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Hybrid Vehicles using CPS (CPS Car)

A Compact Flywheel for CPS cars is fabricated applying FFC Pump/Motor.

A novel hybrid vehicle is proposed. The vehicle has a flywheel-engine hybrid system. Flywheels are more effective as energy charge systems than electric batteries from the view point of output power density. However, transmissions to effectively drive flywheels are very complex systems such as CVTs (Continuously Variable Transmissions). In the proposed hybrid vehicle, Constant Pressure System is employed, which is a kind of hydraulic power transmission. Using Constant Pressure Systems, hydraulic CVTs are easily realized with variable displacement pumps/motors. Firstly, the proposed flywheel hybrid vehicle making use of Constant Pressure System is fabricated. Secondly, fuel consumption characteristics of the flywheel hybrid vehicle are simultaneously and experimentally examined with the stationary test facility which employs a flywheel as a load emulating vehicle inertia. Finally, the experimental results and discussions are described. Fuel consumption of 26km/L is expected for 10 mode driving schedule with vehicle mass of 1500kg as a standard city car.

 
A fabricated CPS car with a Flywheel system.
CPS system for a car with a Flywheel system.
Research Activities
(1) Hiroshi NAKAZAWA, Shinichi YOKOTA, Yasuo KITA : A Hydraulic Constant Pressure Drive System for Engine-Flywheel Hybrid Vehicles, Proc. of Third JHPS Intl. Symp. on Fluid Power Yokohama '96, pp513/518, (1996) Nov.

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