Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Soshiro Murata

Ayaka Kagami

Takashi Sagisaka

Yasuhide Matsuo

Yuya Onozuka

Takahiro Nomura

Hiroshi Umeno

Hideo Hasegawa

Takashi Sasaki

Atsushi Hanawa

Genshi Kuno

Takeshi Yamada

Kazuki Ohtake

Masako Furuta

Toshihisa Shimome

Yuta Kikuzaki

Yuu Oomi

Kensuke Sasaki

Yu Sasaki

Hideaki Kanasugi

Shinichi Arimoto

Koh Hirokawa

Hidenori Tago

Ken Atsuta

Masahiro Muta

Kazuki Shimizu

Hideo Takeda

Dai Hidaka

Hiroyuki Koike

Hiroki Hyodo

Hatsumi Matsui

Yasushi Azuma

Minako Izumi

Takahiro Tashiro

Takuji Okuda

Mitsuo Kanno

A notification control method is a method of control by a notification control device that causes a notification apparatus to give information on a replacement apparatus for a battery where electric power for travel is stored, the battery being mounted on a vehicle. The notification control method includes obtaining from the replacement apparatus, abnormality occurrence information relating to replacement of the battery, obtaining from the replacement apparatus or the vehicle, travel-enabled-state information indicating that the battery is in an attachment state in which the vehicle is able to travel, causing the notification apparatus to give first information indicating that the vehicle is able to travel when the abnormality occurrence information and the travel-enabled-state information are obtained, and causing the notification apparatus to give second information indicating that the vehicle is unable to travel when the abnormality occurrence information is obtained and the travel-enabled-state information is not obtained.

Notification control method and notification control device

A method of display control is a method of control of display by an ECU of a vehicle and a CPU of a management server, the ECU controlling an HMI that shows information on a plurality of replacement stations for replacement with a battery to be mounted on a vehicle. The method includes specifying for each replacement station, by the CPU of the management server, reference information on a degree of deterioration when a user selects the battery that is replaceable, the battery being stored at a replacement station that satisfies a prescribed condition among the plurality of replacement stations and controlling, by the ECU of the vehicle, the HMI to show the reference information together with information on the replacement station. The user can select the replacement station in consideration of the degree of deterioration of the battery.

Method of display control and display controller

A display control method is a display control method that is performed by an ECU of a vehicle that controls an HMI for displaying information on a charging station and a replacing station of a battery mounted on the vehicle and a CPU of a management server. The display control method includes the steps of: calculating, by the CPU of the management server, a waiting time using the number of waiting vehicles at the charging station or the replacing station and the time required to charge or replace a battery per vehicle; controlling, by the ECU of the vehicle, the HMI to display the information on the charging station or the replacing station in a predetermined display mode according to the calculated waiting time.

Display control method and display control device

A method of controlling battery replacement includes obtaining information on a battery (first battery) and giving a notification that encourages battery replacement to a user of an electrically powered vehicle when a battery (second battery) lower in SOC than the battery is provided at a battery station (battery replacement station). The method of controlling battery replacement includes controlling the battery station such that the battery and the battery lower in SOC than the battery are replaced with each other.

Method of controlling battery replacement, battery replacement control device, and battery replacement control system

A vehicle lower structure, including: a base member provided under a floor of a vehicle; a pair of reinforcement members; a slope device accommodated above the base member and between the pair of reinforcement members; and a vehicle body floor, both the slope device and the vehicle body floor being fastened to each of a rear flange of a front reinforcement member and a front flange of a rear reinforcement member of respective pairs of the flanges of each of the pair of reinforcement members, and a first fastening portion being disposed so as not to contact the vehicle body floor, and a second fastening portion at which the vehicle body floor is fastened to the rear flange of the front reinforcement member and to the front flange of the rear reinforcement member being disposed so as not to contact the slope device.

Vehicle lower structure

A vehicle display device that is mounted on a vehicle moving toward a destination does not display a content shown in the destination but displays a video related to the content and a video other than a video provided in the destination.

