Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd

Zmp Inc.

Yoshihisa Hirose

Makoto Yamanaka

Tsutomu Mizoroke

Minami Kigami

Kensei Yamashita

Yasuyuki Shiromizu

Yoshiaki Kotani

Yoshihiro Iijima

Yoshihiko Yamagishi

Toru Yuki

Naoya Toida

Junji Okuda

Toshiaki Takizawa

Tadashi Nomura

Hajime Tabata

Shinsaku Nakayama

Tetsuo Iida

Takao Kobayashi

Jun Fukano

Kenzo Shimada

Takeshi Ishikawa

Hiroshi Watabe

Yoichi Yamamura

Hiroo Kanke

Yosuke Tsuchiya

Tsuyoshi Oguchi

Tetsuya Suzuki

Akiko Ichikawa

Yasunori Yamamoto

Hitoshi Yuki

Takeshi Yamamoto

Koichi Nagano

Yoshio Ohtomo

Masahiro Takahashi

Masaki Segawa

Justin Sung Jit Wong

Masaaki Furubayashi

Junji Ando

Kazuhiro Ishikawa

An unmanned operation vehicle includes a housing, a wheel provided in the housing, and an operation unit provided under the housing. The housing includes a plurality of cameras configured to capture an image of an outside of the unmanned operation vehicle. The plurality of cameras are arranged substantially at a center of an upper surface of the housing in a plan view. The housing may include a single camera unit including the plurality of cameras.

Unmanned operation vehicle

An unmanned operation vehicle includes a housing, a wheel provided in the housing, and an operation unit provided under the housing. The housing includes a camera unit, a stop switch configured to stop driving of the wheel and the operation unit when actuated, and a stop switch actuating member configured to actuate the stop switch. The camera unit is arranged substantially at a center of an upper surface of the housing in a plan view, and the stop switch actuating member is arranged immediately above an upper surface of the camera unit.

A marking device includes a light-emitting unit configured to emit light, a housing configured to accommodate the light-emitting unit, and a support configured to support the housing. The housing can include a transmitting portion configured to transmit the light from the light-emitting unit through a circumferential portion of the housing, and a roof covering the light-emitting unit accommodated in the housing. The housing can include a side wall formed between every two adjacent windows of the plurality of windows.

Marking device for lawn mower

An automatic operation vehicle that automatically performs an operation in an operation area is provided. A survey unit acquires the position information of the marker using a first angle between the moving direction and a direction to the marker from a first point through which the vehicle passes during the movement in a constant moving direction, a second angle between the moving direction and a direction to the marker from a second different point through which the vehicle passes during the movement in the moving direction, and a distance between the first point and the second point. The survey unit determines the first point and/or the second point during the movement of the vehicle in the moving direction such that the angle difference between the first angle and the second angle becomes close to 90&#xb0;.

Automatic operation vehicle

An automatic operation vehicle that automatically performs an operation in an operation area is provided. The vehicle includes an image analysis unit configured to extract a marker included in an image captured by a camera provided on the automatic operation vehicle. If a situation in which the marker that was extracted from the image captured by the camera cannot be extracted by the image analysis unit from the image captured by the camera has occurred during a movement of the automatic operation vehicle in a constant direction. The image analysis unit determines whether the marker extracted before an occurrence of the situation and the marker extracted after an elimination of the situation are the same marker.

An automatic operation vehicle that automatically performs an operation in an operation area is provided. The vehicle includes a moving direction determination unit configured to determine a moving direction of the vehicle, an image analysis unit configured to extract a marker included in an image captured by a camera provided on the vehicle, and a survey unit configured to acquire, by triangulation, position information of the marker extracted by the image analysis unit. When the survey unit starts acquiring the position information of the marker, the moving direction determination unit determines, as the moving direction, a direction in which the vehicle does not come into contact with the marker, and an angle difference with respect to a direction from a current position of the vehicle to the marker is smaller than 90&#xb0;.

A working machine having a belt-type continuously variable transmission in a working power transmission system includes a target working speed setting section for optionally setting a target working rotational speed of a working unit, a working unit speed sensor that detects an actual working rotational speed of the working unit, a speed reduction ratio regulation mechanism that regulates a minimum speed reduction ratio of a rotational speed of a driven pulley with respect to a drive pulley, and a control unit. The control unit controls a drive source rotational speed to bring the actual working rotational speed close to the target working rotational speed, obtains a minimum limit speed reduction ratio based upon a target minimum rotational speed of a drive source and the target working rotational speed, and controls the speed reduction ratio regulation mechanism to keep the minimum limit speed reduction ratio.

