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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2017
Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Oguma, Tokyo, JP;
Shigetoshi Hirano, Tokyo, JP;
Wataru Matsumura, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Sonoda, Tokyo, JP;
MITSUBISHI JIDOSHA KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus of a hybrid vehicle which, when a travel mode is switched from a second mode (EV mode) to a first mode (series mode), can warm an exhaust purification catalyst appropriately to suppress deterioration of an exhaust gas, is provided. The control apparatus comprises selection meanswhich selects the first mode as a travel mode of a vehicle, if a required output is equal to or higher than a determination threshold value, or selects the second mode, if the required output is lower than the determination threshold value; and threshold value changing meanswhich lowers the determination threshold value, if the temperature of the exhaust purification catalyst is lower than a predetermined temperature.