Honda Patent Grants

Rear wheel and foot peg linkage mechanism for personal transport device

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275482
A personal transport device convertible between a riding configuration and a stowed configuration is described. In one embodiment, a rear wheel and foot peg linking mechanism for the personal transport device includes foot pegs, including a first peg and a second peg, and a gear mechanism connected to the foot pegs. The gear mechanism is configured to rotate to move the foot pegs between an open position and a closed position. The rear wheel and foot peg linking mechanism also includes…

Cooling structure of vertical motor

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278540
A vertical motor with a cooling structure for an electrical operation machine is provided. The vertical motor includes a driving shaft, having a rotational axis and arranged along a vertical direction; a rotor, rotating with the driving shaft; a stator, arranged around the rotor; a winding, arranged around the stator; a housing, having a wall portion and a bottom portion and accommodating the driving shaft, the rotor and the stator; and an oil sump, provided on the bottom portion of the…

Electric power unit and working machine

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278538
The present invention provides an electric power unit that is mounted on a mounting object, comprising a motor; and electrical equipment for driving the motor, wherein the motor has a first attachment portion that is attached to the mounting object, and a second attachment portion to which the electrical equipment is attached.

Positive electrode and electricity storage device

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278360
Provided is a positive electrode including: a positive electrode current collector; and a positive electrode material mixture layer including a positive electrode active material and dielectric particles, the dielectric particles including ionically-conductive particles and non-ionically-conductive particles. Also provided is an electricity storage device including: the positive electrode; a negative electrode; and an electrolytic solution.

All-solid-state battery and method of producing all-solid-state battery

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12278340
An all-solid-state battery (1) includes a positive electrode (20) in which a first current collector layer (21) and a first active material layer (22) containing at least a solid electrolyte are laminated, a negative electrode (30) in which a second current collector layer (31) and a second active material layer (32) containing at least a solid electrolyte are laminated, and a first solid electrolyte layer (41) disposed between the first active material layer (22) and the second active…

Information processing apparatus, work management system, and work management method

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12277521
An information processing apparatus manages work performed in a work region. An acquisition unit acquires information regarding a work result of the work region. An evaluation unit evaluates work performed in the work region based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit. An identifying unit identifies a work subject that has performed work in a region for which an evaluation is performed by the evaluation unit.

Control device and control method for power unit

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12276245
A control device for a power unit connected to a motor that starts an internal combustion engine, the power unit having a plurality of batteries connected in parallel with each other and which are configured to supply electrical power from the plurality of batteries to an electrical load other than the motor, wherein the control device comprises a detection unit that detects a residual mount of electrical power of each of the plurality of batteries, a comparison unit that compares the…

Management system, management device, management method, and storage medium

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12276131
According to an embodiment, a management system includes a vehicle management device configured to manage parking of a vehicle in a parking space and delivery of the vehicle from the parking space, and a vehicle conveying device configured to be able to convey the vehicle in forward-backward and widthwise directions of the vehicle. The vehicle management device includes a controller configured to control the vehicle conveying device so that the vehicle is conveyed to the parking space…

Control device for flight vehicle

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275531
A flight controller of a flight vehicle includes an electric motor control unit for controlling each of a plurality of electric motors, and in a case where the plurality of electric motors are driven by electric power stored in a battery or in a case where the battery is charged with electric power generated by a generator, the electric motor control unit controls the plurality of electric motors in accordance with the state of the battery.

