Patent ID: 8983736
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: B60K,F01P,G06F,Y02T

Abstract:
1. A grille shutter control device comprising: a control section, which is configured to control a drive unit that selectively opens and closes a shutter adapted to be provided in an air introduction path for introducing air ahead of a vehicle into an engine compartment; an abnormality detection section configured to detect an abnormality in operation of the shutter based on the state after starting the operation of the shutter; an informing section, which informs a user of an abnormality in the operation of the shutter based on the abnormality detected by the abnormality detection section; an inhibiting section configured to control inhibition of the operation of the shutter in accordance with an alarm given by the informing section; a memory section configured to store an operation record of the shutter during a previous period in which the ignition was on, the previous period being a period from when the ignition was previously switched on to when the ignition switch was switched off; a first operating section, wherein, if there was an alarm given by the informing section during the previous period in which an ignition switch was on as determined based upon the stored operation record, then the first operating section operates the shutter based upon the stored operation record when the ignition switch is switched on in a period subsequent to the previous period; and a cancellation section configured to cancel the state in which the operation of the shutter is inhibited by the inhibiting section based on non-detection of the abnormality by the abnormality detection section associated with operation of the shutter by the first operating section.