Patent ID: 9163603
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: B60H,F02D,F02N,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A control system for an internal combustion engine that is installed on a vehicle as a motive power source and is connected, as a motive power source, to a heat supply device that supplies heat to an air conditioner of the vehicle, the control system executing idle stop control for temporarily stopping the engine during stoppage of the vehicle and restarting the engine from the temporarily stopped state, comprising: lower limit blowout temperature-setting means for setting a lower limit value of a blowout temperature that is a temperature of air blown out from the air conditioner into a compartment of the vehicle, as a lower limit blowout temperature; estimated blowout temperature-calculating means for calculating an estimated value of the blowout temperature as an estimated blowout temperature; and control means for causing the engine to be restarted when the estimated blowout temperature calculated when the engine is in the temporarily stopped state has become not higher than the lower limit blowout temperature, wherein the air conditioner includes an electric fan, the control system further comprising: wherein said estimated blowout temperature-calculating means comprises: