Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control of fuel consumption in a hybrid vehicle
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Application No.: US15973092Application Date: 2018-05-07
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Publication No.: US10850624B2Publication Date: 2020-12-01
- Inventor: Hidehiro Oba , Eiji Maeda
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2017-126085 20170628
- Main IPC: B60W20/13
- IPC: B60W20/13 ; B60W10/06 ; B60W10/08 ; B60W20/40 ; B60L15/20 ; B60L58/13 ; B60L50/61 ; B60L50/16 ; B60W50/00

Abstract:
A vehicle includes an engine, a motor generator, a battery, and an ECU, and is configured to selectively perform EV running and engine running. When requested power is smaller than reference power, ECU calculates an engine fuel consumption ratio h1 when the engine outputs power resulting from addition of optimal charging power for the battery to the requested power, and determines whether the engine fuel consumption ratio h1 is larger than an EV criterion line resulting from addition of a margin K to a battery equivalent fuel consumption ratio F. When the engine fuel consumption ratio h1 is larger than the EV criterion line, ECU selects EV running, and otherwise selects engine running. The ECU calculates the margin K by referring to an F−K map which defines correspondence between the battery equivalent fuel consumption ratio F and the margin K with which an SOC is converged to a target range.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190001958A1 HYBRID VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2019-01-03
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