Patent ID: 8346448

Claim:
An output torque control device for controlling output torque of a drive source of a vehicle, the device comprising: a timing detecting unit configured to detect a timing at which a value that varies in accordance with depression of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle has exceeded a predetermined value; a first torque determining unit configured to determine a value of the output torque of the drive source on the basis of a speed of the vehicle and a transmission gear ratio of a transmission that changes speed of an output of the drive source; a second torque determining unit configured to determine a value of the output torque of the drive source on the basis of both the value of the output torque of the drive source at the time when the timing detecting unit detected the timing (hereinafter, this torque is referred to as the “detection-time torque”) and the value of the output torque of the drive source determined by the first torque determining unit (hereinafter, this torque is referred to as the “first torque”); a third torque determining unit configured to determine a value of the output torque of the drive source on the basis of both the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal and the value of the output torque of the drive source determined by the second torque determining unit (hereinafter, this torque is referred to as the “second torque”); a fourth torque determining unit configured to determine a value of the output torque of the drive source on the basis of the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal; and an output torque limiting unit configured to limit the output torque of the drive source to the value of the output torque of the drive source determined by the third torque determining unit (hereinafter, this torque is referred to as the “third torque”), from the time when the timing detecting unit detected the timing, as long as the value of the third torque is less than the value of the output torque of the drive source determined by the fourth torque determining unit (hereinafter, this torque is referred to as the “fourth torque”); the second torque determining unit determining the value of the second torque to be at least the value of the first torque in the case where the value of the detection-time torque is less than the value of the first torque, and determining the value of the second torque to be the value of the detection-time torque in the case where the value of the detection-time torque is not less than the value of the first torque, and the third torque determining unit determining the value of the output torque of the drive source in such a manner that in the case where the value of the detection-time torque is greater than the value of the first torque, an increase of the value of the third torque is suppressed further than in the case where the value of the detection-time torque is not greater than the value of the first torque.