METHOD AND DEVICE FOR OPERATING A VEHICLE HAVING A HYBRID DRIVE

• US 20110106353A1
• Filed: 11/25/2008
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Original Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
• Inventors: Prickarz, Herbert, Ganswind, Markus, Brocke, Ernst, Lock, Robert
• Application Number:
  US12/736,041
• Publication Number:
  US 20110106353A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 26/021 with means for providing feel, e.g. by changing pedal force characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/22 characterised by apparatus, components or means specially adapted for HEVs
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• 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 20/00 Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/15 Control strategies specially adapted for achieving a particular effect
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/143 Alarm means
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/10 Accelerator pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 50/16 Tactile feedback to the driver, e.g. vibration or force feedback to the driver on the steering wheel or the accelerator pedal
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles

Abstract

A method for operating a vehicle having a hybrid drive, which vehicle is driven by a first drive unit implemented as internal combustion engine, and a second drive unit, which may be an electric motor, the first drive unit and the second drive unit contributing to the drive of the vehicle individually or jointly. In a method for operating a vehicle having a hybrid drive, in which the driver is informed about the connection of the different drive units, haptic feedback is provided to the driver when the previously idle drive unit is connected to the drive unit that is in operation.

Claims

1-14. -14. (canceled)

15. A method for operating a vehicle having a hybrid drive, which includes a first drive unit implemented as internal combustion engine and a second drive unit, the first drive unit and the second drive unit contributing to the drive of the vehicle individually or jointly, the method comprising:

when a previously idle one of the drive units is connected to the other one of the drive units being operated, providing a driver with haptic feedback.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the haptic feedback takes place via an accelerator pedal, by which a driver-desired torque is input.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the haptic feedback takes place via a pressure point in the pedal travel of the accelerator pedal.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the pressure point is formed by resistance in the pedal travel.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the pressure point is calculated as a function of operating data of the hybrid vehicle.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the pressure point is calculated as a function of the driver-desired torque.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein the pedal travel is subdivided by at least one pressure point into two segments, which differ by a resistance of the accelerator pedal.

22. The method of claim 17, wherein when operating the first drive unit, the pressure point is canceled if the connection of the second drive unit is not possible due to an operating strategy.

23. The method of claim 15, wherein the connection of one of the drive units is indicated at least one of optically and acoustically.

24. The method of claim 15, wherein the second drive unit is implemented as an electric motor.

25. A device for operating a vehicle having a hybrid drive, which is driven by a first drive unit implemented as internal combustion engine, and a second drive unit, the first drive unit and the second drive unit contributing to the drive of the vehicle individually or jointly, comprising:

a haptic feedback arrangement to output haptic feedback to a driver when a previously idle one of the drive units is connected to the other one of the drive units that is being operated.

26. The device of claim 25, wherein the haptic feedback takes place via an accelerator pedal that inputs the driver-desired torque.

27. The device of claim 26, wherein the accelerator pedal outputs the haptic feedback via a pressure point in the pedal travel.

28. The device of claim 27, wherein the accelerator pedal forms the pressure point by resistance in the pedal travel.

29. The device of claim 27, wherein the pedal travel of the accelerator pedal is subdivided by the pressure point into two segments, which differ in the resistance of the accelerator pedal.

30. The device of claim 25, wherein the second drive unit is implemented as an electric motor.