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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2013
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Eiji Maeda, Fuji, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-Shi, JP;
Abstract
A travel control device is applied to a hybrid vehicle which includes a planetary gear mechanism capable of distributing power of an internal combustion engine to a first MG and an output part, and a second MG capable of outputting power to the output part. The travel control device allows the vehicle to travel in an acceleration-deceleration travel mode in which, when a high-speed steady travel condition is established during travel of the vehicle, acceleration travel for accelerating the vehicle with power output from the internal combustion engine and coasting travel for allowing the vehicle to coast with the internal combustion engine in a stop state are alternately repeated within a target vehicle speed range. In the travel control device, given power is output from the internal combustion engine at the time of acceleration travel, and the internal combustion engine is controlled such that the vehicle is accelerated at an acceleration such that the rotation speed of the first MG becomes zero.