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AssigneeAisin Corporation
InventorsTomohiro YAMAGUCHI, Masato ISHII, Hideto YANO, Kazuyoshi SHIMATANI, Takahiko AOYAGI, Masahiro KUROKI
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A fuel heater including an engine that is driven by combustion of air-fuel mixture including air and fuel supplied to a combustion chamber within a cylinder, a battery that stores electricity, and a motor that drives the engine by the electricity supplied from the battery, the fuel heater includes a fuel heating portion heating the fuel with the electricity supplied from the battery, and a controller performing one of a first control by increasing the amount of electricity supplied from the battery to the fuel heating portion and a second control by increasing heating time of the fuel by the fuel heating portion for a time period until the engine starts in a case where a battery charge remaining of the battery is equal to or smaller than a remaining threshold value at a start of the engine.
A fuel heater for a vehicle, the vehicle including an engine that is driven by combustion of air-fuel mixture including air and fuel supplied to a combustion chamber within a cylinder, a battery that stores electricity, and a motor that drives the engine by the electricity supplied from the battery, the fuel heater comprising:
A fuel heating system includes an engine that is driven by combustion of air-fuel mixture including air and fuel supplied to a combustion chamber within a cylinder, a battery that stores electricity, and a motor that drives the engine by electricity supplied from the battery, and a fuel heater that heats the fuel supplied to the combustion chamber within the cylinder of the engine with the electricity supplied from the battery, the fuel heater including the fuel heating portion heating the fuel with the electricity supplied from the battery, the heating control portion controlling the electricity supplied to the fuel heating portion, and an engine control portion performing one of a first control by increasing the amount of electricity supplied from the battery to the fuel heating portion and a second control by increasing heating time of the fuel by the fuel heating portion for a time period until the engine starts in a case where the battery charge remaining of the battery is equal to or smaller than the remaining threshold value at a start of the engine.
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