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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a travel determination system for a hybrid vehicle capable of accurately determining whether a fuel is supplied or not when restarting after a travel prohibition state.SOLUTION: A fuel pump 4 for supplying a fuel in a fuel tank 3 to an engine 12 is connected to a control part 2. The rotation drive of the fuel pump 4 is controlled by a drive control signal output from the control part 2, and information about rotational frequency or current value is delivered to the control part 2. After an HV system 10 has been made to be in a travel prohibition state, a remaining amount of the fuel in the fuel tank 3 is estimated by using information about the change of rotational frequency N or current value I of the fuel pump 4 and thereby, it is decided whether the travel prohibition state is released or not.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method for determining abnormality of a booster circuit or a relay connected to a battery, wherein abnormality occurs in monitoring, without having to provide a special sensor, when cutting off the battery wherein the abnormality occurs in the monitoring and performing standby traveling. SOLUTION: When standby travel is conducted, by reaching a state of not monitoring a slave battery by the occurrence of abnormality in an electronic control unit for the slave battery, an intermediate voltage between a high-voltage-system target voltage VH* and a first low-voltage-system voltage VL* is set as a threshold voltage Vset (S110). When a second low-voltage-system voltage VL2 is larger than the threshold voltage Vset, over a prescribed period or when a high-voltage-system voltage VH is less than the threshold voltage Vset over a prescribed period, it is decided that there is an abnormality by on-fixing occurring, in the slave side booster circuit 65 or in system main relays 66, 67 (S140). COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cancel the execution of unnecessary inhibit control after determining the moving direction of a vehicle when executing inhibit control without providing a special sensor. SOLUTION: An ECU executes a program which includes a step (S106) of calculating a synchronous rotating speed NS(2) of a MG(2) 140A after cancelling D-inhibit control when the D-inhibit control is in motion (YES in S102), a step (S108) of giving positive rotation to the MG(2) 140A at the synchronous rotating speed NS(2), a step (S110) of putting each clutch and each brake into semi-engaging conditions after cancelling the D-inhibit control, a step (S114) of calculating a change amount ΔNIN of an input shaft rotating speed NIN, and a step (S120) of cancelling the D-inhibit control after determining that the vehicle is moved forward (S118) when the change amount ΔNIN of the input shaft rotating speed NIN is smaller than a threshold value A (YES in S116). COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the number of revolutions of a motor from rising abruptly by suppressing components of a transmission from wearing, and suppressing the number of revolutions of a driveshaft from varying unexpectedly if at least either a driveshaft revolution sensor for detecting the number of revolutions of the driveshaft or a rotating position sensor for detecting the rotating position of the rotor of the second motor fails, in an automobile in which the driveshaft connected to a first motor, an engine and driving wheels is connected to the sun gear, the carrier and the ring gear of a planetary gear mechanism and in which the second motor is connected to the driveshaft via a transmission. SOLUTION: When at least either the driveshaft revolution sensor or the rotating position sensor fails (S110), the operation of the engine is continued and a torque command Tm2* for the second motor is set at a value of zero (S320-S340); the transmission ratio of the transmission is not changed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To cope more properly, when driving restriction of a motor is performed, which is used for power conversion in the middle of output of power to a driving shaft, in a state where charging/discharging of a power accumulation device is prohibited, concerning a device for outputting the power from an internal combustion engine to the driving shaft via power conversion in company with charging/discharging of the power accumulation device, such as a secondary battery. SOLUTION: When driving restriction of the motor MG2 is performed in the middle of traveling without a battery (S170), operation of an engine 22 is stopped and driving of motors MG1, MG2 is stopped, to thereby stop traveling (S180), and ready-off is performed in order to stop the system (S190). As a result, breakage of another apparatus, connected to a power system connected to the motors MG1, MG2 via an inverter, can be suppressed, to thereby enable to cope more properly when driving restriction of the motor MG2 is performed in the middle of traveling without the battery. