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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress deterioration of emission while achieving improvement in fuel consumption, in a hybrid vehicle.SOLUTION: When a hybrid vehicle is in a predetermined post-start state where there is no history that an engine is started after starting of a system, cooling water temperature Tw is lower than a threshold Twref, and an electricity storage rate SOC of a battery is not less than a threshold Sref (S310 to S330), a greater value, as compared to when the vehicle is not in the predetermined post-start state, is set as a start threshold Pstart based on the electricity storage rate SOC (S340). Then, the start threshold Pstart is used to perform control so that the vehicle travels with torque required for traveling accompanying intermittent engine operation outputted to a drive shaft. Thereby, when the engine is first started after starting of the system, a range for load operation of the engine is enlarged, deterioration in fuel consumption caused by engine idling operation is suppressed, and engine warm-up is promptly completed to suppress deterioration of emission.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooling device of an in-vehicle internal combustion engine, capable of properly reducing power quantity consumed for cooling the engine.SOLUTION: The drive of a radiator fan is stopped when a wind quantity of a running wind exceeds the wind blowing quantity of the radiator fan (t2 to t3). The driving stop condition of the radiator fan is continued and the pumping quantity of a water pump is forcibly increased when the increase of consumed power in the first virtual condition assuming that the requirement is satisfied only by the start of the drive of the radiator fan is larger than the increase of consumed power in the second virtual condition assuming that the above requirement is satisfied only by the increase of the pumping quantity of a water pump when there is requirement for increasing the cooling ability of a cooling system with the drive of the radiator fan stopped (t3 to t4). The drive of the radiator fan is started without forcibly increasing the pumping quantity of the water pump when the increase of the consumed power in the first virtual condition is not more than the increase of the consumed power in the second virtual condition (after t4).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly respond to an acceleration request.SOLUTION: When a required torque Tr* becomes equal to or higher than a threshold Tref (step S170) while a step-up circuit 55 is controlled so that a voltage VH of a high-voltage system becomes a voltage command VH* set based on the required torque Tr within the step-up upper limit value Vlim (voltage Vlo) lower than the value when the required torque Tr* is equal to or higher than the threshold Tref, the step-up circuit 55 is controlled (step S200, S230) so that the voltage VH of the high-voltage system becomes the voltage command VH* set based on the required torque Tr* within the step-up upper limit value Vlim (voltage Vhi), and an engine 22 and motors MG1, MG2 are controlled (step S220, S240) so as to achieve a torque based on the required torque Tr*, while improving responsiveness of the engine 22, to enable quick response to an acceleration request.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To maintain an exhaust gas purification function by a purification catalyst regardless of the length of time of engine intermittent stop time. SOLUTION: An ECU 20 for controlling a hybrid vehicle 100 includes: an engine control unit 22 for intermittently switching between an operation state and an idle state of the engine 10; a catalyst monitoring unit 24 for monitoring a purification catalyst 14; a determination unit 26 for acquiring information regarding the purification catalyst 14 from the catalyst monitoring unit 24, and for determining the state of the purification catalyst 14 during an intermittent stop of the engine 10 based on the information; and a catalyst warm-up control unit 28 for performing catalyst warm-up according to the determination by the determination unit 26. The engine control unit 22 resumes the operation of the engine 10 in an intermittent stop state after the catalyst warm-up. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To inhibit the deterioration of emission by more appropriately executing first fuel injection at the start of an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: An estimated intake air quantity KL is estimated based on engine speed Ne, a throttle opening Th, intake pipe negative pressure Pin and the like (S140), a correction coefficient k1 is set in a tendency of being smaller as engine speed Ne which is calculated first right after the determination of a crank angle CA becomes higher (S150), and an execution intake air quantity KL* is set by multiplying the estimated intake air quantity KL by the correction coefficient k1 (S160). An initial fuel injection quantity τ is set to the execution intake air quantity KL* (S170), and the engine is started by executing the fuel injection of an initial fuel injection quantity τ. Consequently, fuel injection is executed more appropriately and the deterioration of emission during the start can be inhibited. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deterioration of emission properties during start of an internal combustion engine in a vehicle on which the internal combustion engine is intermittently operated. SOLUTION: An engine ECU 1000 executes intermittent operation control of an engine 120 mounted on a hybrid vehicle. The engine 120 is provided with an EGR device having flow rate thereof controlled by an EGR valve 502 through an EGR pipe 500 from a downstream side of a three-way catalytic converter 900. The engine ECU 1000 set delay time from start of an engine 120 till operation of the EGR device based on at least one of start cooling water temperature, start lubricating oil temperature, ignition timing delay quantity calculated during start ignition timing control, an air charge rate of an inside of a combustion chamber at start, and fuel injection quantity calculated during start fuel injection control, and starts operation of the EGR device after the delay time elapses after engine start. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To start an internal combustion engine while corresponding to required driving force. SOLUTION: In a hybrid automobile wherein a first motor, an engine and a driving shaft are connected to the sun gear, carrier and ring gear of a planetary gear mechanism and also a second motor is connected to the driving shaft, when a threshold value Tthr is set (S139) by subtracting a value that a previously set torque Tcr at the time cranking is divided by the gear ratio ρ of the planetary gear mechanism from a maximum torque Tm2max outputting from the second motor, and required torque Tr* is at the threshold value Tthr or more (S140), control is performed so that the engine is cranked and started, and also the required torque Tr* is applied to the driving shaft while canceling reaction on the ring gear side at the time of cranking. The engine is started while taking in consideration torque Tcr at the time of cranking, therefore, insufficient torque outputted from the second motor when cranking the engine may not be caused. As a result, the engine is started while corresponding to the required driving force. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further surely limit the speed of a vehicle at the maximum speed, irrespective of the traveling resistance, in an automobile equipped with a power output device that can output power to a drive shaft which is connected to the vehicle shaft and in the control device of the automobile. SOLUTION: Cruising torque Tcrs, necessary for a vehicle to cruise at a vehicle speed V, is calculated from the relationship between torque outputted to the drive shaft and the acceleration α of the vehicle, when the vehicle speed V from a vehicle speed sensor exceeds a vehicle speed that is lower than the maximum vehicle speed Vmax by a prescribed value K (S110); cruising torque Tcrs0 necessary for the vehicle to cruise at the maximum vehicle speed Vmax is set by adding the difference between traveling resistance R at the vehicle speed V and traveling resistance R0 at the maximum vehicle speed Vmax to the cruising torque Tcrs (S112); a cruising torque limit value Tlim is set so as to approach the cruising torque Tcrs0 as the vehicle speed V approaches the maximum vehicle speed Vmax (S114); and driver request torque Tr* is limited (S116). Since the gradient resistance and the air resistance at the vehicle speed V are contained in the cruising torque Tcrs0, the vehicle speed can further be surely limited, irrespective of the gradient resistance and the air resistance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a NOx emission amount from increasing at startup after an engine is stopped in a state in which a B range (brake range) or an SSS range (sequential shift range) is selected.SOLUTION: When a B range or an SSS range is selected at previous engine stop, a fuel increase value at current engine startup is increased compared to a case where a shift range at engine stop is other than the B range or the SSS range. Consequently, since a fuel injection amount is increased at startup after an engine is stopped in a state in which the B range or the SSS range is selected, a NOx emission amount can be prevented from increasing at engine startup.