CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD OF AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION

• US 20090137362A1
• Filed: 06/05/2008
• Published: 05/28/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Original Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
• Inventors: Ogawa, Yasufumi, Shoda, Tomohisa, Yonezawa, Shiro, Okabe, Takeru, Kamioka, Nozomu, Horii, Masaki
• Granted Patent: US 8,239,105 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 477/5
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2500/1023 Electric motor
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2500/3022 Current
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2500/501 Relating the actuator
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2500/70418 Current
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 2500/7061 Feed-back
• CPC Class Codes: F16D 48/064 Control of electrically or electromagnetically actuated clutches F16D48/062, F16D48/068 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/2807 using electric control signals for shift actuators, e.g. electro-hydraulic control therefor F16H61/30, F16H61/32 take precedence; methods for generating shift signals F16H61/0213

Abstract

A control device of an automatic transmission includes a motor control portion to control an output of a motor that executes a control operation on a clutch control portion. The motor control portion includes a target motor current computation portion that computes a target motor current according to a desired driving state, a motor current detection portion that detects plural motor currents respectively corresponding to plural detection timings, a selection portion that selects a motor current corresponding to the desired driving state among the detected plural motor currents, and a motor driving portion that applies feedback control on an output of the motor according to a difference between the target motor current and the selected motor current. Hence, not only can the most suitable clutch control be applied for each gear-change interval at gear change, but also the comfortable feeling during the driving and the fuel efficiency can be enhanced.

Claims

1. A control device of an automatic transmission, comprising:

an automatic transmission coupled to an engine and having a gear-change mechanism portion and a clutch to transmit motive power from the engine to the gear-change mechanism portion;

a clutch control portion to engage and disengage the clutch; and

a motor control portion to control an output of a motor that executes a control operation on the clutch control portion,

wherein the motor control portion includes;

a target motor current computation portion that computes a target motor current according to a desired driving state;

a motor current detection portion that detects plural motor currents respectively corresponding to plural detection timings;

a selection portion that selects a motor current corresponding to the desired driving state among the plural motor currents that have been detected; and

a motor driving portion that applies feedback control on the output of the motor according to a difference between the target motor current and the motor current that has been selected.

2. The control device of an automatic transmission according to claim 1, wherein:

the motor control portion switches the detection motor currents to be used for the feedback control according to a motor rotation speed.

3. The control device of an automatic transmission according to claim 2, wherein the motor control portion includes:

a first motor current detection portion that detects a motor current at specific time intervals; and

a second motor current detection portion that detects a motor current in sync with a motor rotation angle position, and

wherein the motor current detected in the first motor current detection portion is used for the feedback control in a period for the motor in a stopped state to reach a first motor rotation speed, and the motor current detected in the second motor current detection portion is used for the feedback control while the motor rotation speed is higher than or equal to a specific motor rotation speed.

4. The control device of an automatic transmission according to claim 3., wherein:

when the motor rotation speed is higher than or equal to a second motor rotation speed, which is higher than the first motor rotation speed, the motor control portion uses the current detected in the first motor current detection portion for the feedback control.

5. A control method of an automatic transmission composed of an automatic transmission coupled to an engine and having a gear-change mechanism portion and a clutch to transmit motive power from the engine to the gear-change mechanism portion, a clutch control portion to engage and disengage the clutch, and a motor control portion to control an output of a motor that executes a control operation on the clutch control portion, the control method comprising, as operations by the motor control portion:

computing a target motor current for a desired driving state;

detecting plural motor currents respectively corresponding to plural detection timings;

selecting a motor current corresponding to the desired driving state among the plural motor currents that have been detected; and

applying feedback control on the output of the motor according to a difference between the target motor current and the motor current that has been selected.