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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2020
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventor:
Shinji Ichikawa, Toyota, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/14 (2006.01); B60L 53/00 (2019.01); B60L 58/40 (2019.01); B60L 50/75 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 53/00 (2019.02); B60L 50/75 (2019.02); B60L 58/40 (2019.02); H02J 7/0048 (2020.01);
Abstract
An FCV includes an FC system and a battery. The FC system includes an FC stack and a boost converter that adjusts output from the FC stack. When a prescribed operation to carry out external charging with a power supply outside the vehicle is not performed for a prescribed time period after system stop (Ready-off) of the FCV under such a condition that an SOC of the battery is lower than a threshold value at the time of system stop, an FDC-ECU controls the boost converter to carry out FC charging by the FC system.