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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent fuel leak from a fuel injection means during the stop of an internal combustion engine and properly treat the vapor generated in fuel piping. SOLUTION: An engine ECU executes a program when engine start is demanded (YES at S100), which includes a step (S110) of judging whether there is possibility that air bubbles will be generated in a high pressure delivery pipe, a step (S120) of transmitting an open command signal to an electromagnetic relief valve when there is possibility that air bubbles will be generated (YES at S110), a step (S130) of transmitting a drive command signal to a feed pump, a step (S150) of transmitting a closure command signal to the electromagnetic relief valve when the feed pump is driven for a predetermined time (YES at S140), a step (S160) of transmitting a drive command signal to a starter, and a step (S170) of transmitting a fuel injection command signal to an EDU. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent misjudgment of abnormality of an internal combustion engine resulting from variation of learning values of various kinds of control. SOLUTION: In a hybrid vehicle 20, when starting an engine 22, an electronic control unit 70 for the hybrid vehicle controls and drives a motor MG1 to keep the engine 22 in a motoring mode until the engine 22 fully explodes. An engine ECU 24 judges whether abnormality occurs in the engine 22 or not based on the motoring duration during which the engine 22 is kept in the motoring mode. The operation of the engine 22 is controlled so that a decrease in output of the engine 22 can be dissolved in the course of the judgement of abnormality of the engine 22. As a result, even when the output of the engine 22 temporarily decreases by the variation of learning values of various kinds of control, such temporary output decrease can be dissolved before it is judged that abnormality has occurred in the engine 22. Accordingly, the misjudgment of abnormality of the engine resulting from the variation of learning values of various kinds of control can be prevented. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a controller of an internal combustion engine capable of quickly and accurately starting air-fuel ratio feedback during the restart of the engine of a economy running car. SOLUTION: An engine ECU performs an engine stop control when economy running engine stop conditions are established and, when the economy running engine stop conditions are established, detects an A/F lean state time ΔT if a rich signal output from an A/F sensor is not detected when an engine start control is performed, calculates a delayed time corresponding to the A/F lean state time ΔT, prohibits the A/F feedback control until a delay timer expires, and when the delay timer expires, starts the A/F feedback control. 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
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a fuel injection control device capable of suppressing the deterioration of exhaust emission resulting from the response delay of an exhaust sensor when automatic start or the return of fuel cut is performed in the fuel injection control device for setting a fuel injection amount so that an actual air-fuel ratio in starting an engine or returning the fuel cut becomes richer than a theoretical air-fuel ratio in the internal combustion engine in which the automatic stop and automatic start of the engine are performed and in the internal combustion engine in which the fuel cut and the return of the fuel cut are performed. SOLUTION: This fuel injection control device is formed to perform air-fuel ratio feedback control when the detection signal of the exhaust sensor after automatic stop is determined to be rich. Also, the detection signal of the exhaust sensor after automatic start is determined not to be rich in the device, it is determined whether a specified time TA is passed from the automatic start or not. When the specified time TA is not passed, the start of the air-fuel ratio feedback control is prohibited and when the specified time TA is passed, the air-fuel ratio feedback control is performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI