Hybrid vehicle
AssigneeHonda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuichi Shimasaki, Hiromi Inagaki
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Abstract
A hybrid vehicle includes an engine for driving front wheels; a generator 6 for generating at 42V; a battery 11 adapted to be charged with a generated output from the generator 6; motors 8 for driving rear wheels with a generated output from the generator 6; a direct-current voltage converter 12 for allowing the generated output to step down to a voltage of 14V; and a battery 13 for accessories and an electric load 14, the battery being adapted to be supplied with electric power at the voltage allowed to step down by the direct-current voltage converter 12.
Claims5
A hybrid vehicle comprising:
- an engine driving first driving wheels;
- a generator adapted to be driven by said engine for generation at a first voltage;
- a first battery adapted to be charged with a generated power from said generator;
- a motor driving second driving wheels with a generated power from said generator;
- a direct-current voltage converter allowing the generated voltage to step down to a second voltage being lower than said first voltage;
- a second battery adapted to be charged with electric power by the voltage stepped down by said direct-current voltage converter;
- an electric load connected to said second battery and adapted to be supplied with the electric power by the voltage stepped down by said direct-current voltage converter;
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- a control unit judging whether or not a full acceleration is being applied on the basis of a variation of a throttle opening angle, and operating said motor during a period of full acceleration and stopping said motor when an actual vehicle speed exceeds a predetermined vehicle speed.
A hybrid vehicle as set forth in claim, wherein when the vehicle is judged as slipping, an input of the motor is increased in response to a slip distance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.