US 12,441,298 B2
Hybrid electric vehicle
Hiroshi Matsumori, Mishima (JP); Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Mishima (JP); Manabu Handa, Susono (JP); Midori Sugiyama, Susono (JP); Hirotaka Saito, Sunto-gun (JP); and Yuki Takahashi, Susono (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/818,474.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-148635 (JP), filed on Sep. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0083650 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 20/18 (2016.01); B60W 10/06 (2006.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60W 40/09 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 20/18 (2016.01) [B60W 10/06 (2013.01); B60W 10/08 (2013.01); B60W 20/12 (2016.01); B60W 40/09 (2013.01); B60W 2510/244 (2013.01); B60W 2530/211 (2020.02)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A hybrid electric vehicle comprising:
an engine;
a motor configured to generate driving force;
a power storage device configured to supply electric power to the motor;
a control device configured to control the motor and the engine;
an acquisition unit configured to acquire schedule information in which a schedule of a user who uses the hybrid electric vehicle is recorded; and
a non-contact power receiving device that is able to receive electric power from power supply equipment outside a vehicle and that is able to receive electric power in a non-contact manner, wherein
the schedule information includes a traveling schedule, the hybrid electric vehicle travelling in a predetermined period according to the traveling schedule,
the predetermined period is a period from when fuel of the engine is refueled to a deterioration time, wherein the deterioration time is the time when the quality of the fuel has deteriorated due to aged deterioration,
when a traveling distance in a long-distance traveling schedule is a first distance, the control device increases a usage ratio of the engine relative to usage of the motor in the predetermined period than when the traveling distance is a second distance that is longer than the first distance,
the long-distance traveling schedule is a schedule included in the traveling schedule and in which the hybrid electric vehicle travels for a predetermined distance or longer,
the control device is configured to
set the hybrid electric vehicle to either a charge depleting mode or a charge sustaining mode,
perform promotion control in the predetermined period when the traveling distance in the long-distance traveling schedule is the first distance as compared with when the traveling distance is the second distance, the promotion control being a control in which the usage ratio of the engine is increased and a ratio of controlling to the charge sustaining mode is increased relative to normal control,
be rechargeable by the electric power received by the non-contact power receiving device, and
restrict charging from the power supply equipment when the promotion control is performed; and
in a case where the non-contact power receiving device receives electric power from the power supply equipment arranged on a traveling path while the hybrid electric vehicle is traveling, when the promotion control is being executed, the control device is configured to prohibit non-contact external charging in order to restrict an upper limit value of a state of charge (SOC) of the power storage device during the promotion control.