Control system for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10160443-B2
Application number	US-201715661326-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 27, 2017
Priority date	Aug 2, 2016
Publication date	Dec 25, 2018
Grant date	Dec 25, 2018

Abstract

A control system for a vehicle includes: a motor-generator to regenerate an electric power; a secondary battery to be charged with the electric power regenerated by the motor-generator; an electrical load to be activated with an electric power supplied from at least one of the motor-generator and the secondary battery; a power supply device to supply the electrical load with the electric power generated by the motor-generator based on a deceleration power generated by a braking operation of the vehicle; and an electronic control unit to calculate excess power which is electric power exceeding chargeable power with which the secondary battery is chargeable of a required deceleration power required by the braking operation, and to control the power supply device in accordance with a command value for causing the electric power supplied from the power supply device to the electrical load to be less than the excess power.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control system for a vehicle, the control system comprising:
a motor-generator configured to regenerate an electric power when the vehicle decelerates;
a secondary battery configured to be charged with the electric power regenerated by the motor-generator;
an electrical load configured to be activated with an electric power supplied from at least one of the motor-generator and the secondary battery;
a power supply device configured to supply the electrical load with the electric power generated by the motor-generator based on a deceleration power which is generated by a braking operation of the vehicle; and
an electronic control unit configured to
calculate an excess power which is an electric power exceeding chargeable power with which the secondary battery is chargeable of a required deceleration power required by the braking operation, and
control the power supply device in accordance with a command value for causing the electric power supplied from the power supply device to the electrical load to be less than the excess power.

2. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to:
calculate a required value for causing the power supply device to supply electric power required for operation of the electrical load in response to a request from a user; and
control the power supply device based on one of the command value and the required value, electric power supplied to the electrical load based on the one of the command value and the required value is greater than electric power supplied to the electrical load based on the other one of the command value and the required value.

3. The control system according to claim 2 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to convert an occurrence history of one event of an occurrence of the excess power, a decrease in the chargeable power, and a charging of the secondary battery when the excess power occurs into a numerical value such that the numerical value increases as an occurrence frequency of the event increases and the numerical value decreases as time elapses, and
the power supply device is configured to supply electric power generated from the motor-generator based on the deceleration power to the electrical load even when the numerical value of the occurrence history is equal to or greater than a threshold value, the vehicle decelerates, and the excess power is less than electric power required for operation of the electrical load.

4. The control system according to claim 3 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to:
predict a deceleration start time of the vehicle; and
convert the occurrence history into a numerical value such that the numerical value increases as the deceleration start time approaches.

5. The control system according to claim 4 , further comprising a server disposed at a position separated from a plurality of vehicles,
wherein the server is configured to accumulate deceleration position information indicating positions at which the plurality of vehicles have decelerated, and
the electronic control unit is configured to predict the deceleration start time of a host vehicle based on the deceleration position information and current position information of the host vehicle.

6. The control system according to claim 2 , wherein the electrical load is an electrical load of an air-conditioning device, and
the air-conditioning device is configured to store heat generated by operation of the electrical load.

7. The control system according to claim 6 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured:
not to allow the power supply device to operate in response to the command value when the electrical load performs a transition operation before a current temperature converges on a target temperature; and
to allow the power supply device to operate in response to the command value when the electrical load performs a regular operation after the current temperature converges on the target temperature.

8. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the electrical load is an electrical load of an air-conditioning device, and
the electronic control unit is configured:
not to allow the power supply device to operate in response to the command value when the electrical load performs a transition operation before a current temperature converges on a target temperature; and
to allow the power supply device to operate in response to the command value when the electrical load performs a regular operation after the current temperature converges on the target temperature.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sugimoto Tetsuya

Classifications

• B60W30/18127

  Regenerative braking · CPC title

• B60L2210/10

  DC to DC converters · CPC title

• B60W2710/305

  target power to auxiliaries · CPC title

• B60L2240/42

  related to electric machines · CPC title

• B60L2240/44

  related to combustion engines · CPC title