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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2007
Applicants:
Sumiko Amamiya, Okazaki, JP;
Koichiro Muta, Okazaki, JP;
Yuichiro Kitamura, Anjo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60T 8/32 (2006.01); G06F 7/70 (2006.01); B60V 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An HV_ECU executes a program including a step of calculating an estimated gradient, a step of performing rate limit processing on a change in the estimated gradient when on a hill and an absolute value of the vehicle speed is equal to or below V(), a step of performing hysteresis processing, a step of calculating a creep increase coefficient, and a step of calculating a creep increase torque.