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US 12,403,778 B2Granted
Tractor and vehicle equipped with tractor
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNobuo Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
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Abstract
A tractor that includes: 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; 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.
Claims8
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;
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- 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.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.