Patent ID: 11904804
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  E | IPC B  E

Claim 8:
9. A vehicle control method that is executed by a computer to control a closing operation of a plurality of power doors provided in a vehicle, the method comprising:
an on-vehicle-user-number recognizing step that performs recognition of an on-vehicle-user-number, and stores the on-vehicle-user-number in a memory, the on-vehicle-user-number being a number of users who have got on the vehicle;
an off-vehicle-user-number recognizing step that recognizes an off-vehicle-user-number, the off-vehicle-user-number being a number of the users who have got off the vehicle after the recognition of the on-vehicle-user-number by the on-vehicle-user-number recognizing step; and
a power door control step that causes at least one power door, of the plurality of power doors, to perform the closing operation when the on-vehicle-user-number stored in the memory equals the off-vehicle-user-number recognized by the off-vehicle-user-number recognizing step, the at least one power door being a power door that the users have used at a time of getting off the vehicle, wherein
the method further comprises:
specifying an expected-getting-off-door for each user, of the users, who is on the vehicle so that the door-getting-off-expected-number setting unit sets a door-getting-off-expected-number for each of the expected-getting-off-door, the expected-getting-off-door being one of the plurality of power doors that the user is expected to use when getting off the vehicle, the door-getting-off-expected-number being a number of the users who are expected to use the expected-getting-off-door,
recognizing a number of the users who have got off the vehicle, separately, for each of the plurality of power doors used when the users get off the vehicle; and
for each of the expected-getting-off-door, performing an individual power door closing operation process when a number of the users who have got off the vehicle from the expected-getting-off-door equals the door-getting-off-expected-number, the individual power door closing operation process causing the expected-getting-off-door whose number of the users who have got off the vehicle equals the door-getting-off-expected-number to perform the closing operation, and not performing the individual power door closing operation process for each of the expected-getting-off-door whose number of the users who have got off the vehicle is different from the door-getting-off-expected-number.