Vehicle system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10041587-B2
Application number	US-201515117892-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 16, 2015
Priority date	Feb 18, 2014
Publication date	Aug 7, 2018
Grant date	Aug 7, 2018

Abstract

A vehicle system includes: a shift operation device including an operator, the operator being configured to be returned to an initial position when not operated by a driver, the operator being configured to be operated by the driver to an operation position corresponding to a shift position of an automatic transmission; a change mechanism configured to change the shift position by activating an actuator; and an electronic control unit configured to set a first required position on the basis of the initial position and the operation position, electrically change the shift position on the basis of the required position, hold the required position as a second required position until a new required position is set on the basis of the operation position, and, by comparing the second required position with the shift position, determine whether the vehicle system is abnormal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A vehicle system comprising:
a shift operation device including a shift lever, the shift lever being configured to be returned to an initial position when not operated by a driver, and the shift lever being configured to be operated by the driver to an operation position corresponding to a desired shift position of an automatic transmission;
an actuator that is activated to change an actual shift position of the automatic transmission; and
an electronic control unit configured to
set a first required position based on the initial position and the operation position,
electrically change the actual shift position based on the first required position,
hold the first required position as a second required position until a new required position is set based on the operation position, and
determine whether or not the vehicle system is abnormal by comparing the second required position with the actual shift position,

wherein
the operation position includes a non-travel position corresponding to a non-traveling position of the automatic transmission and a travel position corresponding to a traveling position of the automatic transmission, and
the electronic control unit is configured to, when (i) the actual shift position is the traveling position and (ii) the second required position is one of the non-traveling position and a required position based on the initial position, determine that the vehicle system is abnormal.

2. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to, when (i) the actual shift position is the traveling position and (ii) the second required position is the traveling position of which a traveling direction is opposite to a traveling direction of the actual shift position, determine that the vehicle system is abnormal.

3. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to, when (i) the actual shift position is the non-traveling position and (ii) the second required position is any one of the non-traveling position, the traveling position and the required position based on the initial position, determine that the vehicle system is normal.

4. The vehicle system according to claim 1 , wherein
the electronic control unit is configured to:
determine whether a state of the vehicle system is an abnormal state by comparing the second required position with the actual shift position, and
determine that the vehicle system is abnormal when a duration of the abnormal state is longer than or equal to a predetermined time.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Matsubara Masato
• Tateno Masato

Classifications

• F16H59/105

  consisting of electrical switches or sensors · CPC title

• F16H2061/1208

  with diagnostic check cycles; Monitoring of failures · CPC title

• F16H61/12 Primary

  Detecting malfunction or potential malfunction, e.g. fail safe (in control of hydrostatic gearing F16H61/4192) {; Circumventing or fixing failures} · CPC title