Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fuel-saving control device and fuel-saving control method
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Application No.: US16341396Application Date: 2017-10-11
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Publication No.: US10661775B2Publication Date: 2020-05-26
- Inventor: Wasantha Oshita , Tomohiko Takeda , Katsunori Kikuchi
- Applicant: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
- Applicant Address: JP Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
- Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
- Current Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: JP Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo
- Agency: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6537cc94
- International Application: PCT/JP2017/036754 WO 20171011
- International Announcement: WO2018/070400 WO 20180419
- Main IPC: B60W10/06
- IPC: B60W10/06 ; B60W30/182 ; B60W40/072 ; B60W40/076 ; F02D41/12 ; F02D41/30

Abstract:
A fuel-saving control device equipped with: a surplus drive force calculation unit for calculating surplus drive force; a fuel-saving control unit for executing a fuel-saving control which lowers and corrects the indicated fuel injection amount according to the accelerator position when the surplus drive force reaches or exceeds a first threshold, and stopping the fuel-saving control when the surplus drive force falls below the first threshold; a vehicle position detection unit for detecting the vehicle position; a map information storage unit for storing map information; a road information identification unit for identifying the curvature radius and gradient of the road upon which travel is planned, on the basis of the vehicle position and the map information; and a flat/straight road determination unit for determining whether or not the road upon which travel is planned is a flat and straight road, on the basis of the curvature radius and gradient of the road upon which travel is planned. Therein, the fuel-saving control unit executes the fuel-saving control when the road upon which travel is planned is a flat and straight road.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200039497A1 FUEL-SAVING CONTROL DEVICE AND FUEL-SAVING CONTROL METHOD Public/Granted day:2020-02-06
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