US 12,434,868 B2
Mobile body, method of controlling mobile body, program of controlling mobile body, and electric power supply system
Hirotaka Tanaka, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/999,405
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Apr. 13, 2021, PCT No. PCT/JP2021/015279
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 21, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/241041, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-095046 (JP), filed on May 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0234731 A1, Jul. 27, 2023
Int. Cl. B64U 50/30 (2023.01); B64U 10/14 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 50/19 (2023.01); B64U 101/30 (2023.01); H01M 10/613 (2014.01); H01M 10/625 (2014.01); H01M 10/6563 (2014.01)
CPC B64U 50/30 (2023.01) [B64U 50/19 (2023.01); H01M 10/613 (2015.04); H01M 10/625 (2015.04); B64U 10/14 (2023.01); B64U 30/20 (2023.01); B64U 2101/30 (2023.01); B64U 2201/20 (2023.01); H01M 10/6563 (2015.04); H01M 2220/20 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A mobile body comprising:
an electric motor that is a driving source;
a battery;
a thermoelectric conversion element;
an electric power conversion device configured to convert electric power outputted from the battery into driving electric power for the electric motor, the electric power conversion device being disposed in direct contact or in indirect contact with the battery with the thermoelectric conversion element interposed therebetween; and
a controller configured to control electric power to be supplied to the thermoelectric conversion element, wherein
the controller controls, in a case where the battery is in a predetermined low-temperature state, the electric power to be supplied to cause a surface of the thermoelectric conversion element coupled to the battery to serve as a heat dissipation surface and to cause a surface of the thermoelectric conversion element coupled to the electric power conversion device to serve as a heat absorption surface.