Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090030568 | Hybrid Vehicle Controller - A power frequency distribution predicting unit predicts the power frequency distribution of a vehicle in a case where the vehicle travels a route with reference to the history of the vehicle power Pv when the vehicle traveled the route in the past. An operation condition setting unit sets the range of the required vehicle power Pv | 01-29-2009 |
20090067202 | Power Supply System And Vehicle Including The Same - A converter ECU ( | 03-12-2009 |
20090067205 | Power Controller and Vehicle Equipped with Power Controller - An ECU detects an effective value and phase of a voltage from a commercial power supply, based on a voltage from a voltage sensor. Further, ECU generates a command current, which is a command value of current caused to flow through power lines and in-phase with the voltage of the commercial power supply, based on the detected effective value and the phase and on a charge/discharge power command value for a power storage device. Then, ECU controls zero-phase voltage of inverters based on the generated command current. | 03-12-2009 |
20090096416 | Charging Device, Electric Vehicle Equipped With the Charging Device and Charging Control Method - An HV-ECU acquires electric power information from an electricity transmission line by using a modem. The electric power information includes information regarding the amount of carbon dioxide having been emitted in the generating process of the commercial electric power supplied from an electricity transmission line. When the CO | 04-16-2009 |
20090146612 | CHARGE CONTROL DEVICE AND VEHICLE USING THE SAME - At the time of charging a power storage device from a commercial power supply, electric power from the commercial power supply is applied to a neutral point of each of first and second motor generators. A rotation preventing control unit ( | 06-11-2009 |
20090192655 | Power System - A data acquiring unit ( | 07-30-2009 |
20090195067 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, VEHICLE WITH THE SAME, TEMPERATURE INCREASE CONTROL METHOD FOR POWER STORAGE DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM BEARING PROGRAM FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE TEMPERATURE INCREASE CONTROL OF POWER STORAGE DEVICE - A power supply system includes power storage devices, converters and a converter ECU controlling the converters. In temperature increase control of power storage devices, converter ECU determines an electric power transferred between the power storage devices via a main positive bus line and a main negative bus line as well as a transfer direction of the electric power, based on an allowable discharge power and an allowable charge power of each power storage device, and controls the converters to transfer the determined electric power between the power storage devices. | 08-06-2009 |
20090289497 | Power Supply System, Vehicle with the Same, Temperature Increase Control Method for Power Storage Device and Computer-Readable Recording Medium Bearing Program Causing Computer to Execute Temperature Increase Control of Power Storage Device - A first voltage control unit includes a first PI control unit, a first switching unit and a first subtraction unit. The first subtraction unit subtracts an output of the first switching unit from (a voltage value)/(a target voltage) that is a voltage feedforward compensation term. Similarly, a second voltage control unit includes a second PI control unit, a second switching unit and a second subtraction unit. A switching control unit Control first and second switching units during temperature increase control to operate the PI control unit for the voltage control unit on a discharge side and to cut off an output of the PI control unit for the voltage control unit on a charge side. | 11-26-2009 |
20090315392 | Power Supply System and Vehicle Including the Same - As magnetization unsaturation is maintained until an inductor current #Is with which a core is magnetically saturated is reached, a first inductor maintains an inductance value Z | 12-24-2009 |
20090315396 | Power Supply System, Vehicle With The Same, Temperature Rise Control Method Of Power Storage Device And Computer-Readable Recording Medium Bearing Program For Executing Computer To Perform Temperature Rise Control Of Power Storage Device - A converter ECU controls a converter to transmit an electric power between a power storage device and a power storage unit through a main positive bus line and a main negative bus line during temperature rise control of the power storage device. Specifically, converter ECU sets a target voltage of the converter to a second voltage value lower than a first voltage value when a voltage value reaches the first voltage value, and sets the target voltage of the converter to the first voltage value when the voltage value reaches the second voltage value. | 12-24-2009 |
20090315403 | POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM, VEHICLE PROVIDED WITH THE SAME, TEMPERATURE RISE CONTROL METHOD OF POWER STORAGE DEVICE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE TEMPERATURE RISE CONTROL OF POWER STORAGE DEVICE - During temperature rise control of a power storage device, a correction value calculation unit outputs a negative correction value when a voltage value exceeds an upper limit value. Thus, a duty command is corrected to be decreased. That is, duty command is corrected to increase a boost rate of a converter. Meanwhile, correction value calculation unit outputs a positive correction value when voltage value falls below a lower limit value. Thus, duty command is corrected to be increased. That is, duty command is corrected to lower the boost rate of the converter. | 12-24-2009 |
20090315512 | POWER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING CHARGING STATE IN THAT POWER SYSTEM - Generation power determining unit specifies efficiency characteristic based on identification ID of each vehicle. Generation power determining unit determines a power generation mechanism or mechanisms to be operated such that amount of power consumption by the power generation mechanism or mechanisms as a whole is minimized. By dividing power ΣPg* necessary for charging an electric storage unit that is in a low-charge state by the number of mechanisms to be operated (for example, 2 or 3), fuel consumption efficiency corresponding to generation power to be shared by each power generation mechanism in each case is obtained. There is a relation of η(½)>η(⅓) and, therefore, it can be understood that two power generation mechanisms are to be operated to minimize total amount of fuel consumption. Generation power determining unit transmits a power generation instruction to vehicles that correspond to the determined two power generation mechanisms. | 12-24-2009 |
20090318774 | VEHICLE, AND PHYSIOLOGICAL INFORMATION GATHERING SYSTEM WITH THE SAME - Sensors detect physiological data of an occupant of a vehicle. A storage device accumulates the physiological data of the occupant detected by each of the sensors for storage. When a charging cable for charging a power storage device in a motive power output device is connected, a vehicle ECU transmits the physiological data stored in the storage device to an element external to the vehicle through electric power lines and the charging cable, employing a modem. | 12-24-2009 |
20090322154 | Power System and Method for Supplying AC Power - Upon receiving a supply start instruction, each vehicle ( | 12-31-2009 |
20100001866 | Power supply device and vehicle including the same - A power supply device includes a power storage unit capable of being charged and a control unit controlling charging of the power storage unit. Control unit includes a battery ECU for setting, at the start of charging of the power storage unit, a target value of state of charge of the power storage unit to a first value based on the condition of power storage unit and setting, when a temperature increase instruction (change instruction) is received after the start of charging, the target value to a predetermined second value higher than the first value, and a converter ECU for executing the charging process so that the state of charge of the power storage unit attains to the target value. | 01-07-2010 |
20100019728 | Power supply system and vehicle including the same - A converter ECU Obtains a temperature increase start signal indicating start of temperature increase of a power storage unit from each sensor and ECU provided in a vehicle. In addition, the converter ECU obtains allowable electric power of the power storage unit from a battery ECU and obtains a power storage unit temperature from a temperature detection unit. When any of the obtained power storage unit temperatures is lower than a corresponding temperature lower limit value, the converter ECU generates a temperature increase instruction for the power storage unit of which temperature is lower than the corresponding temperature lower limit value, based on the temperature increase start signal. In addition, the converter ECU selects one control mode from among a plurality of control modes set in advance, based on the generated temperature increase instruction, and sets that mode as the control mode for a converter. | 01-28-2010 |
20100026237 | Motored vehicle and method of controlling voltage conversion device - In charging first and second power storage devices from a charging station, an inverter ECU controls first and second inverters to convert AC power received at first and second neutral points into DC power and output the DC power to a power supply system. A converter ECU converts in voltage the electric power received from the first and second inverters to be charged and outputs the converted electric power to the first and second power storage devices, and for low temperature, controls first and second converters, to allow the first and second power storage devices to communicate electric power therebetween. | 02-04-2010 |
20100138088 | INFORMATION SYSTEM USING VEHICLE, CHARGING DEVICE AND VEHICLE - A vehicle is configured to be rechargeable from a charging station through a charging cable. The charging cable is configured to allow supply of electric power from the charging station to the vehicle. A house is configured to allow transmission of physiological data of a vehicle user gathered at the house to the vehicle through the charging station and the charging cable. The vehicle is configured to allow receipt of physiological data of the vehicle user transmitted from the house through the charging cable to control on-vehicle equipment based on the received physiological data. | 06-03-2010 |
20100156346 | RESONANCE-TYPE NON-CONTACT CHARGING APPARATUS - A resonance type non-contact charging apparatus is disclosed. A charger of the apparatus receives the high frequency power from a secondary side resonance coil of the apparatus. A power ratio detecting section of the apparatus detects the ratio of the reflected power from a primary side resonance coil to the high frequency power source with respect to the output power from the high frequency power source to the primary side resonance coil. A stop control section of the apparatus stops the high frequency power source when the ratio detected by the power ratio detecting section becomes greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value. | 06-24-2010 |
20110251744 | Hybrid vehicle controller - A power frequency distribution predicting unit predicts the power frequency distribution of a vehicle in a case where the vehicle travels a route with reference to the history of the vehicle power Pv when the vehicle traveled the route in the past. An operation condition setting unit sets the range of the required vehicle power Pv | 10-13-2011 |
20120326499 | POWER TRANSMISSION SYSTEM AND POWER SUPPLY DEVICE FOR VEHICLES - A power transmission system has an AC power source and a high-frequency power driver that make up a high-frequency power source, and a primary self-resonant coil and a secondary self-resonant coil. The secondary self-resonant coil is magnetically coupled, by magnetic field resonance, to the primary self-resonant coil, and receives as a result high-frequency power from the primary self-resonant coil. The coils of the primary self-resonant coil and the secondary self-resonant coil resonate in an even mode when high-frequency power is transmitted from the primary self-resonant coil to the secondary self-resonant coil. Specifically, the primary self-resonant coil and the secondary self-resonant coil resonate in a state where currents in mutually opposite directions flow in the two coils. | 12-27-2012 |
20130127411 | COIL UNIT, NON-CONTACT POWER TRANSMITTING APPARATUS, NON-CONTACT POWER RECEIVING APPARATUS, VEHICLE, AND NON-CONTACT POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM - A coil unit includes a second resonance coil that has a plurality of unit coils and performs at least one of transmission and reception of electric power to and from a first resonance coil spaced apart from the second resonance coil via electromagnetic resonance with the first resonance coil. The directions of magnetic fields formed by the unit coils are the same. | 05-23-2013 |
20140232182 | POWER SUPPLY CONNECTOR, VEHICLE AND CONTROL METHOD FOR VEHICLE - A power supply connector ( | 08-21-2014 |