ACTIVE ANTI-VIBRATION SUPPORTING DEVICE AND ANTI-VIBRATION CONTROL METHOD FOR SAME

• US 20120109457A1
• Filed: 07/05/2010
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Okamoto, Hideyuki, Ishiguro, Tetsuya
• Granted Patent: US 8,775,019 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: F16F 13/264 comprising means for acting dynamically on the walls bounding a working chamber

Abstract

In an active anti-vibration supporting device (301), an ACM_ECU (200) for estimating an engine vibration state by using output data from a crank pulse sensor (Sa) and a TDC sensor (Sb) drives a driving unit (41) so as to extend and contract and thereby suppresses the transmission of vibration. The ACM_ECU (200) calculates the number of STGs (S1_F) that is a quotient obtained when dividing the phase delay (P1_F) of a target current value waveform by an average STG time ((T1)/4) in a first cycle (C1) of engine vibration and the remaining time (P′1_F) of the phase delay (P1_F), wherein the target current value waveform is used for suppressing the transmission of the engine vibration calculated using the output data from the crank pulse sensor (Sa) and the TDC sensor (Sb). The timing at which the elapse of the STG time equivalent to the number of STGs (S1_F) in a third cycle (C3) of the engine vibration in the driving timing of the driving unit has been detected is set as a phase delay reference. Further, after the remaining time (P′1_F) has elapsed, the target current value waveform is output.

Claims

1. An active anti-vibration supporting device which supports an engine in a vehicle body and in which a control unit for estimating vibration state based on an output from a sensor detecting a rotation variation of the engine drives to extend or contract an actuator to suppress transmission of vibration, wherein the control unit:

calculates a target current waveform for suppressing the transmission of the vibration of the engine by using output data from the sensor;

divides a phase delay of the engine vibration calculated from the output data from the sensor by a first predetermined time determined by engine rotation speed to calculate its quotient and remainder time; and

outputs the target current waveform after the remainder time is passed from a phase delay reference which is a second predetermined time according to the quotient and determined by the engine rotation speed at timing for driving the actuator.

2. An active anti-vibration supporting device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit comprises:

a vibration state estimation unit which estimates amplitude and a cycle of the engine vibration by using the output data from the sensor which detects the rotation variation of the engine;

a target current calculation unit which calculates the target current waveform for driving the actuator based on the amplitude and the cycle estimated by the vibration state estimation unit;

a phase delay calculation unit which calculates a phase delay of the engine vibration by using the amplitude estimated by the vibration state estimation unit and the output data from the sensor;

a phase delay parameter calculation unit which divides the phase delay of the engine vibration calculated in the phase delay calculation unit by the first predetermined time determined by the engine rotation speed to calculate its quotient and remainder time; and

a phase delay correction unit which outputs the calculated target current waveform after the remainder time is passed from the phase delay reference which is the second predetermined time according to the quotient and determined by the engine rotation speed in the timing for driving the actuator.

3. The active anti-vibration supporting device according to claim 1, wherein the control unit includes a control unit which

measures crank pulse signals from the sensor which are based on rotation of the engine;

calculates, by using data of the crank pulse signals which belong to a first vibration cycle in cycles of the engine vibration, the target current waveform fed to the actuator for isolating vibration in a second vibration cycle, and

drives to control the actuator by using the calculated target current waveform in a third vibration cycle.

4. The active anti-vibration supporting device according to claim 3, wherein

the control unit calculates in the second vibration cycle of the engine vibration a phase delay of the engine vibration in the first vibration cycle and the first predetermined time determined by the engine rotation speed by using data of the crank pulse signals which belong to the first vibration cycle of the engine vibration;

divides the calculated phase delay of the engine vibration in the first vibration cycle by the first predetermined time to calculate its quotient and remainder time,

outputs in the third vibration cycle of the engine vibration the calculated target current waveform after the remainder time is passed from the phase delay reference which is the second predetermined time according to the quotient and determined by the engine rotation speed.

5. The active anti-vibration supporting device according to claim 4, wherein

the control unit calculates in the second vibration cycle of the engine vibration the phase delay of the engine vibration in the first vibration cycle and the first predetermined time determined by the engine rotation speed by using data of the crank pulse signals which belong to the first vibration cycle of the engine vibration;

divides the calculated phase delay of the engine vibration in the first vibration cycle to calculate its quotient and remainder time,

in the third vibration cycle of the engine vibration,

calculates a third predetermined time determined by the engine rotation speed,

corrects the calculated remainder time by a ratio of the third predetermined time determined by the engine rotation speed and the first predetermined time determined by the calculated engine rotation speed, and

outputs the calculated target current waveform after the corrected remainder time is passed from the phase delay reference which is the second predetermined time according to the quotient and determined by the engine rotation speed.

6. The active anti-vibration supporting device according to claim 1, wherein the first predetermined time determined by the engine rotation speed corresponds to a value obtained by dividing the cycle of the engine vibration by a predetermined integral number, and

the second predetermined time according to the quotient and determined by the engine rotation speed corresponds to time taken for detecting a predetermined number of crank pulse signals.

7. A method performed in an active anti-vibration supporting device for controlling vibration isolation, comprising steps of:

in one cycle of engine vibration cycles which are repeated in a cyclic manner, reading in the one cycle an output value of a sensor which detects a rotation variation of an engine;

calculating in the next cycle a target current waveform which is fed to an actuator for isolating the vibration and a temporarily-set phase delay time based on the output value from the sensor which has been read in the one cycle;

outputting in a cycle after the next cycle current corresponding to the target current waveform calculated in the next cycle to suppress the vibration of the engine;

wherein

the steps are cyclically performed repeatedly, and the method further comprising a step of

adjusting based on acceleration and deceleration of a rotation speed of the engine a phase delay by which an output timing of the current corresponding to the target current waveform is determined in the step of outputting the current in each cycle by dividing the each cycle in stages of which number is n, and wherein

in the step of calculating the target current waveform, a time length of the cycle in which the step of reading the output value of the sensor is performed is divided by the number n which is the number of stages dividing the cycle in order to calculate an average time length of one stage at the time of reading the output value of the sensor, and

the calculated temporarily-set phase delay is divided by the calculated average time length of the one stage to calculate its quotient which is the number of stages and a remainder which is a remainder time, and

in the step of outputting the current, the phase delay in the step of outputting the current is made to be a time after time of stages indicated by the number of stages belonging to the cycle in which the outputting step is performed and the remainder time are passed.

8. The method for controlling vibration isolation according to claim 7, wherein

in the step of outputting the current, the remainder time calculated in the step of calculating the target current waveform is corrected by a ratio between a time length of a first stage which belongs to the cycle in which the step of outputting the current is performed and the calculated average time length of the one stage when the step of reading the output value of the sensor is performed, and

the phase delay in the step of outputting the current is made to be a time after time of the stages of the number of stages belonging to the cycle in which the step of outputting the current is performed and the corrected remainder time are passed.