Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cooling system
- Patent Title (中): 冷却系统
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Application No.: US12515861Application Date: 2008-02-06
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Publication No.: US08127564B2Publication Date: 2012-03-06
- Inventor: Naoyoshi Takamatsu , Takeshi Yamazaki
- Applicant: Naoyoshi Takamatsu , Takeshi Yamazaki
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi-Ken
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi-Ken
- Agency: Sughrue Mion, PLLC
- Priority: JP2007-028137 20070207
- International Application: PCT/JP2008/052387 WO 20080206
- International Announcement: WO2008/096899 WO 20080814
- Main IPC: B60H1/32
- IPC: B60H1/32 ; B60K1/00 ; H01M10/50

Abstract:
A cooling system has a configuration in which a cooling system for an inverter device and a motor generator also serves as a cooling system for a battery. In this configuration, a control device performs temperature-raising control of the battery when a battery temperature is below a prescribed temperature lower limit value. The control device controls an operation of a switching valve such that cooling water from a cooling medium path is outputted to a bypass path. Further, if a cooling water temperature is lower than a prescribed temperature, the control device controls the inverter device such that a power loss during a switching operation in a switching element included in the inverter device becomes larger than a power loss during normal control. As a result, the cooling system having a small-sized, low-cost configuration rapidly recovers capacity decline of the battery, which occurs at low temperatures.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100050676A1 COOLING SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2010-03-04
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