US 11,679,688 B2
Information providing method, information providing system and terminal each for electrically powered vehicle
Satoru Sakuma, Nagakute (JP); Shuhei Yamamoto, Aichi-ken (JP); Munehiro Kamiya, Anjo (JP); Hideo Hasegawa, Nagoya (JP); Shinji Kurachi, Nagoya (JP); and Tomoya Shimizu, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Feb. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/171,553.
Application 17/171,553 is a continuation of application No. 16/173,548, filed on Oct. 29, 2018, granted, now 10,946,759.
Claims priority of application No. JP2017-210312 (JP), filed on Oct. 31, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0162880 A1, Jun. 3, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60L 53/60 (2019.01); G08G 1/14 (2006.01); B60L 53/14 (2019.01); B60L 53/31 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0251 (2023.01)
CPC B60L 53/60 (2019.02) [B60L 53/14 (2019.02); B60L 53/31 (2019.02); G06Q 30/0259 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0261 (2013.01); G08G 1/143 (2013.01); G08G 1/144 (2013.01); G08G 1/148 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information providing method for a vehicle providing information that is used for charging a power storage device mounted in the vehicle with electric power supplied from outside the vehicle, comprising:
causing a server to select a plurality of candidates from among a plurality of charging facilities each configured to charge the power storage device in accordance with (i) location information about the vehicle, (ii) location information about each of the plurality of charging facilities and (iii) location information about each of a plurality of surrounding facilities where a user of the vehicle can stay during charging in a corresponding charging facility of the plurality of charging facilities;
causing the server to provide a terminal used by the user with information showing the plurality of candidates selected;
causing the server to deliver an advertisement for a surrounding facility associated with each of the plurality of candidates selected; and
causing the server to receive information about a candidate selected with the terminal from among the plurality of candidates by the user referring to the advertisement for the surrounding facility; and
causing the server to deliver a plan to spend time in the surrounding facility associated with the charging facility selected by the user of the vehicle, the surrounding facility being a place where the user can stay during charging of the vehicle in the charging facility, the plan including: (i) a time required for the vehicle to travel from its current location to the charging facility selected by the user; (ii) a charging time; (iii) an expected stay time for the user staying in the surrounding facility; and (iv) a time required for the vehicle to travel from the charging facility selected by the user to a destination of the vehicle.