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Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 23, 2015
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;

Inventor:

Takashi Nozawa, Toyota, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/18 (2006.01); H02M 3/335 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60L 11/18 (2013.01); H02M 3/33584 (2013.01);
Abstract

An electric vehicle disclosed in the specification includes a main battery, a main electric power supply wire connected with the main battery, an electric power control unit including a smoothing capacitor that smooths a voltage of the main electric power supply wire, a switch that switches the main electric power supply wire between conduction and non-conduction, a sub battery having a lower voltage than the main battery, a sub electric power supply wire connected with the sub battery, a first DC-DC converter that can perform a boost operation from the sub electric power supply wire to the main electric power supply wire on the electric power control unit side relative to the switch, and a second DC-DC converter that can perform a buck operation from the main electric power supply wire on the main battery side to the sub electric power supply wire.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Nozawa, Takashi. (2018). Electric vehicle (U.S. Patent No. 9873338). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/9873338

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