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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2010
Hikokazu Akimoto, Aichi-ken, JP;
Hikokazu Akimoto, Aichi-ken, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, JP;
Abstract
An apparatus includes an engine; an exhaust gas control apparatus; a first and second electric motors; a power distributing portion that is connected to an engine shaft, a rotating shaft of the first electric motor, and a drive shaft that inputs/outputs power to/from the second electric motor; a power storage device that supplies/receives electric power to/from the two motors; a setting portion that sets a required torque of the drive shaft; and a control portion that, when there is a demand to decelerate the drive shaft while a fuel-supply to the engine is being prohibited, controls the engine and the two motors such that torque based on the required torque is output to the drive shaft and an engine speed is decreased to a self-sustaining speed with the fuel-supply and an adjustment that increases the intake air amount of the engine as the temperature of the power storage device increases.