US 12,214,686 B2
Charging system and information processing device
Yoshikane Tanaami, Nagoya (JP); and Koji Ito, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to SINTOKOGIO, LTD., Aichi (JP)
Filed by SINTOKOGIO, LTD., Nagoya (JP)
Filed on Sep. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/487,361.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-164799 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0097544 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. B60L 53/35 (2019.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01); H01R 13/66 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 53/35 (2019.02) [B60L 53/16 (2019.02); H01R 13/6683 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A charging system, comprising:
an arm portion;
a force sensor;
a connector for charging to be inserted into a power feeding port of an electric automobile, the connector being fixed to the arm portion with the force sensor interposed between the connector and arm portion; and
one or more processors,
the one or more processors being configured to carry out:
a position identification step of identifying a position of a power feeding port provided in an electric automobile;
a moving control step of controlling the arm portion, on the basis of a result of identification in the position identification step, so as to move the connector to a position facing the power feeding port; and
an insertion control step of controlling the arm portion so as to insert the connector into the power feeding port, wherein in the insertion control step,
the one or more processors controlling, on the basis of a value detected by the force sensor, the arm portion so that a force along a direction other than an insertion direction in which the connector is inserted and/or a torque have/has a magnitude not greater than a threshold, and
the one or more processors detecting, on the basis of a value detected by the force sensor, a failure of the connector or a foreign matter caught in the connector.