Control device for hybrid vehicle

• US 9,199,632 B2
• Filed: 09/27/2012
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.), Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd. (Aisin Corp.), Mitsubishi Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Terakawa, Tomomitsu, Hosoi, Yasuhiro, Kitamura, Yuichiro, Suzuki, Yoshihide, Ueda, Katsunori, Yoshida, Shigeyuki, Hirao, Shunichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas G
• Assistant Examiner(s): Kong, Sze-Hon
• Application Number:
  US13/628,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20130079967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,160 Days
• Field of Search: 701/22, 701/112, 701/101, 701/70, 180/65, 180/65.26, 123/179, 123/305, 123/491, 930/930
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 10/08 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 20/10 Controlling the power contribution of each of the prime movers to meet required power demand
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 20/40 Controlling the engagement or disengagement of prime movers, e.g. for transition between prime movers power-up or power-down of the driveline B60W30/192
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2510/0638 Engine speed
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 2540/10 Accelerator pedal position
• 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 30/18027 Drive off, accelerating from standstill
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/62 Hybrid vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 903/93 Conjoint control of different elements

Abstract

A control device for a hybrid vehicle includes a portion determining whether an engine torque is necessary, a portion controlling a motor to make a motor torque be a target torque, an engine rotation speed control portion controlling an engine output shaft to rotate at a target engine rotation speed for sudden start/reacceleration while the clutch being disengaged after starting the engine and before an actual rotation speed of the engine output shaft exceeds a reference target engine rotation speed in a case where the engine torque is necessary, a control portion engaging the clutch after the actual rotation speed exceeds the reference target engine rotation speed, and a portion controlling the engine so that the engine torque is assumed to be a target torque by canceling the control by the engine rotation speed control portion after the actual rotation speed exceeds the reference target engine rotation speed.

Claims

1. A control device for a hybrid vehicle, comprising:

an automated transmission including an input shaft configured to be rotated by an engine torque outputted from an engine mounted to a vehicle, and an output shaft rotatably connected to a driving wheel of the vehicle for changing a rotation speed of the input shaft based on a gear ratio of plural gears for plural gear stages to transmit a rotation of the input shaft to the driving wheel;

a clutch configured to engage and disengage an output shaft of the engine and the input shaft of the automated transmission at which an engaged state and a disengaged state are switched by an operation of a clutch actuator;

a motor rotatably connected to the input shaft or the output shaft of the automated transmission for outputting a motor torque to the input shaft or the output shaft of the automated transmission;

an accelerator pedal position sensor for detecting an operation amount or an accelerator pedal;

an engine output shaft rotation speed detection sensor for detecting a rotation speed of the output shaft of the engine;

an engine torque necessity determination portion determining whether an engine torque of the engine which is not outputted is necessary in addition to a motor torque of the motor when the accelerator pedal is operated;

a motor torque control portion controlling the motor so that the motor torque of the motor is assumed to be a target torque during the accelerator pedal is operated;

an engine rotation speed control portion controlling the engine so that a rotation speed of the output shaft of the engine is assumed to be a target engine rotation speed for sudden start/reacceleration which is set to be a value greater than a reference target engine rotation speed by a predetermined value while maintaining the clutch in the disengaged state after starting the engine and before an actual rotation speed of the output shaft of the engine exceeds the reference target engine rotation speed in a case where the engine torque necessity determination portion determines that the engine torque is necessary in addition to the motor torque;

a clutch engagement control portion changing a state of the clutch from the disengaged state to the engaged state after the actual rotation speed of the output shaft of the engine exceeds the reference target engine rotation speed; and

an engine torque control portion controlling the engine so that the engine torque of the engine is assumed to be a target torque by canceling the control by the engine rotation speed control portion so that the rotation speed of the output shaft of the engine is assumed to be the target engine rotation speed for sudden start/reacceleration after the actual rotation speed of the output shaft of the engine exceeds the reference target engine rotation speed.

2. The control device for the hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

a drive mode determination portion determining whether the vehicle is in a drive mode allowing vehicle drive only by motor in which the clutch is in the disengaged state and a power is transmissible only between the motor and the driving wheel;

wherein

the engine torque necessity determination portion determines whether the engine torque of the engine is necessary in addition to the motor torque when the drive mode determination portion determines that the vehicle is in the drive mode allowing vehicle drive only by motor.

3. The control device for the hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, further comprising:

an automated transmission input shaft rotation speed detection sensor detecting a rotation speed of the input shaft of the automated transmission;

wherein

the reference target engine rotation speed according to the engine rotation speed control portion is set to be a greater one of a target engine rotation speed obtained based on the operation amount of the accelerator pedal detected by the accelerator pedal position sensor and a target engine rotation speed obtained based on the rotation speed of the input shaft of the automated transmission detected by the automated transmission input shaft rotation speed detection sensor.

4. The control device for the hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined value in association with the engine rotation speed control portion is set based on the operation amount of the accelerator pedal.

5. The control device for the hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, wherein a driver requested torque being proportional to the operation amount of the accelerator pedal detected by the accelerator pedal position sensor is calculated and whether the driver requested torque is equal to or greater than a maximum motor torque is determined, and wherein a greater one of a target engine rotation speed based on the operation amount of the accelerator pedal and a target engine rotation speed based on the rotation speed of the input shaft of the automated transmission is obtained as the reference target engine rotation speed when the driver requested torque is equal to or greater than the maximum motor torque.

6. The control device for the hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, wherein an engine rotation speed control for performing a feedback control is performed so that the actual rotation speed of the output shaft of the engine is assumed to be the target engine rotation speed for sudden start/reacceleration which is greater than the reference target engine rotation speed by the predetermined value.

7. The control device for the hybrid vehicle according to claim 1, wherein the target engine rotation speed is obtained from a map in which the target engine rotation speed corresponds to a first target engine rotation speed which is constant in a range from a state where the accelerator pedal is not operated to the operation amount of the accelerator pedal is assumed to be a first accelerator pedal operation amount, corresponds to a second target engine rotation speed which is higher than the first target engine rotation speed and is constant in a range from the first accelerator pedal operation amount to a second accelerator pedal operation amount which is greater than the first accelerator pedal operation amount, and gradually increases from the second target engine rotation speed to a third target engine rotation speed in a range from the second accelerator pedal operation amount to a third accelerator pedal operation amount which is greater than the second accelerator pedal operation amount.