Device for the control of the traveling speed of a motor vehicle

• US 4,278,059 A
• Filed: 08/30/1979
• Issued: 07/14/1981
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Original Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG (Vodafone Group PLC)
• Inventors: Collonia, Harald
• Primary Examiner(s): Myhre, Charles J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nelli, R. A.
• Application Number:
  US06/071,168
• Time in Patent Office: 684 Days
• Field of Search: 123/102, 123/32 EA, 123/32 EJ, 123/32 EE, 180/177, 180/178, 180/179
• US Class Current: 123/399
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 31/042 where at least one electrical quantity is set by the vehicle operator
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2050/001 Proportional integral [PI] controller
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/0638 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0644 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 31/002 controlling air supply

Abstract

A device for the control of the traveling speed of a motor vehicle with a regulating unit which is actuatable by the vehicle driver, particularly with a gas pedal, with electrical means for the transmission of the movement of the same to an element which influences the fuel-air mixture, particularly a throttle valve, with an electrical controller, the element which influences the fuel-air mixture being in operative connection with the output of the electrical controller, and with at least one comparator, one of the inputs of the comparator being applied with a voltage which is proportional to the rotational speed of the motor and its other input being applied with an adjustable constant voltage value for the rotational speed limitation. As a controller a PI controller is connected in parallel with a P-controller of great amplification.

Claims

1. In a device for the control of the traveling speed of a motor vehicle with a regulating unit which is actuatable by the vehicle driver, particularly with a gas pedal, with electrical means for the transmission of the movement of the regulating unit to an element which influences the fuel-air mixture, particularly a throttle valve, with an electrical controller, the element which influences the fuel-air mixture being in operative connection with the output of the electrical controller, and including at least one comparator, one of the inputs of the comparator being applied with a voltage which is proportional to the rotational speed of the motor and its other input being applied with an adjustable constant voltage value for the rotational speed limitation, the improvement wherein

the electrical controller includes,

a PI-controller having a proportional-integral time response, and

a P-controller, having a proportional time response, of large amplification connected in parallel with said PI-controller, whereby said electrical controller is active during every change in the rotational speed to achieve a new rotational speed substantially without overshooting and oscillations.

2. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said PI-controller and said P-controller each have an output with a signal thereat,

circuit arrangement means for selection of the largest value of the signals at said outputs of said PI-controller and of said P-controller,

said outputs of said PI-controller and of said P-controller are led together via said circuit arrangement means to a common output receiving said largest value of the signals, said common output being the output of the electrical controller.

3. The device as set forth in claim 2, wherein

said circuit arrangement means constitutes diodes, one of said diodes respectively is connected to each of said outputs of the P-controller and of the PI-controller.

4. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said electrical controller includes means for causing the P-controller to be active to control the output of the electrical controller during every change of rotational speed and after a certain moment then to cause the P-controller to be inactive to control the output of the electrical controller and the PI-controller to be active to control the output of the electrical controller.

5. The device as set forth in claim 1, wherein

said electrical controller includes means for making said P-controller active to control the output of the electrical controller and said PI-controller inactive to control the output of the electrical controller as long as a transient build-up of said PI-controller occurs.

6. The device as set forth in claim 2 or 3, wherein

said PI-controller together with said comparator comprises a first differential amplifier having two inputs and one output, a first feedback resistor and a capacitor connected in series between said output of said differential amplifier and one of said inputs of said differential amplifier, a first input resistor connected to said one input of said differential amplifier, the other input of said differential amplifier being applied with the adjustable constant voltage of the rotational speed limitation, said first input resistor being applied with the voltage which is proportional to the rotational speed of the motor,

said P-controller together with said comparator comprises a second differential amplifier having two inputs and one output, a second feedback resistor connected between the output of said second differential amplifier and one of the inputs of said second differential amplifier, a second input resistor connected to said one input of said said second differential amplifier, the other input of said second differential amplifier being applied with the adjustable constant voltage of the rotational speed limitation, said second input resistor being applied with the voltage which is proportional to the rotational speed of the motor,

said outputs of said first and second differential amplifiers constitute said outputs of said PI-controller and said P-controller, respectively.