Patent ID: 8452474

Claim:
A control device for a hybrid vehicle that includes: an internal combustion engine; an electric motor operable to assist output power of the internal combustion engine; an exhaust gas purifying device, provided in an exhaust passage, that purifies exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine flowing through the exhaust passage, the exhaust gas purifying device having a purification capacity regenerated by a regenerating process; a battery for serving at least as a power source to operate the electric motor and charged by electric power supplied during a charging process; and a power generator for generating electric power proportional to an engine load or engine speed and supplying the electric power to the battery during the charging process; the control device comprising: a regenerating portion that is configured to perform the regenerating process by increasing the engine load and/or engine speed based on a request to perform the regenerating process from the exhaust gas purifying device; a charging portion that is configured to perform the charging process by increasing the engine load and/or engine speed based on a request to perform the charging process from the battery, and a multitasking portion that is configured to execute the charging process and determines whether execution of the regenerating process is requested when execution of the charging process is requested, wherein the multitasking portion determines whether execution of the regenerating process is requested after relaxing a prescribed execution condition for determining whether execution of the regenerating process is requested.