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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a control device for a vehicular internal combustion engine optimizing overlap quantity control in an internal combustion engine equipped with a variable valve timing mechanism. SOLUTION: When the engine is gets in idling operation state, this device waits for stop of a vehicle. When the vehicle stops, the device sets overlap quantity of an intake valve and an exhaust valve small. Consequently, vibration of the engine in the vehicle stop state is reduced. Even if the engine is in idling operation, the overlap quantity is set greater than that in normal control if the vehicle is travelling. Consequently, engine load is increased by accelerator step-in action of a driver during vehicle travel or the like, and the overlap quantity is appropriately provided in a state where engine speed rises. COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress vibration during idle operation when a shift position is at a neutral position in a hybrid vehicle. SOLUTION: In a vehicle equipped with an engine, a rotating electrical machine, a power dividing mechanism connected to a rotary shaft of the rotating electrical machine, a rotary shaft of the engine and a driving shaft which drives a wheel, an inverter for driving the rotating electrical machine and a shift lever for changing a traveling range, an ECU (Electronic Control Unit) executes a program including: a step of detecting a shift position of a shift lever selected by a driver (S500); a step of controlling the engine to stop, when the shift position detected by the step which detects the shift position changes to a neutral position (YES at S510), (S530); and a step of controlling the inverter to stop generation of driving force by the rotating electrical machine (S560) responding to change of the shift position to a neutral position and stop of the engine (YES at S540). COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress a temperature rise of a catalyst for purifying engine exhaust gas. SOLUTION: A throttle opening degree TH is set to an opening degree Th2 larger than an opening degree Th1 at which fuel cut and start of fuel injection are not repeated frequently (step S260), when the fuel cut and the start of the fuel injection are repeated frequently (step S120). The fuel injection to an engine 22 is started (step S300), when the throttle opening degree TH becomes to the opening degree Th2 and when the catalyst temperature Tc is lower than a temperature Tc1 (steps S280, S290), and the engine 22 and motors MG1, MG2 are controlled to output a driving force based on a required torque Tr* to a ring gear shaft 32a as a driving shaft (steps S190-S230) in traveling. The catalyst temperature is thereby suppressed from rising. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress deterioration in emission, and to satisfy the need of a driver. SOLUTION: When a cooling water temperature θw is lower than a threshold θwref, or a catalyst temperature θc is lower than a threshold θcref (S120, S130), fuel is not injected from a fuel injection valve for the inside of a cylinder, and a share k or target number of revolutions Ne* and target torque Te* of an engine 22 are set so that the engine 22 can be idled only by fuel injection from a fuel injection valve for a port (S240, S260), and a value 0 is set in the torque command Tm1* of the motor MG1 (S270), and a torque command Tm2* of the motor MG2 is set according to the request torque Tr* (S200 to S220), and the engine or two motors are controlled according to these set values. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To protect a cylinder fuel injection valve when fuel injection from the cylinder fuel injection valve is limited, and to cope with required power for a driving shaft as much as possible, in a power output device provided with an internal combustion engine having the cylinder fuel injection valve and a fuel injection valve for a port and an electric motor. SOLUTION: A hybrid automobile 20 is provided with the engine 22 having the cylinder fuel injection valve 125 and the fuel injection valve 126 for the port. In the automobile, opening and closing timing of an intake valve of the engine 22 is angle-delayed when an engine start-up condition is satisfied, and fuel is injected from the fuel injection valve 126 for the port to start the engine 22 when a temperature of an emission control device for exhaust from the engine is less than a threshold value. The fuel injection from the fuel injection valve 126 for the port is continued to warm up the emission control device by idling-operating the engine 22. A torque necessary for travel is output therein from the motor MG2 within a range of input and output limitation of a battery 50. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To continuously suppress catalyst degradation in catalyst degradation suppressing control, even though the number of revolutions of an internal combustion engine is forcibly reduced. SOLUTION: When a fuel cut condition is met and catalyst degradation suppressing control is requested in a power output device (YES at S150), a second upper limit quantity of air is computed; if the absolute value of a torque command Tm1* for a motor MG1 exceeds the absolute value of a threshold value Tref, and the number Ne of engine revolutions is being reduced (YES at both S190 and S192). The second upper limit quantity of air is larger than a first upper limit quantity of air obtained by adding a predetermined amount of padding to a target intake air quantity for autonomous operation at the engine revolutions Ne of this time. Then, a control signal is transmitted to an engine ECU so that explosive combustion is executed within the range that the actual intake air quantity does not exceed the second upper limit quantity of air (S196). Thus, when the engine revolutions Ne is forcibly reduced by the motor MG1, the possibility is increased that explosive combustion is continuously executed. As a result, a catalyst constituting a purifying device is hardly degraded. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent deterioration of exhaust emission nature at a time of start pressure reduction control by an intake valve control represented by VVT (Variable Valve Timing) in an internal combustion engine provided with a fuel injection system injecting fuel directly in a cylinder. SOLUTION: In an engine 5 provided with an injector 50 for cylinder injection, valve timing of an intake valve 80 is delayed by VVT control by an engine ECU 300 at a time of engine start and pressure in the combustion chamber 30 is reduced. In a structure phasedly advancing valve timing of the intake valve 80 from an initial set value, fuel injection from the injector 50 for cylinder injection is prohibited while the advanced angles is a predetermined reference value or less, and fuel injection from the injector 50 for cylinder injection is permitted after the same exceeds the predetermined reference value. Consequently, deterioration of exhaust emission nature accompanying start pressure reduction control can be suppressed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform cylinder reduction operation selection control of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine for a vehicle capable of performing cylinder reduction operation for realizing non-operation of a partial cylinder of the engine selectively by keeping proper harmony between saving of fossil fuel resource and protection of natural environment by ensuring vehicle operation property and improving fuel economy. SOLUTION: Whether cylinder reduction operation is possible or not is determined by referring to engine output torque detected by an engine output torque detection means. A map in which a normal operation region and a cylinder reduction operation region are divided and set in a two-dimensional region using the number of revolutions of the engine and engine output torque as variables to determine the possibility. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the quantity of the harmful material such as NOx contained in the exhaust gas or in the gas immediately after being discharged from an engine, independently of a possibility of realizing catalyzer warm-up in a short time. SOLUTION: In a hybrid type power output device including a motor generator device, control is performed to start an increase in the quantity of the air to be fed to a combustion chamber (figure (b)) after a certain period passed after starting a processing for delaying ignition timing in an ignition plug in comparison with the ignition timing in the latest condition (figure (a)). COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO