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US 11,441,528 B2Granted
Vehicle and portable device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuya Ando, Takeaki Suzuki, Shinsuke Iwasaki, Miki Sugita
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Abstract
A vehicle includes an electric power reception unit that is configured to receive electric power that is required to activate a system of the vehicle, from a portable device that is portable, the portable device including an electrical storage device provided therein, and the portable device being configured to carry out at least one of authentication of a user of the vehicle and issuance of a command to activate the system.
Claims6
A vehicle comprising:
- an electric power reception unit that is configured to receive electric power that is required to turn on an electric power supply relay, from a portable device that is portable, the portable device including an electrical storage device provided therein, and the portable device being configured to carry out authentication of a user of the vehicle and issuance of a command to activate a system of the vehicle,
- wherein the electric power reception unit includes an exterior insertion portion which is provided outside a vehicle cabin and into which the portable device is inserted, an interior insertion portion which is provided inside the vehicle cabin and into which the portable device is inserted, a placement portion which is provided inside the vehicle cabin at a portion between a driver seat and a passenger seat and onto which the portable device is placed, and a non-contact electric power reception portion that is configured to receive the electric power from the portable device in a non-contact manner.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.