Electric power assist device and program
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuma MATSUMOTO, Hirotaka SAITO, Yuka SHIRAIWA, Takahiro UCHIDA, Shuji MORIYAMA
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Abstract
An electric power assist device includes a processor including hardware. The processor assists human power input from a user to a drive member with power of a motor, determines whether a current position is located outdoors using a signal from a sensor, and when determination is made that the current position is located outdoors, reduces an assist amount by the motor as compared with a case where the current position is located indoors.
Claims20
An electric power assist device comprising a processor including hardware, wherein the processor:
- assists human power input from a user to a drive member with power of a motor;
- determines whether a current position is located outdoors using a signal from a sensor;
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- when determination is made that the current position is located outdoors, reduces an assist amount by the motor as compared with a case where the current position is located indoors.
A program that causes a processor including hardware to execute:
- assisting human power input from a user to a drive member with power of a motor;
- determining whether a current position is located outdoors using a signal from a sensor;
- and when determination is made that the current position is located outdoors, reducing an assist amount by the motor as compared with a case where the current position is located indoors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.