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

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle control device that controls a closing operation of a plurality of power doors provided in a vehicle, the vehicle control device comprising an ECU (Electronic Control Unit) including:
an on-vehicle-user-number recognizing unit 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 unit 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 unit;
a power door control unit 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 unit, the at least one power door being a power door that the users have used at a time of getting off the vehicle; and
a door-getting-off-expected-number setting unit that specifies an expected-getting-off-door for each of the users who are 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 a user, of the users, 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,
wherein
the off-vehicle-user-number recognizing unit recognizes 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,
for each of the expected-getting-off-door, the power door control unit performs an individual power door closing operation process when the 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 each of 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
the individual power door closing operation process does not occur 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, the number of the users who have got off the vehicle being recognized by the off-vehicle-user-number recognizing unit.