CONGESTION DETERMINATION DEVICE, VEHICLE, SERVER DEVICE, AND CONGESTION DETERMINATION METHOD

• Main Authors: YOSHIDA KAZUTERU, TSUNODA SUSUMU, KANDA YOSHITAKA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 01.04.2021
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

To provide a congestion determination device capable of appropriately determining whether or not a travelling road of an own vehicle is congested while an automatic travel function is executed, and to provide a vehicle, a server device, and a congestion determination method.SOLUTION: A congestion determination device comprises: a connection time acquisition part for acquiring (S100) a connection time of a clutch which is capable of connecting/disconnecting a drive force provided by a drive source and is installed in a vehicle having an automatic travel function; and a congestion determination part for determining (S120, S140) whether or not a travelling road of the vehicle is congested on the basis of the acquired connection time.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】自動走行機能の実行中において、自車両の走行路が渋滞しているか否かを適切に判断することが可能な渋滞判定装置、車両、サーバー装置および渋滞判定方法を提供する。【解決手段】渋滞判定装置は、駆動源からの動力を断接可能であり、自動走行機能を有する車両に設けられるクラッチの接続時間を取得する（Ｓ１００）接続時間取得部と、取得された接続時間に基づいて、車両の走行路が渋滞しているか否かを判定する（Ｓ１２０，Ｓ１４０）渋滞判定部とを備える。【選択図】図３