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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
May. 27, 2022
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventor:
Rika Oike, Shizuoka, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E05F 15/73 (2015.01); B60J 5/10 (2006.01); B60R 25/01 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E05F 15/73 (2015.01); B60J 5/101 (2013.01); B60R 25/01 (2013.01); E05F 2015/767 (2015.01); E05Y 2400/8505 (2024.05); E05Y 2400/8515 (2024.05); E05Y 2900/531 (2013.01); E05Y 2900/548 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a method of opening a boarding door of a vehicle that provides use of a trunk room to a passenger reserving the trunk room. The method comprises keeping the boarding door closed until both a first condition and a second condition are satisfied and opening the boarding door or enabling the boarding door to be opened in response to both the first condition and the second condition being satisfied. Here, the first condition is that the passenger is in the vicinity of the boarding door. The second condition is that the trunk door is closed or that a reservation of the trunk room is cancelled.