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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2020
Mercedes-benz Group Ag, Stuttgart, DE;
Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for matching a vehicle and a charging pile includes a) when a user of the vehicle inserts a charging connector of the charging pile into the vehicle, the vehicle sends, to a charging control platform of a cloud, a vehicle location and time stamp information corresponding to a point-in-time when the charging connector is inserted into the vehicle, and b) the charging control platform, after receiving the vehicle location and the time stamp information, scans a status of all charging piles whose distance to the vehicle location is less than a predetermined threshold, and when it is found through the scan that there was one and only charging pile whose working status is changed from an available status to an occupied but not charging status at the point-in-time, then the vehicle is successfully matched with the charging pile and the charging pile is controlled to start vehicle charging.
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