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US 12,639,995 B2Granted
Parking management system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorNorihisa Hotta
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Abstract
A parking management system comprises, a parking lock member provided in a parking space; a parking controller configured to manage a reservation to use the parking space; a parking sensor configured to detect presence or absence of the vehicle in the parking space; and an approach sensor configured to detect approach of the vehicle to the parking space, wherein the parking controller is configured to: maintain the parking lock member in a down state even after a first reserved vehicle has left the parking space when it is predicted that switching parking occurs in which a second reserved vehicle enters the parking space immediately after the first reserved vehicle leaves the parking space.
Claims4
A parking management system comprising:
- a parking lock member provided in a parking space and configured to be changeable between an up state in which entry of a vehicle is inhibited and a down state in which the entry of the vehicle is permitted;
- a parking controller configured to manage a reservation to use the parking space and to control a state change of the parking lock member;
- a parking lock unit;
- a parking sensor configured to detect presence or absence of the vehicle in the parking space;
- and
- an approach sensor configured to detect approach of the vehicle to the parking space,
- wherein the parking controller is configured to:
- maintain the parking lock member in the down state even after a first reserved vehicle has left the parking space when it is predicted that switching parking occurs in which a second reserved vehicle enters the parking space immediately after the first reserved vehicle leaves the parking space;
- predict that the switching parking will occur when the approach sensor detects approach of the second reserved vehicle during a period in which the parking sensor detects that the first reserved vehicle is parked in the parking space;
- change the parking lock member to the up state when the vehicle leaves the parking space when the occurrence of the switching parking is not predicted
- wherein the parking lock unit includes:
- the parking lock member;
- a vehicle sensor configured to detect presence or absence of the vehicle in the parking space;
- and
- a unit controller configured to control a state of the parking lock member based on a request which is input via an API;
- wherein the parking controller is configured to transmit a down state maintaining request to the unit controller through an API when it is predicted that the switching parking will occur, and
- wherein the unit controller is configured to:
- maintain the parking lock member in the down state even after the vehicle sensor detects that the vehicle has left the parking space during a period in which the down state maintaining request is valid;
- and
- change the parking lock member from the down state to the up state when the vehicle sensor detects that the vehicle has left the parking space during a period in which the down state maintaining request is cancelled.
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A parking management system comprising:
- a parking lock member provided in a parking space and configured to be changeable between an up state in which entry of a vehicle is inhibited and a down state in which the entry of the vehicle is permitted;
- a parking controller configured to manage a reservation to use the parking space and to control a state change of the parking lock member;
- a parking sensor configured to detect presence or absence of the vehicle in the parking space;
- and
- an approach sensor configured to detect approach of the vehicle to the parking space,
- wherein the parking controller is configured to:
- maintain the parking lock member in the down state even after a first reserved vehicle has left the parking space when it is predicted that switching parking occurs in which a second reserved vehicle enters the parking space immediately after the first reserved vehicle leaves the parking space;
- and
- predict that the switching parking will occur when the approach sensor detects approach of the second reserved vehicle during a period in which the parking sensor detects that the first reserved vehicle is parked in the parking space
- wherein the approach sensor is configured to detect that the vehicle has passed a predetermined detection point,
- wherein the detection point is a position at which a movement time of the vehicle from the detection point to the parking space is equal to or longer than a transition time required for the parking lock member to change from the up state to the down state, and
- wherein when no other vehicle is parked in the parking space, the parking controller is configured to start the change of the parking lock member to the down state at a timing when the approach sensor detects the approach of the vehicle.
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