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| 20080197791 | Control device for vehicular drive system - A control device for a vehicular drive system controls an engine rotation speed (N | 08-21-2008 |
| 20090105924 | Power Output Apparatus, Control Method of Power Output Apparatus, and Vehicle Equipped With Power Output Apparatus - In response to the driver's depression of a brake pedal in requirement of catalyst deterioration control with a catalyst deterioration control flag Fc set equal to 1, the braking control of the invention controls the operation of a motor to make a rotation speed Ne of an engine approach to a target rotation speed Ne* in a state of continued combustion (firing) of the engine (steps S | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090203495 | Power Output Apparatus, Control Method Thereof, Vehicle Equipped with Power Output Apparatus, and Driving System - When a vehicle speed V is out of a non-rotational synchronizing range, V≦Vref | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090240411 | Control Apparatus and Control Method of a Vehicle - An HV_ECU executes a program including a step of calculating an estimated gradient, a step of performing rate limit processing on a change in the estimated gradient when on a hill and an absolute value of the vehicle speed is equal to or below V( | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090265052 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, HYBRID VEHICLE, METHOD OF CONTROLLING VEHICLE, PROGRAM FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE THE METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE VEHICLE, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING THE PROGRAM - A control device includes a target rotation speed determination unit that determines a target rotation speed of an engine, a filtering process unit that receives an output of the target rotation speed determination unit, changes the received output such that the target rotation speed changes gently, and outputs the changed output, a property switching control unit that switches properties of the filtering process unit in accordance with a vehicle state, and a first torque value calculation unit that calculates a target torque of a motor generator in accordance with a difference between the output of the filtering process unit and an actual rotation speed of the engine. Preferably, the property switching control unit increases a time constant of the filtering process in accordance with a shift switch instruction to switch a vehicle state from a traveling state to a neutral state. | 10-22-2009 |
| 20100156352 | Controller and Control Method for Charging of the Secondary Battery - A charging/discharging controller ( | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100222949 | Vehicle and method for controlling the same - When a system stop instruction is issued in the middle of the operation of an engine to stop the engine, the engagement of the gears in a gear mechanism is pressed toward one side. After the engine has stopped, a torque command for a motor connected to a drive shaft is gradually reduced. When the torque command decreases below a threshold value, the system is stopped. In this way, it is possible to prevent generation of vibration of the drive shaft when the system is stopped. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110320084 | MISLOCKING PREVENTING APPARATUS - In a hybrid vehicle in which a fixed speed change mode can be realized by the locking of a rotational element, the mislocking of the rotational element is prevented. A hybrid drive apparatus which has an engine, a MG | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120065826 | VIBRATION-DAMPING CONTROLLING APPARATUS - A sprung vibration damping for suppressing sprung vibration which is generated to a vehicle by an input from a road surface to wheels provided with the vehicle by controlling a torque of a motor, and the sprung vibration damping is subjected to a restriction including a prohibition in response to a state of) battery, which supplies power to the motor, such as a voltage and a temperature of the battery or a state of a control, which affects the power of the battery, such as a charge/discharge amount feedback control and the like. | 03-15-2012 |
| 20120077639 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICULAR DRIVE SYSTEM - A control device for a vehicular drive system is disclosed as including reverse drive for suppression means operative to preclude output member, such as an output shaft and drive wheels, of an automatic transmission portion from inputting a reverse drive force to a differential portion. This prevents a power transmitting member from rotating in a direction opposite to a rotational direction of the same with a running position being set. This suppresses a first electric-motor rotation speed, determined with an engine rotation speed and a power transmitting member rotation speed based on the relationship on mutually relative rotation speeds in the differential portion, from increasing to a high level. This results in improved durability of a first electric-motor. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120303194 | VEHICLE, AND CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A hybrid vehicle includes an engine, a second MG provided such that torque is transmitted between the second MG and a wheel, a brake system that applies braking force to the vehicle via friction force, and a control unit that controls the engine, the electric motor and the braking device. The control unit executes control for decelerating the vehicle through regenerative braking by the electric motor and braking by the braking device, executes control for either starting or stopping the engine, and due to execution of one control, restricts execution of the other control. | 11-29-2012 |
| 20130073133 | VEHICLE CONTROLLER AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD - A brake ECU executes a program including: the step of executing a first brake hydraulic pressure control for preventing decrease of brake hydraulic pressure regardless of decrease in an amount of operation of a brake pedal, if position is at a P position and the amount of operation of the brake pedal is determined to be decreasing; and the step of executing a normal, second hydraulic pressure control if the position is not the P position and the amount of operation of the brake pedal is not determined to be decreasing. | 03-21-2013 |
