Denso Corporation

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corpora Tion

Takashi Kanamori

Hiroshige Asada

Shinya Taguchi

Masayuki Kurimoto

A charging connector connecting device includes a cover that is movable between a closed position at which a connecting portion is closed and an open position at which the connecting portion is opened so that a second charging connector can be connected to the connecting portion; an elastic member that applies a biasing force to the cover so that the cover is positioned at an initial position between the closed position and the open position; and a pressing member configured to move with insertion of a first charging connector into the connecting portion so as to press the cover positioned at the initial position to thereby move the cover to the closed position.

Charging connector connecting device

A charge cable device includes: a cable having one end detachable from a power source or another charge cable device and an electric power line for supplying electricity to a vehicle from the electric power source or another charge cable device; a charge connector on the other end of the cable detachable from a charge inlet of the vehicle; a cable connector detachable from further another charge cable device to connect between further another charge cable device and the electric power line; and a controller. When the cable connector is not attached to further another charge cable device, the controller controls to supply electricity from the one end of the cable to the charge connector. When the cable connector is attached to further another charge cable device, the controller controls an electric power supply amount of electricity to the charge connector and to further another charge cable device.

Charge cable device

In a vehicle door control system, when a mobile terminal accepts door lock manipulation and a vehicle door control apparatus receives a door lock signal from the mobile terminal, the vehicle door control apparatus determines that a door should be locked and, at time of door locking, transmits the amount of charge of a secondary battery at that time. Then the door is locked.

Door control and charge control for plug-in charge type vehicle

When a user performs a short-press manipulation to A button or B button, a vehicle ID associated with either A button or B button having received the short-press manipulation is specified based on a button-vehicle correspondence table. Charge status information of a battery of a vehicle corresponding to the above associated vehicle ID is acquired from the vehicle. Thereby, the display device displays the acquired charge status information or the electric power supply is started to the battery of the vehicle corresponding to the vehicle ID.

Charge status display apparatus and electric power supply control apparatus

A communication part of a battery charge state transmission device of a charging device acquires charge state information of each external charge vehicle. A station communication part transmits the charge state information to an information management station device. The charge state information is grouped for transmission so that the number of transmissions, the amount of communication traffic and the cost of communication with the management station device, and the operation load of the management station device are reduced.

Battery charge state transmission device and external charging system

Chargers are connectable with vehicles. An electric supply controller controls a switching circuit to connect an electric power supply line to one of the chargers. A storage unit of the electric supply controller associates information on a priority to each of the vehicles and stores the associated information therein. When the vehicles are simultaneously connected to different chargers, a control unit of the electric supply controller controls the switching circuit to connect the electric power supply line preferentially to one of the different chargers. The one of the different chargers is connected to one of the vehicles assigned with a highest priority.

Electric supply controller, electric supply system and method for controlling electric supply to charger and vehicle

An information processing station having map data is provided at an external position outside of a vehicle. In-vehicle equipment determines a vehicular travel path of the vehicle, and transmits the determined vehicular travel path to the information processing station. The information processing station executes map matching processing of matching the vehicular travel path with a road on the map data, thereby correcting the present position of the vehicle. Accordingly, the present position of the vehicle can be determined with high precision without providing expensive map data to the vehicle.

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Nagoya, Japan

Takashi Kanamori