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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve operability for operation to extend the duration time of traveling when the power of a motor is given priority. SOLUTION: When the frequency of the input of an EV traveling swtich is high (S100; YES), an HV_ECU executes a program including a step (S102) for setting a target SOC as SOC(1) and a step (S104) for setting the target SOC as SOC(2). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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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 accurately determine misfire in an internal combustion engine in the process of operating the internal combustion engine to warm up the catalyst of an exhaust emission control device for purifying exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: When a rotating fluctuation difference Nxd360 as a difference from a rotating fluctuation Nxd before crank angle 360° CA exceeds a determination value A1 and a rotating fluctuation difference Nxd 720 as a difference from a rotating fluctuation Nxd before a crank angle 720° CA exceeds a determination value B1 (S150, S160), if determination (S200) by rotating fluctuation difference ratios Nja2, Nja3, Nja4 with the rotating fluctuation difference Nxd 360 and determination (210) by rotating fluctuation difference ratios Njb2, Njb3, Njb4 with the rotating fluctuation difference Nxd 720 are both established, misfire is determined. Thus, the misfire can be more adequately and accurately determined in the process of warming up the catalyst of the exhaust emission control device with an engine ignition timing being greatly delayed. 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
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly warm and store a heat exchange medium to warm and cool an inernal combustion engine, and to suitably control the temperature of the heat exchange medium. SOLUTION: At the time of starting the engine, the engine is warmed by supplying warm water stored in a heat storage tank into a cooling water passage (S100 to S120). Then, when cooling water warmed by heat exchanging with the engine is collected into the heat storage tank, a fan mounted in a radiator of an engine cooling system is indicated to drive with the necessary and minimum effort (S160). As a result, cooling water can be quickly warmed and stored in the heat storage tank, and the temperature of cooling water can be suitably controlled during of collecting cooling water into the heat storage tank. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To more properly cope with the lowering of power outputted from an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: When an engine is operated and an engine demand power Pe* becomes lower than an engine stop determination value Pstp, the operation of the engine is stopped (S330 to S370). When the operation of the engine is stopped and the engine demand power Pe* becomes higher than an engine start determination value Pstrt, the engine is started (S250 to S310). Since the engine stop determination value Pstp and the engine start determination value Pstrt are set to smaller values than those at a normal time when using regular fuel, the engine easily becomes an operated state than the normal time. When using the regular fuel, a corrected rotational number ΔN is added to a target rotational number Ne* of the engine (S260 and S270). As a result, lowering of power outputted from the internal combustion engine can be more properly coped. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI