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公开(公告)号:US20200274176A1
公开(公告)日:2020-08-27
申请号:US16790561
申请日:2020-02-13
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Satoshi SHIOKAWA , Shinji ASO
IPC: H01M8/04828 , H01M8/04746 , H01M8/04858 , H01M8/04225 , H01M8/04089 , H01M8/0438 , H01M8/0444
Abstract: When electric power requested from a load exceeds a predetermined reference value, an operating state of the fuel cell system is controlled so as to enable a normal operation mode where the fuel cell generates electric power corresponding to the requested electric power. When the requested electric power is the reference value or less, the operating state is controlled to enable an intermittent operation mode. A refresh process for sweeping current from the fuel cell and lowering the voltage of the fuel cell to a reduction voltage is executed during a shift from the intermittent operation mode to the normal operation mode. The current swept from the fuel cell at the start of the refresh process is reduced more as an oxygen amount in the fuel cell at the end of the intermittent operation mode is smaller.
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公开(公告)号:US20180241099A1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-23
申请号:US15900652
申请日:2018-02-20
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Takao WATANABE , Junichi MATSUO , Shinji ASO
IPC: H01M10/46 , H01M16/00 , H01M8/04537 , H01M8/04302 , H01M8/04303 , H01M8/04955 , B60L11/18 , H02J7/00
Abstract: Under a condition that a command to stop a fuel cell system is received and a state of charge of a secondary battery is equal to or lower than a threshold which is a value obtained by adding a first predetermined value to a lower limit at which electric power required to stop and start the fuel cell system is supplied, forced charging of the secondary battery by a fuel cell is performed until the state of charge reaches the threshold. After the forced charging is performed, in a case where the command to stop the fuel cell system is received within a predetermined period, the controller sets the threshold to a value obtained by adding a second predetermined value lower than the first predetermined value to the lower limit under the condition.
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公开(公告)号:US20180111502A1
公开(公告)日:2018-04-26
申请号:US15791807
申请日:2017-10-24
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Junichi MATSUO , Akihiro KAMIYA , Tomoya OGAWA , Shinji ASO , Tatsuya FUKAMI , Takao WATANABE
IPC: B60L11/18 , B60L1/00 , B60L11/00 , H01M8/04537
CPC classification number: B60L11/1881 , B60L1/00 , B60L50/40 , B60L58/30 , B60L2240/14 , F04B35/04 , F04B49/06 , F04B2207/00 , H01M8/04537 , H01M8/04619 , H01M8/04753 , H01M2250/20 , Y02T10/7022 , Y02T90/32 , Y02T90/34
Abstract: Provided is a voltage control device of a fuel-cell vehicle capable of securing good acceleration responsiveness while suppressing battery deterioration even when a vehicle acceleration request is made in the situation where the output from a battery is restricted. When determining that electric power suppliable from a secondary battery to an air compressor is less than a lower limit of an acceleration maintaining-electric power of the air compressor, a voltage control device of a fuel-cell vehicle maintains a state where electric power generated by a fuel cell is consumed by an electric power drive, and supplies the electric power consumed by the electric power drive to the air compressor when a vehicle acceleration request is made.
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公开(公告)号:US20170355278A1
公开(公告)日:2017-12-14
申请号:US15602547
申请日:2017-05-23
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Tatsuya FUKAMI , Shinji ASO , Takao WATANABE
IPC: B60L11/18 , G01P3/00 , H01M10/48 , G01R31/36 , H02J7/00 , H01M10/44 , H01M10/0525 , B60L7/10 , H01M16/00
CPC classification number: B60L11/1872 , B60L3/0046 , B60L7/10 , B60L7/14 , B60L11/1887 , B60L2210/14 , B60L2240/12 , B60L2240/545 , G01P3/00 , G01R31/3613 , G01R31/44 , H01M10/052 , H01M10/0525 , H01M10/443 , H01M10/486 , H01M16/006 , H01M2220/20 , H01M2250/20 , H01M2250/402 , H02J7/0068 , H02J7/1438 , Y02E60/122 , Y02T10/705 , Y02T90/32 , Y02T90/34
Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a drive motor, a fuel cell, an auxiliary machine, a secondary battery, a temperature sensor, a current sensor, and a control section. The control section controls the secondary battery for discharging by driving the drive motor or the auxiliary machine and for charging through power generation by the fuel cell or regeneration by the drive motor when a temperature measured by the temperature sensor is lower than a specified value.
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公开(公告)号:US20180205099A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-19
申请号:US15873241
申请日:2018-01-17
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Yutaka TANO , Shinji ASO , Yuji KAKENO
IPC: H01M8/04858 , H01M8/04828 , H01M8/04223 , H01M8/04955 , H01M8/0612 , H01M8/04302
CPC classification number: H01M8/0488 , H01M8/04223 , H01M8/04302 , H01M8/04559 , H01M8/0491 , H01M8/0494 , H01M8/04955 , H01M8/0631 , H01M16/006
Abstract: A fuel cell system including: a fuel cell; a voltage sensor that measures output voltage of the fuel cell; a converter that boosts the output voltage; and a control unit that controls the converter using a duty ratio including a feedforward term and a feedback term, the feedforward term being set to perform feedforward control, the feedback term being set to perform feedback control, wherein when the control unit causes the converter to boost the output voltage, and when the feedforward term calculated by specified Expression I exceeds an upper limit calculated by specified Expression II, the control unit causes the converter to boost the voltage output from the fuel cell with the duty ratio including the upper limit and the feedback term.
