Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Open vehicle and operation management system thereof
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Application No.: US17473070Application Date: 2021-09-13
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Publication No.: US11951984B2Publication Date: 2024-04-09
- Inventor: Takuya Watabe , Tetsuya Kanata , Yozo Iwami , Daisaku Honda , Yuhei Katsumata , Hideki Fukudome , Yuta Maniwa , Naoko Ichikawa , Saki Narita , Yuki Nishikawa
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
- Priority: JP 20154776 2020.09.15
- Main IPC: B60W30/14
- IPC: B60W30/14 ; B60Q5/00 ; B60W60/00 ; G06Q10/02 ; G06Q10/1093 ; G06Q50/40 ; G06V20/56 ; G06V40/16 ; H04W4/40

Abstract:
An open vehicle includes a vehicle upper portion, a traveling device, an external sensor, and an ECU. The vehicle upper portion has a riding surface that forms a bottom surface of the riding space and is configured for a plurality of users to ride on. The ECU is configured to control the traveling device to cause the open vehicle to automatically travel. The ECU is configured to execute: a specific person recognition process to use the external sensor to recognize a specific person existing in an outside space; and an automatic travel control process to control the traveling device such that, when the specific person exists within a predetermined distance range, the traveling device executes at least one of moving the open vehicle away from the specific person and increasing a vehicle speed as compared to when the specific person does not exist within the range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220080965A1 OPEN VEHICLE AND OPERATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM THEREOF Public/Granted day:2022-03-17
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