US 12,221,127 B2
Vehicle, vehicle control interface box, and autonomous driving vehicle
Eisuke Ando, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Apr. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/722,784.
Application 17/722,784 is a continuation of application No. 17/136,114, filed on Dec. 29, 2020, abandoned.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-015715 (JP), filed on Jan. 31, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0250647 A1, Aug. 11, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60R 16/023 (2006.01); B60R 16/04 (2006.01); B60W 10/26 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 60/001 (2020.02) [B60R 16/0231 (2013.01); B60R 16/04 (2013.01); B60W 10/26 (2013.01); B60W 2510/242 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle on which an autonomous driving system that creates a driving plan is mountable, the vehicle comprising:
a vehicle platform that carries out vehicle control in accordance with an instruction from the autonomous driving system; and
a vehicle control interface box installed in the vehicle and separate from the autonomous driving system that interfaces between the vehicle platform and the autonomous driving system, the autonomous driving system being externally attachable to and removable from the vehicle, wherein
the vehicle control interface box includes
a processor, and
a memory that stores a program executable by the processor, the processor
receives from the autonomous driving system, an instruction for travelling the vehicle in accordance with the driving plan created by the autonomous driving system, and transmits to the autonomous driving system, signals that indicate states of the vehicle,
receives a power supply mode request from the autonomous driving system, the power supply mode request being an instruction for controlling a power supply mode of the vehicle platform,
transmits a power supply mode status to the autonomous driving system, the power supply mode status indicating a status of the power supply mode of the vehicle platform, and
performs processing in accordance with the receiver power supply mode request in accordance with the program, and
the power supply mode includes
a sleep mode in which the vehicle is in a Ready OFF state,
a driving mode in which the vehicle is in a Ready ON state, and
a wake mode in which the vehicle control interface box is on,
the vehicle platform includes a high-voltage battery and an auxiliary battery,
the sleep mode is a mode in which the vehicle control interface box and each system of the vehicle platform is not on,
the driving mode is a mode in which power is fed from the high-voltage battery to each system of the vehicle platform, and
the wake mode is a mode in which the vehicle control interface box is activated by power feed from the auxiliary battery and is on by power feed from the auxiliary battery, and in which power is not fed from the high-voltage battery.