US 12,252,006 B2
Driving device for energy replenishment port visor member
Kenichiro Kaneko, Kiyosu (JP); Kazuki Fujisawa, Nagoya (JP); and Susumu Otsuka, Handa (JP)
Assigned to TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Aichi-pref. (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD., Kiyosu (JP); and TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Sep. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/947,296.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-153685 (JP), filed on Sep. 21, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0087162 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 15/04 (2006.01); B60K 15/05 (2006.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01)
CPC B60K 15/0406 (2013.01) [B60K 15/05 (2013.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.02); B60K 2015/0416 (2013.01); B60K 2015/0429 (2013.01); B60K 2015/0435 (2013.01); B60K 2015/049 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driving device for energy replenishment port visor member, comprising:
a visor member to be advanced/retracted between an advanced position where the visor member covers, from above, a replenishment port exposed at a vehicle-body-side opening and used for replenishing a vehicle with energy, and a retracted position where the visor member is retracted from above the replenishment port;
a visor driving unit configured to advance/retract the visor member between the advanced position and the retracted position;
a gun connection detection unit configured to detect whether or not an energy replenishment gun is connected to the replenishment port; and
a control unit configured to cause the visor driving unit to execute advancing-driving for advancing the visor member from the retracted position to the advanced position, when the gun connection detection unit has detected that the energy replenishment gun is connected to the replenishment port in a state in which the visor member is at the retracted position.