Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Takayuki Nishida

Taku Harada

Hiroki Kuwamoto

Tomoya Takeuchi

Kenji Miyasaka

Kenji Gotoda

Akira Nakata

A vehicle control device for a vehicle provides a predetermined control based on the rotational characteristic, the vehicle including a rotation lock mechanism preventing rotation of a coupling portion of the rotating member coupled to the engine on the engine side of the rotating member in at least one direction, the vehicle control device comprising: a characteristic detecting portion detecting the rotational characteristic by applying a torque to the rotating member from the electric motor to measure a twist angle of the rotating member while the rotation of the coupling portion is prevented by the rotation lock mechanism; and a characteristic correspondence control portion setting a control value related to an engine rotation speed based on the rotational characteristic detected by the characteristic detecting portion to provide the predetermined control by using the control value.

Growing community of inventors

Toyota, Japan

Takayuki Nishida