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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device of an electrical water pump that can promote warm up of an engine by properly performing drive control of the electrical water pump even when a temporary increase of an engine output is generated. SOLUTION: The control device of the electrical water pump includes the electrical water pump and a pump control means. The electrical water pump circulates cooling water in an internal combustion engine (engine). The pump control means drives the electrical water pump when the engine output is not less than a first reference value continuously not less than a first time width. In addition, the pump control means drives the electrical water pump when the engine output is not less than a second reference value that is greater than the first reference value. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery temperature conditioning device capable of more preferentially heating battery cells arranged at both ends than the battery cells arranged at the center part. SOLUTION: The battery temperature conditioning device has a housing case, battery cells, passages, and current plates. The battery cells are arranged in the housing case at prescribed spacings. The current plates adjust the flow of a temperature conditioning medium. Then, at the time of warming up, the current plates are arranged so that the temperature conditioning medium may flow more into the passages adjacent to the battery cells at both the ends (near both the ends ) than the passages adjacent to the battery cells in the center part (near the center) out of the battery cells arranged. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an internal combustion engine cooling device for properly meeting a user's needs to prioritize fuel consumption or to prioritize power. SOLUTION: The internal combustion engine cooling device controls a pump to circulate cooling water into an internal combustion engine and a heater core. Specifically, the device is constructed so that at least one of a fuel consumption priority mode to prioritize fuel consumption and a power priority mode to prioritize the power of the internal combustion engine can be optionally selected by the user. A mode acquiring means acquires the mode selected by the user, and a control means controls the pump depending on the mode acquired by the mode acquiring means. This properly meets the user's need to prioritize the fuel consumption or to prioritize the power. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the starting capability of an internal combustion engine by quickly detecting a rotary position of the output shaft of the internal combustion engine at the time of starting the internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: When the internal combustion engine is stopped, the sum of angles (β+γ) assumed to be rotated by a crankshaft and an angle α necessary to detect a standard position of a timing rotor is reduced by 360° from the angle of the crankshaft (CA) within a set-up time composed of a mask time and a control lag time necessary for detecting a chipped tooth which is a reference position of the timing rotor at the time of starting the internal combustion engine, and the internal combustion engine, and motors MG1, MG2 are controlled so as to stop the reference position of the timing rotor accompanied by a rotation stop of the crankshaft in a target stop range from a designated stop position CAp* to a position prior to the designated stop position by a designated angle ΔCA only. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform exhaust gas supply (EGR) appropriately supplying exhaust gas to an intake system according to demand output to an engine. SOLUTION: When engine demand power Pe* is less than a lower limit power Pα with which the engine can be satisfactorily operated while performing EGR (step S110), or when change quantity dPe of the demand power is less than a value 0 and intake air quantity of the engine tends to reduce and misfire may occurs in the engine 22 if EGR is performed (step S120, S130), target exhaust gas supply rate EGR* is set to value 0 (step S160), and the engine is controlled to output the demand power Pe* without performing EGR (step S150). Consequently, EGR can be appropriately performed according to the demand power Pe* and the change quantity dPe* of the demand power. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent an electric storage means such as a secondary battery from being charged beyond the limit of charged capacity. SOLUTION: In a hybrid automobile 20 in a power output device, idle time suction air capacity Qidl is corrected so that an output power Pe almost matched with a request power Pe* can be outputted by an engine 22 just after the start of the engine 22, and a motor MG1 is made to generate a power according to an output power Pe from the engine 22 after correction, and suction air capacity correction quantity Qec is reflected on suction air capacity Qe of the engine 22 so that a battery 50 can be charged within an input limit Win by a generated power, and the motor MG1 is controlled. Therefore, when the charged capacity of the battery 50 is limited, the output power Pe of the engine 22 is prevented from exceeding the request power Pe* so that the charged capacity of the battery 50 to be charged according to the generation power of the motor MG1 can be prevented from exceeding the input limit Win. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To stably operate an engine at idling. SOLUTION: When a shift position SP is neutral (step S110), the ignition timing Ea* of an engine is set at a timing advanced by Eα from a timing in a normal idle operation since the driving of a motor cannot be controlled (step S150), the set ignition timing Ea* is transmitted to an engine ECU (step S160), and an ignition control is performed so that the ignition timing of the engine becomes the set ignition timing Ea*. Since a torque outputted from the engine is increased over that in the idle operation, a negative torque acting on the output shaft of the engine by the corotation of the motor by the engine can be cancelled, and the engine can be stably operated at idling. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly estimate the temperature of an internal combustion engine and a member related to the internal combustion engine regardless of the automatic stopping and automatic starting of the internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: After lapse of a predetermined time from the initial starting of an engine 22 after the starting of the system of a hybrid automobile 20 (S100), the estimated temperatures Test 1-Test 4 of a catalyst, the tip end of a fuel injection valve, the surface of a combustion chamber, and the top surface of a piston are calculated (S120-S140) based on an air filling rate kl, an engine speed Ne, cooling water temperature Tw, and an air flow rate Ga without resetting to an initial value even when the engine 22 is automatically stopped. By using these estimated temperatures, the engine can be properly operated. As a result, emission is improved, fuel economy is improved, and durability of the engine and an exhaust emission control device can be improved. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a vehicle from traveling regardless of owner's intention. SOLUTION: An owner of the vehicle or a vehicle use-right holder authorized by the owner on the use of the vehicle has a travel un-authorizing signal receiving means for receiving the un-authorization of the travel of the vehicle and a driving control state changing means for changing the driving condition of the vehicle based on it. By performing driving force restriction and shift restriction of the vehicle, for example, the travel of the vehicle against the owner's intention is restricted, and the vehicle is prevented from being stolen. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cool an electricity-accumulating mechanism mounted on a vehicle without causing a time lag with temperature rise. SOLUTION: A battery ECU executes a program that includes a step (S100) in which the battery temperature TB is detected; a step (S400) in which, if the battery temperature TB becomes higher than a threshold value TH(Lo) of a battery cooling fan actuation starting temperature (YES at S300) when a sports mode is selected (YES at S200), a battery cooling fan is actuated; and a step (S400) in which, if the battery temperature TB becomes higher than a threshold value TH(Hi) of the battery cooling fan actuation starting temperature (YES at S500) when a sports mode is selected (NO at S200), the battery cooling fan is actuated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI