Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Electric vehicle
Reexamination Certificate
2007-07-10
2007-07-10
Camby, Richard M. (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Electric vehicle
C701S070000, C701S110000, C180S065230, C477S003000
Reexamination Certificate
active
10621608
ABSTRACT:
Providing a control apparatus for a variable-cylinder engine or a vehicle control apparatus, which permits a further improvement in the fuel economy of the vehicleDecompression-state setting means102is arranged to place appropriate ones of non-operating cylinders of the variable-cylinder engine10in the decompression state, on the basis of regenerative braking state of vehicle detected by regenerative-braking-state detecting means100, so that only a required minimum number of the non-operating cylinders of the variable-cylinder engine10is/are placed in the decompression state, depending upon the detected regenerative braking state of the vehicle, making it possible to not only improve fuel economy of the vehicle but also assure sufficient engine braking of the vehicle.
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Nagano Shuji
Tabata Atsushi
Camby Richard M.
Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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