Patent ID: 8843260

Claim:
A control apparatus provided in a hybrid vehicle, wherein the hybrid vehicle includes a running drive source and a catalytic converter for exhaust gas purification, the running drive source has a motor and an internal combustion engine configured to execute in-cylinder injection and port injection, and the catalytic converter is provided on an exhaust path of the internal combustion engine, the control apparatus comprising an electronic control unit that is configured to: execute an intermittent operation control in which, while the internal combustion engine is intermittently operated, the hybrid vehicle is run with the running drive source; execute a catalyst rapid warm-up control in which the catalytic converter is rapidly warmed up by retarding ignition time of the internal combustion engine, when the internal combustion engine is restarted after a stop of the internal combustion engine due to the intermittent operation control; operate the internal combustion engine only by the port injection until a pressure of fuel for the in-cylinder injection reaches a preset reference set pressure, when the internal combustion engine is restarted; and start the in-cylinder injection when the pressure of the fuel for the in-cylinder injection reaches the preset reference set pressure.