Title:
VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/2014/168016
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A vehicle control device equipped with: a hill-holding braking force generation means that generates hill-holding braking force when the vehicle is stopped on a sloping road; an automatic stopping permission determination means that determines whether multiple permission conditions for permitting automatic stopping of the engine have been satisfied; and an automatic stopping execution means that executes automatic stopping of the engine when the automatic stopping conditions have been satisfied. The automatic stopping permission determination means includes a road gradient permission condition as one of the multiple permission conditions, and when the absolute value of the road gradient is equal to or greater than a prescribed gradient, the automatic stopping permission determination means determines that the road gradient permission condition has been satisfied, and sets the prescribed gradient to a smaller value when towing is occurring than when towing is not occurring.
Inventors:
TAHARA MASAHIKO (JP)
Application Number:
PCT/JP2014/058900
Publication Date:
October 16, 2014
Filing Date:
March 27, 2014
Export Citation:
Assignee:
NISSAN MOTOR (JP)
International Classes:
F02D45/00; F02D29/00; F02D29/02
Foreign References:
| JP2001041070A | 2001-02-13 | |||
| JP2009041599A | 2009-02-26 | |||
| JP2010236634A | 2010-10-21 | |||
| JPH01266074A | 1989-10-24 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
GOTO, Masaki et al. (JP)
Masaki Goto (JP)
Masaki Goto (JP)
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