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US 12,509,120 B2Granted
Unmanned vehicle and delivery system
AssigneeRakuten Group, Inc.
InventorToshiaki Tazume
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Abstract
The unmanned vehicle for delivering an article, includes a housing portion for housing the article, the housing portion being provided with an openable and closable door, the door being closeable on a receiving surface of the article. Then, the unmanned vehicle identifies a direction of wind blown onto the unmanned vehicle; and on the basis of the identified direction of the wind, suppresses closing of the door, opened when the unmanned vehicle is stopped, due to an influence of the wind.
Claims10
An unmanned vehicle for delivering an article, comprising:
- a housing portion for housing the article, the housing portion having an opening portion for receiving the article and being provided with an openable and closable door, the door being closeable on the opening portion;
- at least one memory configured to store program code;
- and
- at least one processor configured to access the program code and operate as instructed by the program code, the program code including:
- wind identification code configured to cause the at least one processor to identify a direction of wind blown onto the unmanned vehicle;
- and
- door closing suppression code configured to cause the at least one processor to, on the basis of the identified direction of the wind, control the unmanned vehicle so as to achieve a vehicle direction for suppressing closing of the door, due to an influence of the wind, when the door is open and the unmanned vehicle is stopped.
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A delivery system comprising:
- an unmanned vehicle for delivering an article;
- and
- an information processing device,
- wherein the unmanned vehicle includes a housing portion for housing the article, the housing portion having an opening portion for receiving the article and being provided with an openable and closable door, the door being closeable on the opening portion, and
- wherein the information processing device includes:
- at least one memory configured to store program code;
- and
- at least one processor configured to access the program code and operate as instructed by the program code, the program code including:
- wind identification code configured to cause the at least one processor to identify a direction of wind blown onto the unmanned vehicle;
- and
- door closing suppression code configured to cause the at least one processor to, on the basis of the identified direction of the wind, control the unmanned vehicle so as to achieve a vehicle direction for suppressing closing of the door, due to the influence of the wind, when the door is open and the unmanned vehicle is stopped.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.