Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Jidoshokki

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki Seisakusho

Koji Hika

Hironobu Okamoto

Tomonori Kamiya

Kazunori Shimazaki

Hisashi Kuriya

Isao Suzuki

Masahiko Ando

Shinya Goto

Junji Inoue

Nobutoshi Kajiya

Takashi Ogawa

Tomio Kimura

Satoshi Yamada

Tadashi Kondo

Takuma Ono

Kuniyoshi Shirai

Kousuke Teramura

Takehito Sakakibara

Hideya Yamamura

An operation assisting apparatus for a load handling vehicle conveying a load carried on a load handling apparatus includes a sensor, an object extraction unit configured to extract, as objects, a group of points representing parts of the objects from a result detected by the sensor in a coordinate system in a real space, a load handling space derivation unit configured to derive a load handling space occupied by the load during load handling work performed by the load handling apparatus in the coordinate system in the real space, a clearance derivation unit configured to derive a value of a clearance between the load handling space and an adjacent object adjacent to the load handling space, and an informing unit configured to inform an operator of the load handling vehicle of information about the value of the clearance.

Operation assisting apparatus for load handling vehicle

A forklift-truck remote operation system includes a forklift truck and a remote operation device. The forklift-truck remote operation system further includes: a camera mounted to the forklift truck and configured to capture an image of an area around the forklift truck; a display disposed in the remote operation device and configured to display the image captured by the camera; a pallet detector configured to perform image recognition processing of the image captured by the camera and detect a plurality of pallets; a display controller configured to control the display to display the image captured by the camera with an indication for pallet selection from the pallets detected by the pallet detector; and a travel controller configured to control the forklift truck to move to a position of the selected pallet.

Forklift-truck remote operation system

An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes a forklift truck that includes a vehicle communication unit, a remote operation device that includes a remote communication unit performing wireless communication with the vehicle communication unit and is used for remotely operating the industrial vehicle, and a forced stop control unit configured to decelerate and forcibly stop traveling of the industrial vehicle while maintaining a steering angle of the industrial vehicle formed when a forced stop condition is met, in a case where the forced stop condition is met during a remote operation of traveling of the industrial vehicle using the remote operation device.

Industrial vehicle remote operation system, remote operation device, computer-readable storage medium storing industrial vehicle remote operation program, industrial vehicle remote operation method, and industrial vehicle

An industrial vehicle remote control system includes a forklift that has a vehicle communication unit and a remote control device that has a remote communication unit and is used to remotely control the forklift. A vehicle wireless CPU of the industrial vehicle remote control system acquires the received radio wave intensity of a remote control signal by which the two communication units wirelessly communicate, and, on the basis of the results thereof, determines whether the forklift is positioned in a permission range or in a prohibition range.

Remote control system for industrial vehicles, industrial vehicle, remote control device, remote control program for industrial vehicles, and remote control method for industrial vehicles

An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle that includes a vehicle communication unit performing wireless communication; and a remote operation device that includes a remote communication unit performing wireless communication with the vehicle communication unit. The industrial vehicle includes: a delay time calculation unit calculating a delay time corresponding to a difference between a reception period required for the vehicle communication unit to receive a plurality of remote operation signals and a generation period required for generating the plurality of remote operation signals; a communication delay determination unit performing a communication delay determination for determining whether or not a communication delay has been caused based on the delay time; and a communication delay handling control unit executing communication delay handling control corresponding to the communication delay when it is determined that the communication delay has been caused in the communication delay determination.

Industrial vehicle remote operation system, industrial vehicle, computer-readable storage medium storing industrial vehicle remote operation program, and industrial vehicle remote operation method

An industrial vehicle remote operation system includes an industrial vehicle including a vehicle communication portion, a communication device, and, a first signal conversion portion. The communication device includes a reception portion that receives two or more types of operation signals, an obtainment portion that obtains a conversion program for converting the operation signal into the remote instruction signal, a storage portion configured to store the conversion program, a second signal conversion portion configured to convert the operation signal into the remote instruction signal using the conversion program, and a communication device communication portion that sends the remote instruction signal to the vehicle communication portion. The communication device includes an update portion configured to update information stored in the storage portion so as to enable addition, deletion, or change of one or more of the operation signals that are convertible by the second signal conversion portion.

Industrial vehicle remote operation system, communication device, industrial vehicle, and computer readable storage medium for storing industrial vehicle remote operation program

A wireless communication apparatus is equipped with a plurality of antennas. A switch leads a received signal by way of an antenna selected according to an antenna switching signal to a demodulator unit. Software installed in a MAC unit generates a first switching signal. A diversity control unit generates a second switching signal by the built-in hardware circuit. The first switching signal is used as an antenna switching signal during a packet receiving ready period, while the second switching signal is used as an antenna switching signal during a period for receiving a packet.

Diversity control method and wireless communication apparatus

In a vehicle backward movement assisting apparatus for in-line parking, at a stop position of a vehicle, a seesaw switch is manipulated until an in-line guide line is superimposed on a target point which is a corner of a frame of a parking space, and a steering wheel is turned until the vehicle space mark is superimposed on the parking space, and the vehicle is moved backward while the steering angle of the steering wheel is held. When an eye mark is superimposed on the parking space, the vehicle is stopped, and the steering angle of the steering wheel is made maximum and the vehicle is moved backward, to thereby complete the in-line parking at the parking space.

Vehicle backward movement assisting apparatus for in-line parking

A steering assist apparatus includes a camera for picking up the rear side of a vehicle, a monitor disposed in a driver's compartment of the vehicle, a steering angle sensor for detecting a steering angle of a steering wheel, and a display controlling unit for displaying on the monitor an image through said camera when the vehicle reverses and for superimposing and displaying on said monitor a guide display for assisting the drive of the vehicle when the vehicle is to be parked. The guide display includes a steering start guide line fixedly displayed in a predetermined position of an image field of the monitor for guiding a steering start position for parking, and a steering amount guide mark moved and displayed along the steering start guide line on the image field of the monitor in correspondence with a steering angle of the steering wheel detected by the steering angle sensor. The driver performs the steering operation of the vehicle while recognizing the position for the opposite turning of the steering wheel and the steering amount and the steering start position for parking on the basis of the image on the rear side of the vehicle and the steering amount guide mark and the steering start guide line.

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Aichi-ken, Japan

Koji Hika