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公开(公告)号:US20210066736A1
公开(公告)日:2021-03-04
申请号:US16896555
申请日:2020-06-09
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Satoshi SHIOKAWA , Shinji ASO
IPC: H01M8/04858 , H01M8/04537 , H01M8/0662
Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a controller configured to execute refreshing control for removing an oxide film on a catalyst during an operation of a fuel cell, and an impedance measurer configured to measure an impedance of the fuel cell during the operation of the fuel cell. The impedance measurer executes a calculation process for calculating the impedance by using measurement values of a current and a voltage of the fuel cell in a predetermined measurement time, and outputs a substitute value prepared in advance as the impedance when the start of the refreshing control during the measurement time is detected.
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公开(公告)号:US20180304766A1
公开(公告)日:2018-10-25
申请号:US15955851
申请日:2018-04-18
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Yuji KAKENO , Shinji ASO
CPC classification number: B60L11/1887 , B60L11/1814 , B60L11/1864 , B60L15/20 , B60L2210/10 , H02P6/08 , H02P2201/07
Abstract: A fuel cell system to be mounted on a vehicle includes: a fuel cell for generating electric power by using reactant gas; a secondary battery capable of charging and discharging electric power; a converter electrically connected between a drive motor for driving the vehicle and the secondary battery to perform voltage conversion between the drive motor and the secondary battery; and a controller for controlling the fuel cell system. The controller exerts such control that when an accelerator for accepting a speed control instruction for the vehicle has accepted a deceleration instruction under a condition that a charge rate of the secondary battery is equal to or more than a preset value, or when the accelerator has accepted a deceleration instruction under a condition that a chargeable electric power of the secondary battery is equal to or less than a preset value, electric power is discharged from the secondary battery during a period of power-running operation lasting until the drive motor with its torque being decreased shifts to regenerative operation. Thus, increases in frequency at which the auxiliary machine is operated to consume regenerative power can be suppressed.
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公开(公告)号:US20180198145A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-12
申请号:US15843377
申请日:2017-12-15
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Takao WATANABE , Shinji ASO , Akihiro KAMIYA , Tomoya OGAWA , Junichi MATSUO
IPC: H01M8/04992 , H01M16/00 , H01M8/04858 , H01M8/04828 , H02P29/40 , B60L11/18
CPC classification number: H01M8/04992 , B60L11/1887 , B60L2240/42 , H01M8/04932 , H01M8/04947 , H01M16/006 , H01M2220/20 , H01M2250/20 , H01M2250/402 , H02P29/40 , Y02B90/12 , Y02T10/642 , Y02T90/32 , Y02T90/34
Abstract: A fuel cell system for a vehicle includes: a fuel cell; a plurality of loads that consumes power generated by the fuel cell and includes a vehicle driving motor; a secondary battery configured to be charged with excess power when an amount of power generated by the fuel cell is greater than an amount of power consumed by the loads and to discharge shortage power when the amount of power generated by the fuel cell is less than the amount of power consumed by the loads; and a control unit configured to control the amount of power generated by the fuel cell such that an amount of charging-discharging power of the secondary battery is maintained at a predetermined value.
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公开(公告)号:US20180114999A1
公开(公告)日:2018-04-26
申请号:US15724645
申请日:2017-10-04
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Takahiro UMEHARA , Shinji ASO
IPC: H01M8/04537 , G05F1/573
CPC classification number: H01M8/04559 , G05F1/573 , H01M8/04597 , H01M8/04955
Abstract: A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack; a voltage sensor configured to detect voltage of the fuel cell stack; a fuel cell relay connected to the fuel cell stack; a switch connected between the fuel cell stack and the fuel cell relay; an overcurrent detector configured to detect an overcurrent flowing to the switch; and a power generation stop device configured to stop power generation of the fuel cell stack when the overcurrent detector detects the overcurrent and the detected voltage becomes a specified value or less.
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公开(公告)号:US20180019489A1
公开(公告)日:2018-01-18
申请号:US15638532
申请日:2017-06-30
Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Inventor: Yuji KAKENO , Yutaka TANO , Shinji ASO
IPC: H01M8/04858 , H01M8/04089 , H01M8/04537 , H02J1/00 , H02M1/00
CPC classification number: H01M8/04865 , H01M8/04089 , H01M8/04544 , H01M8/04559 , H01M16/006 , H01M2250/20 , H02J2001/004 , H02M7/44 , H02M2001/007 , H02M2001/0087 , Y02T90/32
Abstract: There is provided a fuel cell system. This fuel cell system comprises a fuel cell configured to generate electric power using reactive gases; a voltage sensor configured to measure a voltage output from the fuel cell; a converter configured to boost an input voltage that is input from the fuel cell; and a controller configured to control the converter. In the case where the voltage output from the fuel cell to the converter is to be boosted after a changeover of an operating state of the fuel cell system from an intermittent operation to an ordinary operation, when a duty ratio D1 calculated by Mathematical Formula I is greater than a duty ratio D2 calculated by Mathematical Formula II, the controller causes the converter to boost the voltage output from the fuel cell at the duty ratio D2. [ Math . 1 ] D 1 = 1 - Vltrg VH ( I ) where VH (V) denotes a value of output voltage that is output from the converter, and Vltrg (V) denotes an estimated value of voltage that is output from the fuel cell, [ Math . 2 ] D 2 = 1 - ( Vl + Vlmrg ) Vhul ( II ) where Vl (V) denotes a measured value of voltage of the fuel cell by the voltage sensor, Vlmrg (V) denotes a correction amount of the measured value Vl, and Vhul (V) denotes a predetermined upper limit value of the output voltage. This configuration prevents the converter from excessively boosting the actual voltage input from the fuel cell and outputting the excessively boosted voltage.
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