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Granted Patent B2
US 11,181,312 · App. 16/166,041 · Granted Nov 23, 2021

Vehicle, thawing system and server

Inventors: Zekai Qiu (Nisshin, JP); Hironobu Kitaoka (Nisshin, JP); Naoki Yamamuro (Nagoya, JP); Kozo Kosho (Toyota, JP); Hiroaki Sugiyama (Nagoya, JP); Makoto Ikegami (Obu, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
F25D21/008A23L3/365B60H1/00264F25D29/003F25D31/005B60H1/3232
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Patent No.
US 11,181,312
App. No.
16/166,041
Granted
Nov 23, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

The vehicle includes a thawing compartment configured to thaw a commodity housed therein, an acquisition device configured to obtain information including a thawing time limit set based on a request from a user, and a controller configured to control the thawing operation of the thawing compartment. The controller controls the thawing compartment so as to complete the thawing operation of the commodity housed therein by the thawing time limit.

Claims (9)

1. A thawing system comprising:

a vehicle;

a user terminal used by a user; and

a server configured to communicate with the user terminal and the vehicle, the vehicle including

a thawing compartment configured to thaw a commodity housed therein; and

an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to

obtain information including a thawing time limit set based on a request from the user; and

control a thawing operation of the thawing compartment, the ECU controlling the thawing compartment so as to complete the thawing operation of the commodity housed therein by the thawing time limit,

wherein the request including thawing information affecting thawing conditions of a commodity selected by the user and destination information indicating a destination, the server is configured to obtain the thawing time limit from the destination information, the server is configured to create a thawing schedule based on the information including the thawing time limit and the destination information so as to complete the thawing operation of the commodity selected by the user by the thawing time limit, and the vehicle drives the thawing compartment based on the received thawing schedule so as to complete the thawing operation of the commodity housed therein by the thawing time limit.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 19, 2018
From: QIU, ZEKAI; KITAOKA, HIRONOBU; YAMAMURO, NAOKI; KOSHO, KOZO; SUGIYAMA, HIROAKI; IKEGAMI, MAKOTO
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 047240/0353 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2017-203744 · Oct 20, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
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