Patent ID: 8924060

Claim:
A control device for a hybrid vehicle, said hybrid vehicle including an internal combustion engine generating vehicle driving force, a power storage device capable of being charged and discharged, an electric motor receiving supply of electric power from said power storage device for generating vehicle driving force, and a catalyst device purifying exhaust gas of said internal combustion engine by catalysis, said control device comprising: a running mode control unit controlling switching of a running mode including a first mode in which said internal combustion engine is not operated to maintain a state of charge indicating a charging state of said power storage device, and a second mode in which said internal combustion engine is operated or stopped, and said internal combustion engine is operated to maintain said state of charge, and a discharge allowable power control unit increasing, when said running mode is at said first mode and said internal combustion engine is stopped, a discharge allowable power that can be discharged by said power storage device than when the running mode is at said first mode and said internal combustion engine is operating, or than when said running mode is at said second mode, even when said running mode is at said first mode and said internal combustion engine is operating, or even when said running mode is at said second mode, said discharge allowable power control unit increases said discharge allowable power in a case where said catalyst device is currently warmed up, than when said catalyst device is not currently warmed up.