US 12,124,975 B2
Vehicle management device, vehicle management method, vehicle management system, and vehicle
Yuka Takiguchi, Toyota (JP); Tetsushi Okamoto, Miyoshi (JP); Hirokazu Kobayashi, Toyota (JP); Minoru Nakadori, Toyota (JP); and Daiki Kaneichi, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/510,876.
Application 18/510,876 is a continuation of application No. 17/592,836, filed on Feb. 4, 2022, granted, now 11,887,024.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-023739 (JP), filed on Feb. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0086783 A1, Mar. 14, 2024
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/02 (2012.01); B60L 53/10 (2019.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 10/02 (2013.01) [B60L 53/10 (2019.02); B60W 60/00253 (2020.02); G06Q 10/06311 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06315 (2013.01); G08G 1/202 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle comprising:
at least one processor configured to control the vehicle to
serve as one of a plurality of vehicles to be provided for users in a car sharing service;
function as one of a first vehicles group to be allocated to an on-demand use in which the users use the car sharing service without a reservation;
function as one of a second vehicles group to be allocated to a reservation use in which the users use the car sharing service with the reservation;
(i) move to a user start location when a vehicle management device determines that a user's request is for the reservation, determines a second vehicle among the second vehicles group as a vehicle to be used by the user, determines the vehicle is closer to a use start location than the second vehicle, changes the vehicle to be used by the user instead of the second vehicle, and transmits a notification to the vehicle to be used by the user that includes information to move the vehicle to be used by the user to the user start location; and
(ii) change from the one of the second vehicles group to the one of the first vehicles group when the vehicle management determines that the user's request is for the on-demand use, determines another vehicle among the first vehicles group to be used by the user, determines the number of vehicles of the first vehicles group is less than a first predetermined number, and determines that the number of the vehicles of the first vehicles group is less than a first predetermined number.