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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2012
Daisuke Ishii, Toyota, JP;
Shigeki Kinomura, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Tomoyuki Mizuno, Toyota, JP;
Takashi Ogawa, Kariya, JP;
Hiroki Sawada, Toyota, JP;
Yasuo Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Daisuke Ishii, Toyota, JP;
Shigeki Kinomura, Shizuoka-ken, JP;
Tomoyuki Mizuno, Toyota, JP;
Takashi Ogawa, Kariya, JP;
Hiroki Sawada, Toyota, JP;
Yasuo Suzuki, Nagoya, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi, JP;
Abstract
A vehicleaccording to the embodiment of the present invention is applied to a charge-discharge system CDS. The charge-discharge system includes the vehicle, an electric power cable, a plug-in station, a HEMS, and a commercial power supply. From the HEMSto the vehicle, a request for charge to charge an electric storage deviceand a request for discharge to allow an external electric load to use an electric power of the electric storage deviceare transmitted. When a request is changed from the request for charge to the request for discharge, or vice versa, the vehiclerealizes a charge-discharge stop state in which neither a charging operation nor a discharging operation is performed without directly changing from the charging operation to the discharging operation, or vice versa.