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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Katsumi Kono, Toyota, JP;
Yuuichi Kohara, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a traveling control device mounted on a vehicle equipped with an electric motor and an internal combustion engine as a power source. The traveling control device includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires a destination point of the vehicle; a second acquisition unit that acquires past traveling history from a departure point to the destination point; a third acquisition unit that acquires a target storage rate; an estimation unit that estimates, based on the traveling history, an expected amount of generative energy that is energy able to be generated in the vehicle until the vehicle arrives at the destination point; a setting unit that sets a first section and a second section based on the expected amount of the generative energy and the target storage rate; and a control unit that controls traveling of the vehicle based on the first section and the second section.