19004801. COIL POSITION ESTIMATING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS (DENSO CORPORATION)
COIL POSITION ESTIMATING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS
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Inventor(s)
Kazuyoshi Obayashi of Kariya-city JP
Nobuhisa Yamaguchi of Kariya-city JP
Keisuke Tani of Kariya-city JP
COIL POSITION ESTIMATING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 19004801 titled 'COIL POSITION ESTIMATING APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS
Original Abstract Submitted
In a coil position estimating apparatus, a past local-maximum position identifier identifies, from information indicative of how levels of first power received by a power receiving apparatus in the past change over time, at least one local maximum position along a road at which the received power became locally maximum in the past. A power-transmission coil position estimator estimates, based on the identified at least one local maximum position, at least one future local-maximum position as the position of the at least one power transmission coil. The at least one future local-maximum position corresponds to a level of second power to be received by the power receiving apparatus in a forward section of the road from the vehicle; the level of the second power is likely to become locally maximum.