Patent ID: 9738266
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B60K,B60W,B60Y,Y02T,Y10S

Claim:
1. An engine controller of a hybrid vehicle including a motor that rotates a drive wheel and a generator that generates electric power by being driven by an engine, comprising: one or more processing devices and one or more memory devices storing instructions to: perform a first warm-up operation by continuously operating the engine while limiting an output value of the engine within a predetermined warm-up output value until an integration value of air intake of the engine comes to a predetermined integration value and continuing the electric power generation by driving the generator with the output value of the engine in order to warm up a catalyst provided in an exhaust system of the engine while rotating the drive wheel by the motor, when the engine is first started after start-up of a vehicle that travels by intermittently driving an engine on a basis of a request output value; perform a second warm-up operation subsequent to the first warm-up operation by continuously operating the engine for a predetermined period while rotating the drive wheel by the motor, the second warm-up operation including: stop the engine, after lapse of the predetermined period, such that the vehicle travels solely by an output of the motor.