Patent ID: 7869911
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: B60K,B60R,F02N,Y02T,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A vehicle control unit adapted to be mounted on a vehicle having a battery which supplies electric power to electric equipments of the vehicle and an alternator which generates the electric power and charges the battery when an engine of the vehicle is operated, the vehicle control unit, when a program stored in a non-transitory storage medium is executed, functions as: an economical running control section, operable to perform an economical running in which the engine is automatically stopped when the vehicle is in a predetermined engine stopping condition and the engine is automatically restarted when the vehicle is in a predetermined engine restarting condition; a calculate section, operable to calculate an available current value which is available to supply to the electric equipments from the battery; and a feed limiting section, operable to limit to supply the electric power to the electric equipments from the battery, wherein: the economical running control section controls the economical running based on a total value of necessary current values which are necessary for the respective electric equipments and the available current value; and the feed limiting section limits to supply the electric power to the electric equipments from the battery based on the total value of the necessary current values and a sum of the available current value and a generated current value of the alternator.