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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 01, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1998
Yuichi Shimasaki, Wako, JP;
Kenji Nakano, Wako, JP;
Hironao Fukuchi, Wako, JP;
Hideyuki Takahashi, Wako, JP;
Kazutomo Sawamura, Wako, JP;
Teruo Wakashiro, Wako, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A hybrid vehicle has a generator motor coupled to the output shaft of an engine through a transfer shaft, for transmitting an assistive output power for assisting an output power of the engine through the transfer shaft to the output shaft of the engine. A battery stores electric energy regenerated by the generator motor from kinetic energy of the hybrid vehicle transmitted from the output shaft of the engine through the transfer shaft. A generator is mounted on the transfer shaft and has an electric energy generating ability smaller than the generator motor. The generator generates electric energy to energize another device than the battery.