Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Hichirosai Oyobe

Tetsuhiro Ishikawa

Makoto Nakamura

Yukihiro Minezawa

Shinji Ichikawa

Hiroshi Yoshida

Tsuyoshi Yano

Kenji Yamada

Wanleng Ang

Hiroki Sawada

Yoshinori Fujitake

Shigenori Togashi

Katsuhiro Asano

Hiromi Tonegawa

Shoichi Sasaki

Hiroyuki Oyanagi

Yoshitoshi Watanabe

Masaya Yamamoto

Naoto Suzuki

Gourab Majumdar

Hiroaki Kato

Eiji Sato

Satoru Katoh

Munehiro Kamiya

Masahiro Kimata

Toru Wakimoto

Haruki Sato

Toshikazu Ono

Hitoshi Sato

Shintaro Tsujii

Shinjiro Ashida

Masato Ichishi

Hideaki Saida

Yoshinori Tomita

Yoshiharu Yu

Takeshi Shingai

Tetsutaka Yamamoto

Takuya Nishimoto

A power transfer system transfers electric power from a power feeding device external to a vehicle to a power receiving device mounted on the vehicle in a contactless manner. The power feeding device includes a first reflective wall formed at a rear side of a transmitting coil with respect to a power transferring direction from the transmitting coil, to allow reflection of a magnetic flux output from the transmitting coil in the power transferring direction. The transmitting coil and the first reflective wall are arranged spaced apart from each other. The power receiving device includes a second reflective wall formed at a rear side of a receiving coil with respect to a power receiving direction from the transmitting coil, to allow reflection of a magnetic flux output from the transmitting coil to the receiving coil. The receiving coil and the second reflective wall are arranged spaced apart from each other.

Electrical powered vehicle and power feeding device for vehicle

A control device of the invention is applied for a hybrid vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine, a motor and a rotational position detector to detect a rotational position of a rotary shaft of the motor. The control device performs a procedure for obtaining an offset amount according to a request for obtaining the offset amount, which offset amount is a difference between a detected rotational position of the rotary shaft with the rotational position detector and an actual rotational position of the rotary shaft. The control device is configured to perform the procedure for obtaining the offset amount while the engine is running, when the vehicle stops and the control device determines that there is the request for obtaining the offset amount.

Control device for vehicle

A power supply system that supplies electric power to a load includes a first power storage device, a second power storage device, a power line for transmitting electric power input and output to and from the load, a converter for executing bidirectional DC voltage conversion between the first power storage device and the power line, and a switch connected between the second power storage device and the power line. When the switch is OFF, the control device performs voltage control of the converter so that a voltage value of the power line becomes a voltage command value, and when the switch is ON, the control device performs current control of the converter so that a current value of the first power storage device becomes a current command value.

Power supply system and method for controlling the same

A control device is applied to a vehicle having a motor with a rotary shaft connected to a drive shaft of the vehicle, a rotational position detector to detect a rotational position of the rotary shaft of the motor, and a battery. The control device performs a procedure for obtaining an offset amount in response to a request for obtaining the offset amount, store the obtained offset amount, and keep the stored offset amount without relying on electric power supplied from the battery, which offset amount is a difference between a detected rotational position of the rotary shaft with the rotational position detector and an actual rotational position of the rotary shaft. The control device is configured to find an occurrence of the request for obtaining the offset amount when battery is dismounted from the vehicle.

An electrical powered vehicle includes a secondary self-resonant coil, a secondary coil, a rectifier, and a power storage device. The secondary self-resonant coil is configured to be magnetically coupled with a primary self-resonant coil of a power feeding device by magnetic field resonance, and allow reception of high frequency power from the primary self-resonant coil. The secondary coil is configured to allow reception of electric power from the secondary self-resonant coil by electromagnetic induction. The rectifier rectifies the electric power received by the secondary coil. The power storage device stores the electric power rectified by the rectifier.

A vehicle, including a motor having a rotor, a resolver that detects a rotation angle of the rotor and a control device, and a control method for the vehicle are provided. The control device executes rectangular-wave control over the motor using the rotation angle of the rotor, detected by the resolver, executes zero learning for learning a deviation between an origin of an actual rotation angle of the rotor and an origin of the detected rotation angle of the rotor, corrects the detected rotation angle of the rotor on the basis of a result of the zero learning, and, when the zero learning has not been completed yet, executes avoidance control for avoiding a rapid variation in output of the motor.

