Patent ID: 11872900
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 6:
7. An information notification system comprising:
a terminal device owned by a user of a vehicle that enables external charging; and
an information notification device that can communicate with the terminal device, wherein
when there is a predetermined function among functions for the external charging, the information notification device notifies the terminal device of information about the predetermined function, the predetermined function having a frequency of use of less than or equal to a predetermined frequency, the functions for the external charging being included in the vehicle, wherein
when there is a function for which a number of times of the external charging in which the function has not been used reaches a predetermined number of times, or when there is a function which is not used for a period exceeding a predetermined period, the information notification device determines that the frequency of use of the function is less than or equal to the predetermined frequency, and
the functions for the external charging include a timer charging function, the timer charging function being a function of starting the external charging when a preset start time is reached, or a function of completing the external charging at a preset end time.