Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Hiroki Awano

Daisaku Honda

Ryota Tomizawa

Yasuhiro Kobatake

Nobutsugu Maruiwa

Satoshi Tanabe

Hiroya Matsubayashi

Kuniaki Jinnai

Kohta Tarao

Yoshihiro Maekawa

Toshiki Kindo

Tomoyuki Kuriyama

Tae Sugimura

Shunsuke Tanimori

Mutsumi Matsuura

Yuji Suzuki

Makoto Matsushita

Tomoaki Miyazawa

Atsushi Hanawa

Yusuke Yokota

Yasuki Nakagawa

Taizo Masuda

Yasunobu Seki

Kosuke Yonekawa

Tomoko Nakamura

Tsuyoshi Kaneko

Masaki Matsui

Takuji Yamada

Hisashi Yamamoto

Manabu Orihashi

Takeshi Fujiki

Yu Hoshino

Motoshi Isono

Satoshi Omi

Seiji Yamashita

Yuya Kusano

An automatic parking lot management system includes an infrastructure sensor for detecting a preset range in a parking lot. A mobile body including a peripheral detection sensor is used, and the mobile body is able to be moved to a detectable position at which the peripheral detection sensor of the mobile body is able to detect a detection range of the infrastructure sensor. When determination is made that there is an abnormality in the infrastructure sensor, the mobile body is moved to the detectable position to cause the peripheral detection sensor to detect the detection range of the infrastructure sensor.

Automatic parking lot management system, automatic parking lot management method, and storage medium

A charge support system is provided for a plurality of autonomously movable vehicles, each including a solar cell panel and a storage battery for storing electricity from the solar panel. The system includes an acquisition unit that obtains information regarding vehicles parked within a predetermined parking area, including charging efficiencies of the solar panels, current charging rates of the storage batteries, and scheduled driving times for each vehicle. A traveling control unit is configured to move the vehicles within the parking area based on the acquired information. The system prioritizes movement of vehicles with earlier scheduled driving times to areas of higher charging efficiency to ensure their storage batteries reach a predetermined charge threshold. Additionally, for vehicles without scheduled driving times, the system periodically moves the vehicles to equalize battery charge levels within a specified error range. This enables efficient solar charging across multiple vehicles in a shared parking environment.

Charge support system, charge support method, and control program

A power generation support system for a vehicle in which a plurality of solar cell panels are attached to a vehicle body, the power generation support system including: a estimation unit configured to estimate an amount of power generated per unit hour by the plurality of solar cell panels when the vehicle is to be parked in a scheduled parking area so that the front of the vehicle faces a first direction and estimate an amount of power generated per unit hour by the plurality of solar cell panels when the vehicle is to be parked in the scheduled parking area so that the front of the vehicle faces a second direction that is opposite to the first direction; and an output unit configured to output information about a direction in which the vehicle faces when it is to be parked in the scheduled parking area.

Power generation support system

A parking management device for a parking lot adjacent to a store that provides a product includes a provision time acquisition unitthat acquires a provision time of a product ordered by a driver driving the vehicle to the store, a parking location determination unit that determines a parking location of the vehicle entering the parking lot based on the provision time acquired by the provision time acquisition unit, and a guidance information generation unit that generates guidance information for guidance of the vehicle to the parking location determined by the parking location determination unit.

Parking management device, vehicle, and parking management method

A control unit of a server is a device that adjusts a parking position of a vehicle in a parking lot, and includes an acquisition unit that acquires the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive a package in the parking lot, and an adjustment information generation unit that generates adjustment information for adjusting parking of another vehicle in a parking slot adjacent to the parking position of the vehicle scheduled to receive the package in the parking lot such that a space is secured around the vehicle scheduled to receive the package.

Parking position adjustment device and parking position adjustment method

A parking management device includes: a data acquiring unit configured to acquire user identification data for identifying the position of a user moving in a parking lot; a movement route estimating unit configured to estimate a movement route based on the user identification data acquired by the data acquiring unit, the movement route being a route along which the user moves in the parking lot; and a running route deciding unit configured to decide a running route of a vehicle so as to avoid the movement route estimated by the movement route estimating unit, the vehicle being a vehicle running in the parking lot.

Parking management device, vehicle, and parking lot management method

A driving handover control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. In a case in which driving is handed over from a first state in which a vehicle travels in accordance with instruction from a first remote operator of the vehicle to a second state in which the vehicle travels in accordance with instruction from a second remote operator who is different from the first remote operator, the processor implements a transition from the first state to a third state in which the vehicle travels autonomously without instruction from the first remote operator or the second remote operator, and, after the transition from the first state to the third state, implements a transition from the third state to the second state.

Driving handover control device and driving handover control method

A driving handover control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. In a case in which driving is handed over from a first state in which a vehicle travels in accordance with instruction from a remote operator of the vehicle to a second state in which the vehicle travels in accordance with operation by a passenger of the vehicle, the processor implements a transition from the first state to a third state in which the vehicle travels autonomously without instruction from the remote operator or operation by the passenger, and, after the transition from the first state to the third state, implements a transition from the third state to the second state.

An automatic parking system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a state of a parking lot. A blind spot area that does not allow the state of the parking lot to be detected by the infrastructure sensor is identified in the parking lot, and the state of the parking including the blind spot area, the state of the parking lot being detected by an on-board sensor of a vehicle in the parking lot, is acquired. Based on the state of the parking lot detected by the infrastructure sensor and the state of the parking lot that includes the blind spot area and that is detected by the on-board sensor of the vehicle in the parking lot, a travel route for the vehicle traveling in the parking lot is generated.

Automatic parking system, automatic parking method, and storage medium

A parking lot management system includes an infrastructure sensor that is able to detect a sunlight state of a parking space in a parking lot, and a notification device that notifies at least one of a vehicle including a solar power generation function and a user of the parking lot of the sunlight state of each parking space detected by the infrastructure sensor.

Parking lot management system, parking lot management method, and storage medium

A driving handover control device includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. In a case in which driving is handed over from a first state in which a vehicle is traveling by remote driving by a first driver from outside the vehicle or by occupant driving by the first driver in the vehicle, to a second state in which the vehicle travels by the remote driving or the occupant driving by a second driver who is different from the first driver, the processor is configured to cause transition from the first state to a third state in which the vehicle is caused to travel by automatic driving, and then cause transition from the third state to the second state.

In a vehicle travel system for a vehicle that is switchable at least between manual driving and remote driving, the vehicle includes a memory, and a processor connected to the memory. The processor acquires driver information related to a driver that manually drives the vehicle. The driver information indicates a specific situation during a time of manual driving. The processor enables manual driving to be switched to remote driving upon occurrence of the specific situation indicated by the acquired driver information.

Vehicle travel system

In an information processor, an acquirer acquires a departure point and transportation of each of multiple users and a destination in common. A provisional setting unit provisionally sets a meeting place multiple times. For the meeting place provisionally set each time, a calculation unit derives a travel cost of each user required for traveling from the departure point of the user through the meeting place to the destination, and a join cost of each user required for joining at the meeting place based on the transportation of the user, and calculates the sum of the travel costs and the join costs of the respective users. Based on the multiple calculated sums, a formal setting unit formally sets a meeting place.

Information processing method and information processor

In an information provision device, an estimator estimates an arrival time of each user at a meeting place where users meet up, based on transportation of the user. Based on the arrival time estimated by the estimator, a determination unit determines a notification target user to be notified of guidance regarding facilities around the meeting place. A notification unit notifies, of the guidance, the notification target user determined by the determination unit.

Information provision method and information provision device for providing guidance

To provide an evaporator capable of suppressing reduction in heat transport amount while also preventing an increase in the pressure loss of a working fluid. An evaporator comprising a container and a dividing layer adapted to divide the inside of the container into a liquid reservoir chamber and a vapor chamber, wherein the dividing layer includes a heat blocking layer on the liquid reservoir chamber side and a wick layer on the vapor chamber side, a gap is formed between the heat blocking layer and the wick layer, the liquid reservoir chamber and the gap are communicated with each other via a penetration path formed in the heat blocking layer, and a working fluid in the liquid reservoir chamber passes through the penetration path and penetrates into the gap and the wick layer by a capillary force.

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Hiroki Awano