Vehicle display device

A vehicle display device includes a theme-specific related information storage unit that stores videos related to destinations and a display that reads a related video from the theme-specific related information storage unit and displaying the related video for a corresponding one of the destinations. The vehicle display device thus allows users in a vehicle to maintain excitement until a vehicle arrives in the destination.

A vehicle floor structure includes a floor member that includes an opening that is open at an end corresponding to an entrance, the opening extending toward a vehicle cabin side, and a floor panel that is supported by the floor member to cover the opening and includes an open end at a position corresponding to the entrance. The floor panel is configured by sequentially arranging and integrating unit panels in a width direction with a direction parallel to the open end serving as a longitudinal direction of the unit panels.

Vehicle floor structure

A vehicle floor structure includes a floor member having an opening and a floor panel covering the opening. The floor panel is configured by sequentially arranging and integrating a plurality of kinds of unit panels in a lateral direction of the unit panels, the unit panels having rectangular shapes as viewed from above a vehicle. Two end sides of the floor panel extending along a direction in which the unit panels are arranged (x direction) and one side of at least one of two unit panels arranged at opposite ends of the floor panel are supported by support portions of a floor member. A unit panel of which the one side is supported by the support portion of the floor member has a lighter weight per unit area than other unit panels having lateral lengths equal to or greater than a lateral length of the unit panel.

A latch structure includes: a door that is changeable between a closed state in which the door covers a door opening provided on a peripheral wall of a vehicle and an opened state in which the door opens the door opening; a floor panel that constitutes a floor surface of an interior space; a door-side engaging portion mounted on the door; and a floor-side engaging portion mounted on the floor panel and engageable with the door-side engaging portion when the door is in the closed state.

In-vehicle door latch structure and vehicle

A vehicle bottom structure includes a slope device including a slope plate and guide rails, floor crossmembers, and a floor panel structure. The floor crossmembers are arranged at intervals in the vehicle front-rear direction. The slope device is provided between paired floor crossmembers, and the slope device is provided below a standing-ride region. The floor panel structure is provided over the paired floor crossmembers such that the floor panel structure is placed above the slope device and serves as a floor material in the standing-ride region. The floor panel structure includes panel segments extended in the vehicle front-rear direction so as to be provided over the paired floor crossmembers, and the panel segments are shorter than the whole length of the standing-ride region in the vehicle width direction. The panel segments are arranged side by side in the vehicle width direction in the standing-ride region.

Vehicle bottom structure

A vehicle body structure that includes a rear floor side member that extends along a vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle width direction end portion of a vehicle rear section and that is divided into front and rear portions in the vehicle front-rear direction. The rear floor side member includes a joint section that is provided between a vehicle width direction inner side of a rocker rear, which is provided along the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle front-rear direction rear side of a rocker extending along the vehicle front-rear direction at a vehicle side section, and a vehicle front-rear direction front end of an attachment portion of a rear suspension member in vehicle side view, and that joins together a rear floor side member front portion and a rear floor side member rear portion.

Vehicle body structure

There is provided a vehicle body structure, including: a die-cast rear floor side member; and a rocker rear inner; a joint section including: an upright wall configuring an inner side, in the vehicle width direction, of the rocker rear inner and extending along the vehicle vertical direction and the vehicle front-rear direction, and an outer joint section that is formed at the vehicle front-rear direction front end portion of the rear floor side member, that has an open cross-section profile, when sectioned along the vehicle vertical direction and the vehicle width direction, that is open toward an outer side in the vehicle width direction, that covers the rocker rear inner from the vehicle width direction inner side and that is joined to the rocker rear inner in a state in which a gap is provided between the outer joint section and the upright wall.

Provided is a vehicle body structure member molded by a die. The vehicle body structure member includes a general portion constituting a main part of the vehicle body structure member, ribs provided in a standing manner from the general portion, and thickened portions provided in a standing manner from the general portion, each of the thickened portions being thicker than each of the ribs.

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Nagoya, Japan

Soshiro Murata