frame that extends from a head pipe toward the vehicle rear side above an engine and a down-frame that extends downward from one end fixed to the head pipe. The main frame is assembled into a truss shape from a pair of left and right upper frames and a pair of left and right lower frames and reinforcing frames disposed between these upper frames and lower frames. Front end parts of the upper frames are fixed to the upper end side of the head pipe and…

Guard structure for saddle riding vehicle

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161563
The guard structure for a saddle riding vehicle includes a body frame, a guard member fixed to the body frame and guarding a vehicle body, a stay connecting the guard member to the body frame. The stay includes a frame connection section connected to the body frame side, a guard member connection section connected to the guard member, and a linking section that connect the frame connection section and the guard member connection section. The stay is formed in a U shape by the frame…

Vehicle body front structure

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161553
A vehicle body front structure includes a damper housing and a cross member. The cross member is connected to the damper housing to form a closed cross section with the damper housing and the cross member. The closed cross section extends in a vertical direction across a front side frame and an upper member. The cross member has a first attachment portion. A mounting member supporting a drive source of a vehicle is attached to the first attachment portion. The cross member is formed such…

Vehicle body side structure and partition member

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161551
A vehicle body side structure includes: a side sill extending in a vehicle front-rear direction; a center pillar outer part that extends upward from the side sill; a center pillar inner part arranged on a vehicle width direction inner side of the center pillar outer part; and a partition member arranged in a hollow space defined by the center pillar outer part and the center pillar inner part, the partition member extending in the vehicle front-rear direction. The partition member…

Vehicle body rear structure

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161549
A vehicle body rear structure includes: left and right rear side frames extending in a fore-and-aft direction in a rear part of a vehicle; a rear subframe attached to the rear side frames; left and right rear wheels supported by the rear subframe via respective suspensions; and a driving source mounted to the rear subframe. The driving source is arranged such that a center of gravity thereof is positioned more rearward than a rotation axis of the rear wheels. The rear subframe includes…

Wheel for automobile

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: D934770

Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a program

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161505
A vehicle control device includes a control unit, which is a control unit that determines, on the basis of the positions of a plurality of other vehicles, whether or not the position of a host vehicle lane is being correctly detected by a detection unit, and controls the host vehicle by determining that the position of the host vehicle lane is being correctly detected by the detection unit, on the basis of another vehicle existing among the plurality of other vehicles, for which a first…

Vehicle control apparatus and method

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161504
A vehicle control apparatus and method are provided. The vehicle control apparatus comprises a surrounding detection part, detecting a surrounding status of a host vehicle; and a control part, performing a moving control of the host vehicle according to the surrounding status. In a road system including a first road and a second road intersected with the first road that includes a first lane, a second lane that is an opposite lane of the first lane and a specified area arranged between…

Air-bag apparatus

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161474
An air-bag apparatus includes: a bag body that is provided on a vehicle seat and that is inflated and expanded at a time of an impact input and prevents at least an upper part of a body of an occupant seated on the vehicle seat from being separated from a seat back of the vehicle seat; an inflator that supplies a gas to the bag body at a time of an impact input; a body size detection part that detects a body size of the occupant seated on the vehicle seat; and an expansion degree…

Occupant observation device

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161470
An occupant observation device includes an imager configured to capture an image of a head of an occupant of a vehicle; an eye detector configured to detect at least a part of eyes of the occupant in an image captured by the imager; a mouth detector configured to detect at least a part of the mouth of the occupant in the image captured by the imager; and a condition estimator configured to estimate a condition of the occupant on the basis of a detection result of the eye detector and a…

Injection molded article

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161467
This injection molded article has a body part and a movable part. The body part has a first stopper part and a second stopper part, while the movable part has a movable body and a first rib and a second rib that are formed to protrude at both widthwise end parts of the movable body. A first groove and a second groove that extend in the depth direction perpendicular to the axial direction of a hinge part, are respectively formed between the movable body and the first rib and between the…

Heat-caulking device

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161310
This heat-caulking device is inserted into one or more holes penetrating a main plate having a substantially conical hollow portion, whereby one or more bosses of a blade protruding from an inner peripheral surface of the main plate toward the hollow portion are melted so as to join the main plate and the blade. A heat chip of the heat-caulking device has a substantially conical hollow main body portion, an outer peripheral surface of which conforms to the inner peripheral surface of the…

Process for producing aluminum member and aluminum member

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11161203
A process for producing an aluminum member, including irradiating a surface of an aluminum raw material member including, as a component, aluminum or aluminum alloy and unavoidable impurities with a top-hat laser beam at an intensity of from 110 MW/cm2 to 320 MW/cm2. The aluminum member includes, in sequence, a base layer containing, as a component, aluminum or aluminum alloy and having unavoidable impurities; an oxide layer containing an aluminum oxide; and a porous layer containing a…

Lawnmower mulch plug ramps to improve mulching performance

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: 11160205
A lawnmower with a mulch plug with a plurality ramps for deflecting lawn clippings out of a cutting deck with more than one depth planes. The mulch plug is configured to attach to the lawnmower by one or more attachment points to block a collector opening of the lawnmower. The plurality of ramps comprises a first ramp and a second ramp on the lower plane of the cutting deck extending downward from the mulch plug. The second ramp is positioned further in the cutting rotation of the…

Communication device

Granted: November 2, 2021
Patent Number: D934829