- Patent Title: Travel control device, travel control method, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle for deciding a power source for traveling based on a predicted amount of regenerative energy and thermal information
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Application No.: US17016096Application Date: 2020-09-09
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Publication No.: US11807214B2Publication Date: 2023-11-07
- Inventor: Takaaki Tokura , Katsumi Kono , Takeshi Yasuda
- 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: JP 19223691 2019.12.11
- Main IPC: B60W20/13
- IPC: B60W20/13 ; B60W20/12 ; B60L58/24 ; B60W10/06 ; B60W10/08 ; B60W30/18 ; B60W40/105

Abstract:
A travel control device is mounted on a vehicle including an electric motor and an internal combustion engine that are power sources and a storage battery that stores energy for driving the electric motor and regenerative energy recovered by regenerative braking of the electric motor. The travel control device includes an electronic control device configured to create a speed profile in which a speed of the vehicle is predicted, estimate a predicted amount of the regenerative energy to be recovered, based on the speed profile, and decide the power source to be used for traveling, based on the predicted amount of the regenerative energy and thermal information indicating a demand related to heat of the vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210179063A1 TRAVEL CONTROL DEVICE, TRAVEL CONTROL METHOD, NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM, AND VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2021-06-17
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