Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Takashi Nakado

Yuma Miyamoto

Koichi Go

A solar control device includes: an execution unit configured to cause a DC-DC converter (DDC) to perform a scan process of scanning an output voltage of the solar panel and retrieving a maximum power point based on a predetermined instruction; and a determination unit configured to determine whether a predetermined first time has elapsed after the scan process has been previously completed, to additionally determine whether the panel power continues to be equal to or less than a predetermined first threshold value for a predetermined second time when the first time has elapsed, and to output the instruction to cause the DDC to perform the scan process next to the execution unit when the panel power continues to be equal to or less than the first threshold value for the second time.

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Kasugai, Japan

Takashi Nakado