Control device for hybrid vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11338790-B2
Application number	US-202016924132-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 8, 2020
Priority date	Sep 20, 2019
Publication date	May 24, 2022
Grant date	May 24, 2022

Abstract

Since a maximum rotation speed is set to a lower value when a supercharging pressure from a supercharger is high than when the supercharging pressure is low, an engine torque is decreased at a relatively low engine rotation speed and the engine rotation speed is less likely to fall into a high-rotation state. Since the maximum rotation speed is set to a relatively high value when the supercharging pressure is relatively low and the engine rotation speed is less likely to fall into a high-rotation state, the engine torque is not decreased at a relatively high engine rotation speed and power performance can be easily secured. Accordingly, it is possible to curb a decrease in power performance due to a decrease in the engine torque and to prevent the engine rotation speed from falling into a high-rotation state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device for a hybrid vehicle including an engine with a supercharger and a rotary machine that is able to adjust a rotation speed of the engine, the control device comprising:
a high rotation curbing unit configured to control the engine and the rotary machine such that an operating point of the engine reaches a target operating point which is set such that the rotation speed of the engine is within a range which does not exceed a maximum rotation speed with a margin of the rotation speed of the engine from a predetermined upper-limit rotation speed of each of the engine and the rotary machine and an output required for the engine is output from the engine and to control the engine such that an output torque of the engine decreases when the rotation speed of the engine exceeds the maximum rotation speed; and
a rotation speed setting unit configured to set the maximum rotation speed to a lower value when a supercharging pressure from the supercharger is high than when the supercharging pressure is low.

2. The control device for a hybrid vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the rotation speed setting unit is configured to set the maximum rotation speed to a lower value as the supercharging pressure becomes higher.

3. The control device for a hybrid vehicle according to claim 1 , wherein the rotation speed setting unit is configured to set the maximum rotation speed to a lower value when a temperature of intake air of the engine is low than when the temperature of intake air is high.

4. The control device for a hybrid vehicle according to claim 3 , wherein the rotation speed setting unit is configured to set the maximum rotation speed to a lower value as the temperature of intake air of the engine becomes lower.

5. The control device for a hybrid vehicle according to claim 1 , further comprising a condition determining unit configured to determine whether a vehicle condition is a predetermined vehicle condition in which the rotation speed of the engine or the rotation speed of the rotary machine is likely to reach a predetermined upper-limit rotation speed,
wherein the rotation speed setting unit is configured to set the maximum rotation speed to a lower value when it is determined that the vehicle condition is the predetermined vehicle condition than when it is determined that the vehicle condition is not the predetermined vehicle condition.

6. The control device for a hybrid vehicle according to claim 5 , wherein the condition determining unit is configured to determine whether the vehicle condition is the predetermined vehicle condition based on whether the hybrid vehicle is traveling on a road on which driving wheels to which power of the engine is transmitted are likely to slip.

7. The control device for a hybrid vehicle according to claim 5 , wherein the condition determining unit is configured to determine whether the vehicle condition is the predetermined vehicle condition based on whether the rotary machine is subjected to a predetermined output limitation.

8. The control device for a hybrid vehicle according to claim 7 , wherein the condition determining unit is configured to determine that the rotary machine is subjected to the predetermined output limitation when a temperature of the rotary machine or a temperature of a power storage device that transmits and receives electric power to and from the rotary machine is outside of a predetermined normal temperature area thereof.

9. The control device for a hybrid vehicle according to claim 5 , wherein the condition determining unit is configured to determine whether the vehicle condition is the predetermined vehicle condition based on whether a braking operation of a brake device that applies a wheel brake torque to driving wheels to which a power of the engine is transmitted is limited.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tabata Atsushi
• Okuda Koichi
• Matsubara Tooru
• Kohno Takashi
• Tsuchida Yasutaka

Classifications

• B60W20/13 Primary

  in order to stay within battery power input or output limits; in order to prevent overcharging or battery depletion · CPC title

• B60K6/46

  Series type · CPC title

• B60K2006/381

  characterized by driveline brakes · CPC title

• B60W2510/246

  Temperature · CPC title

• B60W10/08

  including control of electric propulsion units, e.g. motors or generators · CPC title