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US 11,597,375 B2Granted
Vehicle control device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Sugihara
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AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroyuki Sugihara
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A vehicle control device 40 of a vehicle 200 provided with a cooling circuit 20 using a circulating cooling liquid to cool motors 112, 114 for driving a vehicle or a PCU 118 and a refrigerant circuit 30 discharging heat of the circulating refrigerant for air-conditioning a passenger compartment to the cooling liquid of the cooling circuit 20 and driven by jointly using the outputs of the motors 112, 114 and the output of an engine 12, which control device comprising a cooling mode switching part 42 switching a cooling mode from a normal control mode to a cooling priority control mode cooling the passenger compartment with priority when a predetermined condition stands and a vehicle control part 43 making the outputs of the motors 112, 114 decrease and making the output of the engine 12 increase when the normal control mode is switched to the cooling priority control mode.
A control device of a vehicle provided with a cooling circuit using a circulating cooling liquid to cool a motor for driving the vehicle or a power control unit controlling an output of the motor and a refrigerant circuit discharging heat of a circulating refrigerant for air-conditioning a passenger compartment to the cooling liquid of the cooling circuit and driven by jointly using the output of the motor and the output of an engine,
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