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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2016
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Inventors:
Masaya Kaji, Toyota, JP;
Tomoko Oba, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 3/003 (2013.01); B60L 2240/12 (2013.01); B60L 2240/36 (2013.01); B60L 2240/421 (2013.01); B60L 2270/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electric vehicle includes a motor, an inverter, a battery, a cooler configured to cool the inverter, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to execute following when abnormality occurs to the cooler: i) set a vehicle speed, at which an induced voltage by the motor becomes at most equal to an input voltage that is input to the inverter from the battery side, as vehicle speed limit, and ii) control the motor such that the electric vehicle travels within a range of the vehicle speed limit.