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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2009
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2006
Daisuke Ido, Nagoya, JP;
Daisuke Ido, Nagoya, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kanushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
An ECU executes a program including the steps of detecting a stroke amount SP of a clutch pedal, a value I of current flowing through a solenoid valve of a normally-closed type provided at a pipe coupling a master cylinder and a clutch release cylinder, and a stroke amount SC of the clutch release cylinder, and permitting performing of idle stop when a condition that the stroke amount SP of the clutch pedal is at least a threshold value SP(), a condition that stroke amount SC of the clutch release cylinder is at least a threshold value SC(), and a condition that value I of current flowing through the solenoid valve is not larger than a threshold value I() are all satisfied.