Patent ID: 9637025
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: B60L,H02P,Y02T

Claim:
1. A control apparatus for a vehicle motor, configured to control a motor that can realize a plurality of characteristics in which output upper limits of torque are different from each other, said control apparatus for the vehicle motor comprising: a characteristic switching device configured to switch a characteristic of the motor between a first characteristic in which the output upper limit is first predetermined torque and a second characteristic in which the output upper limit is second predetermined torque, which is smaller than the first predetermined torque; a characteristic determining device configured to determine whether the characteristic of the motor is the first characteristic or the second characteristic; and a characteristic controlling device configured to allow said characteristic determining device to determine whether or not the characteristic of the motor is the first characteristic if a driven body driven by the motor is stopped, and configured to control said characteristic switching device to switch the characteristic of the motor to the first characteristic and to start the motor with the first characteristic at a next start of the driven body if it is determined that the characteristic of the motor is not the first characteristic.