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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhito Kawashima, Tokyo, JP;
Keisuke Tashiro, Tokyo, JP;
Tetsuya Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;
Akihito Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;
Ryoji Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Chikara Takei, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A power controlling apparatus includes a secondary battery () connected to an electrical device (), and a fuel cell () connected to the electrical device () and the secondary battery (). The fuel cell () has two non-generating modes including an idling mode and a halt mode, the fuel cell () suspending generation of power while being supplied with fuel in the idling mode, the fuel cell () stopping generation of power without fuel supply in the halt mode. The power controlling apparatus further includes a remainder estimator () to calculate the remaining number of starts representing the remaining number of available starts of the fuel cell (), and a controller () to control the fuel cell () to be one of the two non-generating modes during a non-charging mode of the secondary battery (), based on the remaining number of starts calculated by the remainder estimator ().