US 11,872,900 B2
Information notification device, information notification system, information notification method, and vehicle
Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya, Hamamatsu (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Mar. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/189,869.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-039163 (JP), filed on Mar. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0276439 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. B60L 53/30 (2019.01); B60L 53/62 (2019.01); H04W 4/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/02 (2009.01)
CPC B60L 53/305 (2019.02) [B60L 53/62 (2019.02); H04W 4/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/02 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information notification device comprising:
a communication device that can communicate with a terminal device owned by a user of a vehicle that enables external charging; and
a control device that controls the communication device, when there is a predetermined function among functions for the external charging, to notify the terminal device of information about the predetermined function, the predetermined function having a frequency of use of less than or equal to a predetermined frequency, the functions for the external charging being included in the vehicle, wherein
when there is a function for which a number of times of the external charging in which the function has not been used reaches a predetermined number of times, or when there is a function which is not used for a period exceeding a predetermined period, the control device determines that the frequency of use of the function is less than or equal to the predetermined frequency, and
the functions for the external charging include a timer charging function, the timer charging function being a function of starting the external charging when a preset start time is reached, or a function of completing the external charging at a preset end time.