Control device for vehicle and control method for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsJumpei Haratake, Hirotaka Omisha
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Abstract
A vehicle includes a door, an electric unlocking mechanism that is supplied with electric power from a battery installed in the vehicle and that also electrically unlocks the door, and a physical unlocking mechanism for manually unlocking the door. A control device of the vehicle includes an annunciation circuit that performs annunciation of predetermined information to a user of the vehicle. The annunciation circuit performs annunciation to the user of at least one piece of information of a position of the physical unlocking mechanism, and how to unlock the door by the physical unlocking mechanism, when an amount of charge of the battery is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
Claims20
A control device of a vehicle that includes a door, an electric unlocking mechanism that is supplied with electric power from a battery installed in the vehicle and that also electrically unlocks the door, and a physical unlocking mechanism for manually unlocking the door, the control device comprising:
- an annunciation circuit for performing annunciation of predetermined information to a user of the vehicle, wherein
- the annunciation circuit is configured to, when an amount of charge of the battery is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, perform annunciation to the user of at least one piece of information of a position of the physical unlocking mechanism, and how to unlock the door by the physical unlocking mechanism.
A control device of a vehicle that includes a door, an electric unlocking mechanism that is supplied with electric power from a battery installed in the vehicle and that also electrically unlocks the door, and a physical unlocking mechanism for manually unlocking the door, the control device comprising:
- a transmission circuit for transmitting information of the vehicle to an external device that is outside of the vehicle, wherein
- the transmission circuit is configured to, when an amount of charge of the battery is smaller than a predetermined threshold value, transmit, to the external device, at least one piece of information of a position of the physical unlocking mechanism, and how to unlock the door by the physical unlocking mechanism.
A control method of a vehicle that includes a door, an electric unlocking mechanism that is supplied with electric power from a battery installed in the vehicle and that also electrically unlocks the door, a physical unlocking mechanism for manually unlocking the door, and a control device, the control method comprising:
- as an annunciation process, the control device performing annunciation of predetermined information to a user of the vehicle, wherein
- the annunciation process includes a process of performing annunciation to the user of at least one piece of information of a position of the physical unlocking mechanism, and how to unlock the door by the physical unlocking mechanism, when an amount of charge of the battery is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.