Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Pacific Industrial Company, Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabuhsiki Kaisha

Kenichi Yamada

Hideo Kobayashi

Kunihiko Hayashi

Katuhiko Arisawa

Satoshi Komamine

Yoshio Yamashita

Toshiki Kashiwakura

Akane Umezu

Kenji Ishiyama

Kayo Tsumoto

Yuta Shishime

Makoto Suzuki

Rentaro Kuroki

Tomohiro Shinagawa

Yasushi Ito

Hiromitsu Fujii

Toshihisa Sugiyama

Koichi Suzuki

Toyokazu Nakashima

Haruki Oguri

Shota Minami

Taiichi Mori

Lei Wang

Jun Karashima

Hideo Hasegawa

Yuki Tatsumoto

Yu Nagata

Chikage Kubo

Yurika Tanaka

Ryuichi Kamaga

Shintaro Matsutani

Ryo Michikawauchi

Shusaku Sugamoto

Takashi Hotta

Ai Miyata

Go Tanaka

Hiroaki Takeyama

Tsutomu Okuda

Syusaku Sugamoto

Akihito Hosoi

Takayuki Iwakawa

Mitsuhiro Naito

Bryce H Morisako

Bunki Kawano

Taiithi Mori

The vehicle includes a vehicle platform configured to be capable of receiving commands related to autonomous driving from the autonomous driving kit. The autonomous driving kit is configured to transmit a wake command to the vehicle platform requesting transition of the power mode of the vehicle platform to the wake mode. The vehicle platform transitions to the wake mode by the wake command only when the shift lever indicates parking and the vehicle speed is 0 km/h.

Vehicle including a vehicle platform that transitions to a wake mode according to a wake command

A control method executed by a computer configured to be able to communicate with a vehicle includes: storing a work item included in a charging operation to the vehicle and a work time of the work item in association with each other; and outputting an alert when an end notification of the work item is not received from the vehicle before the work time.

Control method

The determination device includes an acquisition unit and a control unit. The acquisition unit acquires sensor information output by a sensor that detects an obstacle around the vehicle to be charged. The control unit identifies an obstacle located around the vehicle based on the sensor information, and determines whether or not the vehicle can be charged by the power supply vehicle.

Determination device

The information transmission device includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit receives position information indicating the current position of the power supply vehicle from at least one of the power supply vehicle and the general vehicle when the power supply vehicle moves to the position of the general vehicle and charges the general vehicle. The control unit generates display information based on the received position information, and causes the communication unit to transmit the display information to one or more information terminals.

Information transmission device

A vehicle includes a camera, a detection mechanism, and a processor. The camera is mounted on the vehicle and captures images of the vehicle's interior. The detection mechanism detects that the vehicle is unlocked by an authorized worker. Upon detection of such unlocking, the processor triggers the camera to capture images within a predetermined range.

Vehicle with interior imaging system

A control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire, as profile data, data read from a medium held by each of users when each of the users gets on a vehicle to be operated with the users on board to a destination having a plurality of facilities, identify, based on the acquired profile data, a facility from among the plurality of facilities at which each of the users is to get off the vehicle, and perform control of operating the vehicle along a route including the identified facility.

Control apparatus, vehicle, and control method

A vehicle includes: a vehicle platform configured to execute a plurality of predetermined functions of the vehicle; an autonomous driving kit that is configured to issue an instruction for autonomous driving and is attachable to and detachable from the vehicle platform; and a vehicle control interface box configured to communicate with the autonomous driving kit and issue a control instruction to the vehicle platform based on an instruction from the autonomous driving kit. A vehicle mode state indicating a state of the vehicle platform includes a manual mode under control of a driver of the vehicle, an autonomous driving mode under control of the autonomous driving kit, and a standby mode in which an operation on the vehicle platform by the driver is prohibited. The vehicle mode state is shifted to the standby mode when the vehicle platform is activated based on a control instruction from the autonomous driving kit.

Vehicle

A vehicle control interface includes: a memory in which a program including a predetermined API defined for each of signals is stored; and a processor configured to perform interfacing between an autonomous driving system and a vehicle platform by executing the program. The vehicle platform is configured to be activated in response to one of a first and second activation commands. The first activation command is a command transmitted from the autonomous driving system to the vehicle platform via the vehicle control interface. The second activation command being a command in response to a manual operation on the vehicle platform. The processor is configured to, when the vehicle platform is activated in response to the first activation command, reduce effectiveness of the manual operation on the vehicle platform compared to when the vehicle platform is activated in response to the second activation command.

Vehicle control interface, vehicle, and control method for vehicle

A controller is provided that is configured to perform: obtaining information about a condition for an image that is provided to a user, and that corresponds to a preference of the user; specifying at least one predetermined position at which an image satisfying the condition can be taken; and generating a command for a moving object to move to the predetermined position and to take an image, and transmitting the command to the moving object.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a controller that acquires images captured by a camera mounted in a vehicle, and a memory that can store the images. The controller acquires travel data on the vehicle for when the image was captured and stores the image in the memory in a case in which the travel data satisfies a predetermined condition.

Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method for processing images captured from vehicle

A control apparatus includes a communication interface configured to transmit, to at least one bidding apparatus, range data indicating a geographical range through which at least one vehicle travels, and receive, from the at least one bidding apparatus, bidding data for bidding on an advertising slot associated with the geographical range indicated by the range data, and a controller configured to determine a bidder to whom the advertising slot is to be sold based on the bidding data received by the communication interface.

Control apparatus, communication system, non-transitory computer readable medium, and advertisement sales method

An information processing apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire schedule information, upon acquiring information regarding a need to transport a product of a first shop to a second shop, for at least one user who is staying near the first shop or is scheduled to pass near the first shop, select, based on the schedule information, a user for requesting transportation of the product from among the at least one user, and transmit, to a terminal apparatus of the selected user, information requesting transportation of the product.

Information processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method

An exhaust-heat recovery apparatus includes: a circulation passage, through which a heat carrier circulates, that has a heat recovery unit evaporating the heat carrier and a condenser condensing the evaporated heat carrier; a heat carrier controller that supplies the heat carrier in a liquid phase to the circulation passage; and a determination unit, in which the heat carrier controller supplies or recovers the heat carrier when a changing rate of an internal pressure in the circulation passage or a changing rate of a temperature of the heat carrier in the circulation passage is within a predetermined range, determines a type of abnormality based on the changing rate of the internal pressure in the circulation passage or the changing rate of the temperature of the heat carrier in the circulation passage after the supplying or the recovering of the heat carrier.

Exhaust-heat recovery apparatus

An oil pan structure () includes a lower structure () fixed to a lower portion of an engine block, a main oil pan () provided under an engine block with the lower structure being between the main oil pan and the engine block, a sub oil pan () that is provided in the main oil pan () and forms a first chamber () and a second chamber () inside the main oil pan (). The sub oil pan () is separated into an upper body () and a lower body (). The upper body () is formed together with the lower structure () by injection molding.

Oil pan structure

A hydraulic control device is equipped with an oil jet that injects oil to a piston, an oil gallery through which oil injected by the oil jet and oil supplied to a lubrication part of an engine pass, an oil pump that pumps oil to the oil gallery, and a switching valve that is provided on an oil jet passage connecting the oil gallery and the oil jet together and leads oil supplied from the oil gallery to either the oil jet or an oil pan disposed at an upstream side of the oil pump. An ECU controls the switching valve on the basis of an engine speed and an engine cooling water temperature.

Hydraulic control device for engine

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Kenichi Yamada