Vehicle

• US 10,479,221 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2017
• Issued: 11/19/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/03/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kamikihara, Daisuke, Tsunekawa, Chiemi
• Primary Examiner(s): Cavallari, Daniel J
• Application Number:
  US15/717,464
• Publication Number:
  US 20180093584A1
• Time in Patent Office: 783 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/40 characterised by the assembly or relative disposition of components
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/66 Arrangements of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/12 Inductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/18 Cables specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2200/92 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2300/91 Battery charging
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2304/07 Facilitating assembling or mounting
• CPC Class Codes: B60Y 2400/112 Batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 1/10 Parallel operation of dc sources
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/48 for electric vehicles [EV] or hybrid vehicles [HEV]
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0045 concerning the insertion or the connection of the batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/12 Electric charging stations
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/14 Plug-in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/951 Assembly or relative location of components

Abstract

A vehicle includes: a battery; an inlet to which a charging connector provided external to the vehicle is connectable; a power receiving device configured to contactlessly receive power from a power transmitting device provided external to the vehicle; a connector electrically connected to the inlet and the power receiving device; and a connector electrically connected to the power receiving device and the battery. Power supplied to the inlet is supplied to the battery via the connector, the power receiving device, and the connector.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

a battery;

an inlet to which a charging connector provided external to the vehicle is connectable;

a power receiving device configured to contactlessly receive power from a power transmitting device provided external to the vehicle;

a first connector electrically connected to the inlet and the power receiving device; and

a second connector electrically connected to the power receiving device and the battery,

wherein the inlet is directly coupled to an input of a rectifier, an output of the rectifier is directly coupled to the first connector, the first connector is directly coupled to an input terminal of the power receiving device, and an output terminal of the power receiving device is directly coupled to the second connector.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first side surface and a second side surface;

a bottom surface; and

a charging cable configured to electrically connect the second connector and the power receiving device, wherein

the battery is provided on the bottom surface,

the inlet is provided in the first side surface, and

the charging cable is disposed to extend at the second side surface side relative to the battery.

3. The vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first side surface and a second side surface;

a bottom surface;

an engine; and

an exhaust pipe connected to the engine, wherein

the battery is provided on the bottom surface and the power receiving device is provided on a lower surface of the battery,

the input terminal and the output terminal are provided on a circumferential surface of the power receiving device at a portion located at the first side surface side, and the exhaust pipe is disposed at the second side surface side relative to the battery.

4. The vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising a bottom surface, a first buffer member, and a second buffer member, wherein

the battery is provided on the bottom surface,

the power receiving device is provided on a lower surface of the battery,

the first buffer member and the second buffer member are disposed on the lower surface of the battery, and

the first buffer member is disposed at a front side relative to the power receiving device and the second buffer member is disposed at a back side relative to the power receiving device.