Vehicle control device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakashi AMANO
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Abstract
A vehicle control device operates an electric generator by an internal combustion engine and can intermittently drive an electric motor. The vehicle control device includes an electric storage unit and a control unit. The electric storage unit supplies electric power to the electric motor and can be charged by regenerative electric power from the electric generator. The control unit stops the intermittent driving mode provided that the vehicle speed is equal to or smaller than a predetermined speed and a status amount corresponding to an electric storage state of the electric storage unit is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.
Claims5
A vehicle control device having an intermittent driving mode in which the vehicle control device operates an electric generator by an internal combustion engine and intermittently drives at least an electric motor, comprising:
- an electric storage unit configured to supply electric power to the electric motor and be charged by regenerative electric power from the electric generator;
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- a control unit configured, in a case where the electric motor is intermittently driven, to stop the intermittent driving mode provided that a stop of a vehicle is predicted by a vehicle stop prediction unit and a status amount corresponding to an electric storage state of the electric storage unit is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.