Patent ID: 9656664
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: B60K,B60W,Y02T,Y10S

Claim:
1. A hybrid vehicle control device for controlling a drive system including an engine, a motor coupled to the engine via a first clutch, and an automatic transmission, the hybrid vehicle control device comprising: a controller programmed to, upon receiving a mode switch request during the electric vehicle traveling mode, engage the first clutch and shift from an electric vehicle traveling mode where only the motor is a drive source to a hybrid vehicle traveling mode where the engine and the motor are drive sources; the controller being further programmed to immediately start a mode switch control, which shifts from the electric vehicle traveling mode to the hybrid vehicle traveling mode by engaging the first clutch and starting the engine, and start a downshift control once a rotational speed of the engine has reached a combustion possible rotational speed, upon generation of both the mode switch request and a downshift request of the automatic transmission, the controller being further programmed to comprise a transmission speed control section which sets a transmission speed during the downshift control to be faster than the transmission speed during the downshift control when only a downshift request of the automatic transmission is generated.