Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Aisin Seiki Kabushiki Kaisha

Tomohiro Shinagawa

Yuji Miyoshi

Makoto Suzuki

Yoshio Hasegawa

Takuya Hirai

Hiroki Okabe

Hiroyuki Sugihara

Yuuichi Katou

Ryo Michikawauchi

Yoshihiro Shinozaki

Yoshiharu Hirata

Takeshi Okumura

Rentaro Kuroki

Yasushi Ito

Kenichi Yamada

Youhei Hosokawa

Kunihiko Hayashi

Shingo Korenaga

Hidefumi Aikawa

Yoichi Ogura

Yu Ofune

Masatoshi Yano

Atsushi Fukuda

Takashi Kawai

Masahiro Inoue

Tomohiko Kaneko

Takahiro Uchida

Hiroyuki Mizuno

Hiroyuki Hokuto

Masahiko Masubuchi

Yuichi Kato

Nobuyuki Satake

Naoto Yumisashi

Fumio Takamiya

Yoshio Ohashi

Takashi Hotta

Yuuichi Kato

Takashi Atsumi

Takeo Yamaguchi

Kenichi Kubota

Taizo Yoshinaga

Keisuke Tokai

Takahisa Koishikawa

To provide an air vehicle configured to stabilize the power output of a fuel cell by securing the generated water discharge property of the fuel cell. An air vehicle, wherein the air vehicle comprises two or more fuel cells; wherein each fuel cell comprises an anode outlet manifold; and wherein each fuel cell is disposed in the air vehicle so that water discharge directions of the anode outlet manifolds are different from each other.

Air vehicle

To provide a fuel cell system configured to prevent the freezing of the gas and water discharge valve of the fuel gas system even at high altitude. A fuel cell system for air vehicles, wherein the fuel cell system comprises: a fuel cell, a fuel gas system for supplying fuel gas to the fuel cell, a cooling system for controlling a temperature of the fuel cell, an altitude sensor, a temperature sensor, and a controller, and wherein, when the controller detects an altitude increase measured by the altitude sensor, and when a temperature of the gas and water discharge valve measured by the temperature sensor is less than a predetermined temperature, the controller increases a temperature of the refrigerant by controlling the three-way valve to circulate the refrigerant in the heating flow path and operating the circulation pump and the water heater to heat the refrigerant.

Fuel cell system and air vehicle

To provide a fuel cell system configured to increase fuel cell performance even at high altitude. A fuel cell system for air vehicles, wherein the fuel cell system comprises: a fuel cell, an oxidant gas system for supplying oxidant gas to the fuel cell, an altitude sensor, and a controller; wherein the oxidant gas system comprises an air compressor and a bypass flow path bypassing the fuel cell; wherein the bypass flow path comprises a bypass valve; and wherein, when the controller detects an altitude increase measured by the altitude sensor, the controller increases a rotational speed of the air compressor, and the controller increases an opening degree of the bypass valve.

A fuel cell system for air vehicles, wherein the fuel cell system comprises: a fuel cell, a fuel gas system for supplying fuel gas to the fuel cell, a potential sensor, and a controller; wherein the fuel gas system comprises a fuel gas supplier; wherein the controller determines whether or not a potential of the fuel cell measured by the potential sensor, is a reversal potential; and wherein, when the controller determines that the potential of the fuel cell is a reversal potential, the controller increases a fuel gas supply from the fuel gas supplier to the fuel cell.

A cooling apparatus of a vehicle driving system for driving a vehicle according to the invention activates a heat pump to cool a hybrid system by cooling medium and flows an engine cooling water in an engine water circulation passage through a condenser to cool the cooling medium by the engine cooling water at the condenser when an engine water circulation condition is satisfied. The engine water circulation condition is a condition that a heat pump activation condition is satisfied, and an engine cooling condition is not satisfied. The heat pump activation condition is a condition that a process of cooling the hybrid system by the cooling medium of the heat pump is requested. The engine cooling condition is a condition that a process of cooling an internal combustion engine by the engine cooling water is requested.

Cooling apparatus of vehicle driving system

A cooling apparatus of a vehicle driving system of the invention connects an engine water circulation passage to a hybrid system water circulation passage and flows cooling water in the engine water circulation passage and the hybrid system water circulation passage to cool a first hybrid system component by the cooling water cooled by an engine radiator and cool a second hybrid system component by the cooling water cooled by a hybrid system radiator when an engine cooling process is not requested, a first hybrid system cooling process is requested, a second hybrid system cooling process is requested, and a connection condition is satisfied. The connection condition is satisfied when the engine cooling process is not requested, and the cooling water flowing into the hybrid system water circulation passage from the engine water circulation passage, can cool the first hybrid system component.

