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- Patent Title: Vehicle rental system
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Application No.: US17467352Application Date: 2021-09-06
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Publication No.: US11610257B2Publication Date: 2023-03-21
- Inventor: Mai Numazawa , Kei Kobayashi , Kotone Nakao , Tomohiro Ito , Kazutaka Nakabe
- Applicant: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Duft & Bornsen, PC
- Priority: JPJP2020-152524 20200911
- Main IPC: G06Q30/0645
- IPC: G06Q30/0645 ; G06Q50/30 ; G06Q30/0283 ; G06Q10/0631 ; B60P3/20 ; B60R25/24 ; F25D29/00 ; B60W60/00

Abstract:
Vehicle-rental-system includes: rental-vehicle for rent to user; user-terminal carried by user; and management-server configured to manage operation, locking, and unlocking of rental-vehicle. Rental-vehicle is automatic-drive-vehicle having first-space available for user, and second-space available for luggage. Management-server includes processor and memory. Processor is configured to perform: receiving reservation-information of rental-vehicle transmitted from user-terminal; calculating usage-fee of rental-vehicle based on reservation-information; acquiring payment-information of usage-fee; setting operation-schedule of rental-vehicle based on reservation-information when payment-information is acquired; outputting travel-command to rental-vehicle in accordance with operation-schedule; and outputting unlocking-command of rental-vehicle when rental-vehicle and user-terminal are mutually authenticated. Reservation-information includes usage-information of at least one of first-space and second-space. Processor is configured to perform: outputting unlocking-command includes outputting unlocking-command of at least one of first-space and second-space based on reservation-information when outputting unlocking-command of rental-vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220084109A1 VEHICLE RENTAL SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2022-03-17
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