AUTOMATIC CHARGING SYSTEM

Organization Name

toyota jidosha kabushiki kaisha

Inventor(s)

Masaaki Sato of Susono-shi Shizuoka-ken JP

Takeru Shirasawa of Sunto-gun Shizuoka-ken JP

Yusuke Saito of Gotenba-shi Shizuoka-ken JP

Teruaki Haibara of Ashigarakami-gun Kanagawa-ken JP

AUTOMATIC CHARGING SYSTEM

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250001886 titled 'AUTOMATIC CHARGING SYSTEM

Original Abstract Submitted

an automatic charging system includes: a vehicle driven by power from a power storage device; a charger equipped with a charging cable having a charging connector; a charging robot equipped with a robot arm, which automatically grasp the charging connector, and insert and remove the charging connector into and from a charging port of the vehicle, so that power is charged to the power storage device; and a control device which causes the vehicle to lock a door and a window, each of which is a closest to the charging port, during at least a charging operation, in which the charging robot receives an instruction to start automatic charging, starts autonomous moving from a predetermined stand-by position, completes charging power to the power storage device, and returns to the predetermined stand-by position.