US 12,403,778 B2
Tractor and vehicle equipped with tractor
Nobuo Nakamura, Nagoya (JP); and Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Mitaka (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Aug. 29, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/897,653.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-166467 (JP), filed on Oct. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0112240 A1, Apr. 13, 2023
Int. Cl. B60L 50/70 (2019.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B62D 53/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60L 50/70 (2019.02) [B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B62D 53/02 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tractor comprising:
a driver equipped with a left and right pair of driving wheels;
a vehicle main body provided between the left and right pair of driving wheels, the vehicle main body including a recess portion providing a power receiving connector configured to be coupled to a power supply connector of a power supplier, and the driver is configured to be capable of driving by the driver using electric power supplied from the power supplier via the power receiving connector;
a periphery information detection sensor provided at the vehicle main body and detecting periphery information;
a controller provided in the vehicle main body and controlling autonomous traveling by the driver in accordance with the periphery information detected by the periphery information detection sensor; and
a first coupler provided at the vehicle main body and configured to be coupled to a trailer, the first coupler comprising a coupler main body and a knuckle rotatably connected to the coupler main body between an open state and a closed state.