Honda Patent Grants

Sliding door structure

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12109873
A wall surface of a reinforcing bracket is provided with engagement holes (engaged portions) on a front side and a rear side, respectively. A lower arm of a front door and a lower arm of a rear door are each provided with an engagement projection (engaging portion) that engages with an engagement hole when the front door and the rear door fully close.

Azimuth estimation device

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12111159
A sensor bias estimation device for estimating a bias of a yaw angular velocity sensor of a vehicle, includes: a bias estimation unit that acquires a yaw angular velocity integrated value by integrating a yaw angular velocity acquired from a yaw angular velocity sensor, acquires a GNSS azimuth from a GNSS unit which calculates, as the GNSS azimuth, an azimuth of the vehicle based on a GNSS signal, and acquires an estimated bias value based on an azimuth difference which is a difference…

V-type engine and work machine

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12110815
A V-type engine includes an engine body including a crankcase configured to rotatably support a crankshaft, and a first and second cylinder banks extending from the crankcase, a first exhaust pipe connected to the first cylinder bank; a second exhaust pipe connected to the second cylinder bank; a merging pipe connected to the first and second exhaust pipes; a first catalyst accommodated in the first exhaust pipe; a second catalyst accommodated in the second exhaust pipe; and a muffler…

Hybrid aircraft

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12110123
A hybrid aircraft that flies by using a plurality of rotors (takeoff and landing rotors and cruise rotors) includes a generator, a battery charged with power generated by the generator, a plurality of electric motors that rotate the respective rotors by the power generated by the generator and power supplied from the battery, and a controller that sets a target remaining capacity of the battery according to a flight state of the aircraft and controls charging and discharging of the…

Power supply system, flying object, and method for controlling power supply system

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12110122
A power supply system includes: a power converter for converting electric power of any one of a plurality of batteries and supplying the converted electric power to one or more second loads; a switch capable of selectively connecting any one of the plurality of batteries to the power converter; and a controller for comparing remaining capacities of the respective batteries, and when the difference between the highest remaining capacity and the lowest remaining capacity exceeds a…

Car body panel structure

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12110062
A car body panel structure includes a stress relieving part disposed on the car body panel and located between multiple connecting sides for connecting the car body panel and the frame component.

Autonomously navigating vehicle

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12110059
A suspension mechanism has a tube member that is movably attached to an attachment shaft, a first attachment shaft retaining member provided on the chassis to swingably retain the attachment shaft with an outer peripheral surface of the tube member abutted on its inside surface, a shaft lower end portion of slip surface shape provided at lowermost part of the attachment shaft, a second attachment shaft retaining member provided on the chassis below the first attachment shaft retaining…

System and method for completing trajectory prediction from agent-augmented environments

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12110041
A system and method for completing trajectory prediction from agent-augmented environments that include receiving image data associated with surrounding environment of an ego agent and processing an agent-augmented static representation of the surrounding environment of the ego agent based on the image data. The system and method also include processing a set of spatial graphs that correspond to an observation time horizon based on the agent-augmented static representation. The system…

Airbag apparatus and airbag system

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12109972
An airbag apparatus includes: a first left chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front left pillar which is located on a left side with respect to a vehicle width direction of a vehicle; a second left chamber that is expandable on the first left chamber; a first right chamber that is expandable so as to cover an outer surface of a front right pillar which is located on a right side with respect to the vehicle width direction of the vehicle; a second right…

Control device, control method, and recording medium

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12109886
A control device includes a first accumulation unit configured to accumulate first energy, a second accumulation unit configured to accumulate second energy different from the first energy, and a supply unit configured to supply either or both of second energy obtained by converting first energy accumulated by the first accumulation unit and second energy accumulated by the second accumulation unit to an external device. The amount of second energy that is supplied from the supply unit…

Control device, robot system, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: 12109706
A control device includes a target position setting part, a trajectory estimation part, and a target position selector. The target position setting part determines a target position of an actor of a robot based on a form of an object located in an operating environment of the robot. The trajectory estimation part estimates a predicted trajectory of the actor based on motion of the actor up to the present, and estimates a trajectory of the actor from a current position to the target…

Front combination lamp for an automobile or replica

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: D1046217

Manned aircraft

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: D1045752

Wheel for a vehicle

Granted: October 8, 2024
Patent Number: D1045744

Object recognition device, object recognition method, and storage medium

Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number: 12106584
An object recognition device of an embodiment includes a processor configured to execute a program to set a high-resolution region to be subjected to a process on a first image obtained by capturing an image of surroundings of a vehicle at a higher resolution than other regions in the first image based on information on the surroundings of the vehicle, and recognize an object located in the surroundings of the vehicle by processing an image corresponding to the set high-resolution region…

Determination device, moving object, determination method, and computer-readable storage medium

Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number: 12108254
A determination device includes: a signal determination unit configured to determine whether a signal flowing on a communication network in a moving object is abnormal; a transmission source determination unit configured to determine, when the signal determination unit determines that the signal flowing on the communication network is abnormal, whether a communication device which is a transmission source of the abnormal signal is normal; and an attack determination unit configured to…

Data acquisition device

Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number: 12107598
The disclosure provides a data acquisition device. The data acquisition device includes a sensor that detects a physical quantity as analog data; a digital storage circuit that stores the physical quantity as digital data; a difference circuit that calculates a difference between a previous value of the physical quantity stored in the digital storage circuit and a current value of the physical quantity detected as analog data; and a comparison circuit that compares the difference with a…

Power supply circuit and rotary electric machine system

Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number: 12107462
A power supply circuit includes a first and second circuits connected to a first and second phase windings of a rotary electric machine, respectively. The first circuit includes first to fourth arms and a first switch. The midpoints of the first and second arms are connected to respective ends of a first winding unit, the midpoints of the third and fourth arms are connected to respective ends of a second winding unit, and the first switch is connected between the midpoints of the second…

Control apparatus, movable object, control method, and computer readable storage medium

Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number: 12106669
A control apparatus includes a risk area identification unit for identifying a risk area outside a movable object with respect to a movement of the movable object based on an image captured by an image capturing apparatus mounted on the movable object, and a transmission control unit for performing control to transmit risk area information including position information of the risk area, and precision information related to a calculation precision of the position information to an…

Driving assistance system, driving assistance method, and storage medium

Granted: October 1, 2024
Patent Number: 12106585
Provided is a driving assistance system including a storage device having a program stored therein and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor executes the program stored in the storage device, to thereby recognize an object which is present outside of a vehicle on the basis of a detection result of at least one of a radar device and an imaging device which are mounted in the vehicle, perform driving assistance for the vehicle on the basis of a recognition result, and…