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Title:
POWER SUPPLY CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP2012246795
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

To properly supply power to an oil heater, and to suppress the deterioration of a lubricant and a failure of the oil heater.

In a vehicle with the oil heater provided in a lubricating passage in an internal combustion engine and a battery means which can supply power to the oil heater, a power supply control device for the vehicle controls power supply to the oil heater. The power supply control device includes: a first temperature specifying means that specifies at least one of an oil temperature which is a temperature of oil passing the oil heater and a heater temperature which is a temperature of an oil heater body; and a power supply control means that, when a battery capacity remaining in the battery means is larger than a predetermined value, supplies power to the oil heater based on at least one of the oil temperature and the heater temperature.


Inventors:
TOMITA SHO
SHIMAZAKI YUICHI
Application Number:
JP2011117353A
Publication Date:
December 13, 2012
Filing Date:
May 25, 2011
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
TOYOTA MOTOR CORP
International Classes:
F01M5/00; B60W10/06; B60W10/30; B60W20/00; F01M5/02; F01N3/20; F01N3/24; B60L1/00; B60L50/16
Domestic Patent References:
JPS63116623A1988-05-20
JPS6312813A1988-01-20
JP2006174543A2006-06-29
JP2005325790A2005-11-24
JP2003035117A2003-02-07
JP2008114844A2008-05-22
JP2008195995A2008-08-28
JP2008168699A2008-07-24
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Tatsuo Egami
Koji Yamamoto
Satoshi Nakamura