Method for controlling clutch for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10274028-B2
Application number	US-201715826050-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 29, 2017
Priority date	Sep 25, 2017
Publication date	Apr 30, 2019
Grant date	Apr 30, 2019

Abstract

The present disclosure is configured to include a slip entry determining step of determining, by a controller, whether a driver in a full-lock control releases an accelerator pedal to thereby enter into a micro-slip control; a monitoring step of monitoring, by the controller, whether the release of the clutch occurs, in case of entering into the micro-slip control as a result of performing the slip entry determining step; a control amount adjusting step of resetting a feedback amount of a clutch control torque in the case that the release of the clutch occurs; and a clutch control step of controlling the clutch according to the clutch control torque as reset by the control amount adjusting step to thereby prevent or minimize the release of the clutch.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for controlling a clutch for a vehicle comprising:
a slip entry determining step of determining, by a controller, whether a driver in a full-lock control releases an accelerator pedal to thereby enter into a micro-slip control;
a monitoring step of monitoring, by the controller, whether the release of the clutch occurs, in case of entering into the micro-slip control as a result of performing the slip entry determining step;
a control amount adjusting step of resetting a feedback amount of a clutch control torque in the case that the release of the clutch occurs; and
a clutch control step of controlling the clutch according to the clutch control torque as reset by the control amount adjusting step to thereby minimize the release of the clutch.

2. The method for controlling the clutch for the vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the monitoring step calculates a proportional control component calculated based on a difference between a target slip amount and an actual slip amount of the clutch; and
determines, in the case that a status that the calculated proportional control component is more than a predetermined reference value is maintained during more than a predetermined reference time and a current clutch control torque is less than a minimum maintenance torque, that the release of the clutch begins to occur.

3. The method for controlling the clutch for the vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the clutch control torque is determined by adding the feedback amount to an absolute value of an engine torque; and
wherein the feedback amount is the sum of a proportional control component, an integral control component, and a derivative control component of a PID control.

4. The method for controlling the clutch for the vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein the control amount adjusting step changes the integral control component constituting the clutch control torque to thereby perform the reset of the feedback amount.

5. The method for controlling the clutch for the vehicle according to claim 4 , wherein in the control amount adjusting step, the integral control component is changed into an updated integral control component;
the updated integral control component is calculated by a difference between the clutch control torque of a previous control cycle and the clutch control torque of a current control cycle; and
the clutch control torque of the current control cycle, after the calculation of the updated integral control component, is recalculated using the updated integral control component.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Cho Sung Hyun

Classifications

• F16D2500/10412

  Transmission line of a vehicle · CPC title

• F16D2500/70426

  Clutch slip · CPC title

• F16D48/06 Primary

  Control by electric or electronic means, e.g. of fluid pressure · CPC title

• F16D48/064 Primary

  Control of electrically or electromagnetically actuated clutches (F16D48/062, F16D48/068 take precedence) · CPC title

• F16D2500/30412

  Torque of the input shaft · CPC title