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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2015
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi, JP;
Ryoki Il, Toyota, JP;
Akihiro Sato, Nagoya, JP;
Norihiro Yamamura, Miyoshi, JP;
Akiko Nishimine, Toyota, JP;
Tomoyuki Maruyama, Taijimi, JP;
Takeshi Miyagawa, Toyokawa, JP;
Tomoaki Furukawa, Toyota, JP;
Takeshi Kanayama, Toyota, JP;
Tetsuo Hori, Toyota, JP;
Koji Hayashi, Aichi-gun, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus configured to selectively establish one of a first drive state in which a vehicle drive force is generated primarily by a second motor/generator operated with an electric energy supplied from an electric-energy storage device while an engine is placed in a rest state, and a second drive state in which a first motor/generator is operated with a drive force of the engine, to generate an electric energy and in which the vehicle drive force is generated primarily by the second motor/generator operated with at least the electric energy generated by the first motor/generator. The vehicle control apparatus is further configured such that the vehicle drive force generated in the second drive state at a given value of an accelerator pedal operation amount θacc is larger than that generated in the first drive state.