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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2019
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Takaaki Tokura, Nagoya, JP;
Katsumi Kono, Toyota, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18 (2012.01); G07C 5/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18009 (2013.01); G07C 5/008 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0064 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0075 (2013.01); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02);
Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus includes: a transmission unit transmitting information to a control apparatus of an infrastructure in a non-contact manner, the information being on a vehicle driven by power supplied from a battery, which is rechargeable and is supplied with energy from the infrastructure of an outside in a non-contact manner; and a control unit acquiring information on a platoon of the vehicle from the outside by communication and causing the vehicle to travel according to the information on the platoon of the vehicle acquired.