| 20130079965 | CONTROL DEVICE OF HYBRID VEHICLE - An operation line is set on the basis of a shift position and a brake pedal position, from among a plurality of operation lines in which a degree of avoidance of an abnormal noise generation region from a fuel-economy optimal operation line becomes smaller as a degree to which travel of the vehicle is restricted becomes greater. An engine and a motor are controlled by setting a target operation point of the engine using the set operation line, and by setting a torque instruction of the motor. | 03-28-2013 |
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| 20080289894 | Control Apparatus and Control Method for Vehicle - A distribution ratio determining unit determines the distribution ratio for distributing a required torque based on a static load distribution ratio, when the sign of the required torque is negative. The distribution ratio determining unit determines the distribution ratio based on a dynamic load distribution ratio, when the sign of the required torque is positive. The distribution ratio determining unit determines the distribution ratio based on the static load distribution ratio and the dynamic load distribution ratio, when the sign of the required torque changes. Thus, even when the sign of the required torque changes, it is possible to prevent the driving forces for a plurality of wheels of a vehicle from changing discontinuously. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20090008165 | Power Output Apparatus, Control Method of Power Output Apparatus, and Vehicle Equipped With Power Output Apparatus - The power output apparatus of the invention increases a tentative engine power demand Petmp required for an engine, during a catalyst degradation detection time when degradation detection of an emission control catalyst is performed according to a variation in output of an oxygen sensor provided downstream of the emission control catalyst. The smaller between an increased power demand Peu by increasing the tentative engine power demand Petmp and an upper limit of a chargeable range of a battery is set to an engine power demand Pe* of the engine. Upon satisfaction of an auto engine stop condition that the engine power demand Pe* decreases below a preset reference power Pref, the engine is controlled to be driven at idle. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090051304 | VEHICLE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF AND BRAKING DEVICE - During braking, lower limits are set based on an input limit of a battery and a brake pedal position, and the set lower limits limit regenerative torques output from motors. This prevents an output of an excessive braking force and torque shock caused by a hydraulic brake being not able to follow sudden changes in the regenerative torques output from the motors when the vehicle speed is reduced. | 02-26-2009 |
| 20090088919 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF - A drive force control portion ( | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090105043 | Power Output Apparatus, Control Method of Power Output Apparatus, and Vehicle Equipped With Power Output Apparatus - The drive control of the invention executed in a vehicle sets a correction coefficient keg, based on an intake air temperature and an atmospheric pressure reflecting the density of intake air supplied to an engine, and multiplies a power demand required for the vehicle by the set correction coefficient keg to specify a target engine power, which is to be output from the engine. The engine and two motors are then controlled to ensure output of the specified target engine power from the engine and output of a torque demand, which depends upon an accelerator opening. The varying density of the intake air may cause output of excessive power from the engine or output of insufficient power from the engine. A battery is charged or discharged to compensate for the excessive power output from the engine or for the insufficient power output from the engine. The drive control of the invention effectively deals with the environmental change and prevents the battery from being excessively charged with an unexpectedly high electric power or from being excessively discharged to supply an unexpectedly high electric power. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090118980 | CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE - An engine ECU ( | 05-07-2009 |
| 20110118954 | CONTROL APPARATUS FOR A VEHICLE HAVING A PRIME MOVER - The control apparatus for a vehicle having a prime mover is applied to a vehicle having an air conditioning mechanism which performs the air conditioning in the vehicle interior by using the cooling water of the internal combustion engine. The engine stop permitting unit permits stopping the internal combustion engine based on the requested load of the internal combustion engine, when the cooling water temperature becomes equal to or higher than the engine stop permitting water temperature. The engine activating unit activates the internal combustion engine when the cooling water temperature becomes lower than the engine activation requesting water temperature, which is set to be lower than the engine stop permitting water temperature. The correcting unit corrects the engine stop permitting water temperature to be higher in the case that the vehicle speed is high, than in the case that the vehicle speed is low. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20120059544 | SPRUNG MASS DAMPING CONTROL SYSTEM OF VEHICLE - A sprung mass damping control system of a vehicle, which aims to suppress sprung mass vibration generated in a vehicle body of a vehicle provided with at least a motor-generator (first and second motor-generators) as a drive source, includes a sprung mass damping control amount calculating device that sets a sprung mass damping control amount for suppressing the sprung mass vibration, and a drive source control device (a motor-generator control device) that executes sprung mass damping control by controlling a motor-generator control amount of the motor-generator to realize the sprung mass damping control amount. | 03-08-2012 |
