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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2021
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Youngbeom Kim, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Hyundai Motor Company, Seoul, KR;
Kia Corporation, Seoul, KR;
Abstract
A vehicle is capable of preventing unnecessary noise from being generated by outputting a sound for guiding a charging progress state only when a user can listen to the sound output from the vehicle. The vehicle includes a charging management system configured to output an electrical signal corresponding to a charging progress state of the vehicle; a sound output system configured to output a sound corresponding to the electrical signal output from the charging management system in an active mode and not output the sound in an inactive mode; and a controller configured to determine a position of a user device based on a communication signal transmitted from the user device, and to change an operation mode of the sound output system to the inactive mode based on the user device being located outside a preset range.