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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2017
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Fumio Egashira, Wako, JP;
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 63/50 (2006.01); F02D 41/00 (2006.01); F02D 41/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F02D 41/0087 (2013.01); F02D 41/0215 (2013.01); F02D 41/0225 (2013.01); F16H 63/50 (2013.01); F02D 2200/101 (2013.01);
Abstract
If the rotation speed of the output shaft of an engine exceeds a lower limit engine rotation speed, and the rotation speed of an input shaft exceeds a lower limit input shaft rotation speed, the control apparatus of this invention executes cylinder deactivation control of decreasing the number of operating cylinders by stopping the operations of some of a plurality of cylinders based on a cylinder deactivation upper limit engine torque set by referring to a cylinder deactivation control table corresponding to the gear range of an automatic transmission.