US 11,699,305 B2
Vehicle
Yukimune Kaneda, Tokyo (JP); Takuya Kishimoto, Tokyo (JP); Konosuke Muramatsu, Tokyo (JP); Yasuhiro Ito, Tokyo (JP); Yuta Suzuki, Tokyo (JP); and Ikuo Hirose, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 29, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/942,146.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-178546 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0097779 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
Int. Cl. G07C 5/00 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); G07C 9/00 (2020.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G07C 5/008 (2013.01) [B60W 30/18009 (2013.01); G05D 1/0022 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G07C 9/00309 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
a maintenance-necessity detector configured to determine whether maintenance of the vehicle is necessary;
a storage that contains a first identifier; and
a vehicle controller configured to, based on the maintenance being determined by the maintenance-necessity detector as being necessary, transmit a maintenance-necessary data to a maintenance facility including a communicator, the maintenance-necessary data representing at least a maintenance content to be performed for the vehicle in the maintenance facility,
the vehicle controller including:
a servicing required time determining unit configured to determine a servicing required time based on a travel time and a maintenance required time, in a case where the maintenance is determined by the maintenance-necessity detector as being necessary, the serving required time being a time required for the vehicle to be serviced at the maintenance facility, the travel time being a time required for the vehicle to move to the maintenance facility, the maintenance required time being a time required to perform the maintenance;
an unused period determining unit configured to determine an unused period, the unused period being a period during which the user is scheduled not to use the vehicle;
a servicing scheduled period setting unit configured to set a servicing scheduled period based on the unused period that is equal to or longer than the servicing required time, the servicing scheduled period being a period during which the vehicle is scheduled to be serviced at the maintenance facility; and
an authentication controller configured to permit unlocking of a door of the vehicle, in a case where the first identifier stored in the storage and a second identifier transmitted from a smart key that instructs the unlocking of the door have a predetermined relationship,
wherein the vehicle controller is configured to, based on the maintenance being determined by the maintenance-necessity detector as being necessary cause the vehicle to move via automatic driving to the maintenance facility at which the maintenance of the vehicle is to be performed, on a basis of the automatic driving that is independent of driving to be performed by an occupant of the vehicle,
wherein, in a case where a time of a start of the servicing scheduled period has come, the authentication controller is configured to:
make an inquiry at a maintenance facility server provided at the maintenance facility about a maintenance mechanic identifier that corresponds to the maintenance mechanic in charge;
acquire the maintenance mechanic identifier from the maintenance facility server; and
cause the storage to additionally store the maintenance mechanic identifier as the first identifier, and
wherein, in a case where a time of an end of the servicing scheduled period has come, the authentication controller is configured to cause the storage to delete the maintenance mechanic identifier that has been additionally stored as the first identifier.