Control system of vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12043246-B2
Application number	US-202117496508-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2021
Priority date	Oct 21, 2020
Publication date	Jul 23, 2024
Grant date	Jul 23, 2024

Abstract

While a vehicle is traveling in an automatic driving mode, an auto-driving oil pressure changing unit makes the engagement pressure of hydraulic oil supplied to a release-side engagement device to be released during a downshift of a stepwise shifting unit, higher than the engagement pressure set during traveling in a manual driving mode, so that retraction of the acceleration due to a drop of drive torque during the downshift is reduced. At this time, an auto-driving rotating machine controller makes drive-side MG2 torque generated from a second rotating machine, larger than that generated during traveling in the manual driving mode, so as to speed up the progress of the downshift, and prevent retraction of the acceleration from being prolonged.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control system of a vehicle that has a driving force source including at least a rotating machine, and a transmission provided on a power transmission path between the driving force source and drive wheels, the transmission including a plurality of engagement devices and operable to be shifted to a plurality of gear positions when engagement states of the engagement devices are switched, the vehicle being operable in a manual driving mode in which the vehicle travels based on driving operation of a driver, and an automatic driving mode in which driving of the vehicle is performed without depending on the driving operation of the driver, the control system comprising:
an auto-driving oil pressure changing unit that makes an oil pressure of hydraulic oil supplied to one of the engagement devices that is released during a downshift of the transmission while the vehicle is traveling in the automatic driving mode, and during an inertia phase of the downshift of the transmission, higher than that set during traveling in the manual driving mode; and
an auto-driving rotating machine controller that makes drive-side torque generated from the rotating machine in the automatic driving mode, and during the inertia phase of the downshift of the transmission, larger than torque generated during traveling in the manual driving mode, while the oil pressure of the hydraulic oil of the one of the engagement devices is made higher than that set during traveling in the manual driving mode, wherein
the auto-driving rotating machine controller controls the torque of the rotating machine such that an input rotational speed of the transmission during the inertia phase of the downshift of the transmission increases at substantially the same rate as that during traveling in the manual driving mode, and the rotating machine is a motor generator.

2. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein, during traveling in the automatic driving mode, the auto-driving oil pressure changing unit makes a rate of reduction of the oil pressure of the hydraulic oil supplied to the one of the engagement devices that is released during the downshift of the transmission, smaller than the rate of reduction set during traveling in the manual driving mode.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sasade Shinichi
• Matsubara Tooru
• Tatsushiro Hiromasa
• Suyama Daisuke
• Kimura Tomoyasu

Classifications

• B60K6/547

  the transmission being a stepped gearing · CPC title

• B60Y2400/70

  Gearings · CPC title

• B60Y2200/92

  Hybrid vehicles · CPC title

• B60W2710/1005

  Transmission ratio engaged · CPC title

• B60W2710/1077

  fluid pressure, e.g. oil pressure · CPC title