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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 05, 2009
Masaya Yamamoto, Kasugai, JP;
Yuichi Tanaka, Toyota, JP;
Masaya Yamamoto, Kasugai, JP;
Yuichi Tanaka, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
When an accumulated charge amount of a first slave battery reaches a preset accumulated charge amount or less, the first slave battery is set as a used secondary battery, and when a master battery and a second slave battery are connected to sides of motors, accumulated charge amount differences of the master battery and the second slave battery are respectively set as allowable discharge electric energies Eand E, value 0 is set as an allowable discharge electric energy E, and a sum of these allowable discharge electric energies is set as an EV priority allowable electric energy that is an electric energy that is allowed to be discharged as a whole of the master battery, and the two slave batteries.