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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2016
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Tomohiko Kaneko, Okazaki, JP;
Yohei Okamoto, Kasugai, JP;
Kazuo Yamamoto, Toyota, JP;
Tomohiro Ogawa, Toyota, JP;
Masashi Toida, Nagoya, JP;
Mitsuhiro Nada, Toyota, JP;
Tomio Yamanaka, Nagoya, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
An object is to provide a technique of reducing a potential failure to start a fuel cell system due to a temperature decrease in a vehicle with the fuel cell system mounted thereon. There is provided a vehicle that comprises a fuel cell system, a battery, a motor, and a determiner configured to determine that the fuel cell system has a frozen part when temperature measured by a temperature measurement unit is equal to or lower than a predetermined first temperature and at least one of conditions (1) to (3) is satisfied: (1) no purging process is performed after a change from an on state of the vehicle to an off state of the vehicle; (2) ambient temperature decreases to or below a predetermined second temperature in the off state of the vehicle and no purging process is performed; and (3) an inclination of the vehicle is equal to or greater than a predetermined inclination at a time of change from the off state of the vehicle to the on state of the vehicle.