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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2013
Applicant:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Inventor:
Hiroaki Ono, Tokoname, JP;
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 9/00 (2006.01); B60L 11/00 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G05D 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); B60W 20/00 (2006.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60W 10/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 20/108 (2013.01); B60W 10/08 (2013.01); B60W 10/30 (2013.01); B60W 2600/00 (2013.01); B60W 2710/0688 (2013.01); B60W 2710/088 (2013.01); B60Y 2306/05 (2013.01); B60Y 2400/89 (2013.01); F01P 2050/24 (2013.01); Y10S 903/93 (2013.01);
Abstract
A cooling system circulates a coolant between an engine, an inverter and a radiator to cool the engine and the inverter. A driving mode of the vehicle can be changed between an EV-mode in which the vehicle is driven only by the motor and an HV-mode in which the vehicle is driven by at least one of the motor and the engine. When a driving mode is EV-mode, a coolant temperature is increased to cool the inverter. In the EV-mode, a vehicle is driven by motor only. When the inverter temperature is increased, the allowable current of the inverter can be increased and an allowable output of a motor can be increased.