Patent ID: 8521350

Claim:
A control device for a vehicle having: a battery formed of a lithium ion secondary battery; a braking device configured to exert braking force on a drive wheel according to hydraulic pressure supplied from a hydraulic pressure generation circuit; a motor generator configured to transmit rotation force reciprocally with the drive wheel; and a power controller that performs bidirectional power conversion between the battery and the motor generator to control output torque of the motor generator, the control device comprising: a charge control portion that adjusts an upper limit of charging power to the battery so as to prevent a negative electrode potential of the battery caused by lithium metal deposits on the negative electrode of the battery causing the battery to drop to a lithium reference potential, based on a charge and discharge history of the battery; a braking control portion that determines a sharing ratio between a hydraulic braking force by the braking device and a regenerative braking force for desired braking force according to a brake pedal depression amount so that the motor generator generates the regenerative braking force within a range of the adjusted upper limit of charging power; a detection portion that calculates an actual value of a hydraulic response rate in the hydraulic pressure generation circuit by dividing a hydraulic pressure variation amount by a delay time amount, the hydraulic pressure variation amount is a difference between a target hydraulic pressure and an actual hydraulic pressure supplied from the hydraulic pressure generation circuit to a brake caliper of the braking device, and the delay time amount is a period of time required for the actual hydraulic pressure to reach the target hydraulic pressure; and a setting portion that variably sets, according to the hydraulic response rate calculated by the detection portion, a degree of limitation of the upper limit of charging power when restricting charging current to the battery by restricting the upper limit of charging power.