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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11312358 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022

Filed:

Jun. 12, 2018

Hybrid vehicle

Applicant:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Naoki Yui, Saitama, JP;

Tomohiro Shibata, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:

HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Paratus Law Group, PLLC

Primary Examiner:

Russell Frejd

Assistant Examiner:

Matthias S Weisfeld

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60W 20/14 (2016.01); B60W 40/076 (2012.01); B60W 10/26 (2006.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 10/06 (2006.01); B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60K 6/485 (2007.10); B60W 30/20 (2006.01); B60K 6/442 (2007.10); B60K 6/48 (2007.10);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60K 6/442 (2013.01); B60W 10/06 (2013.01); B60W 10/08 (2013.01); B60W 10/26 (2013.01); B60W 20/14 (2016.01); B60W 30/18127 (2013.01); B60W 30/20 (2013.01); B60W 40/076 (2013.01); B60W 50/0097 (2013.01); B60K 6/485 (2013.01); B60K 2006/4808 (2013.01); B60W 2510/244 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2552/20 (2020.02); B60W 2552/30 (2020.02); B60W 2556/50 (2020.02);
Abstract

A hybrid vehicle includes: an internal combustion engine; a first rotating electric machine generating electricity by a power of the internal combustion engine; an electric capacitor; a second rotating electric machine connected to a drive wheel and driven by power supply from at least one of the electric capacitor and the first rotating electric machine; a geographical information acquisition unit acquiring geographical information; and a control unit controlling a charging operation for charging the electric capacitor with power generated during a regenerative operation of the second rotating electric machine or an electricity waste operation for consuming the power by the hybrid vehicle. The control unit starts the electricity waste operation when the remaining capacity of the electric capacitor becomes equal to or greater than a threshold value during the regenerative operation of the second rotating electric machine and sets the threshold value based on the geographical information.

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