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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable an internal combustion engine right after start to stably operate at idling speed. SOLUTION: A learning error Er is calculated by subtracting a sum of a friction torque base value Tb estimated from cooling water temperature THW of the engine at the time and friction torque learning collection value Gf which is precious value (Tc-Tb) under a temperature condition roughly same as cooling water temperature THW from cranking torqye Tc at a time of start of the engine(S106), water temperature learning flow rate Qthw as temperature dependent flow rate depending on cooling water temperature THW in idling rotation retaining flow rate Qisc is renewed (S112-S120) by the learning error Er, and ISCV opening is adjusted by adding the water temperature learning floe rate Qthw to a target idling rotation retaining quantity Qisc* (S122-S126). Consequently, a device can appropriately cope with a case that friction varies right after start of the engine with depending on type of filled lubricating oil, the engine can be stabilized at idling speed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly accurate catalyst deterioration detecting apparatus for hybrid automobiles. SOLUTION: This catalyst deterioration detecting apparatus comprises a catalyst 15 provided in an exhaust manifold 6 of an engine, an air-fuel ratio sensor 32 disposed downstream of the catalyst 15, an electric motor MG2 coupled to the output shaft of the engine, and a control means 40 for temporarily stopping the engine under a predetermined running condition as well as driving the electric motor MG2. Further, this apparatus also comprises oxygen amount estimation means 40 for estimating the oxygen amount stored in the catalyst 15, and deterioration judging means 40 for judging deterioration of the catalyst 32 from the output of the air-fuel ratio sensor 32 after resuming the drive of the engine and the oxygen amount estimated by the oxygen amount estimation means 40.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a generation amount of soot and also reduce combustible HC, CO, NOx to minimum discharged to the atmosphere. SOLUTION: In a first combustion state, a recirculation exhaust amount supplied into a combustion chamber 5 exceeds the value where a soot generation amount shows a peak, and soot is hardly generated. In a second combustion state, the recirculation exhaust amount supplied into the combustion chamber 5 is less than the value where the soot generation amount shows the peak. The first combustion and the second combustion is selectively changed over. A selective reduction catalyst 19 is arranged in a passage of an internal combustion engine for oxidizing hydrocarbon and reducing NOx under the presence that excessive oxygen and hydrocarbon.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make effective use of the regenerative power of a motor and enhance the energy efficiency of an entire vehicle in an automobile provided with the motor capable of generating power by power from an axle. SOLUTION: The automobile is provided with the motor MG2 connected with driving wheels 39a and 39b. When the regenerative power of the motor MG2 exceeds a limit value on the power with which a battery 50 can be charged, the excess power is consumed at an electric heater 66 and is stored as heat in a heat accumulation tank 65. When a request is made to start an engine 22, the setting of a three-way valve 68 is changed so that the heat exchange medium in the heat accumulation tank 65 is supplied to the engine 22 until the engine water temperature becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature. Thus, the regenerative power of the motor MG2 can be utilized without wastage as required, and the energy efficiency of the vehicle can be further enhanced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power output apparatus reducing hydrocarbon emissions during the cold start of an engine. SOLUTION: During the catalyst warm-up period, when the control enabling reduction in hydrocarbon emissions is not executed in a gasoline engine 100, the opening of a throttle valve 101 is made smaller in order to reduce hydrocarbon emissions. During the catalyst warm-up period, when the control enabling reduction in hydrocarbon emissions is executed in the gasoline engine 100, the opening of the throttle valve 101 is made larger in order to accelerate warm-up of the catalyst, thereby shortening the catalyst warm-up period. A shorter catalyst warm-up period enables reduction in the total hydrocarbon emissions from engine startup to the end of the catalyst warm-up period. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a start controller providing compatibility between starting performance and discharging performance improvement in an internal combustion engine provided with a variable valve system. SOLUTION: The engine 1 has a VVT 16 and a starting motor 4. In starting, an engine ECU 9 makes control so that an overlap amount of an intake valve 14 and an exhaust valve 15 is a predetermined value or more by the VVT 16, and it starts fuel injection by an injector 13 via a predetermined engine idling state by using the starting motor 13. A sensor 17 is provided for detecting an operating state of the VVT 16, and the ECU 9 corrects a fuel injection quantity by the injector 13 or a throttle opening by an electronically controlled throttle 11 in response to a detection result. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform continuity of exhaust gas for HC desorption to an HC adsorbing material layer when starting an engine in an engine warming-up state. SOLUTION: This device is provided with an exhaust system including an HC adsorbing material layer and an exhaust gas purifying catalyst layer having an oxygen holding function. By passing the exhaust gas through the HC adsorbing material layer when starting a cold temperature of the engine, the HC absorbing material layer is made to adsorb HC in the exhaust gas. By passing exhaust gas through the HC adsorbing material layer after warming-up of the engine and the exhaust system, HC adsorbed by the HC adsorbing material layer is desorbed. An HC eliminating operation for the engine exhaust device for a wheel for discharging the desorbed HC by being converted into H2O and CO2 by oxygen held in the exhaust gas purifying catalyst layer is ensured and generation of NOx is suppressed by the exhaust gas purifying catalyst layer when starting the engine after warming-up of the engine.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the energy efficiency of a vehicle by operating, according to the status of a power output apparatus, an internal combustion engine that the power output apparatus is equipped with. SOLUTION: In a hybrid vehicle in which power from an engine is converted to torque by a planetary gear mechanism and two motors connected to the rotating elements of the planetary gear element and is output to driveshafts connected to driving wheels, a plurality of operating lines LP, L0-L3 available where different requirements are applied as restrictions to the power output from the engine are stored; the engine is operated as the operating lines are set according to vehicle speed and the status of the motors, and drive control of the two motors is performed. As a result, it is possible to increase the energy efficiency of the vehicle while coping with restrictions on the output of devices such as motors. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further improve an atmospheric environment conservation characteristic by suppressing exhaustion of hazardous gas components following temporary stop and restart of an engine in an economy running car or a hybrid car. SOLUTION: A vehicle has an exhaust purifying catalyst having a function for reserving oxygen in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, temporarily stops the engine when a predetermined temporary stop condition of the engine is satisfied, and temporarily increases fuel for reduction treatment of the exhaust purifying catalyst in restarting the engine. When the reserved oxygen amount of the exhaust purifying catalyst in restarting the engine is not estimated to be within a predetermined range in a fuel cut-off operation, a fuel increasing operation, or the like, fuel increase in the reduction treatment of the catalyst is inaccurate and hazardous gas components may be exhausted in restarting the engine, so that the temporary stop of the engine is prohibited.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To accurately detect deterioration of engine related parts for a hybrid car. SOLUTION: This deterioration detection system comprises motors MG1, MG2 connected to the output shaft of an engine and a control device 180 which temporarily stops or runs the engine 100 under a predetermined driving condition and also controls the actuation of the motors MG1, MG2. The deterioration detection system further comprises an engine operating time counting device to count an engine operating time from a combustion operating time when a driving force generated by engine combustion energy is transmitted to an output shaft and a non-combustion operating time when the engine is not running and as a result no force is transmitted from the engine to the output shaft. The system is further equipped with a deterioration determination device to determine deterioration of engine related parts based on the engine operating times.