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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2011
Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Miyoshi, JP;
Kenji Kimura, Miyoshi, JP;
Takurou Nakayama, Okazaki, JP;
Hirotaka Watanabe, Toyota, JP;
Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Toyota, JP;
Akihiro Sato, Nagoya, JP;
Tsuyoshi Hayashi, Miyoshi, JP;
Kenji Kimura, Miyoshi, JP;
Takurou Nakayama, Okazaki, JP;
Hirotaka Watanabe, Toyota, JP;
Nobuyoshi Fujiwara, Toyota, JP;
Akihiro Sato, Nagoya, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle has a motor and an engine each serving as a driving source for running the vehicle, and assembled batteries each capable of supplying an electric power to the motor. The assembled batteries include a high-power assembled battery and a high-capacity assembled battery. The high-power assembled battery is capable of charge and discharge with current relatively larger than that in the high-capacity assembled battery, and the high-capacity assembled battery has energy capacity relatively larger than that of the high-power assembled battery. In running of the vehicle using output from the motor with the engine stopped, the high-capacity assembled battery supplies more electric power to the motor than that in the high-power assembled battery. The high-power assembled battery is placed in a vehicle-inside space accommodating a passenger or baggage, and the high-capacity assembled battery is placed in a vehicle-outside space located on an outer face of a vehicle body.