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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2013
Filed:
May. 13, 2009
Applicant:
Hironori Harada, Okazaki, JP;
Inventor:
Hironori Harada, Okazaki, JP;
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An ECU controls SOCs of a master battery and a sub battery so that the SOCs vary within the range of a predetermined upper limit value and lower limit value. A control is made so that the SOC of the sub battery is lower than the SOC of the master battery when the condition that execution of charging with electric power supplied from the source external to a plug-in hybrid vehicle is predicted is satisfied.