Patent ID: 7389838

Claim:
A hybrid powered vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine; an internal combustion engine control circuit for controlling flow rate of fuel supplied to said internal combustion engine; an AC electric motor having a rotary shaft coupled to a rotary shaft of said internal combustion engine; a storage battery; an inverter for inverting DC power of said storage battery into AC power and supplying the AC power to said electric motor; and a hybrid control circuit responsive to an electric signal indicative of pressing amount information of an accelerator pedal of said vehicle for controlling said inverter, wherein said control circuit comprises calculation means for calculating load sharing rates of said internal combustion engine and said electric motor on the basis of the pressing amount of said accelerator pedal, and means for supplying information corresponding to the load sharing rate of said internal combustion engine calculated by said calculation means to said internal combustion engine control circuit, and wherein said hybrid control circuit further includes; means for recognizing a charging rate of said storage battery; and means for, when the charging rate of said storage battery is larger than a predetermined value, increasing the load sharing rate of said electric motor to the maximum possible rate if the range of the pressing amount of said accelerator pedal is smaller than a predetermined value.