Control device for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuki NOSE, Yuto IKEDA, Takanobu GOTOH
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Abstract
A CPU of a control device is configured to perform a specific cylinder fuel cutoff process of causing an internal combustion engine to operate such that supply of fuel to some cylinders out of a plurality of cylinders is stopped and supply of fuel to the other cylinders is maintained and a fastening force decreasing process of decreasing a fastening force of a lockup clutch of a torque converter. The CPU is configured to start the specific cylinder fuel cutoff process in a state in which the fastening force has been decreased through the fastening force decreasing process when the specific cylinder fuel cutoff process is performed in a state in which the internal combustion engine operates with a load.
Claims5
A control device for a vehicle that is applied to a vehicle which includes an internal combustion engine including a plurality of cylinders, a torque converter including a lockup clutch, and a gear shift device, the control device comprising:
- an execution device configured to perform a specific cylinder fuel cutoff process of stopping supply of fuel to some cylinders out of the plurality of cylinders and maintaining supply of fuel to the other cylinders to operate the internal combustion engine and a fastening force decreasing process of decreasing a fastening force of the lockup clutch,
- wherein the execution device is configured to start the specific cylinder fuel cutoff process in a state in which the fastening force has been decreased through the fastening force decreasing process when the specific cylinder fuel cutoff process is performed in a state in which the internal combustion engine operates with a load.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.