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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To give a satisfactory feeling to a driver, and to suppress the deterioration in a catalyst for purifying the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine when an accelerator is turned off during traveling at a virtual shift position. SOLUTION: When an accelerator is turned off in such a state that a sequential shift position (S position) is selected as a shift position SP, and a catalyst temperature θc is equal to or more than a threshold θref (S160), input restriction Win in normal traveling is set to a target input restriction Win* of a battery until a shift start time t1 passes (S230), and an engine is independently operated (S240), and input restriction Wb for braking whose restriction is more strengthened than the input restriction Win in normal traveling is set to the target input restriction Win* of a battery 50 after the elapse of the shift start time t1 (S170), and fuel injection to the engine is stopped (S180). COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To properly set the request driving force requested for traveling and the operation point of an internal combustion engine in a hybrid automobile enabling selection of an operation mode for increasing the responsiveness of an output to an operation simulating a speed change processing or an accelerator operation. SOLUTION: In the hybrid automobile 20, when predetermined conditions relevant to a shift position or an operation mode are established, a virtual shift level corresponding to the traveling state is set as a temporary target shift level SPtmp (S471, S472), and a shift level SP* for execution is set so as to be smoothly changed with variation which is smaller than a value 1 based on the temporary target shift level SPtmp and a lower limit value Srt (S473), and request torque Tr* and target revolving speed Ne* corresponding to the shift level SP* for execution are set based on temporary request torque Tra and Trb or temporary revolving speeds Nea and Neb corresponding to a virtual shift level just below and just above the shift level SP* for execution. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicle, for varying the output characteristic of a driving force according to the amount of operation of an accelerator, to provide more appropriate output characteristic of the driving force without giving an uncomfortable feeling. SOLUTION: In the hybrid vehicle 20, an accelerator opening Acc* for execution is set using a map for setting normal execution opening, so that an accelerator opening Acc is gradually increased or decreased (step S120). When the accelerator opening Acc is equal to or larger than 100% of a practical maximum value and a kickdown switch 88 is turned on, the accelerator opening Acc* for execution is set using both a map for setting kickdown execution opening, which specifies the larger accelerator opening Acc* for execution relative to the same accelerator opening Acc than the map for setting normal execution opening, and the accelerator opening Acc by the driver (step S130). COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress the temporary omission of a damping force acting on a vehicle in the case of stopping the operation of an internal combustion engine under damping. SOLUTION: When a brake pedal is stepped on by a driver, and an engine stop request is made (time T1) while a damping torque is output from a motor MG2 and an oil pressure brake, a portion of the damping torque from a motor MG2 is replaced with the damping torque from the oil pressure brake, and the engine is smoothly stopped according to the control of the motor MG1. As a result, a power as the sum of the generated output of the motor MG1 and the generated output of the motor MG2 exceeds the input limit of a battery. Thus, it is possible to suppress the torque of the motor MG2 from being limited, and to prevent the torque omission of the damping torque. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a driver to have a gear shift feeling when a shift position SP is changed in an automobile capable of operating an engine at an arbitrary operation point regardless of the shift position SP by connecting the engine, a first motor, and an axle to a planetary gear mechanism and connecting a second motor to the axle. SOLUTION: When upshifting is performed in the shift position SP in a state where the shift position SP is within a sequential shift range, the rotation number Ne of the engine is temporarily reduced, so that the driver has the gear shift feeling. Consequently, an unnatural feeling is prevented from being given to the driver who is familiar to the gear shift feeling of the automobile with an automatic stage change gear mounted thereon. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To transmit power from a motor MG2 more efficiently to a driving shaft in an automobile constituted to connect an engine, a motor MG1 and the driving shaft to a planetary gear mechanism and to connect a motor MG2 to the driving shaft through a transmission, and equipped with a mechanical pump driven by the engine to supply oil pressure to the transmission, and an electric pump driven by an electric motor to supply oil pressure to the transmission. SOLUTION: Even when demand power Pe* is a threshold Pref or less, when a torque command Tm2* of the motor MG2 is larger than allowable torque Tlim set in a tendency to be smaller as an oil temperature θoil is higher (S120, S200), the engine is continuously operated (S210). The transmission can thereby be operated using the oil pressure of oil force-fed from the mechanical pump and oil force-fed from the electric pump, and power from the Motor MG2 can be transmitted more efficiently from the motor MG2 to the driving shaft by the transmission compared with one stopping operation of the engine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce a gear change shock in changing gear change stages of a transmission in a device which outputs power from an electric motor to a drive shaft through the transmission. SOLUTION: When changing the gear change stage of the transmission which transmits power of a motor MG2 to the drive shaft, while transmitting torque from the motor MG2, a torque instruction Tm2* before change of the gear change stage is maintained until the number of rotations Nm2 of the motor MG2 reaches to the change start number of rotations Nst near to the after change number of rotation Nend, then the torque instruction Tm2* of the motor MG2 is smoothly changed to the torque Tend after the change of the gear change stage according to the change of the number of rotation Nm2 of the motor MG2. Thereby, the gear change shock by decline of torque in changing the gear change stage or the like can be reduced. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To restrain gear-shift shock at a gear change during the shutdown of the driving circuit of a motor, in a device which outputs power from a motor to a driving shift via a transmission or in a vehicle provided with such a device. SOLUTION: When a shift position SP is an N range, brakes are operated with a line hydraulic pressure PL, which operates brakes for shifting a gear of a transmission, at a low pressure Plo (S310), and when the shift position SP is not the N range, that is, a normal state, the brakes are operated with the line hydraulic pressure PL at a high pressure Phi (S320). By this, the engaging force acting on the brakes becomes larger more gradually than usual, and consequently the change per time of revolutions of a motor can be decreased when a gear is shifted, and the gear-shift shock which occurs with the change of the revolutions of the motor can also be restrained. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To smoothly perform shift of a transmission for shifting and transmitting power from an electric motor to a driving shaft even when negative driving force is outputted from the electric motor. SOLUTION: When the number of rotations Nm1 of a power generation motor usually driven as a generator becomes less than 0 and negative torque is outputted from a driving motor usually driven as an electric motor, target torque Te* of an engine is changed (S160) such that torque outputted from the engine to a ring gear shaft as a driving shaft through a planetary gear mechanism is coincident with requirement torque set based on acceleration operation of a driver. the target number of revolution Ne* of the engine is changed (S190) so as to become within a range of battery output limit Wout and switching processing of a gear of the transmission mounted to the driving motor is started (S200). As a result, since the torque outputted from the motor MG2 becomes a value 0, switching of the gear state of the transmission can be smoothly performed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To further improve acceleration performance at stall starting while preventing the overcharge of a battery and charge by excessive large power. SOLUTION: In a hybrid automobile, an engine, a first motor, a drive shaft and a second motor are connected to a planetary gear mechanism, and the automobile comprises the battery that feeds powers to the two motors. Engine requirement power Pe* is set (S130, S180) by adding to an input limit Win of the battery the loss power Plstl and the margin power Pmgn of a drive system that are calculated on the basis of an upper limit value Tmmax of the torque of the second motor at the stall starting, the engine and the first motor are controlled, and the second motor is controlled in the range of the torque upper limit value Tmmax when a stall start is required when an accelerator pedal and a brake pedal are concurrently pedaled in at parking. By this, the acceleration performance when a brake is released after the stall start can be improved while preventing the overcharge of the battery and the charge by the excessive large power. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI