Automatic charging system
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaaki SATO, Takeru SHIRASAWA, Yusuke SAITO, Teruaki HAIBARA
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AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasaaki SATO, Takeru SHIRASAWA, Yusuke SAITO, Teruaki HAIBARA
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An automatic charging system includes: a vehicle driven by power; a charger having a charging cable having a charging connector; a position information acquisition device for obtaining position information of a charging port of the vehicle; a charging robot having a robot arm; and a detection device, which detects an operation of the charging port displaced in a vertical direction. Further, the charging robot insert the charging connector into the charging port based on the position information, and in a case where the detection device detects the operation of the charging port displaced in the vertical direction during a time period from when the position information acquisition device acquires the position information to when the insertion of the charging connector into the charging port is completed, the acquisition of the position information by the position information acquisition device is newly done again.
An automatic charging system comprising:
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