Patent ID: 8565955
Filing Date: 2013-10-22
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, a throttle valve of the internal combustion engine being fully open when an accelerator operation amount is equal to the maximum amount, and a control portion that, when the accelerator operation amount is equal to the maximum amount, in a case where the power mode is selected, 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, of the output from the internal combustion engine, decreases, so that the rate of increase in the rotation speed of the engine output shaft is greater than that in a case where the normal mode is selected.