Vehicle control apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2018024173-A1
Application number	US-201715655242-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 20, 2017
Priority date	Jul 25, 2016
Publication date	Jan 25, 2018
Grant date	—

Abstract

The power supply determining part determines whether there is a power supplied from outside of the vehicle to the battery at start-up of the engine. The alarming part alarms to prompt a driver to manually operate the automatic stop control part when it is determined that there is a power supplied from the outside by the power supply determining part.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A vehicle control apparatus comprising:
a power supply device; an automatic stop control part that automatically operates a stop state maintaining mechanism of a vehicle, the stop state maintaining mechanism maintaining a stop state of the vehicle; a power supply determining part that determines whether or not a power is supplied from an outside the vehicle to the power supply device of the vehicle; and an alarming part that performs an alarm for prompting a vehicle user to manually operate the stop state maintaining mechanism when the power supply determining part determines that there is the power supplied from the outside the vehicle.

2 . The vehicle control apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising:
a state determining part that determines a state of the power supply device, wherein the alarming part performs the alarm when the state determining part determines that the power supply device is abnormal.

3 . The vehicle control apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein, in a case where the alarming part was in the mode for performing the alarm when the ignition of the vehicle is OFF last time, the alarming part does not perform the alarm when the power supply determining part determines that the power is not supplied from the outside of the vehicle.

4 . The vehicle control apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , further comprising a sensor that detects that a hood of the vehicle is open or shut, wherein the power supply determining part determines that there is the power supplied from outside of the vehicle when the hood of the vehicle is open when the engine is started up.

5 . The vehicle control apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the state determining part determines whether or not the start of the engine failed last time and determines that the power supply device is abnormal when the state determining part determines that the start of the engine failed last time.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kakinuma Katsuyoshi
• Nagasawa Minoru

Classifications

• G01R31/3647

  for determining the ability of a battery to perform a critical function, e.g. cranking · CPC title

• B60W2520/04

  Vehicle stop · CPC title

• F02D41/06

  for engine starting or warming up {(F02D41/0255 takes precedence)} · CPC title

• G01R19/16542 Primary

  for batteries (charge condition monitoring in G01R31/36) · CPC title

• F02D17/00

  Controlling engines by cutting out individual cylinders; Rendering engines inoperative or idling (controlling or rendering inoperative by varying inlet or exhaust valve operating characteristics F02D13/00) · CPC title