Handlebar latching mechanism for personal transport device

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275483
A compact personal transport device convertible between a riding configuration and a stowed configuration is described. In one embodiment, a steering assembly for the compact personal transport device includes a telescopic steering shaft, a neck disposed at a top of the telescopic steering shaft, and a rotatable collar connected via a rotation mechanism to the neck. A handlebar is secured to the rotatable collar and the steering assembly also includes a handlebar latching mechanism. In a…

Inverted pendulum type vehicle, vehicle control system, vehicle control method, and non-transient computer-readable recording medium

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275481
The disclosure allows an occupant to control a vehicle as needed for the vehicle that automatically moves to a destination. An inverted pendulum type vehicle that travels while balancing an inverted pendulum type body includes: an operation input part that receives a driving operation of its own vehicle by a weight shift of an occupant; and a movement control part that causes the own vehicle to start automatic movement on a predetermined route at a predetermined time. The movement…

Mobile object control device, mobile object control method, and storage medium

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275429
According to an embodiment, a mobile object control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a mobile object on the basis of a first image captured, an action plan generator configured to generate a future action plan of the mobile object on the basis of a recognition result, and a driving controller configured to control at least one of steering and a speed of the mobile object on the basis of the action plan generated. The recognizer recognizes a…

Vehicle control system, vehicle, and control method

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275421
A vehicle control system includes a plurality of slave ECUs, and a core ECU including a gateway function for relaying data communication among the plurality of slave ECUs and between the plurality of slave ECUs and an external apparatus. The vehicle control system accepts operation requests from a plurality of systems that makes a request for an operation to an operating unit equipped in a vehicle and performing an operation based on an operation request. The operation requests from the…

Vehicle control apparatus

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275408
A vehicle control apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform generating an action plan so that the subject vehicle moves from a first lane to a second lane when it is determined that the lane change is necessary. The target route includes a specific road in which the second lane is separated from the first lane up to a first point ahead of a current position, the second lane is adjacent to the first lane from the first point to a second point ahead of the first point, and…

Control device for automatic stop of vehicle

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275385
A control device for automatic stop of a vehicle, wherein the vehicle includes a radar and a sonar, the radar detecting a distance to an obstacle and detecting a height of the obstacle from a road surface, the sonar detecting the distance to the obstacle and detecting a signal level of a reflected wave from the obstacle. The control device includes a control unit having a processor configured to output a signal for triggering the automatic stop of the vehicle when the signal level of the…

Defogging system

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275378
A defogging system includes: a vehicle speed sensor configured to detect a vehicle speed; a first heater arranged outside a field of view of an imaging device and configured to heat a window; a second heater arranged inside the field of view of the imaging device, arranged to be in contact with the window, and configured to heat the window; and a controller configured to control the first heater and the second heater. The controller is configured to determine whether the vehicle is…

Control apparatus, control method, and storage medium

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12275372
There is provided with a control apparatus. A first obtaining unit obtains position information of a vehicle. A setting unit sets a remote operation permitted range of the vehicle on a basis of movement information of the vehicle in a first predetermined period based on the position information. A second obtaining unit obtains information indicating that a specific operation for a remote operation input to the vehicle from a user terminal is performed. A controlling unit restricts the…

Grass mower with two mowing heights

Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number: 12274202
Each side frame that supports a traveling machine body includes a front insertion support member and a rear insertion support member that can be inserted into a front support member and a rear support member, respectively. The grass mower includes bolts that are couplable selectively in a first state where the front insertion support member and the rear insertion support member are inserted between a front upper member and a rear upper member, and a front lower member and a rear lower…

Engine control apparatus

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12270350
Engine control apparatus includes: an engine including an injector and ignition plug, and a controller configured to control the injector and ignition plug to switch combustion mode to a second homogenous charge compression ignition combustion of reformed fuel with ignition at required torque less than a first predetermined value, to a first homogenous charge compression ignition combustion of reformed fuel, obtained by reforming a portion of gasoline fuel into peroxide, without ignition…

Gas filling method

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12270513
In a gas filling method for filling a tank with gas by supplying the gas from an accumulator to the tank through a flow rate adjusting valve and a pipe, a target pressure rise rate, which is a temporal change of a target tank pressure, is set when the tank is filled with the gas. During filling of the tank with the gas, the flow rate adjusting valve is adjusted so that a dispenser pressure, which is a gas pressure in the accumulator, becomes a pressure that is higher than the target tank…