Control device and method for engine and transmission

• US 7,048,671 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2002
• Issued: 05/23/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Ogiso, Makoto, Nishida, Hideyuki, Tamura, Tadashi, Moriguchi, Naoki, Yoeda, Keiji, Nagai, Tadayuki, Morisawa, Kunio, Ogawa, Toshinari
• Primary Examiner(s): Pang, Roger
• Application Number:
  US10/489,345
• Publication Number:
  US 20040214687A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,342 Days
• Field of Search: 477/109, 477/110, 477/111, 477/180, 477/181
• US Class Current: 477/109
• 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 10/10 including control of change-speed gearings
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/11 Stepped gearings
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/0208 Clutch engagement state, e.g. engaged or disengaged
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/0241 Clutch slip, i.e. difference between input and output speeds
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/0695 Inertia
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/1095 Inertia
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0605 Throttle position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2710/0644 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18 Propelling the vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: F01L 13/0015 for optimising engine performances by modifying valve lift according to various working parameters, e.g. rotational speed, load, torque
• CPC Class Codes: F01L 2800/00 Methods of operation using a variable valve timing mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: F01L 9/10 by fluid means, e.g. hydraulic
• CPC Class Codes: F01L 9/20 by electric means
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 13/0207 changing valve lift or valve lift and timing
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 13/0215 changing the valve timing only
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 13/0253 Fully variable control of valve lift and timing using camless actuation systems such as hydraulic, pneumatic or electromagnetic actuators, e.g. solenoid valves
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2041/001 for engines with variable valve actuation
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2250/18 Control of the engine output torque
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 2250/21 : during a transition between engine operation modes or states
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 41/023 : in relation with the gear ratio shifting conjoint control for improving gear change B60W30/19
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 26/01 : Internal exhaust gas recirculation, i.e. wherein the residual exhaust gases are trapped in the cylinder or pushed back from the intake or the exhaust manifold into the combustion chamber without the use of additional passages
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2063/506 : for engine torque resume after shift transition, e.g. a resume adapted to the driving style
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2306/42 : Changing the input torque to the transmission
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2306/54 : Synchronizing engine speed to transmission input speed
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0437 : by using electrical signals F16H61/0403 and F16H61/061 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/66 : specially adapted for continuously variable gearings control of exclusively fluid gearing F16H61/38
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 63/502 : for smoothing gear shifts
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 : Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

The invention relates to a control device for an engine able to control at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve via a driving mechanism actuated without a torque from an output shaft of the engine, and a transmission connected to the engine. The control device includes a torque transmitting device for reducing the torque from the engine while that torque is being transmitted to an output shaft of the transmission, and control means for controlling the torque transmitting device so as to reduce the torque transmitted from the engine to the output shaft of the transmission during an upshift, controlling a engine speed to a target speed after shifting during the unshift, and controlling the torque transmitting device so as to increase the torque transmitted to the output shaft of the transmission after the engine speed is synchronized with the speed after shifting.

Claims

1. A control device for an engine and a transmission, comprising:

a driving mechanism that controls at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve so as to be opened and be closed without a torque from an output shaft of the engine;

a transmitting mechanism provided between the transmission and the engine; and

a controller that reduces or interrupts a torque transmitted by the transmitting mechanism during an upshift, performing a rotation reduction control for controlling the driving mechanism so as to reduce an engine speed while the torque transmitted by the transmitting mechanism is reduced or interrupted, and controls, when the engine speed becomes a target engine speed that is higher than a first engine speed according to the gear ratio after the upshift, the driving mechanism so that the engine speed becomes the first engine speed according to the gear ratio after the upshift while increasing the torque transmitted by the transmitting mechanism during the upshift.

2. The control device according to claim 1, wherein, when increasing the torque transmitted by the transmitting mechanism, the controller increases the rate at which the torque transmitted by the transmitting mechanism is increased as the difference between the actual engine speed and the target engine speed decreases, and decreases the rate at which the torque transmitted by the transmitting mechanism is increased as the difference between the actual engine speed and the target engine speed increases.

3. The control device according to claim 1, wherein:

an inertia torque generated by the shift is absorbed by the rotation reduction control and clutch hydraulic pressure control on the transmission side during an inertia phase while shifting.

4. The control device according to claim 3, wherein:

a control width of the clutch hydraulic control necessary to absorb the inertia torque in the inertia phase is reduced by the rotation reduction control.

5. The control device according to claim 1, wherein:

an amount of inertia torque absorbed by clutch hydraulic control on the transmission side is reduced by absorbing the inertia torque on the engine side by the rotation reduction control during the inertia phase while shifting.

