Hybrid vehicle and control method of the same

• US 20060289210A1
• Filed: 06/22/2006
• Published: 12/28/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Yoshimi, Masashi
• Application Number:
  US11/472,422
• Publication Number:
  US 20060289210A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/65.245
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/26 characterised by the motors or the generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/445 Differential gearing distribution type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/448 Electrical distribution type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/52 Driving a plurality of drive axles, e.g. four-wheel drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/184 with wheel brakes
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/26 for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• 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 2540/10 Accelerator pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18109 Braking
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

In the gate shutdown state of all switching elements included in an inverter for a motor MG1 (step S114) or in the gate shut downstate of all switching elements included in an inverter for a motor MG2 (step S122), the braking control of the invention uses disk brakes to output a supplementary braking force and compensate for an insufficiency of braking force. This arrangement effectively prevents an unintentional decrease of braking force applied to a hybrid vehicle even in the event of insufficiency in engine resistant braking force output from the motor MG1 to a driveshaft or in regenerative braking force output from the motor MG2 to the driveshaft.

Claims

1. A hybrid vehicle that outputs power to a driveshaft, said hybrid vehicle comprising:

an internal combustion engine that has an output shaft and outputs power;

an electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism that is connected with the output shaft of the internal combustion engine and with the driveshaft and outputs at least part of the power of the internal combustion engine to the driveshaft with input and output of electric power while outputting a resistant braking force by a rotational resistance arising in the internal combustion engine to the driveshaft with input of electric power;

a motor that converts power of the driveshaft to electric power to output a regenerative braking force to the driveshaft;

a braking force output unit that outputs a braking force to the driveshaft; and

a braking control module that sets a resistant braking force demand to be output from the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism to the driveshaft and a regenerative braking force demand to be output from the motor to the driveshaft and controls the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism and the motor to ensure output of the resistant braking force demand and the regenerative braking force demand to the driveshaft,

when the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism totally fails to output the resistant braking force demand or outputs only part of the resistant braking force demand or when the motor totally fails to output the regenerative braking force demand or outputs only part of the regenerative braking force demand, said braking control module executing braking force supplement control, which controls the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism, the motor, and the braking force output unit to ensure supplementary output of an insufficient braking force from at least one of the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism, the motor, and the braking force output unit.

2. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 1, said hybrid vehicle further comprising:

an accumulator unit that inputs and outputs electric power from and to the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism and the motor,

wherein said braking control module sets the regenerative braking force demand to restrict the input and output of the electric power to and from the accumulator unit within a preset restriction range.

3. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 2, said hybrid vehicle further comprising:

a first driving circuit that is arranged between the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism and the accumulator unit and has multiple switching elements, which are switched on and off to drive the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism; and

a second driving circuit that is arranged between the motor and the accumulator unit and has multiple switching elements, which are switched on and off to drive the motor,

wherein said braking control module executes the braking force supplement control when the multiple switching elements in the first driving circuit are all switched off or when the multiple switching elements in the second driving circuit are all switched off.

4. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 2, wherein the accumulator unit is charged with electric power converted from the power of the driveshaft, while the motor outputs a braking force to the driveshaft, and

when the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism totally fails to output the resistant braking force demand or outputs only part of the resistant braking force demand, said braking control module specifies a distribution ratio of an insufficient braking force to the motor and the braking force output unit based on a state of charge of the accumulator unit and controls the motor and the braking force output unit to output supplementary braking forces according to the specified distribution ratio and compensate for the insufficient braking force.

5. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 3, wherein the accumulator unit is charged with electric power converted from the power of the driveshaft, while the motor outputs a braking force to the driveshaft, and

when the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism totally fails to output the resistant braking force demand or outputs only part of the resistant braking force demand, said braking control module specifies a distribution ratio of an insufficient braking force to the motor and the braking force output unit based on a state of charge of the accumulator unit and controls the motor and the braking force output unit to output supplementary braking forces according to the specified distribution ratio and compensate for the insufficient braking force.

6. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein when the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism totally fails to output the resistant braking force demand or outputs only part of the resistant braking force demand or when the motor totally fails to output the regenerative braking force demand or outputs only part of the regenerative braking force demand, said braking control module controls the braking force output unit to output a supplementary braking force and compensate for an insufficiency of braking force.

7. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein the braking force output unit comprises a brake that outputs a hydraulic pressure-based braking force to the driveshaft by actuation of an actuator.

8. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 1, said hybrid vehicle further comprising;

a gear speed change unit that has multiple different gear speeds selectable by a driver and gives a quasi-upshift effect or a quasi-downshift effect based on selection of a gear speed,

wherein said braking control module sets the resistant braking force demand and the regenerative braking force demand to increase output of a braking force to the driveshaft in response to the driver'"'"'s selection of a lower gear speed among the multiple different gear speeds of the gear speed change unit,

said braking control module executes the braking force supplement control when the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism totally fails to output the resistant braking force demand or outputs only part of the resistant braking force demand or when the motor totally fails to output the regenerative braking force demand or outputs only part of the regenerative braking force demand, and when the driver'"'"'s selection of a gear speed is not higher than a preset low gear speed among the multiple different gear speeds of the gear speed change unit.

9. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein said braking control module executes the braking force supplement control when the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism totally fails to output the resistant braking force demand or outputs only part of the resistant braking force demand or when the motor totally fails to output the regenerative braking force demand or outputs only part of the regenerative braking force demand, and when a driver'"'"'s depression amount of an accelerator pedal is decreased or is set practically equal to zero.

10. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein said electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism includes:

a three shaft-type power input output module that is linked to three shafts, that is, an output shaft of the internal combustion engine, the drive shaft, and a third shaft, and determines power input from and output to a residual one shaft based on powers input from and output to any two shafts among the three shafts; and

a generator that inputs and outputs power from and to the third shaft.

11. A hybrid vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein said electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism includes:

a pair-rotor motor that has a first rotor linked to an output shaft of the internal combustion engine and a second rotor linked to the drive shaft, said pair-rotor motor outputting at least part of the power from said internal combustion engine to said drive shaft through input and output of electric power by electromagnetic interaction between the first rotor and the second rotor.

12. A control method of a hybrid vehicle that includes:

an internal combustion engine that has an output shaft and outputs power;

an electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism that is connected with the output shaft of the internal combustion engine and with a driveshaft and outputs at least part of the power of the internal combustion engine to the driveshaft with input and output of electric power while outputting a resistant braking force by a rotational resistance arising in the internal combustion engine to the driveshaft with input of electric power;

a motor that converts power of the driveshaft to electric power to output a regenerative braking force to the driveshaft; and

a braking force output unit that outputs a braking force to the driveshaft, said control method comprising the steps of;

setting a resistant braking force demand to be output from the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism to the driveshaft and a regenerative braking force demand to be output from the motor to the driveshaft and controlling the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism and the motor to ensure output of the resistant braking force demand and the regenerative braking force demand to the driveshaft, and

when the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism totally fails to output the resistant braking force demand or outputs only part of the resistant braking force demand or when the motor totally fails to output the regenerative braking force demand or outputs only part of the regenerative braking force demand, executing braking force supplement control, which controls the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism, the motor, and the braking force output unit to ensure supplementary output of an insufficient braking force from at least one of the electric power-mechanical power input output mechanism, the motor, and the braking force output unit.