Internal-combustion engine starting device, vehicle, and internal-combustion engine starting method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10690102-B2
Application number	US-201515579225-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2015
Priority date	Jun 11, 2015
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

Provided is an internal-combustion engine starting device in which a control unit controls a motor to realize a first starting mode of starting an internal-combustion engine by increasing a rotation speed of the internal-combustion engine to a predetermined first rotation speed NE 1 by the motor and a second starting mode of starting the internal-combustion engine by increasing the rotation speed of the internal-combustion engine to a second rotation speed NE 2 set higher than the first rotation speed NE 1 and set based on a temperature of a coolant by the motor.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An internal-combustion engine starting device comprising: an internal-combustion engine unit which includes an internal-combustion engine, a cooling unit cooling the internal-combustion engine by a coolant, a temperature acquiring unit acquiring a temperature of the coolant, and a rotation speed acquiring unit acquiring a rotation speed of the internal-combustion engine; and a motor unit which includes a motor starting the internal-combustion engine and a control unit controlling the motor, wherein the control unit controls the motor to realize a first starting mode of starting the internal-combustion engine by increasing the rotation speed of the internal-combustion engine to a predetermined first rotation speed by the motor and subsequently converging the rotation speed to an idle rotation speed, and a second starting mode of starting the internal-combustion engine by increasing the rotation speed of the internal-combustion engine to a second rotation speed set higher than the first rotation speed and set based on the temperature of the coolant by the motor and subsequently converging the rotation speed to the idle rotation speed, the control unit controls the motor to prohibit the realization of the second starting mode in a region in which the temperature of the coolant is lower than a first temperature, and wherein the control unit controls the motor to set a rotation speed difference between the first rotation speed and the second rotation speed to a value based on the temperature of the coolant; wherein the control unit controls the motor to prohibit the realization of the second starting mode when a difference between the second rotation speed and the first rotation speed set based on the temperature of the coolant is a predetermined value or less.

2. The internal-combustion engine starting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the control unit increases and sets the second rotation speed based on the temperature of the coolant in a region in which the temperature of the coolant is equal to or higher than a predetermined first temperature and is equal to or lower than a second temperature higher than the first temperature.

3. The internal-combustion engine starting device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the control unit sets the second rotation speed to a constant value in a region in which the temperature of the coolant exceeds the second temperature.

4. The internal-combustion engine starting device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the control unit sets the second rotation speed to be equal to or higher than a predetermined lower-limit rotation speed and to be equal to or lower than a predetermined upper-limit rotation speed in a region in which the temperature of the coolant exceeds the second temperature.

5. The internal-combustion engine starting device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
an electric power storage unit which includes an electric power storage unit outputting electric power to the motor and a limit rotation speed calculating unit calculating a limit rotation speed of the motor based on an electric power output limit value of the electric power storage unit,
wherein the control unit controls the motor so that an increase degree of the second rotation speed becomes smaller than an increase degree of the limit rotation speed in a region in which the temperature of the coolant is equal to or higher than the first temperature and equal to or lower than the second temperature.

6. The internal-combustion engine starting device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the internal-combustion engine supplies driving power to a vehicle wheel of a vehicle,
the internal-combustion engine starting device further comprises a selection unit which changes an operation characteristic of the vehicle, and
the control unit sets the second rotation speed based on the operation characteristic of the vehicle.

7. A vehicle comprising:
the internal-combustion engine starting device according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yoshida Koji
• Masukake Yuichi
• Iwamitsu Atsuki

Classifications

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