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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 26, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Atsushi Tabata, Okazaki, JP;
Yutaka Taga, Aichi-ken, JP;
Ryuji Ibaraki, Toyota, JP;
Tsuyoshi Mikami, Toyota, JP;
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
180165 ;
Abstract
An electrically driven automotive vehicle including an electric motor for driving the vehicle, an electric energy storage device for storing an electric energy for operating the electric motor, the storage device having a plurality of storage portions which can be charged and discharged independently of each other, and a fully discharging device for fully discharging at least one of the storage portions, when an amount of electric energy stored in at least one of the other of the storage portions is larger than a predetermined threshold.