ENGINE START CONTROL DEVICE FOR HYBRID VEHICLE

• US 20140074334A1
• Filed: 02/25/2011
• Published: 03/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/25/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
• Original Assignee: Suzuki Motor Corporation
• Inventors: Tagawa, Masaaki, Ito, Yoshiki, Saito, Masakazu, Ohkuma, Hitoshi, Hosoe, Yukihiro
• Application Number:
  US14/000,050
• Publication Number:
  US 20140074334A1
• 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 6/445 Differential gearing distribution 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 10/26 for electrical energy, e.g. batteries or capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/11 using model predictive control [MPC] strategies, i.e. control methods based on models predicting performance utilising navigation and traffic information in the control strategy B60W20/12
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/13 in order to stay within battery power input or output limits; in order to prevent overcharging or battery depletion
• 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 2520/10 Longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/10 Accelerator pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0644 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0666 Engine torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/083 Torque
• 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: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/93 Conjoint control of different elements

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to start an engine while outputting a driving force requested from a driver. According to the present invention, there is provided an engine start control device of a hybrid vehicle including: a start-time target engine rotation speed calculating means; a start-time target engine torque calculating means; a target engine power calculating means that calculates target engine power based on the target engine rotation speed and the target engine torque; an accelerator operation amount detecting means; a vehicle speed detecting means; a target driving power calculating means that calculates target driving power based on the amount of the operation of the accelerator and the vehicle speed; a target electric power calculating means that sets a difference between the target driving power and the target engine power as target electric power; and a motor torque instruction value calculating means that calculates instruction torque values of a plurality of motor generators using a torque balance equation including the target engine torque and an electric power balance equation including the target electric power.

Claims

1. An engine start control device of a hybrid vehicle that controls driving of the vehicle using outputs of an engine and a plurality of motor generators, the engine start control device comprising:

a start-time target engine rotation speed calculating means that calculates a target engine rotation speed at the time of starting the engine;

a start-time target engine torque calculating means that calculates torque required for cranking the engine;

a target engine power calculating means that calculates target engine power based on the target engine rotation speed calculated by the start-time target engine rotation speed calculating means and the target engine torque calculated by the start-time target engine torque calculating means;

an accelerator operation amount detecting means that detects an amount of an operation of an accelerator of the vehicle;

a vehicle speed detecting means that detects a vehicle speed;

a target driving power calculating means that calculates target driving power based on the amount of the operation of the accelerator detected by the accelerator operation amount detecting means and the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detecting means;

a target electric power calculating means that sets a difference between the target driving power calculated by the target driving power calculating means and the target engine power calculated by the target engine power calculating means as target electric power; and

a motor torque instruction value calculating means that calculates instruction torque values of a plurality of motor generators using a torque balance equation including the target engine torque and an electric power balance equation including the target electric power.

2. The engine start control device of a hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising an engine rotation speed detecting means that detects an engine rotation speed,

wherein the motor torque instruction value calculating means calculates base instruction torque values of the plurality of motor generators using the torque balance equation including the target engine torque and the electric power balance equation including the target electric power, calculates correction torque values based on a difference between the target engine rotation speed calculated by the start-time target engine rotation speed calculating means and actual engine rotation speed detected by the engine rotation speed detecting means, and calculates torque instruction values of the plurality of motor generators by adding the correction torque values to the base instruction torque values.

3. The engine start control device of a hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

a target driving force calculating means that calculates a target driving force based on the amount of the operation of the accelerator detected by the accelerator operation amount detecting means and the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detecting means;

a battery charge state detecting means that detects a charge state of the battery;

a target charge/discharge power calculating means that calculates target charge/discharge power based on the charge state of the battery detected by the battery charge state detecting means; and

a provisional target engine power calculating means that calculates provisional target engine power based on the target driving power calculated by the target driving power calculating means and the target charge/discharge power calculated by the target charge/discharge power calculating means,

wherein the target driving power calculating means calculates the target driving power by multiplying the target driving force calculated by the target driving force calculating means by the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detecting means, and

wherein the start-time target engine rotation speed calculating means calculates the target engine rotation speed at the time of starting the engine based on the provisional target engine power calculated by the provisional target engine power calculating means and the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed detecting means.

4. The engine start control device of a hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the start-time target engine torque calculating means sets torque to engine friction torque at the time of fuel cut for an engine rotation speed that is not near 0 rpm and sets torque to a large value on the negative side of the engine friction torque for an engine rotation speed near 0 rpm.