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Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2025

Filed:

Apr. 03, 2023
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Kazunori Sakai, Nissin, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3461 (2013.01); G01C 21/3492 (2013.01);
Abstract

The traveling route guidance device includes a route acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of traveling routes from a current position of the vehicle to a destination, a gradient distribution acquisition unit that acquires a distribution of a gradient of each road surface of the plurality of traveling routes, a vehicle speed acquisition unit that acquires a vehicle speed of another vehicle traveling on each of the plurality of traveling routes, a load estimation unit that estimates a load of the vehicle when traveling on the traveling route based on the distribution of the gradient for each traveling route and the vehicle speed, and a notification unit that notifies the plurality of traveling routes and the load to an occupant of the vehicle.


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