Method for operating a hybrid motor vehicle

• US 20070068478A1
• Filed: 09/25/2006
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Skoda Auto A.S. (Volkswagen AG), Volkswagen AG
• Original Assignee: Skoda Auto A.S. (Volkswagen AG), Volkswagen AG
• Inventors: Holz, Matthias, Pott, Ekkehard, Zillmer, Michael, Prochazka, David
• Granted Patent: US 7,305,965 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 123/192.100
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0605 Throttle position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0616 Position of fuel or air injector
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0622 Air-fuel ratio
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/065 Idle condition
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18027 Drive off, accelerating from standstill
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 75/06 Engines with means for equalising torque
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2250/24 by using an external load, e.g. a generator
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 31/003 for idle speed control
• CPC Class Codes: F02P 5/1508 with particular means during idling
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles

Abstract

A method for operating a hybrid motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine is provided. At least one of the electric machines supplies a varying torque to the internal combustion engine such that cyclic irregularities of the internal combustion engine during idling are reduced and, at the same time, the internal combustion engine is operated during idling with an ignition angle and a volumetric efficiency optimized for this operating state and without retarding the ignition angle for building up a torque reserve.

Claims

1. A method for operating a hybrid motor vehicle, which comprises:

supplying, with an electric machine of a hybrid motor vehicle, a varying torque to an internal combustion engine of the hybrid motor vehicle during an idling operation of the internal combustion engine such that cyclic irregularities in the idling operation of the internal combustion engine are reduced; and

concurrently operating the internal combustion engine during the idling operation with an ignition angle and a volumetric efficiency optimized for a present operating state and without retarding the ignition angle for building up a torque reserve.

2. The method according to claim 1, which comprises adjusting the ignition angle and the volumetric efficiency during idling for an operation of the internal combustion engine optimized with respect to fuel consumption when idling.

3. The method according to claim 1, which comprises operating the internal combustion engine during idling with Lambda substantially equal to one.

4. The method according to claim 1, which comprises supplying a driveaway-torque with the electric machine during a driveaway process starting from an idling speed.

5. The method according to claim 4, which comprises impressing the driveaway-torque during a time of a charge build-up of the internal combustion engine.

6. The method according to claim 1, which comprises combining, during the idling operation, a speed control by interventions via at least one path selected from the group consisting of an ignition path, a fuel path and a charge path with a speed control by the electric machine.

7. The method according to claim 1, which comprises superimposing a speed control by the electric machine on a conventional speed control via at least one path selected from the group consisting of an ignition path, a fuel path and a charge path.

8. The method according to claim 7, which comprises reacting, with the speed control by the electric machine, only to stochastic, severe speed undershoots.

9. The method according to claim 1, which comprises reducing an idling speed of the internal combustion engine by at least fifty rotations per minute starting from a given threshold idling speed for the internal combustion engine at which the internal combustion engine exhibits a smooth idling operation and has sufficient reserves for a driveaway process without speed undershoots.

10. The method according to claim 1, which comprises reducing an idling speed of the internal combustion engine by at least one hundred rotations per minute starting from a given threshold idling speed for the internal combustion engine at which the internal combustion engine exhibits a smooth idling operation and has sufficient reserves for a driveaway process without speed undershoots.

11. The method according to claim 1, which comprises reducing an idling speed of the internal combustion engine by at least two hundred rotations per minute starting from a given threshold idling speed for the internal combustion engine at which the internal combustion engine exhibits a smooth idling operation and has sufficient reserves for a driveaway process without speed undershoots.