Patent ID: 8738211
Filing Date: 2014-05-27
Classification: B60K,B60L,B60W,F16H,Y02T,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus for a vehicle in which rotational driving force of an engine output shaft that is an output shaft of an internal combustion engine is transmitted to a driving wheel via a rotating output shaft, and which has a normal mode and a power mode as vehicle driving characteristics, the control apparatus comprising: a continuously variable transmission mechanism that steplessly changes a speed ratio when the rotational driving force of the engine output shaft is transmitted to the rotating output shaft; and a control portion that, when a required output of the internal combustion engine when the power mode is selected is the same as a required output of the internal combustion engine when the normal mode is selected, in a case where the power mode is selected, and when a rotation speed of the engine output shaft is increased to a target rotation speed, controls the continuously variable transmission mechanism such that the driving force transmitted to the rotating output shaft, from the engine output shaft, decreases, so that a rate of increase in the rotation speed of the engine output shaft is greater than a rate of increase in the rotation speed of the engine output shaft in a case where the normal mode is selected.