Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Talyo Uejima

Kazuyuki Shiiba

Takeshi Kanayama

Daiki Sato

Providing a control apparatus for a vehicular drive system, which is configured to implement a torque reduction control during a shifting action of an automatic transmission, and which permits reduction of the size and cost of an electric circuit including a smoothing capacitor. An electricity-generation-amount-variation restricting region Ais predetermined such that a point of a vehicle running state lies in the electricity-generation-amount-variation restricting region Aprior to a moment of determination to perform a shifting action of the automatic transmission, and electricity-generation-amount-variation restricting meansimplements an electricity-generation-amount-variation restricting control to restrict a rate of increase of a total amount of an electric energy generated by first and second electric motors MGand MG, to a predetermined upper limit value LT, when the point of the vehicle running state has moved into the electricity-generation-amount-variation restricting region A. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent an abrupt increase of the total amount of the electric energy generated by the first and second electric motors MGand MGprior to a torque reduction control to be implemented during the shifting action of the automatic transmission. As a result, the amount of a surplus electric energy can be reduced, so that a required electrostatic capacity of the inverter smoothing capacitorcan be reduced. Namely, the size and cost of an electric power source control circuitincluding the inverter smoothing capacitorcan be reduced.

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