CONTROL DEVICE

• US 20130012353A1
• Filed: 07/02/2012
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/06/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.)
• Inventors: HAKUMURA, Yomei, TAJIMA, Yoichi, KAWAI, Hideya, YOSHIDA, Takashi
• Granted Patent: US 8,668,621 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 477/5
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 2006/4825 Electric machine connected or connectable to gearbox input shaft
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/48 Parallel type
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2045 for optimising the use of energy
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 15/2054 by controlling transmissions or clutches
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2210/40 DC to AC converters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/421 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/423 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/441 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/443 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/507 Operating parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2260/26 Transition between different drive modes
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2270/145 Structure borne vibrations
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/0023 Detecting, eliminating, remedying or compensating for drive train abnormalities, e.g. failures within the drive train
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/02 including control of driveline 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 20/00 Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/40 Controlling the engagement or disengagement of prime movers, e.g. for transition between prime movers power-up or power-down of the driveline B60W30/192
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/0008 Feedback, closed loop systems or details of feedback error signal
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/0657 : Engine torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/081 : Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/083 : Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/025 : Clutch slip, i.e. difference between input and output speeds
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/081 : Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/083 : Torque
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 : Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/64 : Electric machine technologies in electromobility
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 : Electric energy management in electromobility

Abstract

A control device that controls a vehicle drive device, including a rotary electric machine and internal combustion engine that drive wheels, a first friction engagement device and a second friction engagement device. The control device is configured to execute rotational state control in which a rotational state of the rotary electric machine is controlled so as to establish a target rotational state with the second friction engagement device in a slip engagement state, and hydraulic pressure regulation control in which a hydraulic pressure supplied to the second friction engagement device is controlled on the basis of torque of the rotary electric machine produced during the rotational state control after the first friction engagement device is transitioned to a direct engagement state while the second friction engagement device is transitioned from the slip engagement state to a direct engagement state.

Claims

1. A control device that controls a vehicle drive device in which a rotary electric machine is provided in a power transfer path that connects between an internal combustion engine and wheels and in which a first friction engagement device is provided between the internal combustion engine and the rotary electric machine and a second friction engagement device is provided between the rotary electric machine and the wheels, the control device configured to execute,

when a transition is made from a state in which a drive force is transferred between the rotary electric machine and the wheels with the first friction engagement device in a disengaged state and with the second friction engagement device in an engaged state to a state in which a drive force is transferred between the internal combustion engine and the wheels with the first friction engagement device in an engaged state,

rotational state control in which a rotational state of the rotary electric machine is controlled so as to establish a target rotational state with the second friction engagement device in a slip engagement state, and

hydraulic pressure regulation control in which a hydraulic pressure supplied to the second friction engagement device is controlled on the basis of torque of the rotary electric machine produced during the rotational state control after the first friction engagement device is transitioned to a direct engagement state while the second friction engagement device is transitioned from the slip engagement state to a direct engagement state.

2. The control device according to claim 1, wherein

the control device further executes target torque decision control in which target torque for the rotary electric machine is decided on the basis of a difference between a required drive force for driving the wheels and torque transferred from the internal combustion engine to the rotary electric machine,

the control device executes as the rotational state control rotational speed feedback control in which a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine is controlled so as to coincide with a target rotational speed by adding correction torque to the target torque, and

the control device executes the hydraulic pressure regulation control on the basis of the required drive force and the correction torque for the rotational speed feedback control.

3. The control device according to claim 2, wherein

the control device executes the hydraulic pressure regulation control on the basis of the correction torque calculated with exclusion of an amount corresponding to rotation-varying torque for the rotary electric machine for varying the rotational speed of the rotary electric machine toward the target rotational speed in the rotational speed feedback control.

4. The control device according to claim 2, wherein

in the hydraulic pressure regulation control, a transfer torque capacity of the second friction engagement device is decided on the basis of a value computed by integrating the correction torque over time, and the hydraulic pressure supplied to the second friction engagement device is decided on the basis of the transfer torque capacity.

5. The control device according to claim 2, wherein

the control device is configured to further execute torque control in which output torque of the rotary electric machine is controlled so as to coincide with the target torque, and

in the case where it is determined during execution of the hydraulic pressure regulation control that the second friction engagement device has been brought into the direct engagement state, control for the rotary electric machine is transitioned from the rotational speed feedback control to the torque control.

6. The control device according to claim 5, wherein

in the case where the correction torque has not become zero when it is determined that the second friction engagement device has been brought into the direct engagement state, the control device executes transition torque control in which the output torque of the rotary electric machine is gradually varied from torque produced during the rotational speed feedback control to the target torque along with the transition from the rotational speed feedback control to the torque control.

7. The control device according to claim 1, wherein

the hydraulic pressure regulation control is executed in a predetermined period at and before a time at which the second friction engagement device is transitioned from the slip engagement state to the direct engagement state, the predetermined period including the time of the transition.

8. The control device according to claim 1, wherein

the control device continuously executes the hydraulic pressure regulation control after the first friction engagement device is transitioned to the direct engagement state and until the second friction engagement device is transitioned from the slip engagement state to the direct engagement state.

9. The control device according to claim 1, wherein

the control device is configured to further execute internal combustion engine start control in which the internal combustion engine is started using torque of the rotary electric machine by bringing the first friction engagement device into the engaged state from a state in which the internal combustion engine is stationary and the first friction engagement device is disengaged,

the control device executes the rotational state control along with execution of the internal combustion engine start control, and

the control device executes the hydraulic pressure regulation control after the first friction engagement device is brought into the direct engagement state by way of the slip engagement state.

10. The control device according to claim 1, wherein

defining a state in which a drive force for rotating the wheels in a direction of driving the vehicle forward is transferred from the rotary electric machine toward the wheels along the power transfer path as a positive drive transfer state, and defining a state in which a rotational speed of an engagement member of the second friction engagement device on a side of the rotary electric machine is higher than a rotational speed of an engagement member of the second friction engagement device on a side of the wheels with the second friction engagement device in the slip engagement state as a positive relative rotation state,

in the case where it is deter wined that the drive transfer state and the relative rotation state do not coincide with each other in sign, execution of the hydraulic pressure regulation control is prohibited so that the hydraulic pressure supplied to the second friction engagement device becomes substantially zero.