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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2012
Toshihide Tachibana, Shizuoka, JP;
Tohru Ohta, Shizuoka, JP;
Kengo Ikeya, Shizuoka, JP;
Yoshimasa Matsumoto, Shizuoka, JP;
Ryuhji Ohtsuka, Shizuoka, JP;
Yoshifumi Takai, Shizuoka, JP;
Takanori Murakami, Shizuoka, JP;
Toshihide Tachibana, Shizuoka, JP;
Tohru Ohta, Shizuoka, JP;
Kengo Ikeya, Shizuoka, JP;
Yoshimasa Matsumoto, Shizuoka, JP;
Ryuhji Ohtsuka, Shizuoka, JP;
Yoshifumi Takai, Shizuoka, JP;
Takanori Murakami, Shizuoka, JP;
SUZUKI MOTOR CORPORATION, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
The grill shutter is disposed between the front grill and the air intake duct. The grill shutter is capable of opening or closing shutter members and regulating positions of the shutter members when being opened. When a maximum supplied flow rate of air provided by the wind during running is greater than a flow rate of air required for the hydrogen fuel battery, the required flow rate of air is established only by opening/closing control of the shutter members through a grill shutter opening instruction. If this is not the case, the grill shutter members are opened fully through the grill shutter opening instruction to maximize the volume of the wind during running taken in from the front grille. Additionally, a shortfall in the required flow rate of air for the hydrogen fuel battery is compensated for by actuating the blower through a blower speed instruction.