Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshito SEKIGUCHI, Yuki Katayama
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Abstract
The vehicle includes a drive unit that houses a lubrication requiring element in a case, an electric oil pump that sucks oil in the case and supplies oil to the lubrication requiring element, and a control device that controls an operation of the electric oil pump. The control device is configured to execute a preliminary lubrication process for operating the electric oil pump when a predetermined condition is satisfied in a state in which the vehicle is stopped, and a notification process for outputting predetermined notification information to at least one of a user interface of the vehicle and an information terminal owned by the occupant when the preliminary lubrication process is executed.
Claims5
A vehicle comprising:
- a drive unit in which a lubrication requiring element is accommodated in a case;
- an electric oil pump that sucks oil in the case and supplies the oil to the lubrication requiring element;
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- a control device that controls operation of the electric oil pump, wherein the control device is configured to execute
- a preliminary lubrication process of operating the electric oil pump when a predetermined condition is satisfied in a state in which the vehicle is stopped, and
- an informing process of outputting predetermined notification information to at least one of a user interface of the vehicle and an information terminal owned by an occupant when the preliminary lubrication process is executed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.