Vehicle including motor control device, and control method for vehicle

A rotor position estimating device includes a voltage application unit, a current detecting unit and an estimating unit. The voltage application unit is configured to apply a d-axis voltage to an electric motor including a salient-pole rotor during a stop of the electric motor. The current detecting unit is configured to detect a q-axis current flowing through the electric motor at the time when the d-axis voltage is applied. The estimating unit is configured to estimate a rotor position during a stop of the electric motor on the basis of the q-axis current detected by the current detecting unit. The voltage application unit is configured to set a voltage application time in correspondence with peak timing at which the q-axis current reaches a peak in a transitional response characteristic of the q-axis current at the time when the d-axis voltage is applied.

Rotor position estimating device, electric motor control system and rotor position estimating method

A MG drive computer switches off system relays when a collision or a possibility of collision is detected. The computer also executes the revolution speed reduction control for reducing the revolution speed of a rotating electric machine and the discharge control for discharging a smoothing capacitor. In the revolution speed reduction control, the second control for switching on switching elements of three phases of an upper arm or lower arm of an inverter and switching off all other switching elements is performed when the revolution speed of the rotating electric machine is equal to or less than a second threshold. When the revolution speed is higher than the second threshold, the first control for switching on a switching element of one phase of the upper arm or lower arm and switching off other switching elements is performed.

Drive system for rotating electric machine

A converter control unit responds to a command from a start determining unit to control a converter such that a ripple current is generated at a secondary battery. A storage unit stores a map defining a correlative relationship between the temperature and current of the secondary battery and internal resistance. An estimating unit estimates a value of internal resistance of the secondary battery based on each detection value of the temperature and current, and the map stored in the storage unit.

Internal resistance estimation apparatus for power storage device, degradation determination apparatus for power storage device, power supply system, and internal resistance estimation method for power storage device

An air conditioning control device for a vehicle has an air conditioner for conditioning air in a vehicle interior, an input receiving unit for receiving inputs of both planned departure time of the vehicle and a target temperature in the vehicle interior, a pre-air-conditioning control unit for starting operation of the air conditioner at an air conditioning start time before the planned departure time so that the temperature in the vehicle interior at the planned departure time becomes the target temperature, and an outdoor air temperature acquisition unit for acquiring outdoor air temperature. The pre-air-conditioning control unit changes the air conditioning operation start time based on the outdoor air temperature acquired by the outdoor air temperature acquisition unit.

Air conditioning control device for vehicle

When the relation of battery temperature Tb&#x3e;battery temperature Tbis satisfied, a temperature increase request for a power storage unit becomes relatively large. Therefore, a target power value P* for the power storage unit is determined with priority. The target power value P* is calculated by multiplying the required power value Ps* by a distribution ratio Pr(0.5&#x2266;distribution ratio Pr&#x2266;1.0) determined in accordance with temperature deviation between battery temperature Tband battery temperature Tb. The target power value P* is determined by subtracting the target power value P* from the required power value Ps*.

Power supply, system having a plurality of power storage units, vehicle using the same, and its control method

First and second converters are connected in parallel to positive and negative lines, respectively. When a required power is smaller than a reference value, an ECU controls the first and second converters such that one of the first and second converters operates and the other stops. When the required power is equal to or larger than the reference value, the ECU controls the first and second converters such that both the first and second converters operate.

Power supply system, vehicle provided with the same, power supply system control method and computer-readable recording medium bearing program for causing computer to control the power supply system

When an ignition key is turned ON, a control apparatus predicts the arrival time to a chargeable location (such as home). When the control apparatus determines that the expected arrival time is in the nighttime, it sets SOC control upper and lower limit values for an EV traveling-importance mode that are lower than SOC control upper and lower limit values for an HV traveling-importance mode, and controls an SOC of a battery based on the upper and lower limit values.

Hybrid vehicle and controlling method thereof

In charging first and second power storage devices from a charging station, an inverter ECU controls first and second inverters to convert AC power received at first and second neutral points into DC power and output the DC power to a power supply system. A converter ECU converts in voltage the electric power received from the first and second inverters to be charged and outputs the converted electric power to the first and second power storage devices, and for low temperature, controls first and second converters to allow the first and second power storage devices to communicate electric power therebetween.

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