Method for configuring a transmission control for motor vehicles

• US 20060015234A1
• Filed: 03/06/2003
• Published: 01/19/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Luh, Joachim
• Granted Patent: US 7,505,842 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/51
• CPC Class Codes: B60T 2220/02 Driver type; Driving style; Driver adaptive features
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/182 Selecting between different operative modes, e.g. comfort and performance modes
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2059/003 Detecting or using driving style of a driver, e.g. for adapting shift schedules
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2059/086 Adaptive mode, e.g. learning from the driver
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/0225 Modifying of shift maps by manual control, e.g. by learning values from the driver during manual shift mode
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 59/02 Selector apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0213 characterised by the method for generating shift signals

Abstract

A method for configuring an electronic transmission control unit of an automatic transmission in a motor vehicle. Selectable shift programs are offered to a user of the motor vehicle at an input unit for configuring the electronic transmission control unit. From the shift programs offered, the user selects individual shift programs by activation/deactivation and optionally alters shift-program parameters as desired. Based on the shift programs selected in a user-individual manner from the shift programs offered, the electronic transmission control unit is configured in a user-individual manner by signal transmission or via voice input.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A method for configuring an electronic transmission control unit of an automatic transmission having one or more selectable transmission ratios in a motor vehicle, comprising:

storing shift programs for settings of the transmission ratios of the transmission within an electronic transmission control unit;

offering selectable shift programs to a user on an input unit for configuring an electronic transmission control unit;

selecting by the user individual shift programs from the shift programs offered, the selection being recorded by the input unit;

transmitting data concerning the selection of the selectable shift programs from the input unit to the electronic transmission control; and

modifying the selectable shift programs individually in accordance with the selection by the user.

22. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the electronic transmission control transmits the presently selected shift programs via data lines to the input unit prior to the selection by the user.

23. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the electronic transmission control unit is configured via an interactive driver information system which exchanges signals with the electronic transmission control unit via a serial bus system.

24. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the electronic transmission control unit is configured via a mobile telephone.

25. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the electronic transmission control unit is configured via a personal digital assistant.

26. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the electronic transmission control unit is configured via a chip card upon which a user-individual configuration of the electronic transmission control unit is stored.

27. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the electronic transmission control unit is configured via an interface that is able to be addressed by way of at least one of a mobile telephone and a personal digital assistant.

28. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the selectable shift programs include a shift program “

sport”

, a shift program “

economy”

, a shift program “

kickdown”

, a shift program “

fast-off”

, a shift program “

downhill driving”

, a shift program “

cornering”

, a shift program “

trailer”

, a shift program “

winter”

, and a shift program “

standing decoupling”

.

29. The method as recited in claim 28, wherein the selectable shift programs are configured in a user-individual manner via a selection menu on an interactive driver information system into an activated state or a deactivated state.

30. The method as recited in claim 21, wherein the selectable shift programs include a shift program “

number-of-gears preselection automatic transmission”

, a shift program “

shifting-speed change gear-change speed, and a function “

driver-type detection”

.

31. The method as recited in claim 30, wherein the selectable shift programs are configured in a user-individual manner into an activated state or a deactivated state via one of a selection menu of an interactive driver information system, a mobile telephone or a personal digital assistant.

32. The method as recited in claim 30, wherein within the selectable shift programs, a number of gears of a transmission is changeable individually in a change step, and can be both increased and decreased.

33. The method as recited in claim 30, wherein within the selectable shift programs, a shifting speed of a gear change is alterable, and both a downshift speed can be increased or decreased and an upshift speed can be increased or decreased.

34. The method as recited in claim 28, wherein the selectable shift programs include a driver-type-detection function which is able to be activated or partially deactivated.

35. The method as recited in claim 28, wherein the selectable shift programs are selectable individually, in a manner equal in rank, by the user via a selection menu on a driver information system, via a mobile telephone, and via a personal digital assistant.

36. The method as recited in claim 28, wherein the selectable shift programs, the shift program “

sport”

or the shift program “

economy”

are selectable, which, within subordinate hierarchy steps, are linked in a user-individual manner to others of the selectable shift programs.

38. A device for configuring an electronic transmission control unit of an automatic transmission having one or more selectable transmission ratios in a motor vehicle, comprising:

a storage device storing shift programs; and

an interface able to be addressed via a mobile telephone or a personal digital assistant, for configuring the shift programs, the shift programs being able to be activated or deactivated in a user-individual manner, and shift-program parameters being alterable in a user-individual manner.

39. A device for configuring an electronic transmission control unit of an automatic transmission having one or more selectable transmission ratios in a motor vehicle, comprising:

a storage device storing selectable shift programming; and

an electronic control unit of a driver information system permanently installed in the vehicle, having a selection menu using which a user selects individual shift programs from the individually selectable shift programs by activating or deactivating them, and including a microphone for sensing a voice input.

40. The device according to claim 39, wherein the electronic transmission control unit is configured via the electronic control unit using a serial bus.

41. The device according to claim 39, wherein the interactive driver information system includes an interface at which a chip card is able to be read that contains a user-individual configuration of the electronic transmission control unit in coded form.