6. The control device according to claim 5, wherein:

a control width of the clutch hydraulic control necessary to absorb the inertia torque in the inertia phase is reduced by the rotation reduction control.

7. The control device according to claim 5, wherein:

a control width of the clutch hydraulic control to absorb the inertia torque in the inertia phase is set to 0 by the rotation reduction control.

8. The control device according to claim 1, wherein:

all of the inertia torque is absorbed by the rotation reduction control during the inertia phase while shifting.

9. The control device according to claim 8, wherein:

a control width of the clutch hydraulic control to absorb the inertia torque in the inertia phase is set to 0 by the rotation reduction control.

10. The control device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a torque transmitting device that reduces the torque from the engine while that a torque is being transmitted to the output shaft of the transmission,

wherein, the controller controls the torque transmitting device so as to reduce the torque transmitted from the engine to the output shaft of the transmission during a shift of the transmission, and performs the rotation reduction control, and controls the torque transmitting device so as to increase the torque transmitted to the output shaft of the transmission after the engine speed has been synchronized with the target speed after shifting by the rotation reduction control.

11. The control device according to claim 10, wherein:

the torque transmitting device is a transmitting mechanism that connects the engine with the transmission; and

the controller;

reduces a torque capacity of the transmitting mechanism during shifting,

executes the shift while the torque capacity of the transmitting mechanism is being reduced,

controls the engine speed to the target speed in accordance with the gear change ratio after shifting by performing the rotation reduction control while the torque which is transmitted from the engine to the transmission by the transmitting mechanism is being reduced, and

increases the torque transmitted from the engine to the transmission by the transmitting mechanism after the engine speed is synchronized with the target speed in accordance with the gear change ratio after shifting by the rotation reduction control.

12. The control device according to claim 11, wherein:

the transmitting mechanism includes a clutch mechanism that can be controlled to an engaged state for transmitting torque and a released state for interrupting torque, and

the controller selectively controls the clutch mechanism to the released state and the engaged state.

13. The control device according to claim 12, wherein:

the transmitting mechanism includes a clutch mechanism which can transmit the torque following mutual sliding of torque transmitting members, increase and decrease degree of the mutual sliding, and

the controller controls the degree of the mutual sliding by the clutch mechanism and controls the clutch mechanism so that the torque is transmitted without sliding.

14. The control device according to claim 10, wherein:

the torque transmitting device includes an engaging device on a high gear speed side within the transmission;

the shift is executed while the torque from the engine is input to the transmission; and

the controller progresses the upshift following an increase in an engaging force in the engaging device on the high gear speed side and corrects a difference between the engine speed in accordance with the engaged state of the engaging device in an inertia phase during the upshift and the target speed after shifting by the rotation reduction control.

15. The control device according to claim 10, wherein:

the torque transmitting device includes an engaging device on a high gear speed side within the transmission;

the shift is executed while the torque from the engine is input to the transmission;

an engaging force of the engaging device is set to a predetermined value at the time of the shift; and

the engine speed is controlled to the target speed after shifting by the rotation reduction control.

16. The control device according to claim 1, wherein:

the engine performs an intake stroke for drawing in air to a cylinder of the engine and an exhaust stroke for exhausting a combusted exhaust gas; and

the rotation reduction control includes at least one of suppressing discharge of the combusted exhaust gas on the exhaust stroke and drawing in the combusted exhaust gas again on the intake stroke, and

the controller reduces the engine speed by the rotation reduction control.

17. The control device according to claim 1, wherein:

the engine performs an intake stroke for drawing in air to a cylinder of the engine; and

the rotation reduction control includes controlling the intake valve so as to increase the amount of air taken into the engine, and

the controller increases the engine speed by the rotation reduction control.

18. The control device according to claim 1, wherein:

the driving mechanism includes an electromagnetic mechanism provided for the exhaust valve and the intake valve respectively, for electromagnetically opening and closing the exhaust valve and the intake valve individually.

19. A control method for an engine and a transmission comprising:

reducing or interrupting a torque transmitted by a transmitting mechanism provided between the engine and the transmission during an upshift;

controlling a driving mechanism, which controls at least one of an intake valve and an exhaust valve so as to be opened and be closed without a torque from an output shaft of the engine, so as to reduce an engine speed while the torque transmitted by the transmitting mechanism is reduced or interrupted; and

controlling, when the engine speed becomes a target engine speed that is higher than a first engine speed according to the gear ratio after the upshift, the driving mechanism so that the engine speed becomes the first engine speed according to the gear ratio after the upshift while increasing the torque transmitted by the transmitting mechanism during the upshift.