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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve operation efficiency of an engine by providing a gas of a lower temperature as a gas to be supplied from a first communicating pipe to an intake pipe when supplying exhaust air of the engine to the intake pipe.SOLUTION: After warming-up of an engine is completed (during warming), when a vapor concentration Cv is lower than or equal to a threshold Cvrefw (S230), an EGR valve and a purge control valve are controlled, such that an EGR gas and a purge gas are mixed in the EGR pipe and supplied to an intake pipe (S210, S240). Thus, a gas of a lower temperature can be provided as a mixed gas (mixed gas of the EGR gas and the purge gas) to be supplied from the EGR pipe to the intake pipe. As a result, operation efficiency of the engine can be improved.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a hybrid vehicle which includes an internal combustion engine and a motor each outputting a power for traveling, the hybrid vehicle obtaining torque for traveling corresponding to the driving force request operation of a driver while suppressing deterioration in emission, immediately after the initial start of the internal combustion engine after the start of traveling. SOLUTION: In the hybrid vehicle, when it is determined that a required power Perq is equal to or more than a power limit determination threshold Pref based on a cooling water temperature Tw showing the temperature of the engine (steps S120 to S140) after the start of the engine in response to an initial start request after the start of traveling is completed, the engine is self sustained only for a power limit time tref, and the engine and motors MG1 and MG2 are controlled so that running torque based on a required torque Tr* can be obtained (steps S180 to S260). COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly prevent air fuel ratio from becoming lean at intermittently starting of an internal combustion engine mounted in a vehicle. SOLUTION: An ECU controls the engine mounted in the vehicle. When the engine is started (YES at S10), the ECU determines whether the engine water temperature THw is in a fuel quantity increase correction area (S20) and determines whether the engine start is intermittent start (S30); when the engine water temperature THw is in the fuel quantity increase correction area (YES at S20) and the engine start is the intermittent start (NO at S30), the ECU determines whether intake temperature THa is higher than a threshold (S40); and when the intake temperature THa is higher than the threshold (YES at S40), the ECU controls an injector which injects fuel to the engine to increase the quantity of the fuel (S50). COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To quickly discharge evaporation fuel when a large amount of evaluation fuel is captured by an evaluation fuel capturing means without greatly damaging the fuel consumption of an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: When the value of a purge priority flag Fp is 1 (when evaporation fuel concentration is high, and a target purge rate is high), driving points on a purge priority operation line are adopted as the target operation points of an engine (S120, S140, S150). Thus, the absolute value of a suction pipe negative pressure is made larger than the case that operation points on a fuel consumption optimal operation line are adopted, so that the flow rate of purge gas to be discharged from a canister to a suction pipe can be increased. Meanwhile, when the value of the purge priority flag Fp is 0 (when evaporation fuel concentration is not within a high concentration region), since the necessity of the quick discharge of the evaporation fuel captured in the canister to the suction pipe is low, the operation points on the fuel consumption optimal operation line are adopted (S120, S130, S150). Thus, it is possible to satisfactorily maintain the fuel consumption of the engine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make air/fuel ratio control of an internal combustion engine more appropriate when purge control is performed. SOLUTION: In performing purge control, an engine ECU 24 of a hybrid vehicle derives a purge air amount ga and a purge fuel amount tau on the basis of intake pipe pressure PM from an intake pipe pressure sensor 112 when the intake pipe pressure sensor 112 is functioning normally, and derives the purge air amount ga and the purge fuel amount tau on the basis of a load factor L derived from an intake air flow G obtained from an air flow meter 108 when the intake pipe pressure sensor 112 is not functioning normally, though the purge air amount ga and the purge fuel amount tau tend to have slightly larger errors than in the case of using the intake pipe pressure PM from the intake pipe pressure sensor 112 functioning normally. Thus, even when the intake pipe pressure sensor 112 is not functioning normally, a deviation of an air/fuel ratio caused by the purge control can be appropriately eliminated. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly change opening/closing timing of a valve after starting an internal combustion engine. SOLUTION: When a start request for an engine is made, if an oil temperature Toil is not high in S140, a power output device sets a spark start number of rotations Nstart of the engine to a first number of rotations N1 in S150. If the oil temperature Toil is high, since the viscosity of operation oil is low and the oil pressure is slow in increasing, the device sets the number Nstart of the engine to a second number of rotations N2 larger the first number of rotations N1 in S160. By setting torque commands Tm1* and Tm2* using the number Nstart set in such a manner to transmit them to motors MG1, MG2 and by motoring the engine, the device surely unlocks a lock pin of a variable valve timing mechanism from a locking hole even when the oil temperature Toil is high. Therefore, the device can smoothly change the valve timing of an air intake valve after starting the engine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress stop of an engine in a state that water accumulates in an exhaust tube of the engine in a hybrid car that the battery is charged by power generation of a power generator using driving force from the engine until power storage rate becomes equal to or more than a second predetermined rate larger than first predetermined rate when the power storage rate of the battery becomes equal to or less than the first predetermined rate during parking of the car.SOLUTION: When the battery is charged, when temperature of an exhaust tube Tex is less than threshold Texref, power generation is performed by a motor by outputting parking efficiency power Pch from an engine followed by ignition at later ignition timing than efficiency ignition timing (S150, S160, S210 to 230), and when temperature of the exhaust tube Tex is equal to or more than the threshold Texref, power generation is performed by the motor by outputting power (Pch+ΔPch) from the engine followed by ignition at efficiency ignition timing (S170, S180, S210 to 230).
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To promote consumption of deteriorated fuel in a plug-in hybrid vehicle.SOLUTION: An upper limit value of an electricity storage volume is set for a battery 36 used for supplying first and second motors 16, 18 with power. As the battery electricity storage volume reaches a given lower limit value, the battery is charged by starting an internal combustion engine 14. The battery 36 can be charged from an external connection plug 38 connected to an external power source. As a period since stopping of the internal combustion engine 14 reaches a given period or more, the upper limit value of the battery electricity storage volume is lowered compared to the case of the period being less than the given period. This prevents a full charge when the battery 36 is recharged so that the battery electricity storage volume reaches the lower limit value sooner in the next travel, increasing the chance of operating the internal combustion engine to consume deteriorated fuel sooner.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress temperature rise in an engine compartment.SOLUTION: On a vehicle, there are installed: a hood 182 that closes an engine compartment 180 under a state fixed by a hood lock 184 and is opened when fixing by a hood lock 184 is released; an engine 100 stored in the engine compartment 180; and a motor generator 110 driven by the engine 100. Fixing by the hood lock 184 is released while the engine 100 and the motor generator 110 are being controlled to supply electric power from a vehicle to an external apparatus of the vehicle.