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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2018
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Masao Iwata, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshihiro Nakai, Kobe, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The update control device is an update control device that controls update of software for one of electronic devices in a vehicle driven by a replaceable battery, and includes: an update method setting unit for selectively setting an update method of the software to either a first update method by replacement of the battery or a second update method by wireless communication, by using at least one of information indicating a remaining amount of the battery, information indicating a size of data to be used for the update, information indicating an urgency of the update, or information indicating a search result of one or more charging stations in a search target area including a position of the vehicle; and a reservation process executing unit for executing, when the update method is set to the first update method, a reservation process of making a reservation for a replacement battery to a reservation target charging station among the charging stations included in the search result and a storage request process of requesting the reservation target charging station to store the data in the replacement battery.