Autonomous traveling vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11465696-B2
Application number	US-202016794837-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 19, 2020
Priority date	Mar 11, 2019
Publication date	Oct 11, 2022
Grant date	Oct 11, 2022

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an autonomous traveling vehicle having a loading space for loading a package and/or a user. The autonomous traveling vehicle includes: a partition apparatus for performing switching between a partitioned state where the loading space is partitioned into a plurality of spaces separated from each other and a communicating state where the loading space forms one continuous space; and a control unit that controls the partition apparatus such that the loading space is brought into the communicating state when only any one of the package and the user is loaded in the loading space and the loading space is brought into the partitioned state when both of the package and the user are loaded in the loading space.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An autonomous traveling vehicle having a loading space for loading a package and/or a user, the autonomous traveling vehicle comprising:
a partition apparatus for performing switching between a partitioned state where the loading space is partitioned into a plurality of spaces separated from each other and a communicating state where the loading space forms one continuous space; and
a control unit that controls the partition apparatus such that the loading space is brought into the communicating state when only any one of the package and the user is loaded in the loading space and the loading space is brought into the partitioned state when both of the package and the user are loaded in the loading space.

2. The autonomous traveling vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit controls the partition apparatus to switch the loading space from the communicating state to the partitioned state upon occurrence of a request for allowing the user to get in the autonomous traveling vehicle, when only the package is loaded in the loading space that is in the communicating state and a vacant space exists in the loading space.

3. The autonomous traveling vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the partition apparatus is an electric shutter apparatus including a shutter curtain capable of being wound and being let out.

4. The autonomous traveling vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the user is a passenger of the autonomous traveling vehicle who is transported during traveling of the autonomous traveling vehicle.

5. An autonomous traveling vehicle comprising:
a loading space configured to transport any of a package, a user, or both the package and the user;
a partition apparatus for performing switching between a partitioned state in which the loading space is partitioned into a plurality of spaces separated from each other and a communicating state in which the loading space forms one continuous space; and
a control unit configured to control the partition apparatus such that (i) the loading space is brought into the communicating state when only the package is loaded in the loading space without the user, and (ii) the loading space is brought into the partitioned state when both of the package and the user are loaded in the loading space.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Suzuki Koichi
• Nishitani Toru
• Usami Jun
• Yoda Minami
• Koike Kensuke
• Ogawa Tsuyoshi
• Tanigawa Yohei

Classifications

• B62D33/042 Primary

  divided into compartments (movable bulk heads B60P7/14; cattle transport B60P3/04; bottled liquids B60P3/22) · CPC title

• B60R21/026

  Rigid partitions inside vehicles, e.g. between passengers and load compartments (B60R21/12 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B62D63/02

  Motor vehicles · CPC title

• G05D3/10

  without using feedback · CPC title

• G05D1/0251 Primary

  extracting 3D information from a plurality of images taken from different locations, e.g. stereo vision (stereoscopic image analysis H04N13/00; depth recovery from images G06T7/593) · CPC title