Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vehicle controller configured to execute a duty cycle control process when determining that an anomaly has occurred
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Application No.: US16395312Application Date: 2019-04-26
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Publication No.: US11312223B2Publication Date: 2022-04-26
- Inventor: Makio Tsuchiyama
- 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: Oliff PLC
- Priority: JPJP2018-102300 20180529
- Main IPC: B60K6/26
- IPC: B60K6/26 ; B60K6/24 ; B60L50/16 ; B60K6/28 ; F02M26/00

Abstract:
A vehicle controller is configured to execute a duty cycle control process of alternately repeating an electric power generation execution period and an electric power generation stop period of an electric generator and controlling a duty cycle, which is a ratio of the electric power generation execution period to a single cycle of repeated cycles, when determining that an anomaly has occurred in a driving circuit. The duty cycle control process includes at least one of two processes, a process of setting the duty cycle to be larger when a member in an overheatable region, in which overheating is possibly performed by the heater, has a low temperature than when the member has a high temperature and a process of setting the duty cycle to be larger when an internal combustion engine has a large intake air amount than when the engine has a small intake air amount.
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