Patent ID: 11904846
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  H | IPC B  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A remote parking apparatus comprising an electronic control unit which executes a remote parking control to move an own vehicle and park the own vehicle in a designated parking space in response to receiving a signal transmitted wirelessly from an operation terminal,
wherein the own vehicle is installed with a remote parking request operation device operated by a driver in the own vehicle,
wherein the electronic control unit is configured to:
execute a parking space detecting process to detect a parking space where the own vehicle can be parked in response to the driver operating the remote parking request operation device;
set the detected parking space as the designated parking space in response to the driver operating the remote parking request operation device in the own vehicle even when there is a movable obstacle interrupting parking the own vehicle in the detected parking space;
execute an obstacle detecting process to detect the movable obstacle interrupting parking the own vehicle in the designated parking space;
execute an informing process to require removing the obstacle from the designated parking space when the electronic control unit sets the parking space in which the movable obstacle exists as the designated parking space;
execute the remote parking control in response to receiving the signal transmitted wirelessly from the operation terminal to indicate the detected movable obstacle has been completely removed.