Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080254329 | FUEL CELL OUTPUT CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND OUTPUT CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION METHOD, FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME, AND FUEL CELL OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD AND DATA STORAGE MEDIUM - An output characteristic of a fuel cell is estimated by detecting an output current of the fuel cell and a voltage between terminals of the fuel cell, and then estimating the output characteristic of the fuel cell on the basis of the detected output current and the detected voltage between the terminals, and a basic output characteristic of the fuel cell. | 10-16-2008 |
20090058097 | Electric power supply system - Vehicles are connected to respective receptacles of houses and are capable of generating commercial AC power to supply the generated electric power to a power transmission line. The vehicles communicate with a management server via the houses and the power transmission line. The vehicles output to the management server such information items concerning the vehicles as vehicle ID, amount of generated electric power and remaining amount of fuel. When electric power shortage occurs, the management server generates a start command and a power generation command for the vehicles based on the information concerning the vehicles to output the generated commands to the vehicles. | 03-05-2009 |
20090121659 | Charge control apparatus, electrically powered vehicle and electric storage charge control method - When it is determined that an electric storage is to be charged from a commercial power source, a controller sets a control target of a voltage of a power line to be controlled by a boost converter, based on a voltage of the commercial power source. Specifically, the controller sets the control target of the voltage to a level approximately equal to the crest value of voltage. Then, the controller outputs an input permission command to a relay circuit, and controls inverters to execute charging of the electric storage. | 05-14-2009 |
20090144149 | Ecological-point management system - An ecological-point management system includes an electric powered vehicle, a charging facility, a communication network, a management server, point recipients each having a device capable of accessing the communication network. The electric storage device of the electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by the charging facility. In the ecological-point management system, an ecological point in accordance with an amount of greenhouse gas emission that can be reduced by traveling using electric power by the electric powered vehicle is given to the point recipients. The point recipients can include an owner or a driver of the electric powered vehicle, and a manufacture, an installation personnel, an owner of the charging facility, and an owner of an installation place, and further a provider of the charging power. | 06-04-2009 |
20090144150 | Charging system of electric powered vehicle - An electric storage device of an electric powered vehicle is configured to be chargeable by a charging facility. At the time of external charge by the charging facility, a management server selects advertising information based on information stored inside the electric powered vehicle to be charged and/or information of the charging facility performing the external charge to the electric powered vehicle including a mechanism capable of reproducing the advertising information from an advertising provider, and transmits the selected advertising information. The management server performs billing so that in exchange for the transmission of the advertising information, at least part of a charging power fee is caused to be borne by the advertising provider side to thereby discount an amount borne by an electric powered vehicle user. | 06-04-2009 |
20090159348 | Ac Voltage Output Apparatus and Hybrid Vehicle Including the Same - An AC command voltage obtained by compensating a reference value of a commercial AC voltage output from a multiplication unit using an FB control unit is multiplied by k (0≦k≦1) by a multiplication unit and output to a first inverter control unit, and the remaining part is output to a second inverter control unit. The first and second inverter control units generate signals, based on command voltages obtained by superposing the AC command voltage from an AC output control unit on respective phase command voltages. | 06-25-2009 |
20100019734 | Charge Control Device and Electrically Driven Vehicle - Commercial AC voltage applied to an input terminal ( | 01-28-2010 |
20100119900 | FUEL CELL OUTPUT CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION APPARATUS AND OUTPUT CHARACTERISTIC ESTIMATION METHOD, FUEL CELL SYSTEM AND VEHICLE HAVING THE SAME, AND FUEL CELL OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD AND DATA STORAGE MEDIUM - An output characteristic of a fuel cell is estimated by detecting an output current of the fuel cell and a voltage between terminals of the fuel cell, and then estimating the output characteristic of the fuel cell on the basis of the detected output current and the detected voltage between the terminals, and a basic output characteristic of the fuel cell. | 05-13-2010 |
