Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Solar battery control apparatus
-
Application No.: US14931282Application Date: 2015-11-03
-
Publication No.: US09762178B2Publication Date: 2017-09-12
- Inventor: Daisuke Sato
- 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: JP2014-258361 20141222
- Main IPC: G06F7/00
- IPC: G06F7/00 ; H02S20/32 ; H01L31/04 ; B60L8/00 ; G05F1/67 ; B60L15/20

Abstract:
There is provided a solar battery control apparatus comprising: a solar battery in a vehicle; a vehicle speed detecting unit; a load circuit capable of be controlled to vary a generated current; and a control unit configured to perform MPPT control while controlling the load circuit to vary the generated current, wherein the control unit varies the generated current within a range having a certain upper limit value upon the speed of the vehicle being detected to be greater than a predetermined speed. The predetermined speed is set to be less than a speed at which the generated current becomes unable to be varied to correspond to a change in an i-V output characteristic of the solar battery, and the certain upper limit value is set to be less than a value of short-circuiting current having been reduced according to the change.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160181970A1 SOLAR BATTERY CONTROL APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-06-23
Information query