Apparatus and method for controlling vehicle
View Patent ↗When an operation of internal combustion engine is stopped, the power consumption of a control unit is lowered, to measure an elapsed time. When the elapsed time reaches a standby time, the processing of lowering the power consumption is cancelled, to diagnose whether or not the leakage occurs in an evaporation purge line of a fuel vapor processing apparatus.
1. An apparatus for controlling a vehicle provided with an engine, comprising:
a control unit which measures an elapsed time after an operation of said engine is stopped, and performs a previously determined control when said elapsed time reaches a standby time,
wherein said control unit executes the processing of lowering a power consumption during said standby time,
wherein said control unit includes a CPU, and said control unit lowers a clock frequency of said CPU during said standby time, as said processing of lowering the power consumption,
wherein said engine is provided with a fuel vapor processing apparatus, and
the control executed by said control unit after said standby time has elapsed after the operation of said engine was stopped is a leakage diagnosis for diagnosing whether or not a leakage occurs in an evaporation purge line of said fuel vapor processing apparatus,
wherein said control unit calculates a time until the generation of fuel vapor is stopped after the operation of said engine is stopped, as said standby time.
2. An apparatus for controlling a vehicle according to claim 1 ,
wherein said control unit self-shuts off the power supply when completing the previously determined control after said standby time has elapsed.
3. A method for controlling a vehicle provided with an engine by a control unit, comprising the steps of:
measuring an elapsed time after an operation of said engine is stopped;
executing the processing of lowering a power consumption during the time said elapsed time is measured;
performing a previously determined control when said elapsed time reaches a standby time,
wherein said step of executing the processing of lowering the power consumption lowers a clock freciuency, as said processing of lowering the power consumption,
wherein said engine is provided with a fuel vapor processing apparatus, and
wherein said step of performing the previously determined control when said elapsed time reaches the standby time diagnoses whether or not a leakage occurs in an evaporation purge line of said fuel vapor processing apparatus after said standby time has elapsed after the operation of said engine was stopped; and
calculating a time until the generation of fuel vapor is stopped after the operation of said engine is stopped, as said standby time.
4. A method for controlling a vehicle according to claim 3 , further comprising the step of;
self-shutting off the power supply when the previously determined control is completed after said standby time has elapsed.
5. An apparatus for controlling a vehicle provided with an engine, comprising:
a control unit which measures an elapsed time after an operation of said engine is stopped, and performs a previously determined control when said elapsed time reaches a standby time,
wherein said control unit executes the processing of lowering a power consumption during said standby time,
wherein said control unit shifts to a sleeping mode during said standby time, as said processing of lowering the power consumption,
wherein said engine is provided with a fuel vapor processing apparatus, and
the control executed by said control unit after said standby time has elapsed after the operation of said engine was stopped is a leakage diagnosis for diagnosing whether or not a leakage occurs in an evaporation purge line of said fuel vapor processing apparatus,
wherein said control unit calculates a time until the generation of fuel vapor is stopped after the operation of said engine is stopped, as said standby time.
6. An apparatus for controlling a vehicle according to claim 5 ,
wherein said control unit self-shuts off the power supply when completing the previously determined control after said standby time has elapsed.
7. A method for controlling a vehicle provided with an engine by a control unit, comprising the steps of:
measuring an elapsed time after an operation of said engine is stopped;
executing the processing of lowering a power consumption during the time said elapsed time is measured;
performing a previously determined control when said elapsed time reaches a standby time,
wherein said step of executing the processing of lowering the power consumption shifts to a sleeping mode during said standby time, as said processing of lowering the power consumption,
wherein said engine is provided with a fuel vapor processing apparatus, and said step of performing the previously determined control when said elapsed time reaches the standby time diagnoses whether or not a leakage occurs in an evaporation purge line of said fuel vapor processing apparatus after said standby time has elapsed after the operation of said engine was stopped; and
calculating a time until the generation of fuel vapor is stopped after the operation of said engine is stopped, as said standby time.
8. A method for controlling a vehicle according to claim 7 , further comprising the step of;
self-shutting off the power supply when the previously determined control is completed after said standby time has elapsed.