Shifting control method for vehicles with dual clutch transmission

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10316957-B2
Application number	US-201715637662-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 29, 2017
Priority date	Dec 13, 2016
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

A vehicle is equipped with a dual clutch transmission controlled by a shifting control method to achieve quick shifting and direct engaging through quick synchronous control of the rotational speed of an engine and cooperative control of engine torque when a driver intends to rapidly accelerate the vehicle while shifting. The method includes: a rapid acceleration determining step in which a controller determines whether the vehicle is rapidly accelerated based on an output value according to a driving state of the vehicle until a torque handover period is entered, when shifting is started; and an interlocking step of controlling the engagement clutch torque over a predetermined desired engagement clutch torque to cause interlocking based on a torque value determined in accordance with a rapid acceleration level determined in the torque handover period, when the controller determines that the vehicle is rapidly accelerated.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A shifting control method for a vehicle with a dual clutch transmission, the method comprising:
a rapid acceleration determining step in which a controller determines whether the vehicle is rapidly accelerated on the basis of an output value according to a driving state of the vehicle until a torque handover period is entered, when shifting is started;
an interlocking step in which when the controller determines that the vehicle is rapidly accelerated through the rapid acceleration determining step, the controller controls an engagement clutch torque so as to be greater than a predetermined desired engagement clutch torque to cause interlocking on the basis of a torque value determined based on a rapid acceleration level determined in the torque handover period;
immediately after the torque handover period, a rapid acceleration maintenance step of determining whether rapid acceleration is maintained; and
a first engine control step of dropping an engine torque to a negative (−) torque so that a rotational speed of an engine follows an engagement input shaft speed, when the rapid acceleration is maintained.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein whether the vehicle is rapidly accelerated is determined based on an amount of opening of an acceleration position sensor (APS) in the rapid acceleration determining step, and
the engagement clutch torque is increased by adding a torque value determined based on the amount of opening of the APS to the predetermined desired engagement clutch torque in the interlocking step.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein in the interlocking step, the engagement clutch torque is calculated as:
Engagement clutch torque ( t )=engagement clutch torque ( t− 1)+{desired final engagement clutch torque (*)+boosting torque value according to amount of opening of APS−engagement clutch torque ( t− 1)}/(desired time for keeping torque handover−time of keeping torque handover)

where: the desired final engagement clutch torque (*)=Te (engine torque)−Je (rotational inertia)*dNe/dt (angular acceleration of engine).

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
a shifting completion time determining step of determining an expected shifting completion time after the first engine control step; and
a second engine control step of gradually returning the engine torque dropped in the first engine control step to a desired engine torque when the expected shifting completion time is equal to or less than a reference time.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the engine torque is dropped to the negative (−) torque through fuel-cut control in the first engine control step.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Cho Sung Hyun
• Ha Sang Mo

Classifications

• Y02T10/76

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• F16H59/56 Primary

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• F16H63/502

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• F16H2059/183

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• B60W2510/0609

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