VEHICULAR CONTROL DEVICE

• Main Authors: SHINOHARA, Miwa, NAITO, Jun, TOMIYORI, Hidemasa, TSUDA, Yuta, OKADA, Hisanobu, KIYAMA, Shohei, YASUTOMI, Ryohei
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 09.09.2020
• Subjects: BLASTING; COMBUSTION ENGINES; CONTROLLING COMBUSTION ENGINES; HEATING; HOT-GAS OR COMBUSTION-PRODUCT ENGINE PLANTS; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; REMOVABLE EXTERNAL PROTECTIVE COVERINGS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORVEHICLES; STARTING AIDS FOR SUCH ENGINES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDEDFOR; STARTING OF COMBUSTION ENGINES; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; WEAPONS; WINDOWS, WINDSCREENS, NON-FIXED ROOFS, DOORS, OR SIMILARDEVICES FOR VEHICLES

A vehicle control system comprises: a roof opening-closing button (12) provided inside a passenger compartment of a vehicle and configured to accept opening and closing manipulations for a roof unit (4); and a control unit (25) configured to control an engine (2), a roof actuator (10) of the roof unit, and an air conditioner (34), wherein the control unit is operable, when the roof opening-closing button accepts the closing manipulation for shifting the roof unit from an opened state to a closed state, in a situation where the roof unit is in the opened state, and the engine is in an idle-stop state, to control the engine such that the engine being in an idle-stop state is restarted, and control the roof actuator such that the roof unit being in the opened state is shifted to the closed state.