Regenerative braking control method of hybrid vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11046316-B2
Application number	US-201916395827-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 26, 2019
Priority date	Dec 10, 2018
Publication date	Jun 29, 2021
Grant date	Jun 29, 2021

Abstract

A regenerative braking control method of a hybrid vehicle may include: a vehicle condition determination operation of determining, by a controller, whether a vehicle speed and a driving mode satisfy conditions suitable for regenerative braking control of the hybrid vehicle; an accumulated count increasing operation of increasing, by the controller, an accumulated count of a reduction direction signal when the reduction direction signal is input from a two-way input device while the conditions are satisfied; an accumulated count reducing operation of reducing, by the controller, the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal depending on a count of the increase direction signal when the increase direction signal is input from the two-way input device while the conditions are satisfied; and a phased braking operation of increasing, by the controller, regenerative braking torque of a motor in phases depending on the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A regenerative braking control method of a hybrid vehicle, the regenerative braking control method comprising:
a vehicle condition determination operation of determining, by a controller, when a vehicle speed and a driving mode satisfy conditions for regenerative braking control of the hybrid vehicle;
an accumulated count increasing operation of increasing, by the controller, an accumulated count of a reduction direction signal when the reduction direction signal is input from an input device while the conditions for the regenerative braking control are satisfied, or an accumulated count reducing operation of reducing, by the controller, the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal depending on a count of an increase direction signal when the increase direction signal is input from the input device while the conditions for the regenerative braking control are satisfied; and
a phased braking operation of increasing, by the controller, regenerative braking torque of a motor in phases depending on the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal,
wherein, when the phased braking operation is performed, the controller is configured to perform a gear shifting operation using different gear shifting patterns depending on the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal.

2. The regenerative braking control method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the conditions for the regenerative braking control in the vehicle condition determination operation are satisfied when the vehicle speed is equal to or greater than a predetermined creep-regeneration reference speed and the driving mode is a fuel efficiency mode.

3. The regenerative braking control method according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the accumulated count increasing operation, the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is increased to a predetermined maximum reference count, and the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is after the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal reaches the predetermined maximum reference count, the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is maintained at the predetermined maximum reference count.

4. The regenerative braking control method according to claim 3 ,
wherein, in the accumulated count reducing operation, the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is reduced to a predetermined minimum reference count, and the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is after the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal reaches the predetermined minimum reference count, the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is maintained at the predetermined minimum reference count.

5. The regenerative braking control method according to claim 4 ,
wherein the predetermined minimum reference count is set to 0,
wherein, in the phased braking operation, when the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is a value of the predetermined minimum reference count+1, a first gear shifting pattern which is identical with a gear shifting pattern which is used when the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is the predetermined minimum reference count is used, and
wherein, when the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is the predetermined maximum reference count or a value of the predetermined maximum reference count −1, a second gear shifting pattern different from the first gear shifting pattern is used in common.

6. The regenerative braking control method according to claim 5 ,
wherein, in the second gear shifting pattern, the gear shifting operation between all gear stages is set such that down shifts are performed at vehicle speeds higher than vehicle speeds at which down shifts of the first gear shifting pattern are performed.

7. The regenerative braking control method according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the phased braking operation, the gear shifting operation is performed in a gear shifting pattern set such that, as the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is increased, vehicle speeds at which down shifts are performed are increased.

8. The regenerative braking control method according to claim 5 , wherein when the accumulated count of the reduction direction signal is 0, the regenerative braking torque of the motor is a creep regenerative braking torque.

9. The regenerative braking control method according to claim 1 ,
wherein the input device includes a paddle shift.

10. The regenerative braking control method according to claim 1 ,
wherein, when the driving mode of the vehicle is a mode set to receive gear shifting requirement of a driver, the controller is configured to determine the reduction direction signal of the input device as a down shift signal of a transmission and to determine the increase direction signal as an up shift signal of the transmission.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Na Sung Chan
• Cheong Seong Hwan

Classifications

• B60W2530/13

  Mileage · CPC title

• F16H61/0202

  the signals being electric · CPC title

• F16H59/44

  dependent on machine speed {, e.g. the vehicle speed} (F16H59/46 takes precedence) · CPC title

• B60Y2300/18058

  Creeping · CPC title

• B60W2520/10

  Longitudinal speed · CPC title