Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomoya Takeda

Taro Hasegawa

Tatsuya Sugano

Taizo Masuda

Hiroya Chiba

Shun Ota

Yuka Nishiyama

Tsuyoshi Izuhara

A method for operating an air conditioner installed in a vehicle is provided. The method includes a step of operating the air conditioner according to an operation instruction for the air conditioner when the operation instruction is received from a mobile terminal of an operator of the vehicle, and a step of displaying a notification related to an operation of the air conditioner on a screen of the mobile terminal while the air conditioner is operated according to the operation instruction, the step being a step in which the notification related to the operation of the air conditioner is continuously displayed on the screen without being deleted by a predetermined operation of the mobile terminal by the operator when the mobile terminal is located outside the vehicle.

Method and system for operating in-vehicle air conditioner

The vehicle management server manages a vehicle rented as a robot taxi from an owner to a user. The vehicle management server transmits the vehicle position information to a communication terminal of the owner when the vehicle is in operation as a robot taxi. The vehicle position information is a distance from the current position of the owner to the vehicle, or an area where the vehicle is currently located.

Vehicle management server, communication terminal, and vehicle management program

A sensor mounting structure for a vehicle, includes: first mounting members extending in a vehicle front-and-rear direction, being separated by a spacing in a vehicle width direction, and being mountable at arbitrary positions of a roof of the vehicle; and second mounting members extending in the vehicle width direction, being separated by a spacing in the vehicle front-and-rear direction, and being configured to span between arbitrary positions of the first mounting members, the second mounting members and the first mounting members retaining a sensor support member.

Sensor mounting structure for vehicle

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Tomoya Takeda