Patent ID: 7935022

Claim:
A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle power transmitting system including (a) an electrically controlled differential portion which has a differential mechanism and an electric motor operatively connected to the differential mechanism and a differential state of which is controllable by controlling an operating state of the electric motor, and (b) a switching portion which constitutes a part of a power transmitting path and which is operable to switch the power transmitting path between a power transmitting state and a power cut-off state, said control apparatus comprising: an operating-state estimating portion configured to estimate the operating state of the electric motor after the power transmitting path is switched from the power cut-off state to the power transmitting state; and a switching restricting portion configured to restrict a switching operation to switch the power transmitting path from the power cut-off state to the power transmitting state, when the operating state of the electric motor estimated by the operating-state estimating portion is in a predetermined state.