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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2014
Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yoichi Izumi, Tokyo, JP;
Tsukasa Murakami, Tokyo, JP;
FUJI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An electric vehicle includes: a low-voltage battery, a high-voltage battery having a voltage higher than that of the low-voltage battery; an output detector that detects an output of the low-voltage battery; a collision detector that detects a vehicle collision, an information recorder to which the low-voltage battery is connected as a power supply and which records collision information from the collision detector; a power supply relay unit that is provided between the high-voltage battery and the information recorder and switched between an opened state in which the high-voltage battery and the information recorder are separated and a closed state in which that are connected; and a controller that switches the power supply relay unit from the opened state to the closed state in the case when a vehicle collision a reduction in the output of the low-voltage battery are detected.