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the shortage of a torque to a driving shaft due to the impossibility of the start of an engine. SOLUTION: In an automobile where an engine and a motor MG1 and a driving shaft connected to a driving wheel are connected to a planetary gear mechanism, and a motor MG2 is connected through a transmission to the driving shaft, even when a request power Pe* is a threshold Pref or less, and when a motor temperature θm1 as the temperature of the motor MG1 is a threshold θref or more (S120, S240), an idle operation is performed without stopping the engine (S250). Thus, when a relatively large torque is requested to the driving shaft, it is possible to prevent the torque shortage to the driving shaft due to the impossibility of the motoring of the engine by the motor MG1, and the impossibility of the start of the engine. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately respond to the shift operation to a P (parking) position.SOLUTION: An operation determination time Tonset which is a period until presence of a shift change request is determined while a shift operation to the P position is detected, is set to a first time T1 (S130), when the absolute value of a gradient θ is smaller than a slope determination threshold θref, and is set to a second time T2 shorter than the first time T1 (S140) when the absolute value of the gradient θ is equal to or larger than the slope determination threshold θref, when the absolute value of a vehicle speed V is equal to or lower than a vehicle stop determination threshold Vref. Thereby, occurrence of inconvenience such that a vehicle creeps downward in a climbing lane or a descending lane can be suppressed. Further, the operation determination time Tonset is set to a third time T3 longer than the first time T1 (S150) when the absolute value of a vehicle speed V is larger than the vehicle stop determination threshold Vref. Thus, occurrence of inconvenience caused by inhibition of a shift change to the P position by the erroneous operation of a driver or the erroneous detection by a sensor during running, can be suppressed.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power supply device of a vehicle, wherein at least one of a plurality of electrical storage devices can be connected to a vehicle load, even when any one of a plurality of voltage sensors, each detecting the voltage of each of the plurality of electrical storage devices, has a failure. SOLUTION: When one of voltage sensors 21A and 21B is abnormal and the other is normal, a controller 30 first completes precharge processing and connection processing of a relay, included in a connecting section (either 40A or 40B) of a corresponding power supply unit, based on the detected value of a voltage sensor 13 and the detected value of a current sensor (50A or 50B) corresponding to the abnormal voltage sensor. Then, the controller 30 completes precharge processing and connection processing of a connecting section (either 40A or 40B), included in the other power supply unit, based on the detected value of the normal voltage sensor and the detected value of a current sensor corresponding to the normal voltage sensor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2010,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent members of a transmission 60 from wearing, in an automobile 20 in which an engine 22, a motor MG 1 and a drive shaft 32a are connected to a power distribution integrating mechanism 30 and in which a motor MG 2 is connected to the drive shaft 32a via the transmission 60 so that the speed of the transmission 60 is changed by means of the number of revolutions of the motor MG 2 and the number of revolutions of the drive shaft 32a. SOLUTION: When the number of revolutions of the drive shaft 32a cannot be estimated based on the number of revolutions of the engine 22 and the number of revolutions of the motor MG 1, the transmission 60 is not allowed to change speeds. If the transmission 60 is shifted using the number of revolutions of the drive shaft 32a that is detected by a sensor 36 and the number of revolutions of the motor MG 2 while the number of revolutions of the drive shaft 32a cannot be estimated, in the event of failure of the sensor 36 during the shift and members of the transmission 60 could wear due to the non-smooth shift, because the number of revolutions of the drive shaft 32a cannot be used; in this state, the transmission 60 is not allowed to shift so as to avoid such a trouble. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To appropriately deal with simultaneous occurrence of a plurality of failures in a hydraulic circuit of a transmission connected to an output shaft of a motor and a driving shaft. SOLUTION: When a failure is caused in only one of a high-pressure forming system, a low-pressure forming system, a Lo-gear forming system and a Hi-gear forming system of the hydraulic circuit of the transmission, fail-safe control corresponding to this failure is executed (S150), and when two or more failures are simultaneously caused, the driving force of a motor MG2 is cut to prohibit transmission of torque from the motor MG2 to the driving shaft (S160), whereby occurrence of an unexpected situation is suppressed. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT