Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Masaaki Sato

Satoshi Kondo

Daiki Yokoyama

Tomihisa Oda

Shinya Asaura

Shota Tsukamoto

Ryohei Ono

Daiki Kawachino

Rie Yayabe

Akira Mikami

Katsuhiro Ito

Shunsuke Toshioka

Kazuhiro Umemoto

Daichi Imai

Yuji Miyoshi

Tomomi Onishi

Ryohei Mukai

Takeru Shirasawa

Takayuki Yoshimi

Kenji Hoshi

Bungo Kawaguchi

Satoshi Kobayakawa

Teruaki Haibara

Yuji Kubo

Tadashi Kumazawa

Yasunori Kobayashi

Naoto Ono

Shigeki Nakayama

Makoto Ogiso

Yoshihiro Mizutani

Keishi Takada

Koji Nishi

Edgar Yoshio Morales Teraoka

Shuji Yamamoto

Mamoru Katsuta

Mohee Sagae

Yasuo Mishima

Morio Oba

Takatoshi Negishi

Koji Fujiwara

Ryuji Nagata

Ryouhei Ono

Masanori Matsumoto

Kazuhiko Yokogawa

Katsuhiko Hashizume

Tokufumi Takeuchi

Masayuki Kuwata

Satoshi Ebina

A charging control system includes: a charging apparatus including a first processor, the charging apparatus being configured to store electric power to be supplied in a predetermined area; a charging stand provided in the predetermined area and including a second processor, the charging stand being configured to supply the electric power supplied from the charging apparatus to one or more electric vehicles in the predetermined area; and a charging control apparatus including a third processor, the third processor being configured to calculate number of the one or more electric vehicles in the predetermined area, calculate a charging amount of the charging apparatus based on the calculated number of the one or more electric vehicles, and perform charging control of the charging apparatus based on the calculated charging amount.

Charging control system, charging control apparatus, and computer readable recording medium

A charge control system includes: a charging apparatus including a first processor to cause the charging apparatus to store electric power to be supplied to a preset region; a facility group installed in the region, to be supplied with electric power from the charging apparatus, and including a second processor; and a charge control device including a third processor configured to predict a snowfall amount in the region, calculate a snow removal electric power amount for removing snow covering the facility group based on the predicted snowfall amount, and perform charge control for causing the charging apparatus to store electric power equal to or more than the calculated snow removal electric power amount.

Charge control system, charge control device, and recording medium

A charging system is provided. The charging system includes an arm mechanism configured to grasp a charging cable extending from the charging apparatus and connecting a charging cable to a vehicle-to-be-charged. The charging system includes a control unit configured to indicate the vehicle-to-be-charged a charging position for connecting the charging cable thereto. The control unit is configured to give a parking position adjustment instruction to either one of the vehicle-to-be-charged or a parking-section-for-charging sliding mechanism for moving vehicles parked in the charging area so as to make a first spacing to be wider than a second spacing. The first spacing is a spacing between the vehicle-to-be-charged and an adjacent vehicle on a charge port side of the vehicle-to-be-charged and the second spacing is a spacing between the vehicle-to-be-charged and an adjacent vehicle on a side opposite the charge port side of the vehicle-to-be-charged.

Charging system, vehicle position management program for charging system, and vehicle position management method for charging system

A carwash device receives vehicle attribute information indicating an attribute of a vehicle that is a car-washing target. The carwash device selects a car-washing mode based on the vehicle attribute information, and the carwash device drives a drive section for washing the vehicle such that the vehicle is washed in the selected car-washing mode.

Carwash device, car-washing method, storage medium stored with car-washing program, and car-washing system

A charge control system includes: a charging apparatus including a first processor to cause the charging apparatus to store electric power to be supplied to at least one preset facility; a facility server provided in the facility; and a charge control device including a second processor to acquire facility schedule information regarding a future schedule of the facility from the facility server, calculate an amount of electric power to be supplied to the facility based on a schedule of opening and closure of the facility included in the facility schedule information, and perform charging control for the charging apparatus based on the calculated amount of electric power.

A charge control system includes a charging apparatus including a first processor configured to cause the charging apparatus to store electric power to be supplied to a preset region, and a charge control apparatus including a second processor configured to calculate a charge amount of the charging apparatus and perform charging control for the charging apparatus based on the calculated charge amount, wherein when calculating the charge amount, the second processor calculates a charge amount to be larger in a case where the engine driving prohibited zone is set in the region than a charge amount in a case where the engine driving prohibited zone is not set in the region.

