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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain a shock when shifting a transmission while avoiding short-time stopping and restarting of an engine. SOLUTION: This automobile is provided with a battery for exchanging electric power with two motors, by connecting a second motor to a driving shaft via the transmission having two shifting stages, by connecting the engine, a first motor and the driving shaft to a carrier, a sun gear and a ring gear of a planetary gear mechanism. The automobile adjusts a target charge-discharge quantity Pch* of the battery so as to reduce torque to be shared by the second motor while securing request torque Tr* to the driving shaft when requesting shifting (S150), and controls the engine and the two motors in a state of prohibiting stopping of the engine even when engine request power Pe* set from the adjusted target charge-discharge quantity Pch* becomes a threshold value Pere or less, and releases prohibition of stopping of the engine when completing the shifting by performing the shifting thereafter. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide the warming-up equipment of an internal combustion engine which can preferably prevent the aggravation of warming-up performance. SOLUTION: In the warming-up equipment of an internal combustion engine, prior to the operation of the internal combustion engine E, when cooling water stored in a heat accumulation tank 21 is supplied to the internal combustion engine E by an electromotive water pump 22, the supply of the cooling water by the water pump 22 is stopped when it is detected that the temperature of the internal combustion engine E is not lower than the temperature of the cooling water. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To keep performance of a working equipment mounted on a specially-equipped vehicle which is applied with a hybrid system. SOLUTION: The specially-equipped vehicle is equipped with an auxiliary working machine 400 for special application, a battery 200 that contains an electric power to be supplied to the auxiliary working machine 400 and a motor generator 550, and an ECU100 for controlling the specially-equipped vehicle. The ECU100 comprises a detection circuit that detects the state of an engine 510 and the battery 200 serving as a supply source of an electric power, a watthour detecting circuit that detects the watthour required for the specially-equipped vehicle; and a decision circuit that decides a destination of an electric power from a supply source while supplying of the electric power to the auxiliary working machine 400 is preferred than to the motor generator 550, based on the state of supply source and the required watthour. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a thermal storage system controlling a pump for thermal storage on the basis of a flow rate in a warm-up stroke of an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: This thermal storage system controls the power supply to the pump for thermal storage to adjust a present flow rate to a target flow rate. By controlling the pump for thermal storage on the basis of the flow rate, the stable warm-up stroke can be realized by absorbing the influence due to the individual variation of the pump and a piping system, and the change of properties with time. When the warm-up is completed, a value of electric power in completion is recorded as a present learning value. The present learning value is utilized as the initial applied power in the next warm-up stroke. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a heat storage system for dispersing a load on a pump. SOLUTION: The heat storage system operates a warm-up pump 18 in a warm-up stroke and does not operate it in a heat storage stroke. Alternatively, in the heat storage stroke, a heater pump 15 is operated to accelerate the collection of hot water. The collection of the hot water can also be accelerated by increasing the rotating number of a circulation pump 3. Since a great load is exerted on the warm-up pump 18 during warm-up stroke, the heat storage stroke is executed by another pump, whereby the operating frequency of the warm-up pump 18 is reduced and the life of the warm-up pump 18 is elongated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve such a problem that the exhaust heat of an inverter is not collected in a hybrid car. SOLUTION: An ECU for the inverter determines whether the inverter cooling water is collected in a thermal storage tank or not (S10). In a case when the inverter cooling water is collected (Y of S10) in an internal combustion engine stopped state (Y of S12), the ECU for inverter compares a temperature of the engine cooling water with a temperature of the inverter cooling water (S14). The ECU for inverter opens a selector valve (S16), when the temperature of the inverter cooling water is higher (Y of S14). COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular engine warming-up device capable of improving collecting efficiency of warm water, and having a thermal storage system. SOLUTION: The vehicular engine warming-up device comprises a heat radiating portion radiating the heat of cooling water, and a heat accumulator 10 storing the cooling water that is warmed up over a specified temperature, in an engine cooling water system. The heat radiation capacity of the heat radiating portion is made to be variable, and when the heat accumulator 10 collects the warm water, the heat radiation capacity of the heat radiating portion is made to be small. The heat radiating portion is a radiator. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a starting device for an internal combustion engine, suppressing the occurrence of great vibration in the internal combustion engine following wastefully increased pressure in a combustion chamber getting into the first compression stroke after starting the engine in a warm-up completed condition. SOLUTION: At starting the engine in the warm-up completed condition, torque to be granted to a crankshaft 9 for cranking is lowered in a certain period from starting the engine to arriving at the top dead center of the compression stroke. Thus, the torque to be granted to the crankshaft 9 is set to be such a value that the rotation of the crankshaft 9 is stopped in the certain period to make an engine speed into zero. When the rotation of the crankshaft 9 is stopped, a time required for releasing a preset amount of gas from the combustion chamber 2 being in the first compression stroke after starting the engine is accurately kept in the period and pressure in the combustion chamber 2 is lowered. Consequently, there is no wastefully increased pressure in the combustion chamber 2 after resuming the cranking. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately restrain waste of power in an electric motor while realizing a quick engine starting even at low temperature. SOLUTION: In this device, motoring of the engine 10 is performed by a motor generator (M/G) 11 until a revolution speed reaches a predetermined target revolution speed, and firing is started at a predetermined timing after motoring starting, thereby controlling starting of the engine 10. An increasing degree of the revolution speed of the engine 10 during motoring is monitored, and the target revolution speed is corrected based on the increasing degree. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a crank angle detection device for an internal combustion engine capable of detecting the rotation angle of the crankshaft of the engine more accurately. SOLUTION: A crank angle calculating part 38 calculates the estimated value of a crank angle which is the estimated value of the rotation angle of the crankshaft 24 based on a motor angle signal outputted by a motor angle sensor 34 and the rotation ratio set value of the engine 10 which is the internal combustion engine and a starter generator 22 which is a motor. The rotation ratio correction part 40 compares an actual crank angle signal outputted by a crank angle sensor 30 with the estimated value to obtain an error in the value, thereby correcting the set value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO