US 12,083,241 B2
Taxi vehicle and taxi system
Makoto Kakuchi, Toyota (JP); Osamu Izumida, Nagoya (JP); Shunji Inoue, Okazaki (JP); Takumi Hamajima, Takatsuki (JP); Mitsushi Kintaka, Kariya (JP); Toshihiro Andou, Kariya (JP); and Masamitsu Takahira, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Feb. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/649,624.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-029056 (JP), filed on Feb. 25, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0265881 A1, Aug. 25, 2022
Int. Cl. A61L 2/24 (2006.01); A61L 2/07 (2006.01); A61L 2/10 (2006.01); A61L 2/18 (2006.01); A61L 2/20 (2006.01); B60Q 1/50 (2006.01); B60S 1/64 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G07B 15/00 (2011.01)
CPC A61L 2/24 (2013.01) [A61L 2/07 (2013.01); A61L 2/10 (2013.01); A61L 2/18 (2013.01); A61L 2/202 (2013.01); B60S 1/64 (2013.01); B60W 60/00253 (2020.02); A61L 2202/14 (2013.01); A61L 2202/25 (2013.01); B60Q 1/5037 (2022.05); G07B 15/00 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A taxi vehicle that autonomously transports a user to a destination with no driver in the vehicle, the taxi vehicle comprising:
a cleaning device configured to perform sanitization processing for removing at least one of harmful materials and odors from a vehicle cabin after the user has finished using the taxi vehicle, the harmful materials being harmful to a human body;
a notification device configured to notify a person of a cleaning degree of the vehicle cabin, the person being a person outside the vehicle who wishes to use the vehicle; and
a vehicle controller, wherein
the cleaning device includes an entire space sanitizing device that is an ultraviolet-ray lamp (UV lamp), a partial sanitizing device that is a disinfectant nozzle, and a ventilation device that is an in-vehicle air conditioner,
the UV lamp is configured to emit ultraviolet rays at a wavelength of 200 nm to 280 nm and at an irradiation amount of equal to or higher than 6.6 mJ/cm2,
the disinfectant nozzle is configured to supply a mist or gas disinfectant that does not deteriorate resin, and
the vehicle controller is configured to cause the UV lamp to emit the ultraviolet rays and drive the in-vehicle air conditioner at a same time, and cause the disinfectant nozzle to supply the mist or gas disinfectant and stop the in-vehicle air conditioner at a same time.