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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more accurately measure the travel resistance in running of an electric vehicle. SOLUTION: When coasting run for measuring the travel resistance is instructed, an inverter 26 to drive a motor 22 is shut down, and when vehicle speed is larger than given vehicle speed Vref, a system main relay 30 to perform electric connection and break between the inverter 26 and a battery 24 is switched off, and when the vehicle speed is under the given vehicle speed Vref, the system main relay 30 is kept ON. Hereby, the regenerative braking of the motor 22 is prevented regardless of vehicle speed, therefore it can be put in a complete nondrive state. Accordingly, the travel resistance can be measured more accurately by measuring the travel resistance in this nondrive state. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more appropriately display power used for driving a vehicle to a driver, as to a power meter that displays power used for driving the vehicle in the vicinity of a driver seat. SOLUTION: As larger power is used for driving, a turning angle per unit power (unit turning angle) dθ of an indicator needle 64 is made smaller. An ecological driving zone 62b, in which power less than a prescribed value (such as 50 kW) is used, is displayed large as compared with a power meter in which the unit turning angle dθ is evenly displayed over the whole power, the prescribed power assumed as an upper limit value of power allowing the vehicle mounted with the power meter 60 to drive at a satisfactory fuel cost. This allows the power to be appropriately displayed to the driver. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a regulation object component exhausted when warming up a catalyst device, in a control device of a vehicle traveling in response to a traveling mode selected from a plurality of traveling modes. SOLUTION: This control device 60 prohibits travel by a power mode being one of the plurality of traveling modes (S140), when the catalyst device 52 determines as warming-up (YES in S100). Thus, since exhaust gas from an engine 12 does not increase, the regulation object component exhausted without being sufficiently treated by a catalyst of the catalyst device 52, can be improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase energy efficiency in a hybrid automobile by executing more appropriate battery temperature rise control for forcing a battery to a higher temperature. SOLUTION: The hybrid automobile 20 determines whether or not to force the battery 50 to a higher temperature with the use of a temperature rise control determination map and in accordance with a battery temperature and a cooling water temperature as a vehicle temperature deciding permission for intermittent operations of an engine 22, both acquired at a system start. If the determination is that the battery 50 should be forced to a higher temperature, the value of a temperature rise control flag is set to 1, under which the engine 22 and motors MG1 and MG2 are controlled to produce a driving force depending on a request torque in battery temperature rise control. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress deterioration of fuel consumption in a vehicle traveling by using power from an engine and power output from a motor through a transmission. SOLUTION: When down shift of a transmission is instructed under establishment of learning conditions of an idling controlled variable (S120, S130, S290, S320), the down shift of the transmission is performed during an idling operation of the engine regardless of the establishment of the learning conditions (S240), and the intermittent operation of the engine is performed after completion of the down shift (S380-S400). Thereby, when the learning conditions are established by the idling operation of the engine in down-shifting, the deterioration of the fuel consumption can be suppressed in comparison to the case of continuing the idling operation of the engine until the completion of leaning. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To move smoothly perform starting or traveling to reverse traveling direction, and to suppress a full discharge of a capacitor device such as a secondary battery even while traveling to the reverse traveling direction, in a vehicle having an internal combustion engine and an electric power/motive power input/output device outputting at least a part of motive power outputted from the internal combustion engine accompanied by input/output of electric power and the motive power to an axle side as driving force advancing the vehicle. SOLUTION: When traveling an ascent gradient to the reverse traveling direction, driving of an auxiliary machine is stopped, and a charge/discharge requirement electric power Pb* is set such that it becomes a small charging electric power as the ascent gradient θ is enlarged (S150). When starting, a value zero is set to the charge/discharge requirement electric power Pb* within a range wherein the battery is not fully discharged (S180). Thereby, a torque acting to forward traveling direction outputted from an engine side so as to charge the battery is made to be small, and a torque acting to the reverse traveling direction is made to be large to allow the smooth starting or traveling in the ascent gradient in the reverse traveling direction. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve energy efficiency in a device having an internal combustion engine and an electric motor. SOLUTION: When a target rotation speed Nm1* of a motor MG1 becomes a negative value to generate energy circulation (S140), an optimum correction rotation speed Nesai is set on the basis of a gear ratio Gr of a transmission, a cooling water temperature Tw of the engine, a temperature Toil of lubricating cooling oil, a carrier frequency CF of the motors MG1, MG2 that are factors affecting heat efficiency of the engine or transmission efficiency when transmitting power outputted from the engine to a drive wheel side (S150), a target rotation speed Ne* or a target torque Te* is reset on the basis of the optimum correction rotation speed Nesai (S160, S170), and torque instructions Tm1*, Tm2* of the motors MG1, MG2 are set on the basis thereof to perform drive control (S180-S220). Thereby, the energy efficiency of the whole vehicle can be further improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a drag loss to a vehicle speed approach linear in the case of measuring the drag loss of a hybrid car. SOLUTION: When the revolution of a drive shaft 32 corresponding to a vehicle speed is higher than a prescribed revolution when measuring a drag loss in a chassis stand 61, a control part 50 of a hybrid car 10 changes a shut-down operation mode for cutting off currents to a second motor generator 22 to a zero-current operation mode for supplying a power equivalent to a counter-electromotive force to be generated in the second motor generator 22 to the second motor generator 22, and for substantially cutting off the current running through the second motor generator 22. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output larger drive force in a reverse rotation direction to a drive shaft without causing complication of a device, in the device having an electric power/motive power input/output device performing input/output of power to the drive shaft and an output shaft of an internal combustion engine with the input/output of electric power and motive power, and the internal combustion engine, and an electric motor capable of performing the input/output of the power to the drive shaft. SOLUTION: When cannot output a requirement torque Tr* by a torque to a rated maximum torque Tm2max of a motor MG2 when traveling to a reverse travel direction, a torque motoring the engine within an upper limit guard-processed range is set to a torque instruction Tm1* of a motor MG1 (steps S160, S170), the rated maximum torque Tm2max of the motor MG2 is set to a torque instruction Tm2* thereof (step S180), and the motors MG1, MG2 are performed with drive control. Thereby, reverse traveling is possible by the torque larger than the torque capable of being outputted from the motor MG2. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a driver to have a gear shift feeling when a shift position SP is changed in an automobile capable of operating an engine at an arbitrary operation point regardless of the shift position SP by connecting the engine, a first motor, and an axle to a planetary gear mechanism and connecting a second motor to the axle. SOLUTION: When upshifting is performed in the shift position SP in a state where the shift position SP is within a sequential shift range, the rotation number Ne of the engine is temporarily reduced, so that the driver has the gear shift feeling. Consequently, an unnatural feeling is prevented from being given to the driver who is familiar to the gear shift feeling of the automobile with an automatic stage change gear mounted thereon. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI