Hybrid drive device

• US 20100250037A1
• Filed: 02/16/2010
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: Hisada, Hideki, Ono, Yoshinori, Hakumura, Yomei, Yoshida, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,326,475 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2006/268 Electric drive motor starts the engine, i.e. used as starter motor
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/365 with the gears having orbital motion
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/547 the transmission being a stepped gearing
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/421 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/441 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/486 Operating parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/026 of lock-up clutches
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/06 including control of combustion engines
• 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 2510/0638 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/081 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/1025 Input torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/105 Output torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/081 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/192 Mitigating problems related to power-up or power-down of the driveline, e.g. start-up of a cold engine
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 7/12 the engines being of rotary type, e.g. turbines F02N7/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2059/467 of torque converter
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/143 : using electric control means
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 : Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 : Electric machine technologies in electromobility

Abstract

A hybrid drive device includes a transfer torque estimation unit for estimating a transfer torque transferred by the lock-up clutch with the lock-up clutch slipping; and a target rotational speed determination unit for determining the target rotational speed of the rotary electric machine to be achieved in the rotational speed control on the basis of the transfer torque estimated by the transfer torque estimation unit, a target transmission device input torque of the transmission device determined on the basis of an operating state of a vehicle, and a turbine speed of the turbine runner, wherein the engine startup control device starts up the engine by controlling the rotational speed of the rotary electric machine to the target rotational speed determined by the target rotational speed determination unit.

Claims

1. A hybrid drive device that includes a rotary electric machine coupled to an engine via a transfer clutch, a fluid power transmission device including a lock-up clutch and having a pump impeller and a turbine runner, a transmission device coupled to the rotary electric machine via the fluid power transmission device to receive a driving force produced by one or both of the engine and the rotary electric machine each serving as a driving force source and to output the received driving force after changing a speed thereof, and an engine startup control device that starts up the engine, from a state in which the driving force is transferred, from the rotary electric machine to the transmission device with the engine stationary and with the lock-up clutch engaged, by executing rotational speed control to bring a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine to a target rotational speed with the lock-up clutch slipping, and engaging the transfer clutch, the hybrid drive device comprising:

a transfer torque estimation unit for estimating a transfer torque transferred by the lock-up clutch with the lock-up clutch slipping; and

a target rotational speed determination unit for determining the target rotational speed of the rotary electric machine to be achieved in the rotational speed control on the basis of the transfer torque estimated by the transfer torque estimation unit, a target transmission device input torque of the transmission device determined on the basis of an operating state of a vehicle, and a turbine speed of the turbine runner, wherein

the engine startup control device starts up the engine by controlling the rotational speed of the rotary electric machine to the target rotational speed determined by the target rotational speed determination unit.

2. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, wherein

the transfer torque estimation unit includes a transfer torque prediction unit including a control delay element for outputting a predicted transfer torque with a control response delay with respect to a target transfer torque command provided to the lock-up clutch, and estimates the transfer torque on the basis of the predicted transfer torque output from the transfer torque prediction unit.

3. The hybrid drive device according to claim 2, wherein

the transfer torque estimation unit estimates the transfer torque on the basis of a predicted transfer torque which is a response with a control response delay to a target transfer torque command provided to the lock-up clutch, and an estimated actual transfer torque estimated to be actually transferred by the lock-up clutch.

4. The hybrid drive device according to claim 3, wherein

the transfer torque estimation unit includes an actual transfer torque estimation unit for calculating a capacity coefficient C of the fluid power transmission device on the basis of a speed ratio Re which is a ratio N_T/N_P between the turbine speed N_T of the turbine runner and a pump speed N_P of the pump impeller, and computing the estimated actual transfer torque on the basis of a rotary electric machine torque command T_MO for the rotary electric machine, the rotational speed N_M of the rotary electric machine, the capacity coefficient C, and an inertia J_M of the rotary electric machine, and

the transfer torque estimation unit estimates the transfer torque to be the estimated actual transfer torque computed by the actual transfer torque estimation unit on the basis of the rotary electric machine torque command T_MO, the actual rotational speed N_M of the rotary electric machine, the capacity coefficient C, and the inertia J_M of the rotary electric machine.

5. The hybrid drive device according to claim 4, wherein

wherein the actual transfer torque estimation unit computes the estimated actual transfer torque T_L/UR on the basis of the rotary electric machine torque command T_MO for the rotary electric machine, the actual rotational speed N_M of the rotary electric machine, a time differential N_MD) of the actual rotational speed of the rotary electric machine, the capacity coefficient C, and the inertia J_M of the rotary electric machine using a formula T_L/UR=T_MO−

N_M²×

C−

J_M×

N_MD.

6. The hybrid drive device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a capacity coefficient derivation unit for calculating a capacity coefficient of the fluid power transmission device on the basis of relationship between an output torque and the rotational speed of the rotary electric machine in an EV running state in which a driving force produced by the rotary electric machine is transferred to the transmission device via the fluid power transmission device with both the transfer clutch and the lock-up clutch disengaged; and

a capacity coefficient learning unit for allowing the capacity coefficient calculated by the capacity coefficient derivation unit to be reflected in transfer torque estimation subsequently performed by the transfer torque estimation unit.

7. The hybrid drive device according to claim 3, wherein

the transfer torque estimation unit includes:

a transfer torque prediction unit including a control delay element for outputting a predicted transfer torque which is a response with a control response delay to a target transfer torque command provided to the lock-up clutch; and

an actual transfer torque estimation unit for calculating a capacity coefficient C of the fluid power transmission device on the basis of a speed ratio Re which is a ratio N_T/N_P between the turbine speed N_T of the turbine runner and a pump speed N_P, and computing the estimated actual transfer torque on the basis of a rotary electric machine torque command T_MO for the rotary electric machine, the rotational speed N_M of the rotary electric machine, the capacity coefficient C, and an inertia J_M of the rotary electric machine, and

the transfer torque estimation unit estimates the transfer torque on the basis of the predicted transfer torque output from the transfer torque prediction unit in response to an actual target transfer torque command, and the estimated actual transfer torque computed by the actual transfer torque estimation unit on the basis of an actual rotary electric machine torque command T_MO, the actual rotational speed N_M of the rotary electric machine, the capacity coefficient C, and an inertia J_M of the rotary electric machine.

8. The hybrid drive device according to claim 6, further comprising:

a transfer torque error derivation unit for calculating a transfer torque error which is a difference between the estimated actual transfer torque and the predicted transfer torque; and

a transfer torque estimation learning unit for allowing the transfer torque error derived by the transfer torque error derivation unit to be reflected in transfer torque estimation subsequently performed by the transfer torque estimation unit.

9. The hybrid drive device according to claim 8, further comprising:

a capacity coefficient derivation unit for calculating a capacity coefficient of the fluid power transmission device on the basis of relationship between an output torque and the rotational speed of the rotary electric machine in an EV running state in which a driving force produced by the rotary electric machine is transferred to the transmission device via the fluid power transmission device with both the transfer clutch and the lock-up clutch disengaged; and

a capacity coefficient learning unit for allowing the capacity coefficient calculated by the capacity coefficient derivation unit to be reflected in transfer torque estimation subsequently performed by the transfer torque estimation unit.

10. The hybrid drive device according to claim 1, wherein

the transfer torque estimation unit includes an actual transfer torque estimation unit for calculating a capacity coefficient C of the fluid power transmission device on the basis of a speed ratio Re which is a ratio N_T/N_P between the turbine speed N_T of the turbine runner and a pump speed N_P of the pump impeller, and computing the estimated actual transfer torque on the basis of a rotary electric machine torque command T_MO for the rotary electric machine, the rotational speed N_M of the rotary electric machine, the capacity coefficient C, and an inertia J_M of the rotary electric machine, and

the transfer torque estimation unit estimates the transfer torque to be the estimated actual transfer torque computed by the actual transfer torque estimation unit on the basis of the rotary electric machine torque command T_MO, the actual rotational speed N_M of the rotary electric machine, the capacity coefficient C, and the inertia J_M of the rotary electric machine.

11. The hybrid drive device according to claim 10, wherein wherein the actual transfer torque estimation unit computes the estimated actual transfer torque T_L/UR on the basis of the rotary electric machine torque command T_MO for the rotary electric machine, the actual rotational speed N_M of the rotary electric machine, a time differential N_MD of the actual rotational speed of the rotary electric machine, the capacity coefficient C, and the inertia J_M of the rotary electric machine using a formula T_L/UR=T_MO−

N_M²×

C−

J_M×

N_MD.

12. The hybrid drive device according to claim 11, further comprising:

a capacity coefficient derivation unit for calculating a capacity coefficient of the fluid power transmission device on the basis of relationship between an output torque and the rotational speed of the rotary electric machine in an EV running state in which a driving force produced by the rotary electric machine is transferred to the transmission device via the fluid power transmission device with both the transfer clutch and the lock-up clutch disengaged; and

a capacity coefficient learning unit for allowing the capacity coefficient calculated by the capacity coefficient derivation unit to be reflected in transfer torque estimation subsequently performed by the transfer torque estimation unit.