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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2013
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Naoyasu Ikeda, Kanagawa, JP;
Yoshinori Sugita, Kanagawa, JP;
Yutaka Kobayashi, Kanagawa, JP;
Mikio Nozaki, Kanagawa, JP;
Shigeyuki Kiyota, Kanagawa, JP;
NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A hybrid vehicle has an internal combustion engine and a motor as a driving source, a transmission that changes a speed of rotation of the internal combustion engine or motor and transmits the rotation to driving wheels of the vehicle, a high-voltage battery that supplies power to the motor through an inverter, a cooling mechanism equipped with a pump to circulate a coolant and thereby cool the inverter, a coolant temperature measurement device that detects or estimates a temperature of the coolant, a low-voltage battery that supplies power to the pump, and a converter through which power is supplied from the high-voltage battery to the pump.