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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
May. 22, 2007
Yukihiro Fukushima, Haga-gun, JP;
Yutaka Tamagawa, Utsunomiya, JP;
Yukihiro Fukushima, Haga-gun, JP;
Yutaka Tamagawa, Utsunomiya, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine that is startable by a motor driven by electric power supplied by an electric storage device, includes: a starting mode selection device for selecting either a first mode or a second mode as starting mode of the internal combustion engine; a control device for setting an output mode during outputting the electric power to the motor from the electric storage device, according to a result selected by the starting mode selection device, wherein the control device is adapted to set a flat mode, corresponding to the first mode, in which a predetermined electric power is continuously output and a pulse mode, corresponding to the second mode, in which electric power that varies with amplitude greater than a predetermined amplitude is output.