Vibration-damping controlling apparatus

• US 9,045,033 B2
• Filed: 05/13/2009
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Kinoshita, Gohki, Muta, Koichiro, Yamamoto, Masaya, Fukushiro, Eiji, Oyama, Shunsuke, Hashimoto, Toshiya, Aoki, Takanori, Kimura, Akihiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Sample, Jonathan L
• Application Number:
  US13/319,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20120065826A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,211 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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: B60L 2240/647 Surface situation of road, e.g. type of paving
• CPC Class Codes: B60L 58/10 for monitoring or controlling batteries
• 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 2422/40 on a damper
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/22 Suspension systems
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/244 Charge state
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/246 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2552/35 Road bumpiness, e.g. potholes
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/025 related to comfort of drivers or passengers
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/20 Reducing vibrations in the driveline
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/70 Energy storage systems for electromobility, e.g. batteries
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/72 Electric energy management in electromobility
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 90/16 Information or communication technologies improving the operation of electric vehicles

Abstract

A sprung vibration damping for suppressing sprung vibration which is generated to a vehicle by an input from a road surface to wheels provided with the vehicle by controlling a torque of a motor, and the sprung vibration damping is subjected to a restriction including a prohibition in response to a state of battery, which supplies power to the motor, such as a voltage and a temperature of the battery or a state of a control, which affects the power of the battery, such as a charge/discharge amount feedback control and the like.

Claims

1. A vibration-damping controlling apparatus comprising:

a controller configured to control an engine, a motor, or a generator of a vehicle and suppress sprung vibration generated to the vehicle by an input from a road surface to wheels provided with the vehicle by controlling a driving force of the vehicle,

wherein

a sprung vibration damping as a suppression of the sprung vibration is executed by the controller by controlling a torque of a motor disposed as a power source when at least the vehicle travels,

the sprung vibration damping, which is executed by the controller by controlling the torque of the motor, is restricted in response to any one of a state of a battery which supplies power to the motor and a state of a control which makes an influence on a power of the battery,

the vehicle further includes an internal combustion engine as a power source in traveling,

the sprung vibration damping is restricted by the controller at a time at which the internal combustion engine starts, or the internal combustion engine stops,

the sprung vibration damping is restricted by the controller at a time at which the internal combustion engine starts, or the internal combustion engine stops as well as when a voltage of the battery is equal to or more than an upper limit threshold value, or the voltage of the battery is equal to or less than a lower limit threshold value, and

the sprung vibration damping is not restricted by the controller when the voltage of the battery is between the upper limit threshold value and the lower limit threshold value even when the internal combustion engine starts or stops.

2. The vibration-damping controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the upper limit threshold value and the lower limit threshold value of the voltage of the battery are changed by a temperature of the battery.

3. The vibration-damping controlling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the controller rotates the internal combustion engine by the output generated by the motor when the internal combustion engine starts and compensates a decelerating force of an engine brake by causing the motor to regenerate when the internal combustion engine stops.