Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Eri Itou

Takeshi Hara

Terukazu Torikai

Yuusuke Obata

Hideki Takahashi

Masaki Ueno

Yosuke Kosaka

Kazuki Takahashi

Yuto Katori

Satoshi Uchino

Seiji Takaya

A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, which is capable of, when controlling a variable intake cam phase mechanism and a variable exhaust cam phase mechanism, ensuring a stable combustion of a mixture and improving the drivability, even when one of the two is in a failure state. The control apparatus includes an ECU. The ECU calculates an intake cam phase and an exhaust cam phase, determines, based on the calculated intake cam phase and exhaust cam phase, whether or not there has occurred a failure state of one of the mechanisms, in which the valve overlap period becomes longer than during a normal time, and controls, when it is determined that there has occurred the failure state of the one mechanism, the other mechanism such that the valve overlap period becomes shorter.

Control apparatus for internal combustion engine

Provided is an internal combustion engine control system capable of simultaneously and suitably carrying out the will of a driver to accelerate and modifications to the throttle opening degree characteristics. An internal combustion engine control system is provided with an accelerator pedal operation amount sensor for detecting the accelerator pedal operation amount, a storage unit for storing multiple different throttle opening degree characteristics of an engine relative to the accelerator pedal operation amount, a switch for selecting the throttle opening degree characteristic pertaining to a plus sports mode in response to an operation, and an engine control unit for controlling the throttle opening degree of the engine on the basis of the selected throttle opening degree characteristic and the detected accelerator pedal operation amount.

Internal combustion engine control system

Provided is a control device for a hybrid vehicle, which makes it possible to manually select a degree of acceleration in tune with user's preferences and user's intended running quality. Provided is a control device for a hybrid vehicleincluding an engine and a motor for assisting the engine with power, in which an ECUis provided with a first changing unit, which prepares to increase the assist amount of the motorin response to a user depressing a Plus Sport mode switch, and subsequently increases the assist amount of the motorin response to the user pressing an accelerator pedal to cause a variation &#x394;AP in an accelerator position to be at least a predetermined value.

Control device for hybrid vehicle

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Eri Itou