A cooling apparatus of an internal combustion engine according to the invention controls an activation of a flow rate changing valve such that a block water flow rate proportion when an engine output is relatively large in a range of the engine output equal to or larger than a predetermine engine output, is larger than the block water flow rate proportion when the engine output is relatively small in the range of the engine output equal to or larger than a predetermine engine output.

Cooling apparatus of internal combustion engine

A cooling apparatus of a vehicle of the invention comprises an engine cooling system, a device cooling system, and a connection apparatus configured to connect an engine circulation circuit of the engine cooling system and a device circulation circuit of the device cooling system to each other such that heat exchanging liquid cooled by a device radiator of the device cooling system, is supplied to an engine passage formed in an internal combustion engine without flowing through a device passage formed in the device including at least one of a motor of the vehicle, a battery for storing electric power to be supplied to the motor, and a power control unit for controlling a supply of the electric power from the battery to the motor.

Cooling apparatus of vehicle

An EGR cooler in the disclosure includes: a gas path configured to allow an EGR gas to flow; a refrigerant path configured to perform heat exchange between the EGR gas circulating along the gas path and a refrigerant; an exothermic body containing portion configured such that an exothermic body to generate heat by adsorbing a predetermined working gas is contained within the EGR cooler and at least a part of the exothermic body contacts with a wall surface of the gas path; a working gas tank in which the working gas is stored; and a gas moving apparatus configured to move the working gas stored in the working gas tank, from the working gas tank to the exothermic body containing portion.

Exhaust gas recirculation cooler

The cooling apparatus of the engine sets the first shut-off valve to the closed position, sets the second shut-off valve to the open position, and performs the opposite flow connection operation to supplies the cooling water directly to the cylinder block water passage from the cylinder head water passage without flowing the cooling water through the radiator and to the heat exchanger from the cylinder head water block when the engine temperature is lower than the completely-warmed temperature, and the cooling water is requested to be supplied to the heat exchanger.

A cooling apparatus of vehicle driving apparatuses of the invention controls flow of cooling water so as to cool engine cooling water by at least two radiators when a requested ability of cooling an internal combustion engine, is equal to or larger than a requested ability of cooling a hybrid device. The number of the radiators used for cooling the engine cooling water is larger than the number of the remaining radiator(s). The cooling apparatus controls the flow of the cooling water so as to cool device cooling water at least two radiators when the requested ability of cooling the hybrid device, is larger than the requested ability of cooling the internal combustion engine. The number of the radiators used for cooling the device cooling water is larger than the number of the remaining radiator(s).

Cooling apparatus of vehicle driving apparatuses

An ECU avoids engine stall by putting a compressor into a stationary state in a case where the rotation speed of a crankshaft is equal to or less than a predetermined speed during an idle operation of an internal combustion engine. During the idle operation, the ECU calculates a total load torque applied to the crankshaft by the compressor and an alternator. The ECU calculates the maximum torque of the internal combustion engine during the idle operation based on a target speed during the idle operation. Then, the ECU raises the predetermined speed in a case where the value obtained by subtracting the load torque from the maximum torque is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

Control device for internal combustion engine

The cooling apparatus of the engine according to the invention supplies the cooling water directly to the cylinder block water passage from the cylinder head water passage when the engine temperature is between first and second temperatures, and a supply of the cooling water to the heat exchanger is not requested. The first and second temperatures are lower than the engine completely-warmed temperature. The apparatus supplies the cooling water discharged from the cylinder block and head water passages, to the water passages through the heat exchanger when the engine temperature is between the second temperature and the engine completely-warmed temperature, and the supply of the cooling water to the heat exchanger is not requested.

A cooling apparatus of an engine of the invention has a circulation passage for supplying cooling water to head and block passages through a heat exchanger. The apparatus circulates the cooling water through the circulation passage when a second condition is satisfied and then, a first condition is satisfied. The first condition includes a water supply condition that a supply of the cooling water to the exchanger is requested. The second condition includes the water supply condition and a condition that a cooling water temperature is lower than an engine completely-warmed water temperature.

A cooling system includes: a first coolant passage; a second coolant passage; a pump; a radiator; a third coolant passage; a connection switching mechanism that switches between a forward flow connection state and a reverse flow connection state; a fourth coolant passage; a fifth coolant passage; and a shutoff valve configured to open/shut off the fifth coolant passage. The radiator is disposed at a location at which coolant flowing from a second end of the first coolant passage into a fourth end of the second coolant passage is not cooled in the reverse flow connection state, and coolant flowing out from the second end of the first coolant passage and the fourth end of the second coolant passage is cooled in the forward flow connection state.

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Sunto-gun, Japan

Tomohiro Shinagawa