US 12,330,521 B2
Vehicle, charging system, and method of controlling vehicle
Yamato Niwa, Kariya (JP); Shigeki Kinomura, Toyota (JP); and Yoshiyuki Tsuchiya, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/830,342.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-093408 (JP), filed on Jun. 3, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0388411 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B60L 53/31 (2019.01); B60L 53/16 (2019.01); B60L 53/30 (2019.01); B60L 53/35 (2019.01); G08B 5/36 (2006.01); G06T 19/00 (2011.01)
CPC B60L 53/31 (2019.02) [B60L 53/16 (2019.02); B60L 53/305 (2019.02); B60L 53/35 (2019.02); G08B 5/36 (2013.01); G06T 19/00 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle configured to enable electric power to be fed from a charging facility to the vehicle and/or fed from the vehicle to the charging facility,
the charging facility comprising:
a movable device having a connector to be connected to the vehicle; and
an elevation device that lifts and lowers the movable device between a stored state in which the movable device is stored underground and an exposed state in which the movable device is exposed from ground, and
the vehicle comprising:
a display; and
a controller that controls, when the charging facility is available, the display to display that the charging facility is available, in a manner that a position of the charging facility can be identified from the vehicle,
wherein when the charging facility is available and the movable device is in the stored state, the controller controls the display to display the movable device in the exposed state.