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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2011
Takurou Nakayama, Okazaki, JP;
Akihiro Sato, Nagoya, JP;
Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Miyoshi, JP;
Hirotaka Watanabe, Toyota, JP;
Kenji Kimura, Miyoshi, JP;
Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Toyota, JP;
Takurou Nakayama, Okazaki, JP;
Akihiro Sato, Nagoya, JP;
Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Miyoshi, JP;
Hirotaka Watanabe, Toyota, JP;
Kenji Kimura, Miyoshi, JP;
Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Toyota, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle has a motor serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor, and a temperature adjusting mechanism adjusting the temperature of each of the high-power assembled battery and the high-capacity assembled battery. The temperature adjusting mechanism supplies a heat exchange medium for use in the temperature adjustment of the high-power assembled battery and the high-capacity assembled battery to each of the assembled batteries. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with a current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery. The high-capacity assembled battery has an energy capacity relatively larger than that of the high-power assembled battery, has a higher dependence of battery characteristic on temperature than that of the high-power assembled battery, and is placed on a flow path of the heat exchange medium upstream of the high-power assembled battery.