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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 9168837 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015

Filed:

May. 12, 2010

Vehicle and method of controlling vehicle

Applicant:

Mitsunori Ishii, Toyota, JP;

Inventor:

Mitsunori Ishii, Toyota, JP;

Assignees:

TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;

FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Oliff PLC

Primary Examiner:

Richard Isla Rodas

Assistant Examiner:

Michael DiBenedetto

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H02J 7/02 (2006.01); B60L 1/00 (2006.01); B60L 11/18 (2006.01); B60L 3/00 (2006.01); B60L 3/04 (2006.01); B60L 11/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/1816 (2013.01); B60L 3/0069 (2013.01); B60L 3/04 (2013.01); B60L 11/14 (2013.01); B60L 11/1868 (2013.01); B60L 2210/10 (2013.01); B60L 2210/40 (2013.01); B60L 2220/14 (2013.01); B60L 2230/12 (2013.01); B60L 2240/36 (2013.01); B60L 2240/545 (2013.01); B60L 2240/547 (2013.01); B60L 2240/549 (2013.01); B60L 2250/10 (2013.01); Y02T 10/70 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7005 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7066 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7077 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7088 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7216 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7241 (2013.01); Y02T 90/121 (2013.01); Y02T 90/127 (2013.01); Y02T 90/14 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle externally chargeable with electric power transmitted through a charging cable from an external power supply includes a chargeable power storage device, a charging device and a control device. The charging device supplies charge power to the power storage device using the electric power transmitted from the external power supply. The control device controls the charging device to limit the charge power based on the state of the power transmission path from the external power supply to the charging device. By this configuration, even when an extension cable is added by a user or when a failure occurs in the charging cable and the like, damage to the cable and influences upon surrounding devices due to excessive heat generation at the cable can be suppressed.

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