Control device of vehicle power transmission device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9260110-B2
Application number	US-201013582140-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2010
Priority date	Mar 1, 2010
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

It is provided a control device of a hybrid type vehicle power transmission device having a prime mover and an electric motor each coupled to a drive shaft in a power transmittable manner, including: a slow change processing means, when any of a torque of the drive shaft, a torque of the prime mover, and a torque of the electric motor changes and passes through zero, slowly changing the torque at a change rate set in advance for suppressing gear rattling noise; and a torque compensating means, if the slow change processing means slowly changes the torque of one of the prime mover and the electric motor, compensating a shortage of the torque of the drive shaft occurring due to the slow change with the other torque not slowly changed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A control device of a hybrid type vehicle power transmission device having a prime mover and an electric motor each coupled to a drive shaft in a power transmittable manner, comprising:
a slow change processing means, when any of a torque of the prime mover and a torque of the electric motor changes and passes through zero, slowly changing the torque at a change rate set in advance for suppressing gear rattling noise; and
a torque compensating means, if the slow change processing means slowly changes the torque of one of the prime mover and the electric motor, compensating a shortage of the torque of the drive shaft occurring due to the slow change with the other torque not slowly changed, wherein
the prime mover is a first electric motor coupled in a power transmittable manner to a rotating element of a differential mechanism having an input shaft coupled to an engine, wherein
the electric motor is a second electric motor coupled in the power transmittable manner to an output shaft of the differential mechanism, wherein
the torque compensating means is implemented while the engine is in operation, wherein
if it is determined that the torques of both the first electric motor and the second electric motor change and pass through zero during the torque control of the drive shaft, the slow change processing means makes an adjustment such that the timing of slowly changing the torque of the first electric motor does not overlap the timing of slowly changing the torque of the second electric motor.

2. The control device of the hybrid type vehicle power transmission device of claim 1 , wherein the change rate of the torque at the time of execution of the slow change processing means is set based on a preset two-dimensional map configured with an absolute value of the torque and the change rate of the torque.

3. The control device of the hybrid type vehicle power transmission device of claim 1 , wherein the change rate of the torque at the time of execution of the slow change processing means is a given preset value suppressing the gear rattling noise.

Assignees

• Tamura Takemi
• Watanabe Hideto
• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Tamura Takemi
• Watanabe Hideto

Classifications

• B60K6/445 Primary

  Differential gearing distribution type · CPC title

• B60W20/1084 Primary

  Operations & Transport · mapped topic

• B60L2240/423

  Torque · CPC title

• B60W30/20

  Reducing vibrations in the driveline · CPC title

• B60W10/06

  including control of combustion engines · CPC title