Control device for hybride-driven auxiliary system

• US 20040005954A1
• Filed: 06/20/2003
• Published: 01/08/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
• Original Assignee: DENSO Corporation, Nippon Soken, Inc.
• Inventors: Uno, Keiichi, Asa, Hironori, Suzuki, Yasushi
• Granted Patent: US 6,802,796 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 477/7
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/004 for vehicles having a combustion engine and electric drive means, e.g. hybrid electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 1/322 for improving the stop or idling operation of the engine
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 2001/3238 related to the operation of the compressor
• CPC Class Codes: B60H 2001/3294 Compressor drive is hybrid
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/06 including control of combustion engines
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/30 including control of auxiliary equipment, e.g. air-conditioning compressors or oil pumps
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/00 Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/083 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles

Abstract

A control device is provided in a hybrid-driven auxiliary system using an engine and a motor as driving force. The control device includes: an auxiliary unit into which the motor is integrally assembled; current controlling means for controlling an electric current of the motor for driving or generating; current detecting means for detecting the electric current of the motor; and load torque computing means for computing, based on the electric current of the motor, a load torque when the auxiliary unit is operated.

Claims

1. A control device in a hybrid-driven auxiliary system using at least one of an engine and a motor as driving force, the control device comprising:

an auxiliary unit which is operated with at least one of the engine and the motor, wherein the motor is integrally assembled into the auxiliary unit;

current controlling means for controlling one of two electric currents of a first electric current and a second electric current, wherein the first electric current is to be supplied to the motor while the motor is used as the driving force, wherein the second electric current is to be generated by the motor while the engine is used as the driving force;

current detecting means for detecting one of the two electric currents controlled by the current controlling means; and

load torque computing means for computing, based on the electric current detected by the current detecting means, a load torque when the auxiliary unit is operated.

2. The control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

engine controlling means for controlling the engine; and

transmitting means for transmitting at least one of the electric current detected by the current detecting means and the load torque computed by the load torque computing means to the engine controlling means.

3. The control device according to claim 2,

wherein the engine controlling means controls an output torque of the engine based on at least one of the electric current and the load torque transmitted by the transmitting means.

4. The control device according to claim 2,

wherein one of the current controlling means and the engine controlling means includes:

engine output computing means for computing a total output of the engine that includes an auxiliary output corresponding to the load torque computed by the load torque computing means; and

engine operating means for executing an operation of the engine at the total output computed by the engine output computing means.

5. The control device according to claim 4,

wherein the engine includes a transmission that changes an operational revolution number of the engine in a stepless manner, and

wherein one of the current controlling means and the engine controlling means includes engine revolution changing means for changing, while engine operating means is executing the operation of the engine, a revolution number of the engine via the transmission so that a maximum efficiency at the total output is obtained.

6. The control device according to claim 1,

wherein the auxiliary unit includes a compressor for compressing a refrigerant within a refrigerating cycling device, and

wherein a planetary gear is provided among a given shaft through which the driving force of the engine is transmitted, a motor shaft of the motor, and a compressor shaft of the compressor.

7. The control device according to claim 6,

wherein the given shaft is connected with a planetary carrier unit of the planetary gear,

wherein the motor shaft is connected with a sun gear unit of the planetary gear, and

wherein the compressor shaft is connected with a ring gear unit of the planetary gear.

8. The control device according to claim 1,

wherein the auxiliary unit includes a compressor for compressing a refrigerant within a refrigerating cycling device, and

wherein the motor is a reciprocal motor in which a rotor portion and a stator portion are able to be rotated independently from each other.

9. The control device according to claim 8,

wherein the stator portion includes a wire-winding portion,

wherein a given shaft, through which the driving force of the engine is transmitted, is connected with the rotor portion, and

wherein the stator portion is connected with the compressor.

10. A controlling method in a hybrid-driven auxiliary system operating, by using at least one of an engine and a motor as driving source, an auxiliary unit into which the motor is integrally assembled, the controlling method comprising steps of:

controlling one of two electric currents of a first electric current and a second electric current, wherein the first electric current is to be supplied to the motor while the motor is used as the driving force, wherein the second electric current is to be generated by the motor while the engine is used as the driving force;

detecting the one of the two electric currents during the controlling; and

computing, based on the detected electric current, a load torque when the auxiliary unit is operated.

11. A computer program including a controlling method in a hybrid-driven auxiliary system that operates, by using at least one of an engine and a motor as driving force, an auxiliary unit into which the motor is integrally assembled, the computer program comprising steps of:

controlling one of two electric currents of a first electric current and a second electric current, wherein the first electric current is to be supplied to the motor while the motor is used as the driving source, wherein the second electric current is to be generated by the motor while the engine is used as the driving force;

detecting the one of the two electric currents during the controlling; and

computing, based on the detected electric current, a load torque when the auxiliary unit is operated.