VEHICLE

• US 20160339776A1
• Filed: 08/03/2016
• Published: 11/24/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: OYOBE, Hichirosai
• Application Number:
  US15/227,363
• Publication Number:
  US 20160339776A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/02 comprising more than one electric motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 15/04 Tank inlets B60K15/077 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/26 characterised by the motors or the generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/28 characterised by the electric energy storing means, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/40 characterised by the assembly or relative disposition of components
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/445 Differential gearing distribution type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/007 Physical arrangements or structures of drive train converters specially adapted for the propulsion motors of electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/54 Windings for different functions
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/40 using propulsion power supplied by capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/61 by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/66 Arrangements of batteries
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/00 Methods of charging batteries, specially adapted for electric vehicles; Charging stations or on-board charging equipment therefor; Exchange of energy storage elements in electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/14 Conductive energy transfer
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/22 Constructional details or arrangements of charging converters specially adapted for charging electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 53/24 Using the vehicle's propulsion converter for charging
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• 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

Abstract

A hybrid vehicle is identified as a vehicle including a first drive unit driven by a first energy source, a first reservoir unit reserving the first energy source, a first connection unit allowing a first energy source supply unit to be connected thereto and guiding the first energy source supplied from the first energy source supply unit to the first reservoir unit, a second drive unit driven by a second energy source different from the first energy source, a second reservoir unit reserving the second energy source, and a second connection unit allowing a second energy source supply unit to be connected thereto and guiding the second energy source supplied from the second energy source supply unit to the second reservoir unit. The first connection unit is provided at one lateral surface of the vehicle and the second connection unit is provided at the other lateral surface of the vehicle, the one lateral surface and the other lateral surface being arranged in a width direction of the vehicle.

Claims

1. A vehicle comprising:

an internal combustion engine driven by fuel;

a fuel tank;

a single fuel inlet for supplying fuel to the fuel tank;

an electric motor driven by electric power;

a battery;

a single charge connection unit for charging electric power to the battery; and

a passenger accommodation cabin accommodating a passenger, wherein

only the single fuel inlet is disposed on one lateral surface of the vehicle,

only the single charge connection unit is disposed on the other lateral surface of the vehicle, and

one of the single fuel inlet and the single charge connection unit is located at a front side with respect to the passenger accommodation cabin, and the other of the single fuel inlet and the single charge connection unit is located at a rear side with respect to the passenger accommodation cabin.

2. The vehicle according to claim 1, wherein

the single charge connection unit is disposed on a lateral surface of the vehicle at a driver'"'"'s seat side and is located at the front side with respect to the passenger accommodation cabin, and

the single fuel inlet is disposed on a lateral surface of the vehicle different from the lateral side of the vehicle at the driver'"'"'s seat side and is located at the rear side with respect to the passenger accommodation cabin.