Patent ID: 8167066
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: B60K,B60L,B60W,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A method for setting an operating state of an internal combustion engine of a hybrid drive system, the hybrid drive system further including at least one electric drive, a hybrid coordinator, a control unit for the internal combustion engine, the control unit including multiple functions, the method comprising: generating and transmitting, by each function, information regarding operating readiness of the respective function and associated possible operating states of the internal combustion engine in which the respective function is able to be executed; selecting, by a scheduler of the functions, a function which has operating readiness and has the highest priority among the multiple functions; and if at least one of the possible operating states associated with the selected function is able to be implemented by the hybrid coordinator, the hybrid coordinator performing a modification of a distribution of power between the internal combustion engine and the at least one electric drive to operate the internal combustion engine at the at least one of the possible operating states.