Temperature estimation device for friction engaging element

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11378181-B2
Application number	US-202117345333-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2021
Priority date	Aug 6, 2020
Publication date	Jul 5, 2022
Grant date	Jul 5, 2022

Abstract

A temperature estimation device for friction engaging elements including an execution device and a storage device is provided. The storage device stores mapping data that defines mapping. The mapping includes, as an input variable, a heat amount variable that is a variable indicating an amount of heat generated by the friction engaging elements during the shifting of the transmission and a shifting variable indicating the friction engaging elements to be engaged at the time of the shifting of the transmission, and, as an output variable, the temperature. The execution device executes an acquisition process of acquiring a value of the input variable and a calculation process of inputting the value of the input variable acquired by the acquisition process into the mapping to calculate a value of the output variable.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A temperature estimation device for a plurality of friction engaging elements that are applied to a vehicle provided with a transmission, the plurality of friction engaging elements operating with hydraulic pressure, the temperature estimation device estimating a temperature of the plurality of friction engaging elements at a time of shifting of the transmission, the temperature estimation device comprising:
a storage device configured to store mapping data that defines a mapping, the mapping including:
as an input variable:
a heat amount variable indicating an amount of heat generated by the plurality of friction engaging elements during the shifting of the transmission,
a shifting variable indicating the plurality of friction engaging elements to be engaged at the time of the shifting of the transmission, and
a time variable indicating a shifting interval, the shifting interval being a time from a previous engagement start timing of the plurality of friction engaging elements for which the temperature is calculated to a current engagement start timing; and

as an output variable:
the temperature of the plurality of friction engaging elements at the time of shifting the transmission; and

an execution device configured to execute an acquisition process of acquiring a value of the input variable and a calculation process of inputting the value of the input variable acquired by the acquisition process into the mapping to calculate a value of the output variable.

2. A temperature estimation device for a plurality of friction engaging elements that are applied to a vehicle provided with a transmission, the plurality of friction engaging elements operating with hydraulic pressure, the temperature estimation device estimating a temperature of the plurality of friction engaging elements at a time of shifting of the transmission, the temperature estimation device comprising:
a storage device configured to store mapping data that defines a mapping, the mapping including:
as an input variable:
a heat amount variable indicating an amount of heat generated by the plurality of friction engaging elements during the shifting of the transmission, the heat amount variable including:
a speed variable indicating a relative rotation speed of members of the plurality of friction engaging elements that rotate relative to each other during the shifting of the transmission, and
a hydraulic pressure variable indicating the hydraulic pressure supplied to the friction engaging elements during the shifting of the transmission, and

a shifting variable indicating the plurality of friction engaging elements to be engaged at the time of the shifting of the transmission; and

as an output variable:
the temperature of the plurality of friction engaging elements at a time of shifting the transmission; and

an execution device configured to execute an acquisition process of acquiring a value of the input variable and a calculation process of inputting the value of the input variable acquired by the acquisition process into the mapping to calculate a value of the output variable.

3. The temperature estimation device according to claim 2 , wherein the heat amount variable includes an oil temperature variable that is a variable indicating a temperature of a hydraulic oil supplied to the plurality of friction engaging elements.

4. The temperature estimation device according to claim 2 , wherein:
the hydraulic pressure supplied to the plurality of friction engaging elements is changed such that an increase in an output torque of a prime mover of the vehicle causes an increase of the hydraulic pressure; and
the heat amount variable includes a torque variable that is a variable indicating the output torque.

5. The temperature estimation device according to claim 4 , wherein the torque variable is a command value of torque to be applied to a drive wheel of the vehicle.

6. The temperature estimation device according to claim 4 , wherein the torque variable is an accelerator operation amount of the vehicle.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Fujii Kota
• Tabata Atsushi
• Okuda Koichi
• Imamura Ken

Classifications

• G06N3/044

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• G06N3/0499

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• G06N3/09

  Supervised learning · CPC title

• F16D2500/7043

  Clutch temperature · CPC title

• F16D2500/70408

  Torque · CPC title