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US 12,679,167 B2Granted
Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHaruki Oguri, Kenichi Yamada, Mitsuhiro Miura
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Abstract
The vehicle comprises a vehicle platform for controlling the vehicle and a ADK for transmitting commands for autonomous driving to the vehicle platform. A base vehicle of a vehicle platform includes a radiator device and a body ECU (first control device). The radiator device includes a radiator fan and is configured to cool ADK. The body ECU is configured to control the radiator fan according to a command from ADK.
Claims7
A vehicle comprising:
- a vehicle platform configured to control the vehicle;
- and
- an autonomous driving kit configured to transmit a command for autonomous driving to the vehicle platform, wherein:
- the vehicle platform includes a radiator device and a first processor,
- the autonomous driving kit includes a heat source to be cooled by the radiator device, a second processor, which is different from the first processor, and a storage device that stores software for the autonomous driving;
- the radiator device includes a radiator fan and is configured to cool the heat source of the autonomous driving kit;
- the second processor determines a command related to control of the radiator fan based on at least one of:
- (i) a temperature of the beat source and (ii) a temperature of a medium that exchanges heat with the heat source, and sends the command related to control of the radiator fan to the first processor;
- and
- the first processor is configured to control the radiator fan according to the command related to the control of the radiator fan from the second processor of the autonomous driving kit.
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