Vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsNaoto Suzuki, Motohiro Nakashima
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Abstract
Light applied from an illumination unit illuminates a space formed of an accommodation unit, and facilitates a user's operation of coupling a charging connector to an electric power-receiving unit. When a lid unit is in a closed state, a part of the light applied from the illumination unit toward the accommodation unit transmits through a light transmission member provided at the lid unit and leaks toward a space outside a vehicle body. The leaked light enables a user to visually perceive the position of the charging port at a glance even if the lid unit is in the closed state.
Claims4
A vehicle capable of utilizing electric power supplied from an external power source, comprising:
- a lid unit disposed to form a space on a vehicle external surface and to face vehicle outside;
- an electric power-receiving unit, arranged in said space, for receiving the electric power from said external power source;
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- an illumination unit arranged in said space,
- said lid unit having a member transmitting light of the illumination unit to said vehicle outside,
- said space being formed by a surface formed to be concave with respect to said vehicle external surface and by said lid unit,
- said illumination unit being configured to illuminate said space through an opening provided in a part of said surface formed to be concave,
- said illumination unit being lit even when said lid unit is in a closed state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.