Patent ID: 7404289

Claim:
A vehicular control device for a vehicle having mounted therein an internal combustion engine with an exhaust manifold provided with a catalytic device cleaning emissions, comprising: a fuel supplier supplying said internal combustion engine with fuel; a detector detecting that said catalytic device generates catalytic odor and/or a prediction that said catalytic device generates said catalytic odor; an interrupter temporarily interrupting said fuel supplied from said fuel supplier; a controller controlling said vehicle, as based on whether said interrupter's temporal interruption of said fuel is attributed to said catalytic odor; and a determinator determining whether said internal combustion engine should be warmed up, wherein if said determinator determines that said internal combustion engine should be warmed up and temporarily interrupting said fuel is accordingly prohibited, and said interrupter on the other hand currently, temporarily interrupts said fuel, said controller controls said internal combustion engine to prioritize said interrupter temporarily interrupting said fuel.