Yuuma Honjou

Title: Yuuma Honjou: Advancing Hauling Vehicle Safety and Traffic Control

Introduction

Yuuma Honjou is an inventor associated with Tsuchiura, Japan, and Hitachi Construction Machinery. His work includes a patent for a hauling vehicle and traffic control system designed to support speed management and brake maintenance.

Latest Patents

Honjou is named on one patent, titled “Hauling Vehicle and Traffic Control System.” The invention describes a vehicle controller that uses stored map information, including route gradients and speed limits, alongside the vehicle’s position, orientation, and travelling speed to determine a target speed.

The controller calculates a protection limiting speed after detecting mechanical brake actuation. It compares the distance the vehicle could travel under the route speed limit after a preset maintenance period with the distance it could travel under the protection limiting speed. When the first distance is shorter, the controller uses the lower of the two speeds as the target-speed limit. When the first distance is longer, it issues a maintenance request instruction. This approach links vehicle speed control with timely brake maintenance. The patent record lists 1 patent for Honjou.

Career Highlights

Honjou’s listed work is connected to Hitachi Construction Machinery and focuses on hauling vehicle control, route-aware speed management, and mechanical brake maintenance. The patent combines map data and vehicle operating information to help manage safe travel and maintenance needs.

Collaborations

The supplied information identifies Hiroki Obara and Shinichi Uotsu as Honjou’s coworkers. They are associated with the same professional context, though specific contributions to this patent are not provided.

Conclusion

Yuuma Honjou’s patent presents a practical system for coordinating hauling vehicle speed limits with brake maintenance requests, reflecting an engineering focus on vehicle control and operational safety.