IP Library Granted Patent US 9,352,644
Granted Patent B2
US 9,352,644 · App. 13/880,791 · Granted May 31, 2016

Vehicle

Inventors: Kenji Kimura (Miyoshi, JP); Akihiro Sato (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
B60K6/20B60H1/00278B60K1/04H01M2/1083B60H2001/003B60K2001/0416B60K2001/0422Y02T10/6278Y10S903/951
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Patent No.
US 9,352,644
App. No.
13/880,791
Granted
May 31, 2016
Kind
B2
Abstract

A vehicle has a motor and an engine each serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, and assembled batteries each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor. The assembled batteries include a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with a current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery, and the high-capacity assembled battery has an energy capacity relatively larger than that of the high-power assembled battery. In running of the vehicle using an output from the motor with the engine stopped, the high-capacity assembled battery supplies a more electric power to the motor than that in the high-power assembled battery. The high-power assembled battery is placed in a riding space where a passenger rides, and the high-capacity assembled battery is placed in a luggage space different from the riding space.

Claims (23)

1. A vehicle comprising:

a motor and an engine each serving as a driving source for running the vehicle;

a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor and each comprising lithium-ion secondary batteries, respectively, the high-power assembled battery and the high-capacity assembled battery being connected in parallel;

a plurality of relays connected to a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal of the high-power assembled battery, respectively; and

a plurality of relays connected to a positive electrode terminal and a negative electrode terminal of the high-capacity assembled battery, respectively,

the lithium-ion secondary battery of the high-power assembled battery having an output density higher than that of the lithium-ion secondary battery of the high-capacity assembled battery,

the lithium-ion secondary battery of the high-capacity assembled battery having a power capacity density higher than that of the lithium-ion secondary battery of the high-power assembled battery,

in running of the vehicle using an output from the motor with the engine stopped, the high-capacity assembled battery supplying more electric power to the motor than that in the high-power assembled battery,

wherein the high-power assembled battery and the plurality of relays connected to the high-power assembled battery are placed in a riding space where a passenger rides,

the high-capacity assembled battery and the plurality of relays connected to the high-capacity assembled battery are placed in a luggage space different from the riding space,

the high-capacity assembled battery has a battery characteristic changing more largely than that of the high-power assembled battery in response to a temperature change,

a positive electrode active material layer of the lithium-ion secondary battery of the high-power assembled battery has a thickness smaller than that of positive electrode active material layer of the lithium-ion secondary battery of the high-capacity assembled battery, and

a negative electrode active material layer of the lithium-ion secondary battery of the high-power assembled battery has a thickness smaller than that of a negative electrode active material layer of the lithium-ion second battery of the high-capacity assembled battery.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein, in running of the vehicle using the output from the motor with the engine stopped, a frequency of use of the high-capacity assembled battery is higher than a frequency of use of the high-power assembled battery.

3. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein, in running of the vehicle using the output from the motor with the engine stopped, a proportion of the electric power supplied from the high-capacity assembled battery to the motor in the electric power supplied to the motor is higher than a proportion of the electric power supplied from the high-power assembled battery to the motor.

4. The vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising an air-conditioner used in adjusting a temperature of the riding space and including a blow-off port for air,

wherein the high-power assembled battery is placed closer to the blow-off port than the high-capacity assembled battery.

5. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the high-capacity assembled battery is replaced at a frequency higher than that of the high-power assembled battery.

6. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the high-capacity assembled battery has a size larger than that of the high-power assembled battery.

7. The vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the high-power assembled battery has a plurality of cells connected in series, and

the high-capacity assembled battery has a plurality of cells connected in parallel.

8. The vehicle according to claim 7 , wherein the cell of the high-power assembled battery is a square-type cell, and

the cell of the high-capacity assembled battery is a cylinder-type cell.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 22, 2013
From: KIMURA, KENJI; SATO, AKIHIRO
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 030259/0806 →
Continuity (1)
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