Patent ID: 8948987
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: F02D,F16H

Abstract:
1. A control device configured to be installed in a vehicle equipped with both an internal combustion engine configured to selectively change a combustion mode of the internal combustion engine to a homogenous combustion, a stratified combustion or a lean-burn combustion and a brake booster powered by an intake air negative pressure produced by the internal combustion engine, the control device comprising: an inclination detecting means for detecting or estimating an inclination of the vehicle in a front and back direction, wherein the control device is configured to control the combustion mode of the internal combustion engine at a standstill of the vehicle after cold starting in accordance with the inclination of the vehicle outputted by the inclination detecting means so as to cause the combustion mode of the internal combustion engine to take the stratified combustion or the lean-burn combustion when the inclination of the vehicle is smaller than a threshold value, and to cause the combustion mode to take the homogenous combustion when the inclination of the vehicle is larger than the threshold value.