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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2019
Applicant:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Inventor:
Koji Sakai, Kariya, JP;
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/00 (2006.01); F24F 11/30 (2018.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); F24F 130/20 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60H 1/00771 (2013.01); B60H 1/00778 (2013.01); B60W 40/02 (2013.01); F24F 11/30 (2018.01); G05D 1/021 (2013.01); F24F 2130/20 (2018.01);
Abstract
An air conditioning control device includes: a passenger determination unit that determines whether a passenger is in a self-driving vehicle; a travel determination unit that determines a traveling state of the self-driving vehicle; and a light blocking control unit that executes a light blocking air conditioning control for a vehicle cabin by operating a light blocking device to adjust solar radiation into the vehicle cabin from a window of the self-driving vehicle when the passenger determination unit and the travel determination unit determine that the self-driving vehicle is in an unmanned traveling condition.