Control apparatus and control method for vehicular drive system

• US 20080149407A1
• Filed: 12/20/2007
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Tabata, Atsushi, Shibata, Hiroyuki, Matsubara, Tooru
• Application Number:
  US12/004,040
• Publication Number:
  US 20080149407A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 180/65.2
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/02 comprising more than one electric motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/365 with the gears having orbital motion
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/40 characterised by the assembly or relative disposition of components
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/445 Differential gearing distribution type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/547 the transmission being a stepped gearing
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2220/14 Synchronous machines
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2250/30 by voice
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2270/145 Structure borne vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/61 by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/08 including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/115 with planetary gears
• 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 20/13 in order to stay within battery power input or output limits; in order to prevent overcharging or battery depletion
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/0676 Engine temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/10 Longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2037/0873 with switching, e.g. to change ranges
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/0227 Shift map selection, i.e. methods for controlling selection between different shift maps, e.g. to initiate switch to a map for up-hill driving
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/0043 the gear ratios comprising four forward speeds
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/2012 : with four sets of orbital gears
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/2043 : with five engaging means
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/728 : with means to change ratio in the mechanical gearing
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0213 : characterised by the method for generating shift signals
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/686 : with orbital gears
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 : Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 : Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/7072 : Electromobility specific charging systems or methods for batteries, ultracapacitors, supercapacitors or double-layer capacitors

Abstract

In a control apparatus of a vehicular drive system, a charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus makes a determination to perform a shift in a shifting portion such that less power is charged to a power storage device or discharged from a power storage device when charging or discharging of the power storage device is restricted than when charging or discharging of the power storage device is not restricted.

Claims

1. A control apparatus of a vehicular drive system, comprising:

an electric differential portion that has a differential mechanism which has a first element that is connected to an engine, a second element that is connected to a first electric motor, and a third element that is connected to a transmitting member, the differential mechanism distributing output from the engine to the first electric motor and the transmitting member;

a shifting portion that is provided in a power transmitting path between the transmitting member and a driving wheel;

a power storage device that supplies power which is used to drive the first electric motor or charges power which is generated by the first electric motor; and

a charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus that makes a determination to perform a shift in the shifting portion such that less power is charged to the power storage device or discharged from the power storage device when charging or discharging of the power storage device is restricted than when charging or discharging of the power storage device is not restricted, when a shift is performed in the shifting portion by controlling the rotation speed of the first electric motor.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus makes the shifting portion shift at a lower vehicle speed when charging or discharging of the power storage device is restricted than when charging or discharging of the power storage device is not restricted.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus makes the shifting portion shift at a progressively lower vehicle speed the more charging or discharging of the power storage device is restricted.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the shifting portion is an automatic transmission in which a shift is executed according to a preset first shift map, and the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus executes a shift according to a second shift map which is set to shift at a lower vehicle speed than the vehicle speed set by the first shift map.

5. The control apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus changes a shift point farther to the lower vehicle speed side the more charging or discharging of the power storage device is restricted.

6. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when only charging to the power storage device is restricted, the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus makes a determination to perform a shift in the shifting portion such that the power that is charged to the power storage device become lower, or makes the determination when the power storage device discharges.

7. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when only discharging from the power storage device is restricted, the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus makes a determination to perform a shift in the shifting portion such that the power that is discharged from the power storage device become lower, or makes the determination when the power storage device charges.

8. The control apparatus according to claim 1, further including:

a second electric motor that is connected to the transmitting member, wherein the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus makes a determination to perform a shift in the shifting portion such that less power is charged to the power storage device or discharged from the power storage device when charging or discharging of the power storage device is restricted than when charging or discharging of the power storage device is not restricted, during motor-running in which only the second motor is used as a driving power source.

9. The control apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus makes the determination to perform a shift in the shifting portion such that less power is charged to the power storage device or discharged from the power storage device taking into account the power which is used to drive the second electric motor.

10. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein charging or discharging of the power storage device is restricted based on a temperature of the power storage device.

11. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein charging or discharging of the power storage device is restricted based on a state-of-charge of the power storage device.

12. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the electric differential portion operates as a continuously variable transmission by the operating state of the first electric motor being controlled.

13. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the differential mechanism is a planetary gear set, the first element is a carrier of the planetary gear set, the second element is a sun gear of the planetary gear set, and the third element is a ring gear of the planetary gear set.

14. The control apparatus according to claim 13, wherein the planetary gear set is a single pinion type planetary gear set.

15. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a total speed ratio of the vehicular drive system is obtained based on a speed ratio of the shifting portion and a speed ratio of the electric differential portion.

16. The control apparatus in claim 1, wherein the shifting portion is a stepped automatic transmission.

17. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus makes a determination to perform a shift in the shifting portion such that only the power charged to the power storage device decreases when only charging to the power storage device is restricted.

18. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the charging/discharging-restricted shift control apparatus makes a determination to perform a shift in the shifting portion such that only the power discharged from the power storage device decreases when only discharging from the power storage device is restricted.

19. A control method for a vehicular drive system that includes i) an electric differential portion that has a differential mechanism which has a first element that is connected to an engine, a second element that is connected to a first electric motor, and a third element that is connected to a transmitting member, the differential mechanism distributing output from the engine to the first electric motor and the transmitting member, ii) a shifting portion that is provided in a power transmitting path between the transmitting member and a driving wheel, and iii) a power storage device that supplies power which is used to drive the first electric motor or charges power which is generated by the first electric motor, the control method comprising:

making a determination to perform a shift in the shifting portion such that less power is charged to the power storage device or discharged from the power storage device when charging or discharging of the power storage device is restricted than when charging or discharging of the power storage device is not restricted, when a shift is performed in the shifting portion by controlling the rotation speed of the first electric motor.