Method for electrohydraulically controlling a motor vehicle transmission and electrohydraulic controller for a motor vehicle transmission

• US 20020107108A1
• Filed: 02/04/2002
• Published: 08/08/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Last, Bernd
• Granted Patent: US 6,588,291 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 477/117
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2059/683 Sensing pressure in control systems or in fluid controlled devices, e.g. by pressure sensors for hydrostatic transmissions F16H2059/6861
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/0078 Linear control, e.g. PID, state feedback or Kalman
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/0258 Proportional solenoid valve
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0251 Elements specially adapted for electric control units, e.g. valves for converting electrical signals to fluid signals
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/19274 torque responsive

Abstract

A control current is converted into an activation pressure for a transmission actuator by a pressure regulating valve. Both a control current at a given time and the activation pressure at the given time are fed back to a regulator. A setpoint value for the activation pressure in a partial range of a torque to be transmitted is converted by the regulator into the control current in dependence on the control current at the given time and otherwise as a function of the activation pressure at a given time. The current measuring device for determining the control current at the given time is adjusted here in such a way that a high resolution is obtained in the partial range.

Claims

1. A method for electrohydraulically controlling a motor vehicle transmission, which comprises the steps of:

using a pressure regulating valve to convert a control current into an activation pressure for a transmission actuator;

feeding back the control current and the activation pressure at a given time to a regulator; and

using the regulator to convert a setpoint value for the activation pressure of the transmission actuator into the control current, a conversion being dependent on at least one of the control current at the given time and the activation pressure at the given time.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein a conversion of the setpoint value for the activation pressure into the control current in a partial range of an actuator torque to be transmitted is dependent on the control current at the given time and is dependent on the activation pressure at the given time.

3. The method according to claim 2, which comprises using the regulator for converting the setpoint value for the activation pressure of the transmission actuator into the control current in dependence on the control current at the given time if a variable which characterizes the actuator torque to be transmitted lies below a predefined threshold value, and in dependence on the activation pressure at the given time if a variable which characterizes the actuator torque to be transmitted lies above the predefined threshold value.

4. The method according to claim 2, which comprises converting the setpoint value for the activation pressure of the transmission actuator in the regulator into the control current in dependence on the control current at the given time if a variable which characterizes the actuator torque to be transmitted lies above a predefined threshold value, and in dependence on the activation pressure at the given time if the variable which characterizes the actuator torque to be transmitted lies below the predefined threshold value.

5. An electrohydraulic controller for a motor vehicle transmission, comprising:

a pressure regulating valve for converting a control current into an activation pressure for a transmission actuator;

a regulator for converting a setpoint value for the activation pressure into the control current in dependence on one of the control current at a given time and the activation pressure at the given time;

a current measuring device connected between said regulator and said pressure regulating valve, said current measuring device feeding back the control current at the given time to said regulator; and

a pressure sensor connected between said regulator and said pressure regulating valve, said pressure sensor feeding back the activation pressure at the given time to said regulator.

6. The controller according to claim 5, wherein said current measuring device is adjusted such that a high resolution of a measurement result is ensured in a partial range of an actuator torque to be transmitted.