Patent ID: 8657722
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: F02D,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A control apparatus of an internal combustion engine having an electronic throttle system, wherein the electronic throttle system drives an actuator so that a throttle valve provided in the internal combustion engine is at a target opening according to plural driving conditions, the plural driving conditions including an operating amount of an accelerator pedal, wherein a throttle opening is turned to a limp home opening when abnormality is detected in the driving conditions so as to allow retreat traveling of a vehicle, the control apparatus comprising: a brake operation detecting unit that detects an intentional brake operation, wherein when the brake operation is added subsequently while the accelerator pedal is operated, the control apparatus sets the target opening to the limp home opening based on occurrence of a sequence of the operations, and drives the actuator so that the throttle opening turns to the limp home opening, regardless of whether abnormality is detected or not.