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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2018
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Yoshiyuki Takeuchi, Wako, JP;
Ryoma Taguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Ohmi, Tokyo, JP;
Osamu Ishida, Wako, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electric vehicle includes an electric motor, a power storage device, a control device, and a refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant circuit includes a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, a first indoor heat exchanger, a first expansion valve, a second expansion valve, and a second indoor heat exchanger. The control device repeats an operation of performing the other of a first operation and a second operation after performing one thereof when a remaining capacity of a power storage device is equal to or larger than a predetermined value. In the first operation, the first expansion valve is not decompressed and the second expansion valve is decompressed. In the second operation, the first expansion valve is decompressed and the second expansion valve is not decompressed.