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- Patent Title: Control apparatus for hybrid vehicle
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Application No.: US14759013Application Date: 2013-01-24
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Publication No.: US09604528B2Publication Date: 2017-03-28
- Inventor: Gohki Kinoshita , Yoshihito Kanno , Hiroki Morita
- Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota-Shi
- Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota-Shi
- Agency: ANDREWS KURTH KENYON LLP
- International Application: PCT/JP2013/051467 WO 20130124
- International Announcement: WO2014/115285 WO 20140731
- Main IPC: B60W20/00
- IPC: B60W20/00 ; B60W30/188 ; B60W10/06 ; B60W10/08 ; B60K6/24 ; F02D41/00 ; B60K6/445 ; B60W20/17 ; F02D41/02 ; F02D41/30 ; F02P5/04 ; F02P5/15 ; F02D37/02 ; F02D29/02 ; F02D41/14

Abstract:
A control apparatus is applied to a hybrid vehicle including an internal combustion engine that is capable of changing over its combustion state between lean combustion and stoichiometric combustion. The control apparatus executes noise suppression control by limiting the operating point of the internal combustion engine to be upon a noise suppression line for lean combustion or to be upon a noise suppression line for stoichiometric combustion, so that the noise generated by a power transmission mechanism is suppressed. When changing over from lean combustion to stoichiometric combustion during execution of noise suppression control, the control apparatus of the present invention changes the air/fuel ratio after changing the operating point of the internal combustion engine from one point to a point that is more toward the lower torque side of the noise suppression line.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150353074A1 CONTROL APPARATUS FOR HYBRID VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2015-12-10
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