Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Akihiko Kido

Tetsuhiro Ishikawa

Kenji Mori

Yukio Okamura

Hiroyuki Yamada

Yoshitaka Asakura

Katsumi Sakakibara

Kiichi Iwasaki

Yutaka Matsumoto

Chitose Shibata

Hideo Miyagi

Toshio Suematsu

Nobuyuki Inoue

Matsujyu Yoshida

An ecological-point management system includes an electric powered vehicle, a charging facility, a communication network, a management server, point recipients each having a device capable of accessing the communication network. The electric storage device of the electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by the charging facility. In the ecological-point management system, an ecological point in accordance with an amount of greenhouse gas emission that can be reduced by traveling using electric power by the electric powered vehicle is given to the point recipients. The point recipients can include an owner or a driver of the electric powered vehicle, and a manufacture, an installation personnel, an owner of the charging facility, and an owner of an installation place, and further a provider of the charging power.

Ecological-point management system

An electric storage device of an electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by a charging facility. At the time of external charge by the charging facility, a management server selects advertising information based on information stored inside the electric powered vehicle to be charged and/or information of the charging facility performing the external charge to the electric powered vehicle including a mechanism capable of reproducing the advertising information from an advertising provider, and transmits the selected advertising information. The management server performs billing so that in exchange for the transmission of the advertising information, at least part of a charging power fee is caused to be borne by the advertising provider side to thereby discount an amount borne by an electric powered vehicle user.

Charging system of electric powered vehicle

An ignition timing control system for an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders in which at each of different load conditions determined by the operating conditions of the engine the ignition timing for each cylinder is periodically retarded to cause a nonknocking ignition and the resulting background vibration levels detected by a knock sensor are stored in a memory. During the normal operation, the vibration level detected by the knock sensor with respect to each cylinder is compared with the corresponding background vibration level stored under the same load condition to detect the presence of knocking and thereby to determine the proper ignition timing.

Ignition timing control system

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Akihiko Kido