Vehicle and method for filling fuel gas
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKeisuke Fujita
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AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKeisuke Fujita
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A vehicle including: a tank configured to be filled with fuel gas; a receptacle configured to be connected to a nozzle included in a fuel gas filling apparatus; a filling passage configured to provide communication between the receptacle and the tank; a heating unit configured to heat the receptacle; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a parameter value, correlated with a filling speed of the fuel gas filled into the tank from the fuel gas filling apparatus, indicates decrease in the filling speed during filling of the fuel gas into the tank; and a control unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that the parameter value indicates decrease in the filling speed during filling of the fuel gas into the tank, to cause the heating unit to start heating of the receptacle during filling of the fuel gas into the tank.
A vehicle, comprising:
A method for filling fuel gas, including filling a tank with cooled fuel gas from a fuel gas filling apparatus through a connecting portion configured to detachably connect the tank and the fuel gas filling apparatus, decreasing a filling speed of filling the fuel gas into the tank before a filling amount of the fuel gas filled into the tank reaches a target filling amount, and then ending filling of the fuel gas into the tank, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.