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Granted Patent B2
US 11,077,770 · App. 16/377,512 · Granted Aug 3, 2021

Power supply device

Inventors: Noritake Mitsutani (Toyota, JP); Yasuhiro Taoka (Nagoya, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Patent No.
US 11,077,770
App. No.
16/377,512
Granted
Aug 3, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A power supply device is mountable to a vehicle and includes: a high-voltage battery; a low-voltage battery of which an output voltage is lower than that of the high-voltage battery, and which can be charged by output power from the high-voltage battery; and a control unit configured to perform charging/discharging control for the high-voltage battery and the low-voltage battery. The control unit performs feeding control for causing the high-voltage battery to supply power to a predetermined on-vehicle device while consumed power is higher than a predetermined value in a state in which a main switch of the vehicle is not on.

Claims (9)

1. A power supply device mountable to a vehicle, the power supply device comprising:

a high-voltage battery;

a low-voltage battery of which an output voltage is lower than that of the high-voltage battery, and which can be charged by output power from the high-voltage battery; and

a control unit configured to:

perform charging/discharging control for the high-voltage battery and the low-voltage battery;

perform feeding control for causing the high-voltage battery to supply power to a predetermined on-vehicle device while consumed power is higher than a predetermined value in a state in which a main switch of the vehicle is not on;

perform supplementary charging for charging the high-voltage battery while the vehicle is running, so as to increase a charged amount for the high-voltage battery by a power storage amount corresponding to an amount of power, to be fed, which is an estimated amount of power to be supplied from the high-voltage battery to the predetermined on-vehicle device in the feeding control during a subsequent non-running time period, as compared to a case where the vehicle does not include the predetermined on-vehicle device; and

determine an amount of increase of a power storage amount of the high-voltage battery for the supplementary charging, an amount of reduction of a power storage amount of the high-voltage battery for the feeding control, and a required time such that an average fuel economy deterioration amount is less than or equal to a predetermined value as compared to a case where the feeding control and the supplementary charging are not performed.

2. The power supply device according to claim 1 , wherein the control unit determines the required time for the supplementary charging, based on the amount of power to be fed and a charging/discharging capability of a power supply device, and a trip time estimated from history of running.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 8, 2019
From: MITSUTANI, NORITAKE; TAOKA, YASUHIRO
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 048818/0313 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-098920 · May 23, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20190359079A1 · Nov 28, 2019