Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle
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Application No.: US15184495Application Date: 2016-06-16
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Publication No.: US10014535B2Publication Date: 2018-07-03
- Inventor: Tomohiko Kaneko , Yohei Okamoto , Kazuo Yamamoto , Tomohiro Ogawa , Masashi Toida , Mitsuhiro Nada , Tomio Yamanaka
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
- Priority: JP2015-129052 20150626
- Main IPC: H01M8/04
- IPC: H01M8/04 ; H01M8/04223 ; H01M16/00 ; H01M8/04302 ; H01M8/0432 ; H01M8/04007 ; H01M8/04858 ; B60L11/18 ; H01M8/04828 ; H01M8/1018

Abstract:
An object is to provide a technique of reducing a potential failure to start a fuel cell system due to a temperature decrease in a vehicle with the fuel cell system mounted thereon. There is provided a vehicle that comprises a fuel cell system, a battery, a motor, and a determiner configured to determine that the fuel cell system has a frozen part when temperature measured by a temperature measurement unit is equal to or lower than a predetermined first temperature and at least one of conditions (1) to (3) is satisfied: (1) no purging process is performed after a change from an on state of the vehicle to an off state of the vehicle; (2) ambient temperature decreases to or below a predetermined second temperature in the off state of the vehicle and no purging process is performed; and (3) an inclination of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined inclination at a time of change from the off state of the vehicle to the on state of the vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160380287A1 VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2016-12-29
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