US 12,275,324 B2
Charging system, vehicle position management program for charging system, and vehicle position management method for charging system
Masaaki Sato, Susono (JP); and Satoshi Kondo, Numazu (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/987,923.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-193273 (JP), filed on Nov. 29, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0166625 A1, Jun. 1, 2023
Int. Cl. B60L 53/00 (2019.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01); B60L 53/66 (2019.01); B60L 53/67 (2019.01)
CPC B60L 53/66 (2019.02) [B60L 53/16 (2019.02); B60L 53/67 (2019.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A charging system for charging a vehicle-to-be-charged among a plurality of vehicles placed on standby in a charging area by connecting a charging cable extending from a charging apparatus to the vehicle-to-be-charged, comprising:
an uncharged vehicle parking area for parking the vehicle-to-be-charged in addition to the charging area;
a charge port operation arm configured to grasp the charging cable extending from the charging apparatus and connecting the charging cable to the vehicle-to-be-charged; and
a management apparatus including a central processing unit configured to indicate the vehicle-to-be-charged of a charging position at which the charging cable is connected to the vehicle, wherein
the central processing unit is further configured to give a parking position adjustment instruction for moving vehicles parked in the charging area by either one of the vehicle-to-be-charged or a parking-section-for-charging sliding mechanism so as to make a first spacing wider than a second spacing, the first spacing being a spacing between the vehicle-to-be-charged and an adjacent vehicle on a charge port side of the vehicle-to-be-charged and the second spacing being a spacing between the vehicle-to-be-charged and an adjacent vehicle on a side opposite the charge port side of the vehicle-to-be-charged, and
the central processing unit gives the parking position adjustment instruction to the vehicle-to-be-charged according to which the vehicle-to-be-charged is made to move from the uncharged vehicle parking area to be parked in the charging area in such a way that the first spacing is made wider than a third spacing which is a spacing between adjacent vehicles parked in the uncharged vehicle parking area.