Patent ID: 8988206
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: B60Q,F02D,F02N,Y02T

Abstract:
1. An in-vehicle informing device equipped in a vehicle with an idle reduction function which causes an engine of the vehicle to be stopped automatically in response to fulfillment of a predetermined stop condition and thereafter causes the engine to be restarted automatically in response to fulfillment of a predetermined restart condition, the in-vehicle informing device comprising: a stop cause check section configured to determine whether or not the engine is in an stop state by having been automatically stopped by the idle reduction function; a drive state check section configured to, in cases where the stop cause check section determines that the engine is in the stop state by having been automatically stopped the idle reduction function, an alert section configured to, in cases where the drive state check section determines that the driver is in the drive suspending state, the alert section does not inform the driver that the engine is in the stop state by having been automatically stopped by the idle reduction function when the drive state check section determines that the driver is in a drive continuation state.