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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016

Filed:

Aug. 07, 2012
Applicant:

Jun Saito, Okazaki, JP;

Inventor:

Jun Saito, Okazaki, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 20/00 (2006.01); B60W 10/02 (2006.01); B60W 10/06 (2006.01); B60W 50/08 (2012.01); B60L 11/12 (2006.01); B60W 10/08 (2006.01); B60K 6/442 (2007.10);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 20/20 (2013.01); B60K 6/442 (2013.01); B60L 11/123 (2013.01); B60W 10/06 (2013.01); B60W 10/08 (2013.01); B60W 20/00 (2013.01); B60W 50/082 (2013.01); B60W 10/02 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2540/04 (2013.01); Y02T 10/6217 (2013.01); Y02T 10/6234 (2013.01); Y02T 10/6286 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7005 (2013.01); Y02T 10/7077 (2013.01); Y10S 903/946 (2013.01);
Abstract

A switching vehicle speed determination section () judges a traveling mode requested by a driver on the basis of switch position information of a traveling mode switch operated by the driver and determines a switching vehicle speed for switching a hybrid type from a series mode to a parallel mode. A series/parallel modes switching determination section () determines switching between the series mode and the parallel mode on the basis of the switching vehicle speed set for the traveling mode determined by the switching vehicle speed determination section () and a vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed sensor. A clutch control section () controls engagement/disengagement of a clutch on the basis of a determination result of the series/parallel modes switching determination section ().


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