Patent ID: 8296041
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: F02D,F02N

Abstract:
1. A vehicle control apparatus which is applied to a vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission which transmits an output of an engine to an axle and which stops said engine when a given automatic stop condition is encountered and restarts said engine when a given restart condition is encountered while the engine is being stopped automatically, comprising: required travel performance detecting means for detecting a travel performance of the vehicle required immediately after restart of said engine; torque controlling means for increasing torque of said engine when being restarted more than a reference torque based on a result of detection of said required travel performance detecting means; braking means for actuating a brake when the vehicle slips while being decelerated; and friction condition detecting means for detecting a vehicle traveling road at a time of restart of the engine as being a low μ road when said braking means actuates the brake in a given period of time immediately before stop of the vehicle, characterized in that execution of torque control by said torque controlling means is stopped in a condition where said friction condition detecting means detects the vehicle traveling road at a time of restart of the engine as being the low μ road.