Honda Patent Grants

Rear fender structure of a saddle-ride vehicle

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269550
A saddle-ride vehicle includes: left and right seat rails; left and right sub-frames; and a rear fender assembled from a lower side. The rear fender has a base portion and left and right vertical wall portions. The base portion forms a housing space for vehicle body components. Separation distance of the left and right vertical wall portions is smaller than separation distance of the left and right sub-frames. At upper parts of the left and right vertical wall portions each are provided…

Primary PUCCH TPC index and a secondary PUCCH TPC index in a wireless network

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273762
A wire device receives: configuration parameters of: a primary cell with a primary physical uplink control channel (PUCCH); and a secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH; a transmit power control (TPC) radio network temporary identifier (RNTI); a primary TPC index of the primary PUCCH; and a secondary TPC index of the secondary PUCCH. The wireless device receives a downlink control information (DCI) associated with the TPC RNTI. The secondary TPC index identifies a TPC command in an array…

Rotary electric machine

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12273005
A rotary electric machine includes a rotor shaft, a rotor attached to the rotor shaft, a stator, and a case that houses the rotor and the stator. One end side and the other end side of the rotor shaft in an axial direction are respectively supported by the case via bearings with the rotor interposed therebetween. The bearings electrically insulate the rotor shaft and the case from each other.

Protective button assembly for exterior surfaces of vehicles

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12271219
A button assembly for an exterior of a vehicle is disclosed. The button assembly is designed with improved water drainage properties. The button assembly includes a button switch and a bezel housing surrounding the button switch that is spaced apart from the button switch. A channel extends between the two components. In one example, the channel has a width of approximately 0.5 mm at one end. In another example, the channel is formed between two surfaces, and the outer surface is sloped…

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…

Electrolysis system and method of operating the same

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12270116
An inner case of an electrolysis system houses therein an electrolysis stack. An intermediate case encloses the inner case from outside. An outer case encloses the intermediate case from outside. A method of operating the electrolysis system includes a vacuum step, a heat storage step, and an electrolysis starting step. In the vacuum step, air in a vacuum space formed between the intermediate case and the outer case is discharged. In the heat storage step, a heating fluid is supplied to…

Fuel producing system

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12270113
A fuel producing system includes an electrolyzer that is supplied with a raw material gas containing carbon dioxide and water vapor, and electrolyzes the raw material gas to generate a product gas containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and a first gas-liquid separator that performs gas-liquid separation on the product gas generated in the electrolyzer. Water vapor produced from water separated in the first gas-liquid separator or water vapor produced from water from a water supply…

Rotor support device

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269587
A rotor support device includes: a mount supporting a rotor and including a joint portion protruding outward; a connecting member; and a reinforcing member. The connecting member includes an end portion connected to the joint portion and including a notch and a protruding portion formed by forming the notch. The protruding portion is overlapped with a part of the outer peripheral surface of the joint portion located on the side of a first direction perpendicular to the protruding…

Grip and handlebar having grip

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269557
A grip according to the present invention is equipped with a tubular shaped member inserted onto a handlebar, and a cover member that covers the tubular shaped member. An inner circumferential surface of the tubular shaped member has a shape of an ellipse, a through hole through which a fixing member for fixing the handlebar and the tubular shaped member is inserted is formed in the tubular shaped member, and the through hole extends in a direction of a minor axis of the ellipse.

Saddle-ride vehicle

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269555
The saddle-ride vehicle includes a tubular distance collar that is disposed between a one-side pivot portion and an other-side pivot portion and through which a pivot shaft is passed, the one-side pivot portion is provided with a tubular one-side collar member through which the pivot shaft is passed, the other-side pivot portion is provided with a tubular other-side collar member through which the pivot shaft is passed, the distance collar is interposed between the one-side collar member…

Autonomous travel working machine and charging station

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12268120
In a lawn mower, one power receiving terminal is provided on a surface of the lawn mower, and the other power receiving terminal is disposed in a position where it sandwiches at least a part, such as the upper front portion, of a vehicle body with the one power receiving terminal. This configuration serves to suppress a situation in which moisture establishes electrical continuity between the pair of power receiving terminals.

Vehicle control device, vehicle, vehicle control method and storage medium

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269514
A vehicle control device controls travel of a vehicle by performing state transition for a plurality of control states having different driving assistance levels based on vehicle surrounding information. The vehicle control device comprises: an acquisition unit configured to acquire the vehicle surrounding information; and a control unit configured to control the state transition and braking operation of the vehicle based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, wherein,…

Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269513
A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding situation of a vehicle and a driving controller configured to perform automated driving for controlling at least one of acceleration, deceleration, and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the situation recognized by the recognizer and map information including a plurality of coordinate points indicating lanes on a route of the vehicle. The driving controller changes a control level of the automated…

Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269492
A vehicle control device is configured to acquire a camera image obtained by capturing an image, control steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle on the basis of the camera image and map information, decide a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode, change the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode with a heavier task…

Vehicle management system

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269477
A vehicle management system includes: a map calculation unit that calculates a slip map in which a traveling position of an autonomous vehicle and a statistical value of slip index values on the traveling position are associated; and a vehicle extraction unit that extracts, as a target vehicle, the autonomous vehicle that has measured an outlier of the slip index value on a traveling route compared to the slip map.

Vehicle control device and vehicle control method, and storage medium

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269468
A vehicle control device for controlling steering and braking of a vehicle: determines, based on prediction of movement of an object detected on a road and prediction of a traveling trajectory of the vehicle, whether collision between the vehicle and the object will occur; determines whether it is possible to avoid the collision by braking without steering when it is determined that the collision will occur; and performs braking control for avoiding the collision and assists the steering…

Conveyance seat

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269379
A conveyance seat includes a cover member protecting an anchor member extending from the seat main body so that a child safety seat is connected. The cover member includes an outside cover, and an inside cover accommodated in the outside cover and having an anchor engaging portion. The cover member sandwiches an extending part of the anchor member with the outside cover and the inside cover. The cover member is attached to the seat main body such that an outer periphery portion of a skin…

Control device and control method

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269335
A vehicle is partitioned into a vehicle interior and a front room in front of a vehicle interior by a dash panel extending upward from a floor panel, an internal combustion engine is disposed in the front room, an exhaust pipe extends in a front-rear direction below the floor panel, a heat shielding member is disposed above the exhaust pipe so as to cross the exhaust pipe when viewed from an upper-lower direction, a plurality of heat exchangers fixed to a bracket are fixed to a lower…

Wheel holding device

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12269130
A wheel holding device holding a wheel including an annular-shaped core body and a plurality of free rollers rotatably supported by the core body includes a central member including an outer peripheral part capable of expanding and contracting in a radial direction. The central member holds the wheel with the outer peripheral part of the central member urging an inner peripheral part of the wheel radially outward. The central member may include a chuck, a plurality of bases which are…

Radar reflector, protector and wear

Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number: 12268254
A radar reflector includes: a board formed in a shape corresponding to an area of a body; and a reflecting layer provided on the board and configured to reflect a radar wave in an irradiation direction of the radar wave.