Method and device for controlling the drive of a motor vehicle

• US 8,335,639 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2009
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH (INA-Holding Schaeffler GmbH & Co. KG)
• Original Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental AG)
• Inventors: Bruns, Carsten, Läufer, Andreas
• Primary Examiner(s): Tarcza, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Khatib, Rami
• Application Number:
  US12/540,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20100070131A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,223 Days
• Field of Search: 701/29, 701/29.1, 701/64, 701/99, 701/101, 701/102, 701/104, 701/105, 701/112, 701/115, 701/123, 340/439, 340/441, 123/179.4
• US Class Current: 701/123
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/18018 Start-stop drive, e.g. in a traffic jam
• CPC Class Codes: F02D 17/02 Cutting-out cutting-out engines in multiple engine arrangements F02D25/04
• CPC Class Codes: F02N 11/0818 Conditions for starting or stopping the engine or for deactivating the idle-start-stop mode

Abstract

A method and a device for controlling the drive of a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine (ICE) have a control device to which operating parameters of the drive and parameters influencing the driving operation of the motor vehicle are supplied. On the basis of these parameters the control device enables or terminates the implementation of fuel consumption reduction measures (STST) if specific parameter constellations are present. During the operation of the vehicle the number and/or the duration the possible fuel consumption reduction measures and fuel consumption reduction measures actually carried out are/is determined and the number and/or the duration of the possible fuel consumption reduction measures and the number and/or the duration of the fuel consumption reduction measures actually carried out are/is correlated. From this, a variable (R) is determined which represents a measure for the implementation of the possible fuel consumption reduction measures.

Claims

1. A method for controlling the drive of a motor vehicle which has an internal combustion engine comprising a control device to which operating parameters of the drive and parameters influencing the driving operation of the motor vehicle are supplied and on the basis of said parameters the control device implements and terminates the implementation of one or more fuel consumption reduction measures if specific parameter constellations are present,

the method comprising the steps of, at the control device during the operation of the vehicle:

selecting at least one of the one or more fuel consumption reduction measures and determining a recommended duration for the selected at least one of the one or more fuel consumption reduction measures,

determining an actual duration of the at least one selected fuel consumption reduction measures actually carried out during operation,

correlating the recommended duration of the at least one selected fuel consumption reduction measures and the actual duration of the at least one actually carried out fuel consumption reduction measures, and

determining a variable therefrom which represents a measure for the implementation of the at least one selected fuel consumption reduction measures.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fuel consumption reduction measure consists in the activation of an automatic stop-start device for the internal combustion engine.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fuel consumption reduction measure consists in a shift recommendation to the driver of the motor vehicle with regard to a gear change that is to be performed.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fuel consumption reduction measure consists in a changeover recommendation to the driver of the motor vehicle with regard to a type of drive to be used for the motor vehicle.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the fuel consumption reduction measure consists in a changeover recommendation to the driver of the motor vehicle with regard to a type of fuel to be used for the internal combustion engine.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the quotient from the number of actually carried out fuel consumption reduction measures and the number of possible fuel consumption reduction measures is used as the variable.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the quotient from the duration of the actually carried out fuel consumption reduction measures and the duration of the possible fuel consumption reduction measures is used as the variable.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the difference from the number of actually carried out fuel consumption reduction measures and the number of possible fuel consumption reduction measures is used as the variable.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the difference from the duration of the actually carried out fuel consumption reduction measures and the duration of the possible fuel consumption reduction measures is used as the variable.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the variable is stored in a storage device of the control device.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the variable is stored in a non-volatile manner in the storage device.

12. The method according to claim 10, wherein the variable is read out from the storage device at predefined time intervals.

13. A device for controlling the drive of a motor vehicle, wherein the motor vehicle has an internal combustion engine, comprising a control device to which operating parameters of the drive and parameters influencing the driving operation of the motor vehicle are supplied and on the basis of said parameters the control device implements and terminates the implementation of one or more fuel consumption reduction measures if specific parameter constellations are present, wherein the device is configured to

select at least one of the one or more fuel consumption reduction measures and determine a recommended lithe duration of the selected fuel consumption reduction measures possible during the operation of the motor vehicle,

determine an actual duration of the selected at least one fuel consumption reduction measures actually carried out during the operation of the motor vehicle,

correlate the recommended duration of the selected at least one fuel consumption reduction measures and the actual duration of the selected at least one fuel consumption reduction measures actually carried out, and to

derive a variable from said correlation, which variable represents a measure for the implementation of the selected at least one fuel consumption reduction measures.

14. The device according to claim 13, further comprising an automatic stop-start device.

15. The device according to claim 13, wherein the fuel consumption reduction measure of the control device consists in a shift recommendation to the driver of the motor vehicle with regard to a gear change that is to be performed.

16. The device according to claim 13, wherein the fuel consumption reduction measure of the control device consists in a changeover recommendation to the driver of the motor vehicle with regard to a type of drive to be used for the motor vehicle.

17. The device according to claim 13, wherein the fuel consumption reduction measure of the control device consists in a changeover recommendation to the driver of the motor vehicle with regard to a type of fuel to be used for the internal combustion engine.

18. The device according to claim 13, comprising a storage device storing the variable.

19. The device according to claim 18, wherein storage device is a non-volatile storage device.

20. The device according to claim 18, wherein the control device is operable to read out the variable from the storage device at predefined time intervals.