(19)
(11) EP 1 329 620 A8

(12) CORRECTED EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION
published in accordance with Art. 158(3) EPC

(48) Corrigendum issued on:
02.01.2004 Bulletin 2004/01

(43) Date of publication:
23.07.2003 Bulletin 2003/30

(21) Application number: 01978830.6

(22) Date of filing: 19.10.2001
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)7: F02D 29/02, B60L 11/14, B60K 6/02, F02D 17/02, F02D 13/06
(86) International application number:
PCT/JP2001/009184
(87) International publication number:
WO 2002/035074 (02.05.2002 Gazette 2002/18)
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH CY DE DK ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE TR

(30) Priority: 23.10.2000 JP 2000323365
24.05.2001 JP 2001155687

(71) Applicant: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-8556 (JP)

(72) Inventors:
  • Wakashiro, Teruo c/o K.K. Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0193 (JP)
  • Takahashi, Hideyuki K.K. Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0193 (JP)
  • Matsubara, Atsushi K. K. Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0193 (JP)
  • Kamo, Tomoharu c/o K. K. Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0193 (JP)
  • Sato, Toshiyuki c/o K. K. Honda Gijutsu Kenkyusho
    Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0193 (JP)
  • Nakamoto, Yasuo
    Haga-gun, Tochigi 321-3325 (JP)

(74) Representative: Prechtel, Jörg, Dipl.-Phys. Dr. 
Weickmann & Weickmann Patentanwälte Postfach 86 08 20
81635 München
81635 München (DE)

   


(54) CONTROLLER OF HYBRID VEHICLE


(57) A control device for a hybrid vehicle having an engine and a motor as driving sources for the vehicle, and when decelerating, the control device stops the fuel supply to the engine and generates energy by regenerative braking. The engine is a cylinder pause-type engine which is capable of switching between the all-cylinder driving state in which all of cylinders are operating, and a cylinder paused driving state in which all of the cylinders are paused, and the control device of the hybrid vehicle comprises a cylinder pause state determination device for determining whether the engine is in the all cylinder driving state or in a cylinder paused driving state and a regeneration amount supplementing device for supplementing the regeneration energy by the motor by use of the increment of the regeneration energy obtained during the cylinder pausing operation than that obtained during all cylinder driving state.