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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2024
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Jumpei Haratake, Toyota, JP;
Hirotaka Omisha, Nisshin, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle includes a door, an electric unlocking mechanism that is supplied with electric power from a battery installed in the vehicle and that also electrically unlocks the door, and a physical unlocking mechanism for manually unlocking the door. A control device of the vehicle includes an annunciation circuit that performs annunciation of predetermined information to a user of the vehicle. The annunciation circuit performs annunciation to the user of at least one piece of information of a position of the physical unlocking mechanism, and how to unlock the door by the physical unlocking mechanism, when an amount of charge of the battery is smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
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