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US 8,428,803 B2Granted
Hybrid vehicle and method for controlling hybrid vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsMasayuki Komatsu, Kazuyoshi Obayashi, Hiroki Sawada
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Abstract
An EV priority switch is configured to allow a user to request a change between an EV priority mode and an HV mode. If an SOC of a power storage device is less than a first threshold value when the change to the HV mode is requested from the EV priority switch during the EV priority mode, an ECU changes the running mode to attain the HV mode and controls the SOC to be close to the SOC at the moment of a request for the change to the HV mode. If the SOC is greater than or equal to the first threshold value, the ECU maintains the EV priority mode. If the SOC reaches a second threshold value less than the first threshold value, the ECU forcefully changes the running mode to attain the HV mode.
Claims20
A hybrid vehicle comprising:
- a chargeable and dischargeable power storage device;
- an internal combustion engine;
- a power generation device configured to be capable of generating electric power using kinetic energy produced by said internal combustion engine to charge said power storage device;
- a charging device configured to be capable of receiving a supply of electric power from a power source outside the vehicle to charge said power storage device;
- an electric motor for receiving a supply of electric power from said power storage device to produce driving force for the vehicle;
- a running mode control unit for controlling changing in a running mode including a first mode of running without maintaining a state quantity indicative of a state of charge of said power storage device and a second mode of running with said state quantity maintained at a predetermined target;
- and
- a running-mode-change request switch configured to allow a user to request a change in said running mode, wherein
- when the change to said second mode is requested from said running-mode-change request switch during said first mode, said running mode control unit changes said running mode to attain said second mode if said state quantity is less than a first prescribed value, and said running mode control unit maintains said first mode if said state quantity is greater than or equal to said first prescribed value.
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A hybrid vehicle comprising:
- a chargeable and dischargeable power storage device;
- an internal combustion engine;
- a power generation device configured to be capable of generating electric power using kinetic energy produced by said internal combustion engine to charge said power storage device;
- an electric motor for receiving a supply of electric power from said power storage device to produce driving force for the vehicle;
- a running mode control unit for controlling changing in a running mode including a first mode of running without maintaining a state quantity indicative of a state of charge of said power storage device and a second mode of running with said state quantity maintained at a predetermined target;
- a running-mode-change request switch configured to allow a user to request the change in said running mode;
- and
- a reporting unit for reporting to the user a history of an operation input from said running-mode-change request switch irrespective of control of changing said running mode executed by said running mode control unit, wherein
- when the change to said second mode is requested from said running-mode-change request switch during said first mode, said running mode control unit maintains said first mode if said state quantity is greater than or equal to a first prescribed value, and
- even if said first mode is maintained since said state quantity is greater than or equal to said first prescribed value, said reporting unit reports that the change to said second mode has been requested from said running-mode-change request switch.
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A method for controlling a hybrid vehicle, wherein
- said hybrid vehicle comprises:
- a chargeable and dischargeable power storage device;
- an internal combustion engine;
- a power generation device configured to be capable of generating electric power using kinetic energy produced by said internal combustion engine to charge said power storage device;
- a charging device configured to be capable of receiving a supply of electric power from a power source outside the vehicle to charge said power storage device;
- and
- an electric motor for receiving a supply of electric power from said power storage device to produce driving force for the vehicle,
- said method comprising:
- a first step of, during a first mode of running without maintaining a state quantity indicative of a state of charge of said power storage device, determining whether or not a change to a second mode of running with said state quantity maintained at a predetermined target has been requested by a user;
- a second step of determining whether or not said state quantity is less than a first prescribed value when it is determined that the change to said second mode has been requested;
- a third step of changing said running mode to attain said second mode when it is determined that said state quantity is less than said first prescribed value;
- and
- a fourth step of maintaining said first mode when it is determined that said state quantity is greater than or equal to said first prescribed value.
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A method for controlling a hybrid vehicle, wherein
- said hybrid vehicle comprises:
- a chargeable and dischargeable power storage device;
- an internal combustion engine;
- a power generation device configured to be capable of generating electric power using kinetic energy produced by said internal combustion engine to charge said power storage device;
- an electric motor for receiving a supply of electric power from said power storage device to produce driving force for the vehicle;
- and
- a running-mode-change request switch configured to allow a user to request a change in a running mode including a first mode of running without maintaining a state quantity indicative of a state of charge of said power storage device and a second mode of running with said state quantity maintained at a predetermined target,
- said method comprising:
- a first step of executing control of changing said running mode based on an operation input from said running-mode-change request switch;
- a second step of reporting to the user a history of the operation input from said running-mode-change request switch irrespective of the control of changing said running mode;
- a third step of determining whether or not the change to said second mode has been requested from said running-mode-change request switch during said first mode;
- a fourth step of determining whether or not said state quantity is greater than or equal to a first prescribed value when it is determined in said third step that the change to said second mode has been requested;
- and
- a fifth step of maintaining said first mode when it is determined in said fourth step that said state quantity is greater than or equal to said first prescribed value, wherein
- even if said first mode is maintained in said fifth step, it is reported to the user in said second step that the change to said second mode has been requested from said running-mode-change request switch.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.