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US 8,555,845 B2Granted
Idle stop controller
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorKazuhiro Nakata
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Abstract
An idle stop controller includes an idle stop mechanism 2 controlling the stop and the restart of an engine 1; a vehicle location detecting section 5 detecting a vehicle location; and a controller 4, when an ETC gate is retrieved within a predetermined region from a vehicle location detected by the vehicle location detecting section, prohibiting the idle stop mechanism from stopping the engine, and when no ETC gate has been detected within the predetermined region, releasing the prohibition.
Claims7
An idle stop controller including:
- an idle stop mechanism controlling the stop and the restart of an engine;
- an ETC device that generates an ETC signal state indicating whether or not an ETC card is present in the ETC device;
- a vehicle location detecting section detecting a vehicle location;
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- a controller that prohibits the idle stop mechanism from stopping the engine, when a condition of an ETC gate has been retrieved within a predetermined region from a vehicle location detected by the vehicle location detecting section and the ETC signal state indicates the presence of an ETC card, and that releases the prohibition when no ETC gate has been detected within the predetermined region.
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