ELECTRIC VEHICLE

• Main Authors: MATSUMOTO JUNICHI, HASEGAWA KAZUMA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 20.05.2013
• Subjects: APPARATUS FOR CONVERSION BETWEEN AC AND AC, BETWEEN AC AND DC,OR BETWEEN DC AND DC, AND FOR USE WITH MAINS OR SIMILAR POWERSUPPLY SYSTEMS; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TOTRANSPORTATION; CONTROL OR REGULATION THEREOF; CONVERSION OF DC OR AC INPUT POWER INTO SURGE OUTPUTPOWER; CONVERSION OR DISTRIBUTION OF ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT OR PROPULSION OF ELECTRICALLY-PROPELLEDVEHICLES; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODYNAMIC BRAKE SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES, IN GENERAL; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERATION; MAGNETIC SUSPENSION OR LEVITATION FOR VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric vehicle that inexpensively achieves a mechanism of warning a driver who intends to get out of the vehicle although the power source condition of the vehicle is in a READY-ON state (traveling enabled state).SOLUTION: An ECU 70 executes a ripple temperature elevation control to control a boost converter 22 to generate a ripple current in a secondary battery 10 for elevating the temperature of the secondary battery 10. A getting-out motion detection unit 72 detects a predetermined motion indicating the intention of a driver to get out the vehicle. The ECU 70 executes the ripple temperature elevation control when the predetermined motion is detected by the getting-out motion detection unit 72 although the power source condition of the vehicle is in a READY-ON state.