Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Mitsubishi Electric Corpotation

Yoshihiro Nakai

Takeshi Mitsui

Masahiro Abukawa

Hideki Fukuhara

Yoshiaki Watanabe

Tsutomu Matsubara

Hisao Nakano

Takehisa Mizuguchi

Yasuaki Takimoto

Masao Iwata

Hiroyuki Yokota

Nozomi Yamada

A routine-run-vehicle determination unit determines a route from a departure place to a destination of a following vehicle, and a plurality of routine-run vehicles in charge of a plurality of routine-run areas overlapping the route. For each of the routine-run vehicles, a route determination unit determines a routine-run route on which the following vehicle and another following vehicle that are going to travel in a routine-run area in charge can follow, and determines a portion of the routine-run route overlapping an adjacent routine-run area as a takeover position at which the following vehicle is taken over to the next routine-run vehicle. A reservation management unit transmits routine-run-vehicle reservation data including identification information of the following vehicle, and the routine-run route and the takeover position to each of the routine-run vehicles.

Server for management, routine-run-vehicle control device, and following-vehicle control device

The update control device is an update control device that controls update of software for one of electronic devices in a vehicle driven by a replaceable battery, and includes: an update method setting unit for selectively setting an update method of the software to either a first update method by replacement of the battery or a second update method by wireless communication, by using at least one of information indicating a remaining amount of the battery, information indicating a size of data to be used for the update, information indicating an urgency of the update, or information indicating a search result of one or more charging stations in a search target area including a position of the vehicle; and a reservation process executing unit for executing, when the update method is set to the first update method, a reservation process of making a reservation for a replacement battery to a reservation target charging station among the charging stations included in the search result and a storage request process of requesting the reservation target charging station to store the data in the replacement battery.

Update control device and update control method

A surrounding information obtaining unit determines whether a first vehicle has traveled on a different road than a road on which a host vehicle travels, on the basis of information indicating roads and a facility present around the host vehicle and a travel state of the first vehicle. A difference checking unit checks whether a target road determined to have been traveled by the first vehicle is included in host vehicle map information. A wireless communication unit inquires whether an unknown target road confirmed not to be included in the host vehicle map information is included in master map information in a server device. When the unknown target road is included in the master map information, the wireless communication unit receives updating map information including the unknown target road from the server device. A map updating unit updates the host vehicle map information using the updating map information.

Map updating device, map updating system, and map updating method

A communication control device for a host vehicle including a plurality of host vehicle communication devices each including a different communication object, the communication control device including: an unauthorized state detector to detect an unauthorized state occurring from communication using an unauthorized host vehicle communication device out of the plurality of host vehicle communication devices; and a communication controller to execute control for transmitting host vehicle unauthorized state information related to the unauthorized state by using at least one normal host vehicle communication device out of the plurality of host vehicle communication devices excluding the unauthorized host vehicle communication device when the unauthorized state is detected.

Communication control device, communication system, and communication control method

A server divides a plurality of vehicles into groups, transmits control information to an on-vehicle information device of individual vehicles belonging to a group to which a processing turn of the transmission process has come, and receives responses indicating presence or absence of abnormality due to update of on-vehicle devices using the control information from the on-vehicle information device of each vehicle. The server performs the transmission process of the control information toward a group having a following turn when responses indicating presence of abnormality are a predetermined reference value or less, and, suspends transmission processes of control information toward groups having following and subsequent turns when the responses indicating presence of abnormality are more than the predetermined reference value.

Vehicular information communication system and vehicular information communication method

An onboard wireless communication apparatusincludes an in-vehicle informing processor that transmits information that enables a wireless setto recognize that it is located inside a vehicleto the wireless setwhich is about to carry out wireless communication with a first wireless communication apparatusserving as a communication partner, and which controls, when the wireless setrecognizes that it is located inside the vehicle, its transmit power in a manner preventing an excessive receiving power level of a second communication apparatusthat is carrying out, besides the first wireless communication apparatus, wireless communication inside the vehicleby a wireless communication technique using the same frequency band as the first wireless communication apparatus

Wireless communication apparatus for in-vehicle transmission power control

A home security system includes an in-home system and a vehicle-mounted system, wherein the in-home system includes an in-home sensor that is mounted in a home and is capable of detect a state of the home, and an in-home communication module that is capable of communicating with the vehicle-mounted system to sense an abnormality from information of the in-home sensor, and wherein the vehicle-mounted system includes a vehicle-mounted device that is mounted on a vehicle that is capable of a vehicle outside output, and a vehicle-mounted communication module that is capable of communicating with the in-home system via the in-home communication module, and when the in-home system senses the abnormality, an instruction is received from the in-home system via the in-home communication module and vehicle-mounted communication module to deal with the abnormality using the vehicle-mounted device according to the instruction.

Home security system and vehicle-mounted system used by same

An electronic key system includes a lock-side terminal that is mounted in a locked object and capable of at least locking and unlocking the locked object, and a portable terminal capable of sending and receiving the electronic key to and from the lock-side terminal mounted in the locked object and the other portable terminals, and when receiving a request from the one portable terminal, the lock-side terminal generates the electronic key at random, and sends the randomly generated electronic key to the one portable terminal.

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Kobe, Japan

Yoshihiro Nakai