POWER OUTPUT DEVICE, AUTOMOBILE EQUIPPED WITH THE DEVICE, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a power output device capable of rapidly increasing the pressure of a fuel to an cylinder fuel injection valve when an internal combustion engine is automatically started and starting the internal combustion engine even when the pressure of the fuel to the cylinder fuel injection valve cannot be sufficiently increased.

SOLUTION: When the engine having the cylinder fuel injection valve and a port fuel injection valve is automatically started, if a power Pb allowed to output from a battery is less than a threshold Pset set as a power sufficient for starting the engine and the power can be secured by stopping the driving of auxiliary equipment allowed to stop driving, the driving of the auxiliary equipment is stopped and a high-pressure fuel pump feeding the fuel to the cylinder fuel injection valve is driven to start the engine by fuel injection from the cylinder fuel injection valve (S160 to S180). When the power is not allowed to secure, the engine is started by the port fuel injection valve.

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