Traveling propriety determination device
AssigneesHino Motors, Ltd., Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsKoichiro Taniguchi, Jun Namima
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Abstract
A state determination unit determines whether a state of traveling performance of a fuel cell vehicle is a normal performance state, a limited performance state, or a low performance state. When the state determination unit determines that the fuel cell vehicle is in the normal performance state or the limited performance state, a traveling propriety determination unit determines that the fuel cell vehicle can travel. A notification control unit performs a limited state notification when the state determination unit determines that the fuel cell vehicle is in the limited performance state and the traveling propriety determination unit determines that the fuel cell vehicle can travel.
Claims6
A traveling propriety determination device that determines whether a fuel cell vehicle can travel in the fuel cell vehicle that travels by power of a power unit including a battery, a fuel cell, and a motor operated by electric power of at least one of the battery and the fuel cell, the traveling propriety determination device comprising:
- a state determination unit configured to determine, based on a state of the power unit, whether a state of traveling performance of the fuel cell vehicle that can be exhibited by the power unit is a predetermined normal performance state in which the fuel cell vehicle can normally travel, a limited performance state in which the traveling performance is lower than that in the normal performance state, or a low performance state in which the traveling performance is lower than that in the limited performance state;
- a traveling propriety determination unit configured to determine that the fuel cell vehicle can travel when the state determination unit determines that the fuel cell vehicle is in the normal performance state or the limited performance state;
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- a notification control unit configured to perform a limited state notification indicating that the traveling performance of the fuel cell vehicle is in a limited state through a notifier when the state determination unit determines that the fuel cell vehicle is in the limited performance state and the traveling propriety determination unit determines that the fuel cell vehicle can travel.
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