US 12,403,760 B2
Axial gap motor and vehicle
Ryota Morisawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/942,758.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-153858 (JP), filed on Sep. 22, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0086041 A1, Mar. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B60K 17/04 (2006.01); B60K 7/00 (2006.01); B60K 17/02 (2006.01); G07C 5/08 (2006.01); H02P 5/747 (2006.01)
CPC B60K 17/043 (2013.01) [B60K 7/0007 (2013.01); B60K 17/02 (2013.01); H02P 5/747 (2013.01); B60K 2007/003 (2013.01); B60K 2007/0092 (2013.01); G07C 5/0808 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile body comprising:
axial gap motors each configured to generate driving power to be supplied to at least one wheel of the mobile body;
a multiplexing mechanism configured to multiplex the axial gap motors and to couple the multiplexed axial gap motors to the at least one wheel;
an abnormality detection mechanism including at least one sensor and configured to detect an abnormality in the axial gap motors using the at least one sensor; and
a blocking mechanism configured to, in a case where the abnormality is detected in an axial gap motor of the multiplexed axial gap motors,
block supplying of driving power from the axial gap motor, independently of the multiplexed axial gap motors other than the axial gap motor, and
maintain supplying of driving power to the at least one wheel from the multiplexed axial gap motors other than the axial gap motor.