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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2021
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Yuta Maniwa, Susono Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Tetsuya Kanata, Susono Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Yozo Iwami, Susono Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Yuhei Katsumata, Fuji Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Daisaku Honda, Nagoya Aichi-ken, JP;
Saki Narita, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Hideki Fukudome, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Takuya Watabe, Hachioji Tokyo-to, JP;
Naoko Ichikawa, Toyota Aichi-ken, JP;
Yuki Nishikawa, Susono Shizuoka-ken, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An automatic traveling vehicle includes a vehicle structure including a first top plate, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a storage mode when a storage execution condition is satisfied. The storage mode includes a storage posture formation process of causing the vehicle to automatically travel so as to take a predetermined storage posture together with a counterpart automatic traveling vehicle. In the storage posture, the vehicle is in a superposition state in which the vehicle overlaps with the counterpart vehicle in a plan view, or a parallel state in which the vehicle is lined up with the counterpart vehicle while the first top plate and a second top plate of the counterpart vehicle are standing and facing each other so as to be parallel to or substantially parallel to a vertical direction.