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Vehicle control device and control method of the same

  • US 6,892,541 B2
  • Filed: 02/19/2003
  • Issued: 05/17/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A vehicle control device installed in a vehicle which includes an internal combustion engine and an electric motor and which runs by a driving force of at least one of the internal combustion engine and the electric motor, comprising:

  • an electric power storing portion that supplies electric power to the electric motor;

    a control portion that charges the electric power storing portion by starting the internal combustion engine after the internal combustion engine is preheated when an amount of the electric power stored in the electric power storing portion becomes below a lower limit for use of the amount of the electric power; and

    a heating portion that preheats the internal combustion engine when the amount of the electric power stored in the electric power storing portion becomes equal to or lower than a set value that is set as an amount of the stored electric power larger than the lower limit for use of the amount of the stored electric power.

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