Working machine

Disclosed is a snow removal machine capable of adjusting a snow throwing direction of a snow throwing section by means of a snow throwing drive section, which comprises: a snow throwing direction sensor for detecting a snow throwing direction of the snow throwing section; a snow removal machine inclination angle sensor for detecting an inclination angle of the snow removal machine or the snow throwing section relative to a horizontal surface; and a control section that controls the snow throwing drive section to adjust the snow throwing direction of the snow throwing section based on respective detection values of the snow throwing direction detected by the snow throwing direction sensor and the inclination angle detected by the snow removal machine inclination angle sensor.

Snow removal machine

A single board is adaptable to lamps for a vehicle of various designs. A lamp for a vehicle includes: an LED light source; a board having a mounting portion on which the LED light source is mounted; and a reflector member which is arranged such that the reflector member covers the LED light source, the reflector member reflecting light emitted from the LED light source with the directivity, wherein the mounting portion is formed of a plurality of mounting portions which are arranged at least in one direction out of the vehicle longitudinal direction and the vehicle lateral direction such that the arrangement of the LED light source is selectable from plural kinds of arrangements, and the reflector member is detachably attached to the board such that the reflector member having a shape corresponding to the arrangement of the LED is selectable.

Lamp for vehicle

Present invention prevents connection terminals for connecting stator windings to external conductive wires from densely concentrating on a bobbin. A multipolar generator includes a stator coreon which salient polesof integral multiples of '3' are provided, and main windingswound around the salient poles. Auxiliary machine windingstoin place of the main windingare wound around at least one of three salient polesprovided at intervals of integral multiples of '3' from the salient polesof both ends of six continuous salient polesaround which the winding start and winding finish of the main windingare wound. The auxiliary windings are arranged each other at intervals of integral multiples of &#x201c;3&#x201d;. When the number of the auxiliary windings is 2 or less, the salient polearound which the other auxiliary winding should be wound, is empty.

Outer rotor type multipolar generator

A electric motor is disclosed in which torque ripple is reduced. The electric motor includes a single motor shaft. Rotors are disposed so as to be mutually offset in phase, and the rotors are secured to the motor shaft. Stators are arranged so as to individually correspond to the rotors, and the stators are disposed so as to be matched in phase. The phases of torque ripple generated in each motor unit, which is comprised of a combination of a single rotor and a single stator, are offset.

Electric motor, power apparatus using the same, and self-propelled snow remover

In an electric working machine, a scroll portion is provided at one of left and right sides of a machine body, and a relay member functioning as a power switch in which a power on/off key is removably inserted is provided at the other side of the machine body. The relay member is provided between a motor-driving battery and a control section so that the battery and control section can be electrically connected with each other by insertion, in the relay member, of the power on/off key and disconnected from each other by removal, from the relay member, of the power on/off key.

Electric working machine

In a hybrid outboard motor equipped with an internal combustion engine and electric motor as selective sources of power for driving the propeller and further provided with the first output shaft connected to the engine for transmitting its output to the propeller and the second output shaft connected to the motor for transmitting its output to the propeller, the first and second output shafts are disposed coaxially, so that the amount of space required for installing the shafts is smaller by the length of their coaxial portion relative to the prior art in which the shafts are simply connected in tandem. As a result, the size and weight of the outboard motors can be reduced, thereby enhancing its ease of operation and portability.

Outboard motor

In an outboard motor adapted for mounting on a boat and equipped with an internal combustion engine, an electric motor, a battery for supplying voltage to the engine and electric motor, and a controller for controlling the operation of the electric motor, the controller is disposed near the battery. In other words, the controller is not installed on the outboard motor side where the engine and the like are present but on the boat side where the battery is installed. As a result, the effect of the vibration and heat of the engine on the controller is minimized so that the controller can utilize simpler structural features for vibration and heat resistance and is also advantageous in terms of cost.

An electric motor including a stator with a plurality of coils wound around a ring-shaped iron core, and a rotor rotatably disposed inside the stator is provided. The rotor includes a rotor shaft and a yoke. The yoke is provided near its periphery with a plurality of plate-like permanent magnets arranged at equal pitches. Heat generated from the rotor is released through a plurality of air holes formed in the yoke between the rotor shaft and the permanent magnets.

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Wako, Japan

Yoshihisa Hirose