Method of controlling tone of electric vehicle based on motor vibration in deceleration or regenerative braking conditions

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11260792-B1
Application number	US-202117319273-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	May 13, 2021
Priority date	Sep 28, 2020
Publication date	Mar 1, 2022
Grant date	Mar 1, 2022

Abstract

A method of controlling a tone of an electric vehicle (EV) includes calculating order components from vibration signals of a rotating motor of the EV, extracting an Nth order component having a determination coefficient R2 which represents linearity with respect to an output torque of the motor and is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, converting an RPM of the motor into a frequency and calculating an order frequency, arranging the order components by applying a vibration level of the Nth order component to a level of the order frequency to be output and setting an EV mode tone, and in a deceleration of the EV, determining a deceleration condition and applying the vibration level of the Nth order component to level control of the order frequency.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of controlling a tone of an electric vehicle (EV) based on a motor vibration in deceleration or regenerative braking conditions, the method comprising:
calculating order components from vibration signals of a rotating motor of the EV;
extracting an N th order component having a determination coefficient R 2 which represents linearity with respect to an output torque of the motor among the calculated order components and is greater than or equal to a predetermined value;
converting a revolutions per minute (RPM) of the motor of the EV into a frequency and calculating an order frequency;
arranging the order components by applying a vibration level of the N th order component to a level of the order frequency to be output and setting an EV mode tone; and
in a deceleration of the EV, determining a deceleration condition and then applying the vibration level of the N th order component to level control of the order frequency for setting the EV mode tone.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising using a vibration sensor to measure vibration of the rotating motor of the EV.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising playing a sound through audio speakers, the sound based on the set EV mode tone.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising outputting the EV mode tone to which a deceleration intent is applied.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the deceleration condition is determined by driver braking.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising, after determining the deceleration condition using a fade-out algorithm in the level control of the order frequency.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the fade-out algorithm uses a deceleration weight value using one or more among a decrement in RPM of the motor of the EV, a decrement in accelerator pedal position, a decrement in vehicle speed, and an increment in pedal effort of a brake.

8. The method of claim 7 , further comprising applying the deceleration weight value being decreased over time.

9. The method of claim 8 , wherein a slope of the deceleration weight value is decreased over time.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the deceleration weight value converges to a predetermined value over time.

11. The method of claim 6 , wherein the fade-out algorithm uses a multiplied result of deceleration weight values using one or more among a decrement in RPM of the motor of the EV, a decrement in accelerator pedal position, a decrement in vehicle speed, and an increment in pedal effort of a brake.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the fade-out algorithm uses a lookup table in which the deceleration weight value is stored.

13. The method of claim 4 , further comprising rearranging the order components by applying the vibration level of the N th order component to the level of the order frequency to be output.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein rearranging the order components comprises using an indoor audio or speaker so as to provide deceleration notification sound to a driver.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein rearranging the order components comprises using an outdoor speaker so as to provide deceleration sound for protection of pedestrians.

16. A method of controlling a tone of an electric vehicle (EV) based on a motor vibration in deceleration or regenerative braking conditions, the method comprising:
calculating order components from vibration signals of a rotating motor of the EV;
extracting an N th order component having a determination coefficient R 2 which represents linearity with respect to an output torque of the motor among the calculated order components and is greater than or equal to a predetermined value;
converting a revolutions per minute (RPM) of the motor of the EV into a frequency and calculating an order frequency;
arranging the order components by applying a vibration level of the N th order component to a level of the order frequency to be output and setting an EV mode tone; and
in a deceleration of the EV by regenerative braking, applying the vibration level of the N th order component to level control of the order frequency for setting the EV mode tone.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein a fade-out algorithm is used in the level control of the order frequency, and the fade-out algorithm uses a deceleration weight value using one or more among a decrement in RPM of the motor of the EV, a decrement in accelerator pedal position, a decrement in vehicle speed, and an increment in pedal effort of a brake.

18. A method of controlling a tone of an electric vehicle (EV) based on a motor vibration in deceleration or regenerative braking conditions, the method comprising:
calculating order components from vibration signals of a rotating motor of the EV;
extracting an N th order component having a determination coefficient R 2 which represents linearity with respect to an output torque of the motor among the calculated order components and is greater than or equal to a predetermined value;
converting a revolutions per minute (RPM) of the motor of the EV into a frequency and calculating an order frequency;
arranging the order components by applying a vibration level of the N th order component to a level of the order frequency to be output and setting an EV mode tone; and
in a deceleration of the EV, determining a deceleration condition and then setting the same order arrangements in an EV acceleration mode to level control of the order frequency for setting the EV mode tone.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the deceleration condition is determined by driver braking or regenerative braking.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Corp

Inventors

• Lee Dong-Chul
• Jung In-Soo
• Kim Bo-Yong

Classifications

• Y02T10/64

  Electric machine technologies in electromobility · CPC title

• G10K11/1785

  Methods, e.g. algorithms; Devices (G10K11/1781, G10K11/1783 take precedence) · CPC title

• B60Y2400/3044

  Vibration sensors · CPC title

• B60Y2306/11

  Noise generation, e.g. drive noise to warn pedestrians that an electric vehicle is approaching · CPC title

• B60Q2300/112

  Vehicle speed · CPC title