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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a cooling system for efficiently cooling an internal combustion engine and an electric system. SOLUTION: A radiator 52 cools a cooling medium flowing to an engine cooling system and an electric cooling system. A movable partition valve 54 partitions the radiator 52 into a region 56 and a region 58. The movable partition valve 54 operates according to a control signal CNTL1 from an ECU 30, and changes the ratio of the region 56 to the region 58. That is, the ratio of the cooling medium quantity of the engine cooling system to the cooling medium quantity of the electric cooling system is changed by the movement of the movable partition valve 54 according to the control signal CNTL1 from the ECU 30. As a result, it is possible to change the balance of the cooling capability of the engine cooling system and the cooling capability of the electric cooling system. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid car for achieving low fuel consumption and low emission while satisfactorily keeping the excellent state of an engine. SOLUTION: When it is decided that an engine 24 has stopped for a predetermined time (step S10; YES), an HV-ECU 42 sets the target number of revolutions and driving time of a motor generator MG1 (step S20). Then, the HV-ECU 42 outputs the driving instruction of the motor generator MG1 to an MG-ECU 38 without outputting the start command of the engine 24 to an engine ECU 40. Then, the motor generator MG1 is driven, and the engine 24 is cranked by using the motor generator MG1 (step S30). COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an electric variable valve timing mechanism capable of improving the startability of an engine. SOLUTION: The variable valve timing mechanism 4 changes valve timing by rotating a camshaft 27 through drive of a variable mechanism motor 5 relatively to a cam sprocket 27S. Torque acting in a rotation direction of the camshaft 27 is defined as regular torque. A control means applying regular torque to the cam sprocket 27S through the drive of the variable mechanism motor 5 during cranking is provided. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide technology for early increasing temperatures in lean combustion cylinders of an internal combustion engine which performs rich combustion and lean combustion to early increase the temperature of an exhaust gas purifying catalyst at cold start. SOLUTION: At cold start, this internal combustion engine control device sets an air-fuel ratio in a cylinder (#1) as part of four cylinders to be rich and an air-fuel ratio in cylinders (#2-#4) as at least part of the other remaining cylinders to be lean for giving reaction between exhaust materials exhausted from the cylinder (#1) where the air-fuel ratio is rich and exhaust materials exhausted from the cylinders (#2-#4) where the air-fuel ratio is lean to increase the temperature of the exhaust gas purifying catalyst. Herein, a cylinder temperature control means is provided for independently changing the temperatures in the cylinders where the air-fuel ratio is lean and in the cylinder where the air-fuel ratio is rich. When increasing the temperatures in the cylinders, the cylinder temperature control means distributes a high temperature cooling water stored in a regenerating system 9 into only the cylinders (#2-#4) where the air-fuel ratio is lean at cold start. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid car for maximally enhancing exhaust emission control performance, and preventing damage by overheat of an exhaust emission control catalyst, by controlling the temperature of the exhaust emission control catalyst in the most desirable range, while properly maintaining driving performance of a vehicle on the basis of a charging state of a battery. SOLUTION: This hybrid car uses a supercharger by an exhaust turbine, an engine having an exhaust emission control catalyst device and an electric driving means by the battery and a motor-driven generator as a driving source. In this case, a supercharging degree is controlled in response to the charging state of the battery and the catalyst temperature of a catalyst device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle driving device capable of preventing degradation of the power transmission efficiency. SOLUTION: In the hybrid vehicle driving device, an internal combustion engine is connected to an input element of a power distribution mechanism, a first motor/generator 2 is connected to a reaction force element of the power distribution mechanism, and a second motor/generator 3 is connected to an output element of the power distribution mechanism. The hybrid vehicle driving device comprises clutches C1 and C2 to selectively change an output member to the output element or the reaction force element, and further comprises a driving force source state determination means (Step S4 to S6) to determine whether or not the motors/generators 2 and 3 are power-driven state by the negative rotation, and a changing mechanism control means (Step S7 to S12) to change the changing mechanism so that the reaction force element is connected to the output element when it is determined that the motors/generators 2 and 3 are in a power-driven state by the negative rotation. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controlling device of an internal combustion engine having a turbocharger with a generator for controlling the generator in view of a temperature of an exhaust emission control device. SOLUTION: An internal combustion engine (engine) 10 is equipped with a turbocharger 11 with a generator (an electric motor) 12 installed to a turbine 11a. A controlling device (controller) 20 is equipped with a generated output determining means for determining a generated output of the generator 12 based on a temperature of an exhaust emission control device (exhaust emission control catalyst) 17. The generated output determining means restrains the generated output when the temperature of the exhaust emission control device 17 is lower than a proper range, and increases the generated output when the temperature of the exhaust emission control device 17 is higher than a proper range. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a battery control device capable of increasing the charge cumulative amount in a battery. SOLUTION: When temperatures of capacitors 14, 15 and 16 are low, each of capacitor inter-terminal voltages V 14 , V 15 and V 16 may reach a threshold Vmax in an early stage since there occurs a rise in inter-terminal voltage due to the internal resistance. When the temperatures T of the capacitors 14, 15 and 16 are low, a controller 3 can increase the charge cumulative amount in the battery 17 by raising the prescribed threshold Vmax. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power controller that can prevent the relation of the between the stop timing of a driving force source and the function-changing timing of an auxiliary device from becoming irregular, every time the driving force source stops. SOLUTION: This power controller has a generator that is driven by power from the driving force source, an electricity-storing device that accumulates electric power that is outputted by the generator, and a functional device that functions by the electric power that is outputted by the electricity-storing device. In this controller, a corresponding relation controlling means (Step S1, Step S2, Step S3) is provided that hinders the relation, between the timing when the output of the driving force source changes and the timing when, as the output from the driving force source changes, electric power supplied from the electricity-storing device to the functional device changes so that the function of the functional device changes, from changing according to the electric energy of the electricity-storing device. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for quickly stopping an internal combustion engine without generating vibration when stopping the internal combustion engine with economical running control. SOLUTION: This stop control device for an internal combustion engine for a vehicle stops the internal combustion engine when a preset stop condition is satisfied independently of stopping operation by a driver and stops injection of the fuel when stopping the internal combustion engine and throttles an intake. This stop control device is provided with a car speed determining means for determining car speed when the stop condition is satisfied (step S2) and a fuel stop means for immediately stopping injection of the fuel without waiting throttle of the intake (step S5) when car speed determined by the car speed determining means (step S2) exceeds the predetermined car speed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO