Control system for vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2017282901-A1
Application number	US-201715465734-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 22, 2017
Priority date	Mar 30, 2016
Publication date	Oct 5, 2017
Grant date	—

Abstract

A control system for a vehicle includes an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to i) calculate a target supercharging pressure of an intake air such that, when an internal combustion engine is operated through the homogeneous charge compression ignition, the internal combustion engine achieves a required output while satisfying a predetermined requirement, ii) control an output of the internal combustion engine such that the output approaches the required output in accordance with an actual supercharging pressure in process of changing the actual supercharging pressure to the target supercharging pressure that is achieved by a supercharger, and iii) control a rotary machine such that an output of the rotary machine compensates for part or all of a differential output between the required output and the output in process of changing the actual supercharging pressure to the target supercharging pressure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A control system for a vehicle, the vehicle including an internal combustion engine, a supercharger, a power transmission system, and a rotary Machine, the internal combustion engine being configured to perform homogeneous charge compression ignition operation, the supercharger being configured to supercharge intake air into the internal combustion engine, the power transmission system being configured to transmit a power of the internal combustion engine to a drive wheel of the vehicle, the rotary machine coupled to the drive wheel so as to transmit a power to the drive wheel, the control system comprising:
an electronic control unit configured to
i) calculate a target supercharging pressure of the intake air such that, when the internal combustion engine is operated through the homogeneous charge compression ignition, the internal combustion engine achieves a required output of the internal combustion engine while satisfying a predetermined requirement,
ii) control an output of the internal combustion engine such that the output of the internal combustion engine approaches the required output in accordance with an actual supercharging pressure in process of changing the actual supercharging pressure to the target supercharging pressure that is achieved by the supercharger, and
iii) control the rotary machine such that an output of the rotary machine compensates for part or all of a differential output between the required output and the output of the internal combustion engine in process of changing the actual supercharging pressure to the target supercharging pressure.

2 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to control the output of the internal combustion engine such that the output of the internal combustion engine approaches the required output While the predetermined requirement is satisfied in accordance with the actual supercharging pressure in process of changing the actual supercharging pressure to the target supercharging pressure that is achieved by the supercharger.

3 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to control a fuel injection amount of the internal combustion engine such that the output of the internal combustion engine approaches the required output while the predetermined requirement is satisfied in accordance with the actual supercharging pressure in process of changing the actual supercharging pressure to the target supercharging pressure that is achieved by the supercharger.

4 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined requirement is a requirement for reducing knocking associated with an increase in the output of the internal combustion engine at a time when the internal combustion engine is operated through the homogeneous charge compression ignition.

5 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the predetermined requirement is a requirement for reducing a misfire associated with a reduction in the output of the internal combustion engine at a time when the internal combustion engine is operated through the homogeneous charge compression ignition.

6 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the vehicle includes an exhaust gas recirculation device configured to recirculate part of exhaust gas, flowing through an exhaust passage of the internal combustion engine, to an intake passage of the internal combustion engine, the electronic control unit is configured to calculate a target exhaust gas recirculation rate of the exhaust gas recirculation device on the basis of the target supercharging pressure, and the electronic control unit is configured to control the output of the internal combustion engine such that the output of the internal combustion engine approaches the required output in accordance with the actual supercharging pressure and an actual exhaust gas recirculation rate in process of changing the actual exhaust gas recirculation rate to the target exhaust gas recirculation rate that is achieved by the exhaust gas recirculation device.

7 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to, at a time when the required output of the internal combustion engine is changed as a result of a change in required driving output of the vehicle through driver's operation, control the rotary machine such that the output of the rotary machine compensates for the differential output between the required output and the output of the internal combustion engine.

8 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the electronic control unit is configured to, at a time when the required output of the internal combustion engine is changed as a result of a change of a request from a hybrid system regarding an operation of the internal combustion engine, control the rotary machine such that the output of the rotary machine compensates for the differential output between the required output and the output of the internal combustion engine.

9 . The control system according to claim 8 , wherein
the vehicle includes an electrical storage device configured to exchange electric power with the rotary machine, and the request from the hybrid system regarding the operation of the internal combustion engine is a request to charge the electrical storage device.

10 . The control system according to claim 1 , wherein
the power transmission system includes a transmission device that is provided between the internal combustion engine and the rotary machine and that has a shift function, the electronic control unit is configured to control a shift of the transmission device, and the electronic control unit is configured to, when the output of the rotary machine compensates for the differential output, restrict a shift of the transmission device.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Imamura Tatsuya
• Tabata Atsushi

Classifications

• F02D2200/1004

  Estimation of the output torque · CPC title

• Y10S903/93

  Conjoint control of different elements · CPC title

• B60W2710/06

  Combustion engines, Gas turbines · CPC title

• F02D2200/0406

  Intake manifold pressure · CPC title

• B60W10/08

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