Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Holdings Corporation

Noriaki Imaoka

Takeshi Ando

Hiroyuki Uematsu

Hiroyuki Sasai

Duyhinh Nguyen

Mizuho Sakakibara

Shohei Nakashioya

Based on schedule information indicating one or more events to be occurred and information relating to a location associated with each of the one or more events, a navigation method estimates an area and time at which congestion may be likely to occur in the vicinity of the location. Furthermore, the navigation method presents to a moving body information which is based on the estimated result of the area and the time, and which is related to a movement plan when moving using the moving body.

Navigation method, navigation system, moving body, and navigation program

Provided is a moving vehicle which enables a user to easily recognize that the moving vehicle is stopped due to the user's own clothing or the like being determined as an object, thereby enabling the user to cancel the stopped state and return to a moving state. A moving vehicle on which a person rides and which stops moving if the distance to an object is equal to or less than a first predetermined value, said moving vehicle comprising: a sensor () for detecting the distance; a determiner () for determining, if the distance is equal to or less than a second predetermined value smaller than the first predetermined value, a state in which the field of view of the sensor () is blocked due to the clothing covering the sensor (); and a notifier () that, if said state is determined by the determiner (), issues a notification.

Moving vehicle

According to a control method for an electric vehicle of the present invention, when an electric vehicle () moves at a first velocity and approaches an object () on the basis of instructed information, the electric vehicle () is temporarily stopped at a position at which the distance between the electric vehicle () and the object () is a first stopping distance, after which the velocity is switched to a second velocity that is slower than the first velocity, the electric vehicle () is caused to approach the object (), and the electric vehicle () is stopped at position at which the distance between the electric vehicle () and the object () is a second stopping distance that is shorter than the first stopping distance.

Method for controlling electrically driven vehicle, and electrically driven vehicle

A moving body includes a frame, a pair of right and left first wheels, a pair of right and left second wheels, a pair of right and left first parallel links connecting the first wheels and the second wheels, and a second parallel link connecting the pair of right and left first parallel links. Furthermore, a height changing unit connects the second parallel link and the frame and changes a position of the frame in a height direction with respect to the second parallel link, and a controller controls the height changing unit so as to maintain a height of the frame from a road surface.

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Tokyo, Japan

Noriaki Imaoka