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US 12,710,016 B2Granted
Control device for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAkito Uchida
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Abstract
A control device, for a vehicle, includes a mode determination unit configured to determine whether a traveling mode of the vehicle is switched to a circuit mode or not and a start sound control unit configured to execute a start sound increase process of increasing a start sound of a traveling power source of the vehicle in a case where the mode determination unit makes an affirmative determination, as compared to a case where the mode determination unit makes a negative determination.
Claims3
A control device for a vehicle, the control device comprising:
- a mode determination unit configured to determine whether a traveling mode of the vehicle is switched to a circuit mode or not;
- and
- a start sound control unit configured to execute a start sound increase process of increasing a start sound of a traveling power source of the vehicle in a case where the mode determination unit makes an affirmative determination, as compared to a case where the mode determination unit makes a negative determination,
- wherein
- the traveling power source is an engine, and
- the start sound control unit is configured to execute the start sound increase process by increasing a blowing rotation speed at a time of starting the engine in a case where the mode determination unit makes an affirmative determination, as compared to a case where the mode determination unit makes a negative determination.
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