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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the energy efficiency of a whole vehicle by operating an internal combustion engine equipped with a power output device according to a state of a mounted power output device. SOLUTION: In a hybrid automobile for performing the torque conversion of a power from an engine by two motors connected to a planet gear mechanism and the rotary element of the planet gear mechanism, and for outputting a driving shaft connected to a driven wheel, a plurality of different operation lines LP and L0 to L3 obtained by imposing different conditions on a power to be output from an engine as constraints are stored, and an operation line is set according to a speed or the state of a motor, and an engine is operated and the driving of the two motors is controlled. As a result, it is possible to improve the energy efficiency of a vehicle, and to cope with the output limit of equipment such as a motor. 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 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 provide a control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle that improves fuel consumption while maintaining performance of a canister. SOLUTION: In the control apparatus of the hybrid vehicle, a fuel port opening and closing sensor 120 detects that a fuel port 221a of a fuel tank 221 is opened and makes an operating state of an engine 12 a purge state. The sensor makes the operating state of the engine 12 the state of optimal fuel consumption when an integrated purge amount becomes a threshold or more. Negative pressure on an induction pipe 231 is large and the evaporation fuel is fully purged from the canister 251 when there is a large amount of an adsorbed amount of an evaporation fuel to the canister 251. In that case, the fuel consumption of the engine 12 becomes an optimal state, thereby maintaining the performance of the canister 251 and improving the fuel consumption. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly change opening/closing timing of a valve after starting an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: When a start request for an engine is made, if an oil temperature Toil is not high in S140, a power output device sets a spark start number of rotations Nstart of the engine to a first number of rotations N1 in S150. If the oil temperature Toil is high, since the viscosity of operation oil is low and the oil pressure is slow in increasing, the device sets the number Nstart of the engine to a second number of rotations N2 larger the first number of rotations N1 in S160. By setting torque commands Tm1* and Tm2* using the number Nstart set in such a manner to transmit them to motors MG1, MG2 and by motoring the engine, the device surely unlocks a lock pin of a variable valve timing mechanism from a locking hole even when the oil temperature Toil is high. Therefore, the device can smoothly change the valve timing of an air intake valve after starting the engine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress degradation in emission immediately after the starting of an internal combustion engine having a cylinder fuel injection valve. SOLUTION: When an engine is started in a condition that a start water temperature Twst is less than a predetermined temperature Tref, a value with a vehicle demand power P* limited by regarding a power limit Pemax1 as an upper limit is set to an engine demand power Pe* (S140-S170) so that the fuel injection amount of the cylinder fuel injection valve is limited until a piston top surface temperature Test1 becomes a predetermined temperature T1 or more for sufficiently vaporizing and completely burning fuel ejected from the cylinder fuel injection valve toward a piston top surface. A torque command Tm2* is set (S200-S220) to output a required torque Tr* to a driving shaft within a range of battery input/output limit Win, Wout, and an engine and a motor are controlled. Thereby, degradation in emission is suppressed which is caused by incomplete combustion of fuel ejected from the cylinder fuel injection valve while corresponding to the required torque Tr*. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more properly and quickly start an internal combustion engine while preventing an error in opening a cylinder fuel injection valve at starting the internal combustion engine having the cylinder fuel injection valve for injecting fuel into a cylinder. SOLUTION: An opening/closing timing VVT is delayed and a throttle opening TH is throttled when starting cranking of the engine with small torque Tlow. After fuel pressure Pf to be supplied to the cylinder fuel injection valve gets to a determined value or greater which is greater than pressure such that the valve closing holding pressure of the cylinder fuel injection valve to cylinder compression pressure Pin, the cranking with normal cranking torque Tset and the delay of the opening/closing timing VVT are started, the throttle of the throttle opening TH is cancelled, and fuel injection from the cylinder fuel injection valve is started. Thus, the fuel pressure Pf quickly gets to pressure or greater such that the valve closing holding pressure is added to the cylinder compression pressure Pin and an error in opening the cylinder fuel injection valve is prevented. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To recover waste heat of an engine without causing a secondary failure of an exhaust heat recovery device due to a failure of a catalyst device. SOLUTION: ECU executes program including a step S100 executing a catalyst deterioration determination process (oxygen occlusion quantity change), a step S300 setting a catalyst deterioration flag when a three-way conversion catalytic converter fails 120 (YES in S200), a step S500 determining whether misfire of the engine 150 is detected or not, and a step S700 prohibiting recovery of exhaust heat from exhaust gas of the engine 150 when the catalyst is deteriorated (YES in S200) or catalyst deterioration flag is set after misfire detection (Yes IN S500 and YES in S600). COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve emission at a time of start of an internal combustion engine and to improve durability of a relief valve attached on a fuel pressure rising supply part. SOLUTION: This internal combustion engine can secure startability by using a correction coefficient based on atmospheric temperature Tdp near delivery pipe. A stop determination fuel pressure Pref is established S120, S130 as fuel pressure at which generation of vapor can be controlled, and the engine is stopped after fuel pressure Pf in the delivery pipe becomes less than the established stop determination fuel pressure Pref S140, S150. Consequently, degradation of emission because of discharge of fuel staying in a cylinder due to oil-seal leak as it is when the engine 22 is started next time is suppressed. Also excessive fuel pressure Pf in the delivery pipe can be prevented and operation of the relief valve is controlled to improve durability thereof. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI