Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Kenichi Komuro

Daiki Kaneichi

Atsushi Mizutani

Ryoichi Fukumoto

Noboru Takagi

Hirotaka Karube

Jun Kondo

Nozomu Torii

Toru Asada

Taneichi Kawai

Yuichi Murakami

Masanobu Matsusaka

Gosaku Terabayashi

Hisatoshi Ohta

Masazumi Yoshida

Ryusuke Sasaki

Atsushi Kamei

Yuta Hiratsuka

An information providing system includes: a plurality of vehicles each configured to perform inter-vehicle charging; and a server. Each of the plurality of vehicles is configured to transmit unattended power-supplying permission information to the server when the user performs an operation of permitting unattended power supplying. In the matching process, the server is configured to permit to set, as a power-supplying vehicle, a vehicle having transmitted the unattended power-supplying permission information. The server is configured to notify, to the unattended power-supplying vehicle matched through the matching process, a confirmed matching content including information of the power-receiving vehicle. The unattended power-supplying vehicle having received this notification is configured to unlock a lid, which covers a power-supplying connector of the unattended power-supplying vehicle, and permit the unattended power supplying in response to the matched power-receiving vehicle being parked in proximity of the unattended power-supplying vehicle.

Information providing system and server

The delivery system includes a vehicle and a server. The vehicle includes a power storage device and a refrigerator. The server performs a delivery planning process for determining an expected delivery time. In the delivery planning process, the server is configured to transmit, to the vehicle, an inquiry as to reception of the delivery matter. When the vehicle receives the inquiry from the server, the vehicle is configured to set a receivable time period and transmit it to the server. When the vehicle sets the receivable time period, if the vehicle is in a state that the vehicle is able to receive power from the power supply facility, the vehicle is configured to set the receivable time period to be longer than the receivable time period set if the vehicle is not in the state that the vehicle is able to receive power from the power supply facility.

Delivery system and vehicle

The server is configured to communicate with a plurality of power-supplying vehicles and a plurality of power-receiving vehicles. The server is configured to notify, to matched vehicles (candidate power-receiving vehicle and candidate power-supplying vehicle), a candidate gathering location list including respective pieces of information of a plurality of parking areas owned by third parties different from users of the matched vehicles, so as to make an inquiry to the users of the matched vehicles to select one of the plurality of parking areas included in the candidate gathering location list. The server is configured to determine a gathering location for the matched vehicles using the respective pieces of information of the parking areas selected by the users of the matched vehicles, and is configured to transmit the information of the parking area of the determined gathering location to the matched vehicles.

Server and information providing method

An information providing system includes: a power supply facility installed at a parking area of a shop; and a vehicle connectable to the power supply facility via a power cable. When the vehicle is connected to the power supply facility via the power cable, the power supply facility is configured to transmit information to the vehicle via the power cable. The information includes: a merchandise item list of merchandise items that can be offered by the shop to a user of the vehicle; and content information (movie, video, still image, music, speech, newspaper, magazine, electronic book, game, comics, and the like) that can be utilized by the user of the vehicle in the passenger compartment of the vehicle.

An information providing system includes a server, a plurality of power-supplying vehicles, and a plurality of power-receiving vehicles. Each power-supplying vehicle is configured to transmit power-supplying permission information to the server, the power-supplying permission information indicating current location and possible power-supplying amount of the power-supplying vehicle. Each power-receiving vehicle is configured to transmit power-receiving request information to the server, the power-receiving request information indicating current location and requested power-receiving amount of the power-receiving vehicle. The server is configured to: determine vehicles to be matched and a gathering location of the vehicles using the power-supplying permission information (current location and possible power-supplying amount) of the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving request information (current location and requested power-receiving amount) of the power-receiving vehicle; and transmit the determined gathering location to the matched vehicles.

Information providing system, server, and information providing method

An information providing system includes: a plurality of vehicles; and a server configured to communicate with the plurality of vehicles. Each of the plurality of vehicles is configured to supply power to and receive power from another vehicle. The server performs a matching process for setting a power-supplying vehicle and a power-receiving vehicle from the plurality of vehicles and for matching the power-supplying vehicle and the power-receiving vehicle. The server prohibits setting, as the power-supplying vehicle in the matching process, a vehicle included in the plurality of vehicles and having a history that power has been received from another vehicle.

Server and information system matching a power-supplying vehicle and a power-receiving vehicle

An information providing system includes: a power-supplying vehicle; a plurality of power-receiving vehicles; and a server. The server is configured to generate a candidate power-supplying target list including information of the plurality of power-receiving requesting vehicles, and notify the candidate power-supplying target list to the power-supplying vehicle so as to make an inquiry to a user of the power-supplying vehicle to select any of the plurality of power-receiving requesting vehicle. The power-supplying vehicle having received this inquiry is configured to present locations of candidate power-supplying targets on a map screen and make a response to the server by notifying, to the server, a power-supplying target selected by the user. The server having received this response matches the power-supplying target notified from the power-supplying vehicle to the power-supplying vehicle, and notifies matching determination information to both the matched vehicles.

A power management system includes a plurality of power stations, a plurality of vehicles capable of exchanging power with any of the power stations, and a server configured to communicate with the plurality of vehicles and the plurality of power stations. When each power station receives power from the vehicle or supplies power to the vehicle, each power station associates a power amount received from the vehicle or a power amount supplied to the vehicle with a user ID of the vehicle, and transmits the power amount to the server. The server sets a value point based on the power amount received from the power station, and provides the value point to the user having the user ID associated with the power amount.

Power management system, server and vehicle

A fluid control valve includes: a housing having an inflow port and an outflow port of a fluid; a first magnetic body in which a circulation hole is provided; a solenoid causing a magnetic flux to flow through the first magnetic body; a second magnetic body attracted to the first magnetic body by flowing of the magnetic flux generated from the solenoid to abut against a peripheral portion of the circulation hole to close the circulation hole; a biasing member biasing the second magnetic body in a direction of separating from the first magnetic body; and a stopper fixed to the housing on a side of the outflow port and preventing movement of the second magnetic body by a biasing force of the biasing member.

Fluid control valve

A fluid control valve includes a body portion provided at a circulation flow passage that circulates fluid between an internal combustion engine and a heat exchanger, an inflow passage, an outflow passage, a valve element, a valve seat including a contact portion relative to the valve element, the contact portion being provided to face a downstream side of a circulating direction of the fluid, a solenoid causing the valve element to make contact with the valve seat in a state where the solenoid is supplied with an electric power, and a spring mechanism holding the valve element to be balanced at a position at which the valve element is away from the valve seat by a predetermined distance in a case where the solenoid is inhibited from being supplied with the electric power and the fluid is inhibited from flowing.

A locking device for vehicles includes a card including a microprocessor and a transmitter for generating and transmitting commands for locking and unlocking the doors of a motor vehicle. A lock control device includes a microprocessor and a receiver for receiving the commands transmitted by the lock command device. The lock control device will only carry out a receive command if the command is applied to a specific motor vehicle and the motor vehicle is in the proper state to implement the command. Change data is generated by the lock control device and transmitted to the lock command device to change the value of the next subsequent lock command so that the lock command can be uniquely identified with the motor vehicle.

Locking device for vehicles

The present invention relates to a start controller for an engine of a vehicle comprising fuel supply means for supplying fuel to the engine at current flowing time, an electric driver for flowing a current to the fuel supply means, control means for holding a specific code, comparing an input code with the specific code to judge the coincidence and instructing to flow a current to the driver when both coincide; and means for inputting the code to the control means. Thus, the start controller can prevent the vehicle from being stolen.

Growing community of inventors

Nagoya, Japan

Kenichi Komuro