Controller for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYuuki MAKINO, Masafumi YAMAMOTO
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Abstract
A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, a battery, and a first MG that performs motoring of an internal combustion engine by receiving electric power from the battery. The controller includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry executes a determination process based on an execution condition including an engine start time that is a time from an engine stop to a next start of engine operation. In the determination process, whether a scavenging operation should be executed is determined. In the scavenging operation, the motoring is performed in a state in which fuel injection of the internal combustion engine is stopped.
Claims4
A controller for a vehicle, the vehicle including an internal combustion engine, a battery, and an electric motor that performs motoring of the internal combustion engine by receiving electric power from the battery, the controller comprising processing circuitry,
- wherein the processing circuitry is configured to execute a determination process of determining whether to execute a scavenging operation in which the motoring is performed in a state in which fuel injection of the internal combustion engine is stopped, based on an execution condition including an engine start time that is a time from an engine stop to a next start of engine operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.