Vehicle with oil insulation performance detection
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorMasashi Ogawa
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Abstract
A vehicle includes: (a) drive wheels; (b) an electric motor serving as a power source for driving the vehicle; (c) a power transmission apparatus configured to transmit a power of the electric motor toward the drive wheels; (d) an electric-insulation-performance determining portion configured to determine an electric insulation performance of an oil supplied to the electric motor and a lubrication required portion of the power transmission apparatus; and (e) a notification portion configured to notify a driver of the vehicle about the electric insulation performance of the oil which is determined by the electric-insulation-performance determining portion.
Claims5
A vehicle comprising:
- drive wheels;
- an electric motor serving as a power source for driving the vehicle;
- a power transmission apparatus configured to transmit a power of the electric motor toward the drive wheels;
- an electric-insulation-performance determining portion configured to determine an electric insulation performance of an oil supplied to the electric motor and a lubrication required portion of the power transmission apparatus;
- and
- a notification portion configured to notify a driver of the vehicle about the electric insulation performance of the oil which is determined by the electric-insulation-performance determining portion, wherein
- the vehicle further comprises, in addition to the electric motor, an engine serving as another power source for driving the vehicle, and
- in a driving state of the vehicle in which a power of the engine is distributed to the electric motor and a rotary member that is mechanically connected to the drive wheels, the electric-insulation-performance determining portion is configured to determine that the electric insulation performance of the oil is low when a torque ratio, which is calculated by dividing a sum of an estimated torque of the electric motor and an estimated torque of the rotary member by an estimated torque of the engine, is not lower than a first threshold value that is higher than 1.0.
A vehicle comprising,
- drive wheels;
- an electric motor serving as a power source for driving the vehicle;
- a power transmission apparatus configured to transmit a power of the electric motor toward the drive wheels;
- an electric-insulation-performance determining portion configured to determine an electric insulation performance of an oil supplied to the electric motor and a lubrication required portion of the power transmission apparatus;
- and
- a notification portion configured to notify a driver of the vehicle about the electric insulation performance of the oil which is determined by the electric-insulation-performance determining portion, wherein
- the electric-insulation-performance determining portion is configured to determine the electric insulation performance of the oil, from a relationship between an output torque of the electric motor and an estimated torque of the electric motor that is calculated based on an applied current applied to the electric motor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.