US 12,437,644 B2
Vehicle management device managing parking position in a parking lot and vehicle
Hideo Sakamoto, Toyota (JP); Yoshinobu Nozaki, Anjyo (JP); Hiroyuki Ogura, Ama (JP); Hisashi Fujisawa, Toyota (JP); Mitsuaki Tomita, Toyota (JP); Yasunobu Seki, Nissin (JP); and Shoichi Iwamoto, Fuji (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 17, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/488,280.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-008579 (JP), filed on Jan. 24, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0249622 A1, Jul. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. G08G 1/14 (2006.01)
CPC G08G 1/148 (2013.01) [G08G 1/143 (2013.01)] 4 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle management device for managing parking positions in a parking lot, with respect to a plurality of vehicles equipped with a solar cell and a power storage device for storing electric power generated by the solar cell, wherein the parking positions of the vehicles are set such that, based on a conversion efficiency of the solar cell of each of the vehicles and a sunlight condition of the parking lot, vehicles equipped with the solar cells that have the conversion efficiency that is high are parked in the sun for a longer time than the vehicles equipped with the solar cells that have the conversion efficiency that is low, and the sunlight condition is the amount of time of a day in which each parking position is in the sun.