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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2001
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In order to improve the fuel consumption efficiency of the fuel cell vehicles, a control flow is provided, in which, first, it is determined whether the vehicle speed VST is lower than a predetermined speed ISTP (step S ), whether a motor output PMCMD including the driving motor and the motor for driving the air compressor is less than a predetermined motor output ISTPPM (step S ), whether the brake is in the ON state (step S ), and whether the terminal voltage Vst of the power storage unit is higher than predetermined values VISTPH and VISTPL (step S ). When all of the determinations are “YES”, a permission flag for executing the idle stop F_ISTP is set to “1”, and if any of them is “NO”, the permission flag F_ISTP is set to “0”.