Charge control system, charge control apparatus, and recording medium

A charge control system includes: a charging device having a first processor configured to store electric power to be supplied to a preset area; and a charge control device having a second processor configured to acquire brightness information in the area, calculate a charge amount of the charging device on a basis of the acquired brightness information, and perform charge control of the charging device on a basis of the calculated charge amount. Further, when calculating the charge amount, the second processor calculates the charge amount in such a manner that the charge amount decreases as brightness in the area increases.

Charge control system, charge control device, and recording medium based on brightness of an area

A driving control device including a processor. The processor detects that a vehicle has encroached into an area configured for car-washing by a carwash machine, switches a travel mode of the vehicle to autonomous driving, and controls the vehicle so as to stop at a carwash position for the carwash machine under autonomous driving.

Driving control device, storage medium storing driving control program, and driving control system

A charge control system includes: a charging apparatus; and a charge control device including a processor calculating a charge amount of the charging apparatus and perform charging control. Further, the charge amount is calculated in a manner that a first charge amount is greater than a second charge amount, the first charge amount being the charger amount which is charged in a first time period which is from a predetermined reference time point until the engine driving prohibited zone is set, the second charge amount being the charger amount which is charged in a second time period which is from the predetermined reference time point until the engine driving prohibited zone is set, and the first time period being shorter than the second time period.

A vehicle-installed battery charge system of the disclosure starts executions of processes to electrically charge batteries of vehicles in accordance with a predetermined charge order. The charge system acquires a value correlating with a charge speed of the battery now charged as a charge speed correlation value of the battery now charged and ends the execution of the process to charge the battery now charged when the charge speed correlation value of the battery now charged indicates that the charge speed of the battery now charged becomes equal to or lower than a predetermined charge speed threshold.

Vehicle-installed battery charge system

A charging system includes: a plurality of charging devices, each including a device main body having one or more charging cables connected to the main body, the charging cables being equipped with respective charging plugs; and one or more arm mechanisms each being configured to grasp any one of the charging plugs of the charging devices and automatically insert and remove the grasped charging plug to and from a charging port of a vehicle located in a charging space. Further, a number of arm mechanisms is smaller than a number of charging cables.

Charging system

An exhaust gas control apparatus includes an SCR catalyst arranged in an exhaust passage, a heating device that heats the SCR catalyst, a urea solution supply device that supplies a urea solution to an upstream side of the SCR catalyst, a controller that operates the heating device and the urea solution supply device, and at least one sensor that acquires information related to a state of the exhaust gas control apparatus. The controller executes a state determination process for determining whether the exhaust gas control apparatus is currently in a predetermined state in which ammonia is not adsorbable on the SCR catalyst based on the information from the at least one sensor, and a heating avoidance process for avoiding heating the SCR catalyst with the heating device irrespective of an operating condition of the internal combustion engine when the exhaust gas control apparatus is currently in the predetermined state.

Exhaust gas control apparatus for internal combustion engine

An exhaust gas control system includes an upstream purification device disposed in an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, a downstream purification device disposed in a portion of the exhaust passage downstream from the upstream purification device, a fuel addition valve disposed in a portion of the exhaust passage upstream from the upstream purification device, and a urea addition valve disposed in a portion of the exhaust passage between the upstream purification device and the downstream purification device, and a cooling device. The cooling device is configured such that refrigerant cools the fuel addition valve first and then cools the urea addition valve subsequent to the fuel addition valve.

Exhaust gas control system for internal combustion engine

An exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine according to the present disclosure includes an exhaust emission control catalyst provided in an exhaust passage in an internal combustion engine and divided into a preceding catalyst and a succeeding catalyst, and a heating device provided in the exhaust passage between the preceding catalyst and the succeeding catalyst. The exhaust emission control catalyst is divided into the preceding catalyst and the succeeding catalyst so that a ratio of a capacity of the preceding catalyst to a total displacement of the internal combustion engine is from 0.3 to 1.5.

Exhaust emission control device for internal combustion engine

An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes the adsorbent, the catalyst and the heat generating element, wherein in cases where the residual capacity of the battery is smaller than a first predetermined value required for raising the temperature of the catalyst to an activation temperature thereof, and in cases where the residual capacity of the battery is larger than a second predetermined value which is smaller than the first predetermined value and which is required for raising the temperature of the adsorbent to a predetermined temperature at which the adsorbent exhibits adsorption performance required at the time of starting of the internal combustion engine, an amount of electric power to be supplied to the heat generating element from the battery is adjusted such that the temperature of the adsorbent becomes the predetermined temperature.

Exhaust gas purification apparatus for internal combustion engine

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Susono, Japan

Masaaki Sato