Method of controlling continuously variable transmission and control system

• US 20060172829A1
• Filed: 01/03/2006
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Ten Limited (DENSO Corporation)
• Inventors: Ishio, Masato
• Application Number:
  US11/322,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20060172829A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 474/18
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/0087 Adaptive control, e.g. the control parameters adapted by learning
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0021 Generation or control of line pressure
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/66272 characterised by means for controlling the torque transmitting capability of the gearing

Abstract

An oil pressure-learning method which enables an oil pressure control system that controls line pressure and belt clamping pressure by oil pressure actuators independently of each other, to accurately control both the line pressure and the belt clamping pressure. The oil pressure-learning method is applied to an oil pressure control system provided with a line pressure control solenoid for controlling a line pressure control valve, and a belt clamping pressure control solenoid for controlling a belt clamping pressure control valve. A belt clamping pressure command value that is outputted to the belt clamping pressure control solenoid as a control command value of belt clamping pressure, and a line pressure command value that is outputted to the line pressure control solenoid as a control command value of line pressure are learned in advance. This enables the oil pressure control system to control both the line pressure and the belt clamping pressure with accuracy.

Claims

1. A method of controlling a continuously variable transmission that generates belt clamping pressure supplied to a secondary pulley from line pressure generated by controlling oil pressure of an oil pressure source, comprising:

a belt clamping pressure-learning step of performing learning correction of a belt clamping pressure command value based on the belt clamping pressure command value and an actual belt clamping pressure value; and

a line pressure-learning step of performing learning correction of a line pressure command value based on the line pressure command value and an actual line pressure value.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said belt clamping pressure-learning step is carried out in a state in which a control amount of the line pressure is held constant, and

wherein said line pressure-learning step is carried out in a state in which a control amount of the belt clamping pressure is held constant.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the learning correction of the line pressure command value is executed, the belt clamping pressure command value is set to be larger than the line pressure command value during the learning correction.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the learning correction of the line pressure command value is executed, the belt clamping pressure command value is set to be larger than a maximum value of the line pressure command value.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the learning correction of the line pressure command value is executed, the belt clamping pressure command value is set such that a valve for generating the belt clamping pressure is made fully open.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the learning correction of the belt clamping pressure command value is executed, the line pressure command value is set to be larger than the belt clamping pressure command value.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the learning correction of the belt clamping pressure command value is executed, the line pressure command value is set to be larger than a maximum value of the belt clamping pressure command value.

8. The method according to claim 6, wherein the line pressure command value is changed according to oil temperature.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein the line pressure command value is changed according to oil temperature.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein when the learning correction of the belt clamping pressure command value and the learning correction of the line pressure command value are executed, to secure oil pressure generated by an oil pump that pumps hydraulic oil from the oil pressure source, an idling rotational speed of an engine for driving the oil pump is increased.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein an amount of increase in the idling rotational speed is made different between when the learning correction of the belt clamping pressure command value is executed and when the learning correction of the line pressure command value is executed.

12. The method according to claim 3, wherein when the learning correction of the line pressure command value is executed, the line pressure command value is set to be not larger than a value corresponding to a maximum oil pressure that can be set as the belt clamping pressure.

13. The method according to claim 1, wherein when a control mode is set to a learning mode through a predetermined operation, at least one of said line pressure-learning step and said belt clamping pressure-learning step is carried out.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein a travel distance of a vehicle is estimated, and when the vehicle has traveled beyond a predetermined travel distance, at least one of the learning correction of the belt clamping pressure command value and the learning correction of the line pressure command value is executed.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein when at least one of the learning correction of the belt clamping pressure command value and the learning correction of the line pressure command value is executed during driving of the vehicle, to hold oil pressure generated by an oil pump that pumps hydraulic oil from the oil pressure source, an idling rotational speed of an engine for driving the oil pump is made smaller than an idling rotational speed of the engine set when the learning correction is executed during non-driving of the vehicle.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least two line pressure command values are set in the learning correction of the line pressure command value, and at least two belt clamping pressure command values are set in the learning correction of the belt clamping pressure command value, and the learning correction is stepwise executed for the line pressure command values and the belt clamping pressure command values.

17. The method according to claim 16, wherein when the actual belt clamping pressure is measured in the learning correction of the belt clamping pressure command value and the learning correction of the line pressure command value, adverse influence of oil pressure hysteresis on a valve that is used for generating the belt clamping pressure and a valve that is used for generating the line pressure is eliminated by continuously increasing and decreasing each command value before starting each measurement, and

wherein the actual belt clamping pressure is measured when each command value is stepwise increased from a low-pressure command value, and the command value is decreased after instructing maximum command pressure, to thereby measure the actual belt clamping pressure measured at the start of the measurement again.

18. The method according to claim 16, wherein when the command value is stepwise increased, oil pressure is instructed by holding each of command values at respective stages for a predetermined time period, and then the actual belt clamping pressure with respect to the oil pressure command value is measured during a time period from a time point at which a predetermined time period has elapsed after delivery of a pressure-raising command to a time point a next pressure-raising instruction is delivered.

19. The method according to claim 16, wherein a plurality of correction values calculated when the learning correction is stepwise executed for the line pressure command values and the belt clamping pressure command values are stored in a nonvolatile memory as respective group data, and

wherein when supply of power from a battery is cut off in the course of storage of the group data in the nonvolatile memory, causing interruption of the storage of the group data, if storage of one of the group data has been completed, predetermined initial data are written only for the group data whose storage is interrupted, and the other group data whose storage has been completed are held as they are.

20. The method according to claim 16, wherein a plurality of correction values calculated when the learning correction is stepwise executed for the line pressure command values and the belt clamping pressure command values are stored in a nonvolatile memory as respective group data, and

wherein the correction values are reflected on the line pressure command values and the belt clamping pressure command values in timing in which after termination of processing of the learning correction, an ignition switch of a vehicle is once turned off, and then the ignition switch is turned on again.

21. A control system for a continuously variable transmission, comprising:

a line pressure command value-calculating section that calculates a line pressure command value for controlling a valve that is used for generating line pressure from oil pressure of an oil pressure source;

a belt clamping pressure command value-calculating section that calculates a belt clamping pressure command value for controlling a valve that is used for generating belt clamping pressure supplied to a secondary pulley, from the line pressure;

a belt clamping pressure correction value-calculating section that performs learning correction of the belt clamping pressure command value based on the belt clamping pressure command value and an actual belt clamping pressure value; and

a line pressure correction value-calculating section that performs learning correction of the line pressure command value based on the line pressure command value and an actual line pressure value.

22. The control system according to claim 21, wherein when the line pressure correction value-calculating section executes the learning correction of the line pressure command value, the belt clamping pressure command value-calculating section sets the belt clamping pressure command value such that the belt clamping pressure command value becomes larger than the line pressure command value during the learning correction.

23. The control system according to claim 21, wherein when the line pressure correction value-calculating section executes the learning correction of the line pressure command value, the belt clamping pressure command value-calculating section sets the belt clamping pressure command value such that the belt clamping pressure command value becomes larger than a maximum value of the line pressure command value.