US 2014/0350761 A1 · HYBRID VEHICLE

Abstract

In the present specification, degradation of a battery is suppressed in a hybrid vehicle having an EV mode in which the hybrid vehicle runs without using an engine and an HV mode in which the hybrid vehicle runs using both the engine and a motor. A controller of the hybrid vehicle is configured to limit a usage range of the battery in the EV mode with an execution request of the EV mode having been made by an information input from outside to the vehicle than in the EV mode with no execution request. The degradation of the battery is suppressed by limiting the usage range of the battery.

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Dependent claims

A hybrid vehicle comprising:

a controller configured to switch between an EV mode in which the hybrid vehicle runs using only a motor and an HV mode in which the hybrid vehicle runs using both the motor and an engine;
wherein the controller is configured to limit a usage range of a battery in the EV mode with an execution request of the EV mode having been made by an information input from outside to the vehicle than in the EV mode with no execution request, and the usage range of the battery is limited by increasing a threshold of batter charge for starting the engine.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/364,861Filed 15 Dec 2011

Published

27 Nov 2014

Term ends

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Classification27 codes

B60W 20/00
Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles
B60K 6/445
Series-parallel type: differential gearing distribution type
B60L 58/12
For monitoring or controlling batteries: responding to state of charge [SoC]
B60L 58/15
Responding to state of charge [SoC]: preventing overcharging

Hybrid vehicle

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Hybrid vehicle

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Abstract

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