Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Control apparatus for hybrid vehicle power transmitting system
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Application No.: US12219759Application Date: 2008-07-28
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Publication No.: US08357073B2Publication Date: 2013-01-22
- Inventor: Yuji Iwase , Tatsuya Imamura , Atsushi Tabata
- Applicant: Yuji Iwase , Tatsuya Imamura , Atsushi Tabata
- Applicant Address: JP Toyota
- Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyota
- Agency: Oliff & Berridge, PLC
- Priority: JP2007-199235 20070731
- Main IPC: B60K1/02
- IPC: B60K1/02 ; F16H59/00 ; F16H3/72 ; F16H48/30 ; F16H48/06 ; B60W10/04

Abstract:
A control apparatus for a power transmitting system of a hybrid vehicle including (a) a differential portion which has a differential mechanism operatively connected to an engine and a first electric operatively connected to the differential mechanism, and a differential state of which is controlled by controlling an operating state of the first electric motor, and (b) a differential-state switching device which is incorporated in the differential mechanism and which is operable according to a differential-state switching condition, to switch the differential mechanism between a differential state in which the differential mechanism is operable to perform a differential function and a non-differential state in which the differential mechanism is not operable to perform the differential function, the control apparatus including a differential-state-switching-condition changing portion operable to change a differential-state switching condition for switching the differential-state switching device to switch the differential mechanism between the differential and non-differential states, when a temperature of the power transmitting system is lower than a predetermined threshold value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090036263A1 Control apparatus for hybrid vehicle power transmitting system Public/Granted day:2009-02-05
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