Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Power control device for vehicle
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Application No.: US16839352Application Date: 2020-04-03
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Publication No.: US11110872B2Publication Date: 2021-09-07
- Inventor: Takeshi Kurihara , Yusuke Nakano , Hidemasa Tomiyori , Yukihiro Soeda , Akina Inagaki , Yuta Otsuka
- Applicant: Mazda Motor Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Hiroshima
- Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
- Current Assignee: Mazda Motor Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hiroshima
- Agency: Alleman Hall Creasman & Tuttle LLP
- Priority: JPJP2019-099050 20190528
- Main IPC: B60R16/033
- IPC: B60R16/033 ; B60W10/26 ; B60R16/03 ; B60L58/20

Abstract:
A power control device for a power supply mounted on a vehicle is provided, which includes a generator mounted on the vehicle and configured to regenerate power from kinetic energy of the vehicle, a high-voltage battery configured to accumulate the power regenerated by the generator, a low-voltage battery of which a nominal voltage is lower than the high-voltage battery, a voltage converter configured to lower an output voltage from the high-voltage battery and charge the low-voltage battery at the lower voltage, and a controller configured to control the voltage converter. The controller operates the voltage converter to start the charging of the low-voltage battery after the vehicle is powered ON and before an engine mounted on the vehicle is started.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200377044A1 POWER CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2020-12-03
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