Engine stop control system for vehicle

• US 6,267,706 B1
• Filed: 08/22/2000
• Issued: 07/31/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 03/17/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Nakano, Kenji, Takahashi, Hideyuki, Wakashiro, Teruo, Kuroda, Shigetaka, Iwata, Youichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Marmor, Charles A
• Assistant Examiner(s): HO, HA DINH
• Application Number:
  US09/642,885
• Time in Patent Office: 343 Days
• Field of Search: 477/107, 477/109, 477/110, 477/112, 477/73, 477/185, 477/186, 701/101, 701/104, 701/112, 123/179.3, 123/179.4
• US Class Current: 477/107
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/36 characterised by the transmission gearings
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/485 Motor-assist type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/547 the transmission being a stepped gearing
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/486 Operating parameters
• 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 20/00 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 2540/16 Ratio selector position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18018 Start-stop drive, e.g. in a traffic jam
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/0225 in relation with the gear ratio or shift lever position
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/123 the fuel injection being cut-off
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/0833 Vehicle conditions F02N11/0822, F02N11/0825 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 2200/0802 Transmission state, e.g. gear ratio or neutral state
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 2200/102 Brake pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/40 Engine management systems
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/919 Stepped shift

Abstract

When the shift position is an N position or a P position during deceleration of a vehicle, or when a brake pedal is depressed even if the shift position is a D position or an R position, an engine E is stopped to prohibit an unnecessary idling operation by prohibiting the restarting of the supplying of fuel subsequent to the fuel cut by a command from an electronic control unit. If the supplying of fuel is restarted when the engine is in stoppage, a starter motor is driven automatically to start the engine. Thus, in a vehicle including an automatic transmission, the time of stoppage of the engine can be prolonged as much as possible in a range in which the operability of the vehicle is injured, thereby providing a reduction in amount of fuel consumed.

Claims

1. An engine stop control system for a vehicle, comprising:

an engine;

a manual transmission for transmitting a driving force of the engine to driven wheels;

a shift position detecting means for detecting a shift position of said manual transmission;

a clutch operation detecting means for detecting the engaging/disengaging operation of a clutch pedal to carry out the cut-off and coupling of a driving force between said engine and said manual transmission;

a vehicle speed detecting means for detecting a vehicle speed;

a throttle opening degree detecting means for detecting a throttle opening degree;

a decelerated-state detecting means for detecting a decelerated state of the vehicle; and

an engine output control means including a means for cutting off the supplying of fuel to said engine by said fuel supply control means when a decelerated state of the vehicle is detected by a decelerated-state detecting means and for restarting the supplying of fuel to start said engine when the number of revolutions of the engine becomes equal to or less than a threshold value,

said engine output control means continuing the cutting-off of the supplying of fuel if the throttle opening degree detected by said throttle opening degree detecting means is a fully-closed throttle opening degree when the vehicle speed detected by said vehicle speed detecting means reaches a predetermined vehicle speed, and when the clutch-disengaging operation is detected by said clutch operation detecting means, and the shift position detected by said shift position detecting means is a non-travel position, after cutting-off of the supplying of fuel by said fuel supply control means during deceleration of the vehicle, and restarting the supplying of fuel if the throttle opening degree detected by said throttle opening degree detecting means is not the fully-closed throttle opening degree.

2. An engine stop control system for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein when the clutch engaging operation is detected during cutting-off of the supplying of fuel to said engine, said cutting-off of the supplying of fuel is continued.

3. An engine stop control system for a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein when the clutch disengaging operation is detected during cutting-off of the supplying of fuel to said engine and the shift position is brought into a travel position, the supplying of fuel to said engine is restarted.

4. An engine stop control system for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein when a remaining capacity of an engine starting power source is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, said engine is stopped, and when the remaining capacity of said engine starting power source is less than the predetermined value, the stopping of said engine is prohibited, or the starting of said engine is permitted.

5. An engine stop control system for a vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the cutting-off of the supplying of fuel to said engine is carried out after the vehicle speed once reaches a predetermined vehicle speed.

6. An engine stop control system for a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein when a remaining capacity of an engine starting power source is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, said engine is stopped, and when the remaining capacity of said engine starting power source is less than the predetermined value, the stopping of said engine is prohibited, or the starting of said engine is permitted.

7. An engine stop control system for a vehicle according to claim 3, wherein when a remaining capacity of an engine starting power source is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, said engine is stopped, and when the remaining capacity of said engine starting power source is less than the predetermined value, the stopping of said engine is prohibited, or the starting of said engine is permitted.

8. An engine stop control system for a vehicle according to claim 2, wherein the cutting-off of the supplying of fuel to said engine is carried out after the vehicle speed once reaches a predetermined vehicle speed.

9. An engine stop control system for a vehicle according to claim 3, wherein the cutting-off of the supplying of fuel to said engine is carried out after the vehicle speed once reaches a predetermined vehicle speed.