Drive System, Power Output System Incorporating The Drive System, A Vehicle Equipped With The Power Output System, And Control Method For A Drive System

• US 20080033620A1
• Filed: 02/23/2006
• Published: 02/07/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Okasaka, Kazuomi, Kamichi, Kensuke, Yamamoto, Masaya, Tajima, Yoichi, Ueoka, Kiyoshiro
• Granted Patent: US 7,885,749 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/59
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/445 Differential gearing distribution type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2009 for braking
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2054 by controlling transmissions or clutches
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/12 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/421 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/423 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/441 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/443 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/486 Operating parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/26 by pedal actuation
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 7/26 Controlling the braking effect
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/026 of lock-up clutches
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/10 including control of change-speed gearings
• 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 20/30 Control strategies involving selection of transmission gear ratio control of change speed gearings, together with other vehicle sub-units B60W10/10; HEV transmission gearing B60K6/36; gearings and control thereof F16H
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/105 Output torque
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/0087 Adaptive control, e.g. the control parameters adapted by learning
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2342/04 Calibrating engagement of friction elements
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0437 by using electrical signals F16H61/0403 and F16H61/061 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 : Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 : Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 : Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

In a drive system, where power from a motor is transmitted to a drive shaft and a transmission ratio is changed by a transmission, if the absolute value of the difference between the reference torque Tm2r0, which is the drive shaft side torque Tm2r at the onset of a change in the shift speed of the transmission, and the driving shaft side torque Tm2r during the change is less than the threshold value α until the end of the change (S280), the application state of a brake in the transmission during the change and the state of the hydraulic pressure supplied to the brake are learned (S290). During the change, and actuator of the transmission is controlled using those learned results. Accordingly, any deviations that may have occurred due to changes over time in the transmission, etc. are corrected and the shift speed of the transmission is changed more appropriately.

Claims

1. A drive system that drives a drive shaft, comprising:

a motor that outputs power;

a shifting/transmitting device that transmits power from a rotating shaft of the motor to the drive shaft, and changes a transmission ratio between the rotating shaft of the motor and the drive shaft by driving an actuator;

a shift learning device that performs a learning operation to learn at least one of an operational state of the actuator and an operational state of the motor, when the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device is changed such that an amount of change in driving force on the drive shaft side, that is output to the drive shaft from the motor via the shifting/transmitting device, is within a predetermined range; and

a shift control device that controls the actuator of the shifting/transmitting device using results of the learning operation such that the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device changes.

2. The drive system according to claim 1, wherein the shift learning device estimates the driving force on the drive shaft side based on driving of the motor, and perform the learning operation when the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device is changed such that the amount of change in the estimated driving force on the drive shaft side is within the predetermined range.

3. The drive system according to claim 2, wherein the shift learning device estimates the driving force on the drive shaft side using one of a current value applied to the motor and a torque command value of the motor.

4. The drive system according to claim 1, wherein the shift learning device performs the learning operation when a difference between the driving force on the drive shaft side at an onset of the change in the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device and the driving force on the drive shaft side during the change in the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device is less than a predetermined difference until the change in the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device ends.

5. The drive system according to claim 1, wherein:

the shifting/transmitting device changes the transmission ratio by changing an application state of at least one hydraulically driven clutch; and

the shift learning device learns the application state of the clutch of the shifting/transmitting device and a state of hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch throughout a duration of the change in the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device.

6. The drive system according to claim 1, wherein the shift learning device learns a change state of a rotation speed of the motor throughout the duration of the change in the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device.

7. A power output system comprising:

the drive system according to claim 1;

a power device that outputs power to the drive shaft;

a required power setting device that sets a required power that is required for the drive shaft; and

a control device that controls the motor and the power device such that the required power that is set by the required power setting device is output to the drive shaft based on the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device.

8. The power output system according to claim 7, wherein the power device includes an internal combustion engine, and an electric power/power input/output device that is connected to an output shaft of the internal combustion engine and the drive shaft, and that outputs at least some of power from the internal combustion engine to the drive shaft with an input/output of electric power and power.

9. A vehicle equipped with the power output system according to claim 7, wherein an axle is connected to the drive shaft.

10. A method for controlling a drive system including a motor that outputs power and a shifting/transmitting device that transmits power from a rotating shaft of the motor to the drive shaft, and changes a transmission ratio between the rotating shaft of the motor and the drive shaft by driving an actuator, comprising:

(a) performing a learning operation to learn at least one of an operational state of the actuator and an operational state of the motor, when the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device is changed such that an amount of change in driving force on the drive shaft side, that is output to the drive shaft from the motor via the shifting/transmitting device, is within a predetermined range; and

(b) controlling the actuator of the shifting/transmitting device using results of the learning operation such that the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting device changes.

11. A drive system that drives a drive shaft, comprising:

a motor that outputs power;

shifting/transmitting means for transmitting power from a rotating shaft of the motor to the drive shaft, and changing a transmission ratio between the rotating shaft of the motor and the drive shaft by driving an actuator;

shift learning means for performing a learning operation to learn at least one of an operational state of the actuator and an operational state of the motor, when the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting means is changed such that an amount of change in driving force on the drive shaft side, that is output to the drive shaft from the motor via the shifting/transmitting means, is within a predetermined range; and

shift control means for controlling the actuator of the shifting/transmitting means using results of the learning operation such that the transmission ratio of the shifting/transmitting means changes.