Method for controlling electric oil pump

• US 11,035,460 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2019
• Issued: 06/15/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 01/05/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.), Myung Hwa Ind Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group)
• Inventors: Dong, Geon Oh, Choi, Chin Chui, Hwang, Byung Jun, Han, Dong-Kuk, Park, Chul-Wan
• Primary Examiner(s): Chen, Shelley
• Application Number:
  US16/291,718
• Publication Number:
  US 20190331216A1
• Time in Patent Office: 834 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 10/30 including control of auxiliary equipment, e.g. air-conditioning compressors or oil pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 1/02 using lubricating pumps pumps in general F04; lubricating pumps per se F16N
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 2001/0215 Electrical pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F01M 2001/123 using two or more pumps
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2312/14 Going to, or coming from standby operation, e.g. for engine start-stop operation at traffic lights
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0025 Supply of control fluid; Pumps therefore
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0031 using auxiliary pumps, e.g. pump driven by a different power source than the engine

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method for controlling the electric oil pump for a vehicle having an idle stop and go system. The system includes a control device for controlling the operation of the electric oil pump when the vehicle is stopped and restarted again. In the system, the operation of the electric oil pump is performed by an actual RPM control applying a target RPM of the electric oil pump and a torque or a current value of the electric oil pump.

Claims

1. A method for controlling an electric oil pump for a vehicle by using a control device in the electric oil pump for the vehicle having an engine, the method for controlling the electric oil pump comprising steps of:

(A) determining whether the vehicle is stopped;

(B) deciding a target RPM of the electric oil pump;

(C) controlling an actual RPM at which the electric oil pump is actually driven based on the target RPM;

(D) controlling the actual RPM based on a torque or a current value of the electric oil pump; and

(E) stopping the electric oil pump based on the target RPM;

wherein the step (D) comprises a step of determining whether the torque or the current value is reduced when a difference between the target RPM and the actual RPM is equal to or smaller than a predetermined error value.

2. The method for controlling the electric oil pump of claim 1, further comprising step of determining whether a RPM of the engine is equal to or smaller than a predetermined reference stop value when the vehicle has been stopped,

wherein the step (B) determines the target RPM of the electric oil pump when the RPM of the engine is equal to or smaller than the reference stop value.

3. The method for controlling the electric oil pump of claim 1,

wherein the step (C) comprises a step of maintaining the actual RPM at a maximum value of a reference RPM range when the target RPM is equal to or greater than a minimum value of the predetermined reference RPM range.

4. The method for controlling the electric oil pump of claim 3,

wherein the step (C) further comprises a step of maintaining the actual RPM at the target RPM after a predetermined reference time has elapsed.

5. The method for controlling the electric oil pump of claim 1,

wherein the step (D) further comprises steps of:

determining whether the torque or the current value is reduced to a value smaller than a predetermined reference input/output value when the torque or the current value reduces; and

increasing the actual RPM in proportion to the reducing level in the torque or the current value when the torque or the current value reduces to a value smaller than the reference input/output value.

6. The method for controlling the electric oil pump of claim 5,

wherein the step (D) further comprises a step of determining whether the target RPM is smaller than a minimum value of a predetermined reference RPM range, and

wherein the step (E) comprises a step of stopping a driving of the electric oil pump when the target RPM is smaller than the minimum value of the reference RPM range.

7. The method for controlling the electric oil pump of claim 1,

wherein the target RPM of the electric oil pump is decided in an inverse proportion to a temperature of an oil sucked by the electric oil pump.