Nissan Motor Company Limited

Shihang Mo

Yukinori Tsukamoto

Kengo Maikawa

A method for controlling a non-contact electric power supply system in which an electric power receiving coil mounted on a host vehicle is opposed to an electric power transmitting coil set on a ground, the non-contact electric power supply system supplying electric power from the electric power transmitting coil to the electric power receiving coil in a non-contact manner and, when a moving object is detected in a detection region around the electric power receiving coil or the electric power transmitting coil during the electric power supply, stopping or reducing the electric power supply, the method including: determining whether another vehicle is parked around the host vehicle; and expanding, when determining that the other vehicle is parked, the detection region as compared to when not determining that the other vehicle is parked.

Method for controlling non-contact electric power supply system, and non-contact electric power supply system

A parking assist system is used in a wireless power supply system which performs wireless power supply between a ground-side coil unit and a vehicle-side coil unit. The parking assist system determines a position of a vehicle relative to each of a first region in which the power supply is possible when a gap between the vehicle-side coil unit and the ground-side coil unit is maximum and a second region in which the power supply is possible when the gap is minimum. The parking assist system determines possibility of the power supply, based on a result of the determination on the vehicle position, and displays a result of the determination on the possibility of the power supply, for an occupant of the vehicle.

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