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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2005
Applicant:
Yuji Nakada, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yuji Nakada, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A battery pack capacity adjustment apparatus, which is installed in a vehicle, executes capacity adjustment for a plurality of cells constituting a battery pack by raising the target charging rate for the battery pack from a first target charging rate to a second target charging rate when a voltage variance abnormality among the plurality of cells is detected and the currently traveling vehicle is predicted to stop.