Vehicle, control method of vehicle, and driving apparatus

• US 8,335,603 B2
• Filed: 07/11/2008
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/12/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Aisin AW Company Limited (Aisin Corp.), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Mitsutani, Noritake, Shiraishi, Wataru
• Primary Examiner(s): To, Tuan C.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mahne, Kevin P
• Application Number:
  US12/667,786
• Publication Number:
  US 20100152940A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,621 Days
• Field of Search: 701/22, 701/101, 701/89, 320/152, 320/109, 324/537, 324/764.01, 318/801, 318/805, 318/139, 180/65.25
• US Class Current: 701/22
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 1/02 comprising more than one electric 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: B60K 6/448 Electrical distribution type
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 6/52 Driving a plurality of drive axles, e.g. four-wheel drive
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/24 Steering angle
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/421 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/423 Torque
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 2240/486 Operating parameters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 3/003 relating to inverters
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/16 with provision for separate direct mechanical propulsion
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 50/61 by batteries charged by engine-driven generators, e.g. series hybrid electric vehicles
• 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 2510/081 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2520/10 Longitudinal speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/10 Accelerator pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/12 Brake pedal position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/16 Ratio selector position
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/18 : Steering angle
• 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 2710/105 : Output 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

Abstract

Upon the occurrence of the abnormality that the inverter for driving the motor is in the one-phase short circuited state, this inverter is stopped in the three-phase short circuited state and sets the execution torque by subtracting the counter electromotive force application torque that is applied the driveshaft due to the counter electromotive force generated by rotation of the motor and the steering angle application torque corresponding to the steering angle from the torque demand according to the step-on amount of the accelerator pedal. The engine and the inverter for driving the motor is controlled so that the vehicle is driven with the set execution torque. This enables the driving force output to the driveshaft from the engine and the motor to be in accordance with the torque demand.

Claims

1. A vehicle, comprising:

an internal combustion engine;

an electric power-mechanical power input output assembly, having a generator constructed to input and output power, linked to an axle of the vehicle and connected with an output shaft of the internal combustion engine in such a manner as to be rotatable independently of the axle, and configured to input and output power to and from the axle and the output shaft through input and output of electric power and mechanical power;

a motor constructed to input and output power to and from the axle of the vehicle or a different axle of the vehicle from the axle and to generate a counter electromotive force by rotation;

a first inverter circuit for driving the generator;

a second inverter circuit for driving the motor;

an accumulator configured to supply and receive electric power to and from the generator and the motor via the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit;

a short circuit abnormality detection module that detects a short circuit abnormality that at least one short circuit is formed in a part of phases of the second inverter circuit;

a driving force demand setting module that sets a driving force demand required for driving the vehicle; and

a controller configured to, when the short circuit abnormality is detected by the short circuit abnormality detection module, control the second inverter circuit so that switching elements of the second inverter circuit are stopped in a preset switching state while controlling the internal combustion engine and the first inverter circuit so that the vehicle is driven with an execution driving force that is a driving force based on a sum of the set driving force demand and a cancellation driving force for canceling at least a part of a braking force applied to the vehicle from the counter electromotive force generated by rotation of the motor.

2. The vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein the preset switching state is a switching state that short circuits are formed in all phases of the second inverter circuit.

3. The vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the internal combustion engine and the first inverter circuit using the cancellation driving force that is obtained from a rotation speed-driving force relation predetermined as a relation between a rotation speed of the motor and the cancellation driving force.

4. The vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to set a steering angle driving force to be greater as a steering angle of the vehicle increases and control the internal combustion engine and the first inverter circuit using the execution driving force as a sum of the set steering angle driving force, the cancellation driving force and the set driving force demand.

5. The vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to control the internal combustion engine and the first inverter circuit so that the vehicle is driven with the execution driving force within a range of input and output limits defined as allowable charging and discharging electric power to be charged in and discharged from the accumulator.

6. The vehicle in accordance with claim 1, further including:

a second motor constructed, as different from the motor, to supply and receive electric power to and from the accumulator and to input and output power to and from the axle of the vehicle or a different axle of the vehicle from the axle; and

a third inverter circuit for driving the second motor,

wherein the controller is configured to control the internal combustion engine, the first inverter circuit and the third inverter circuit so that the vehicle is driven with the execution driving force while outputting power from the second motor.

7. The vehicle in accordance with claim 1, wherein the electric power-mechanical power input and output assembly includes a three shaft-type power input output structure connected to three shafts, a driveshaft linked to the axle of the vehicle, the output shaft of the internal combustion engine, and a rotating shaft of the generator, and designed to input and output power to residual shaft based on powers input from and output to any two shafts among the three shafts.

8. A driving apparatus included, along with an internal combustion engine and an accumulator capable of charge and discharge, in a power output apparatus capable of outputting power to a driveshaft, the driving apparatus comprising:

an electric power-mechanical power input output assembly, having a generator constructed to input and output power, connected with the driveshaft and with an output shaft of the internal combustion engine in such a manner as to be rotatable independently of the driveshaft, and configured to supply and receive electric power to and from the accumulator and to input and output power to and from the driveshaft and the output shaft through input and output of electric power and mechanical power;

a motor constructed to input and output power to and from the driveshaft and to generate a counter electromotive force by rotation;

a first inverter circuit connected to the accumulator for driving the generator;

a second inverter circuit connected to the accumulator for driving the motor;

a short circuit abnormality detection module that detects a short circuit abnormality that at least one short circuit is formed in a part of phases of the second inverter circuit;

a driving force demand setting module that sets a driving force demand required for the driveshaft; and

a controller configured to, when the short circuit abnormality is detected by the short circuit abnormality detection module, control the second inverter circuit so that switching elements of the second inverter circuit are stopped in a preset switching state while controlling the first inverter circuit along with control of the internal combustion engine so that an execution driving force is output to the driveshaft, the execution driving force being a driving force based on a sum of the set driving force demand and a cancellation driving force for canceling at least a part of a braking force applied to the driveshaft from the counter electromotive force generated by rotation of the motor.

9. A control method of a vehicle, the vehicle including:

an internal combustion engine;

an electric power-mechanical power input output assembly, having a generator constructed to input and output power, linked to an axle of the vehicle and connected with an output shaft of the internal combustion engine in such a manner as to be rotatable independently of the axle, and configured to input and output power to and from the axle and the output shaft through input and output of electric power and mechanical power;

a motor constructed to input and output power to and from the axle of the vehicle or a different axle of the vehicle from the axle and to generate a counter electromotive force by rotation;

a first inverter circuit for driving the generator;

a second inverter circuit for driving the motor; and

an accumulator configured to supply and receive electric power to and from the generator and the motor via the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit,

the control method, upon occurrence of a short circuit abnormality that at least one short circuit is formed in a part of phases of the second inverter circuit, controlling the second inverter circuit so that switching elements of the second inverter circuit are stopped in a preset switching state while controlling the internal combustion engine and the first inverter circuit so that the vehicle is driven with an execution driving force that is a driving force based on a sum of a driving force demand required for driving the vehicle and a cancellation driving force for canceling at least a part of a braking force applied to the vehicle from the counter electromotive force generated by rotation of the motor.