US 12,083,918 B2
Vehicle
Kohei Nanbu, Tokyo (JP); Kazuki Furuta, Tokyo (JP); and Kenta Uwai, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Jul. 11, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/350,237.
Application 18/350,237 is a division of application No. 17/220,262, filed on Apr. 1, 2021, granted, now 11,738,657.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-066612 (JP), filed on Apr. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0347773 A1, Nov. 2, 2023
Int. Cl. B60L 53/62 (2019.01); B60L 53/65 (2019.01)
CPC B60L 53/62 (2019.02) [B60L 53/65 (2019.02); B60L 2240/545 (2013.01)] 2 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
an electric-device temperature acquisition unit configured to acquire a temperature of an electric device disposed in a current path for external charging for supplying electric power from a power supply external to the vehicle to a battery mounted in the vehicle; and
a predicted charging time deriving unit configured to
derive a predicted charging time that is a time predicted to be taken for the external charging in accordance with an instruction for the external charging, and
when an expected temperature of the electric device at a time of completion of the external charging is predicted to be greater than or equal to a travel-preparation threshold, derive a travel-preparation time and extend the predicted charging time by the travel-preparation time, the travel-preparation time being a period of time from the time of completion of the external charging until the temperature of the electric device becomes less than the travel-preparation threshold.