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US 7,100,719 B2Granted
Hybrid-powered vehicle
AssigneeHino Motors, Ltd.
InventorKoichi Yamaguchi
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Abstract
A rotary shaft of a motor-generator of a hybrid-powered vehicle is connected to an output shaft of a torque converter connected to an output shaft of an internal combustion engine. A control of acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle is assisted by controlling the motor-generator as a motor or a generator during a time period in which a slip occurs in the torque converter with a speed change control.
Claims4
A hybrid-powered vehicle comprising:
- an internal combustion engine;
- a torque converter having an input shaft connected to an output shaft of said internal combustion engine;
- a multistage transmission connected to an output shaft of said torque converter;
- a motor-generator;
- a storage battery;
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- a converter circuit for bidirectionally transmitting electric energy between said storage battery and said motor-generator and a program control circuit for controlling said converter circuit,
- said motor-generator having a rotary shaft connected to an output shaft side of said torque converter,
- said program control circuit including control means for saddling said motor-generator with torque for an axle of said vehicle during a time period in which a slip occurs in said torque converter in a shifting process of said multistage transmission during a running of said vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.