20100121507 | CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE - A control device has a coupling determination sensor for detecting external connection of a charge table. When the connection of the charge cable is detected according to a signal from the sensor, the control device activates an electric device connected to a communication line of a charge-time-dedicated power supply system. Since the control device of the invention can activate only the electric device related to the charging while keeping electric devices not related to the charging at rest, and therefore prevents wasteful electric power consumption. | 05-13-2010 |
20100225271 | ELECTRICAL POWERED VEHICLE AND POWER FEEDING DEVICE FOR VEHICLE - An electrical powered vehicle includes a secondary self-resonant coil, a secondary coil, a rectifier, and a power storage device. The secondary self-resonant coil is configured to be magnetically coupled with a primary self-resonant coil of a power feeding device by magnetic field resonance, and allow reception of high frequency power from the primary self-resonant coil. The secondary coil is configured to allow reception of electric power from the secondary self-resonant coil by electromagnetic induction. The rectifier rectifies the electric power received by the secondary coil. The power storage device stores the electric power rectified by the rectifier. | 09-09-2010 |
20110049978 | SELF-RESONANT COIL, NON-CONTACT ELECTRIC POWER TRANSFER DEVICE AND VEHICLE - There is provided a self-resonant coil used in a contactless power transferring apparatus capable of at least one of transferring and receiving electric power by magnetic field resonance. A coil is defined as a virtual coil, wherein the coil has a circular cross-sectional shape of a cross-section perpendicular to the extending direction and, when viewed with a cross-section perpendicular to the extending direction of the self-resonant coil, the length of the circumference defining the circular cross-section is equal to the length of the segment defining the outer circumference edge of the cross-section of the self-resonant coil. At least one of the radial direction width and the axis direction length of the self-resonant coil in the cross-section perpendicular to the extending direction of the self-resonant coil is less than the diameter of the cross-section of the virtual coil. | 03-03-2011 |
20110121778 | Electrical powered vehicle and power feeding device for vehicle - An electrical powered vehicle includes a secondary self-resonant coil, a secondary coil, a rectifier, and a power storage device. The secondary self-resonant coil is configured to be magnetically coupled with a primary self-resonant coil of a power feeding device by magnetic field resonance, and allow reception of high frequency power from the primary self-resonant coil. The secondary coil is configured to allow reception of electric power from the secondary self-resonant coil by electromagnetic induction. The rectifier rectifies the electric power received by the secondary coil. The power storage device stores the electric power rectified by the rectifier. | 05-26-2011 |
20110121779 | CHARGING AND DISCHARGING SYSTEM AND ELECTRIC-POWERED VEHICLE - A control pilot circuit of a power cable having a male-type plug generates a pilot signal such that the power cable can be identified as a power cable for charging on the vehicle side. On the other hand, a control pilot circuit of a power cable having a not-shown female-type plug generates the pilot signal such that the power cable can be identified as a power cable for power feeding on the vehicle side. An ECU of a vehicle controls an AC/DC converter in any one of the charging mode and the power feeding mode in response to the pilot signal. | 05-26-2011 |
20120032525 | Electrical Powered Vehicle and Power Feeding Device for Vehicle - An electrical powered vehicle includes a secondary self-resonant coil, a secondary coil, a rectifier, and a power storage device. The secondary self-resonant coil is configured to be magnetically coupled with a primary self-resonant coil of a power feeding device by magnetic field resonance, and allow reception of high frequency power from the primary self-resonant coil. The secondary coil is configured to allow reception of electric power from the secondary self-resonant coil by electromagnetic induction. The rectifier rectifies the electric power received by the secondary coil. The power storage device stores the electric power rectified by the rectifier. | 02-09-2012 |
20140330468 | ELECTRIC-POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, AND VEHICLE - A vehicle is capable of supplying electric power to an electric load external to the vehicle. The vehicle includes an electric-power generation device generating the electric power, a first connection terminal for electrically connecting the vehicle to another first vehicle to output the electric power generated by the electric-power generation device via the other first vehicle to the electric load, a second connection terminal for connecting another second vehicle to the vehicle to electrically connect the other second vehicle with the vehicle in parallel with respect to the electric load, and a system controller operating the electric-power generation device based on an electric power command received from the other first vehicle. | 11-06-2014 |