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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To rapidly change sure engine operational characteristics and save the power consumption for the operation required for the change by reasonably changing the characteristics by an engine operational characteristic changing means, in changing the characteristics at non-operation of an engine in such a way that the intake compression ratio is increased before the cranking when the engine is in a cold state. SOLUTION: Displacement of the means to a predetermined position is carried out by the control of drive force (the strength of the driving force and its operational time) and next control is corrected based on the result of control.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve judging accuracy when the existence of failure of a switching mechanism for switching an exhaust passage is judged, in relation to an exhaust passage switching device for an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: A switching mechanism 70 is disposed to switch the exhaust passage with a main passage 30 and a bypass passage 32 by leading negative pressure of an intake manifold 14. The switching mechanism 70 is provided with a switching valve 34, a diaphragm mechanism 40, a negative pressure supplying piping 50, and a VSV 52. When the VSV 52 is turned on, negative pressure is supplied to a transformation chamber 44 of a diaphragm mechanism 40, a diaphragm 42 is deflected, and then, the switching valve 34 is closed interlockingly therewith. The existence of the failure of the switching mechanism 70 is judged on the basis of pressure of the negative pressure supplying piping 50 when the VSV 52 is turned on. Before the VSV 52 is turned on, namely, in a condition in which the VSV 52 is turned off, in the case where pressure in the negative pressure supplying piping 50 is not held to the atmospheric pressure, failure judgment of the switching mechanism 70 is inhibited on the basis of pressure of the negative pressure supplying piping 50.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect a cylinder fuel injection valve when fuel injection from the cylinder fuel injection valve is limited, and to cope with required power for a driving shaft as much as possible, in a power output device provided with an internal combustion engine having the cylinder fuel injection valve and a fuel injection valve for a port and an electric motor. SOLUTION: A hybrid automobile 20 is provided with the engine 22 having the cylinder fuel injection valve 125 and the fuel injection valve 126 for the port. In the automobile, opening and closing timing of an intake valve of the engine 22 is angle-delayed when an engine start-up condition is satisfied, and fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve 126 for the port to start the engine 22 when a temperature of an emission control device for exhaust from the engine is less than a threshold value. The fuel injection from the fuel injection valve 126 for the port is continued to warm up the emission control device by idling-operating the engine 22. A torque necessary for travel is output therein from the motor MG2 within a range of input and output limitation of a battery 50. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To continuously suppress catalyst degradation in catalyst degradation suppressing control, even though the number of revolutions of an internal combustion engine is forcibly reduced. SOLUTION: When a fuel cut condition is met and catalyst degradation suppressing control is requested in a power output device (YES at S150), a second upper limit quantity of air is computed; if the absolute value of a torque command Tm1* for a motor MG1 exceeds the absolute value of a threshold value Tref, and the number Ne of engine revolutions is being reduced (YES at both S190 and S192). The second upper limit quantity of air is larger than a first upper limit quantity of air obtained by adding a predetermined amount of padding to a target intake air quantity for autonomous operation at the engine revolutions Ne of this time. Then, a control signal is transmitted to an engine ECU so that explosive combustion is executed within the range that the actual intake air quantity does not exceed the second upper limit quantity of air (S196). Thus, when the engine revolutions Ne is forcibly reduced by the motor MG1, the possibility is increased that explosive combustion is continuously executed. As a result, a catalyst constituting a purifying device is hardly degraded. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent fuel leak from a fuel injection means during the stop of an internal combustion engine and properly treat the vapor generated in fuel piping. SOLUTION: An engine ECU executes a program when engine start is demanded (YES at S100), which includes a step (S110) of judging whether there is possibility that air bubbles will be generated in a high pressure delivery pipe, a step (S120) of transmitting an open command signal to an electromagnetic relief valve when there is possibility that air bubbles will be generated (YES at S110), a step (S130) of transmitting a drive command signal to a feed pump, a step (S150) of transmitting a closure command signal to the electromagnetic relief valve when the feed pump is driven for a predetermined time (YES at S140), a step (S160) of transmitting a drive command signal to a starter, and a step (S170) of transmitting a fuel injection command signal to an EDU. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deterioration of exhaust emission nature at a time of start pressure reduction control by an intake valve control represented by VVT (Variable Valve Timing) in an internal combustion engine provided with a fuel injection system injecting fuel directly in a cylinder. SOLUTION: In an engine 5 provided with an injector 50 for cylinder injection, valve timing of an intake valve 80 is delayed by VVT control by an engine ECU 300 at a time of engine start and pressure in the combustion chamber 30 is reduced. In a structure phasedly advancing valve timing of the intake valve 80 from an initial set value, fuel injection from the injector 50 for cylinder injection is prohibited while the advanced angles is a predetermined reference value or less, and fuel injection from the injector 50 for cylinder injection is permitted after the same exceeds the predetermined reference value. Consequently, deterioration of exhaust emission nature accompanying start pressure reduction control can be suppressed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set up the running route to the destination while performing the abnormality diagnosis or considering the abnormality diagnosis. SOLUTION: The process for the navigation is: 6 routes to the destination are retrieved on the basis of the 6 priority conditions including abnormality diagnosis priority (S110); retrieving the diagnostic items capable of abnormality diagnosis for the running route except the abnormality diagnosis priority route (S120); and the retrieved diagnostic items are displayed (S130) with the priority condition. When the route is selected, the navigation is started (S160); the car is instructed to start the abnormality diagnosis when arrived at the diagnosis route (S180); when arrived at the destination the car side inputs the results of the abnormality diagnosis and displays (S200, S210). Therefore, the abnormality diagnosis can be performed on the running route to the destination, also capable of setting up the running route to the destination while considering the abnormality diagnosis. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output power from an internal combustion engine in the state of keeping emission in an excellent state even if the catalyst of an emission control device for purifying the emission of the internal combustion engine is not yet completely warmed-up. SOLUTION: When the warm-up of the emission inflow port portion of the catalyst of the emission control device is completed and a value 1 is set in a catalyst warm-up flag F1 (S120), even if warm-up for the other portions is not yet completed, a power Pe* required for the engine is set within the range of a load limit Plim set as a load on the engine capable of purifying the emission discharged from the engine by only the inflow port portion of the catalyst (S150), and the engine 22 is controlled (S170, S220). An insufficient power is outputted from a motor to a drive shaft. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power output device capable of rapidly increasing the pressure of a fuel to an cylinder fuel injection valve when an internal combustion engine is automatically started and starting the internal combustion engine even when the pressure of the fuel to the cylinder fuel injection valve cannot be sufficiently increased. SOLUTION: When the engine having the cylinder fuel injection valve and a port fuel injection valve is automatically started, if a power Pb allowed to output from a battery is less than a threshold Pset set as a power sufficient for starting the engine and the power can be secured by stopping the driving of auxiliary equipment allowed to stop driving, the driving of the auxiliary equipment is stopped and a high-pressure fuel pump feeding the fuel to the cylinder fuel injection valve is driven to start the engine by fuel injection from the cylinder fuel injection valve (S160 to S180). When the power is not allowed to secure, the engine is started by the port fuel injection valve. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a catalyst of a hybrid vehicle from being exposed to a high-temperature lean atmosphere and to match power output from an engine with required power for an engine. SOLUTION: When the required power for the engine is not zero (NO in S320), since an air amount is not increased (S330), the required power for the engine matches with the power output from the engine. On the other hand, when the required power for the engine is zero (YES in the S320), the air amount is increased (S340) and no-load operation of the engine is performed. Therefore, even if the air amount is increased, the output power does not fluctuate, and a fuel injection amount appropriate for the increased air amount is calculated based on a target air-fuel ratio to increase the fuel injection amount, and the exhaust is not in the lean atmosphere. Therefore, the exhaust catalyst is prevented from being exposed to the high-temperature lean atmosphere. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI