Hybrid drive of a motor vehicle and method for operating same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9457799-B2
Application number	US-201214367544-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 5, 2012
Priority date	Dec 21, 2011
Publication date	Oct 4, 2016
Grant date	Oct 4, 2016

Abstract

A hybrid drive for a motor vehicle includes an internal combustion engine, an electric machine and a transmission. The transmission is a multi-stage shifting transmission having first and second subtransmissions which have first and second input shafts, respectively, and share a common output shaft. The first and second input shafts can be coupled selectively to the common output shaft via form-locking shift elements of the subtransmissions. The first input shaft of the first subtransmission can be coupled to the electric machine via a first clutch, and the second input shaft can be coupled to the internal combustion engine via a second clutch. A drive shaft of the electric machine can be connected to the second input shaft via a form-locking shift element.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A hybrid drive for a motor vehicle, comprising an internal combustion engine, an electric machine and a transmission, wherein the transmission is a multi-stage shifting transmission comprising:
a first subtransmission comprising a first input shaft; and
a second subtransmission comprising a second input shaft, said first and second subtransmissions sharing a common output shaft,
wherein the electric machine is coupled to the first input shaft of the first subtransmission, and the internal combustion engine is coupled to the second input shaft of the second subtransmission, and wherein the first and second input shafts are coupled selectively to the common output shaft via form-locking shift elements of the first and second subtransmissions,
wherein the first input shaft of the first subtransmission is coupled to the electric machine via a first friction-locking clutch, in such a manner that when the first friction-locking clutch is engaged, the electric machine is coupled to the first input shaft, and thus to the first subtransmission, and when the first friction-locking clutch is disengaged, the electric machine is decoupled from the first input shaft, and thus from the first subtransmission,
wherein the second input shaft of the second subtransmission is coupled to the internal combustion engine via a second clutch, in such a manner that when the second clutch is engaged, the internal combustion engine is coupled to the second input shaft, and thus to the second subtransmission, and when the second clutch is disengaged, the internal combustion engine is decoupled from the second input shaft, and thus from the second subtransmission, a drive shaft of the electric machine being connected to the second input shaft via a form-locking shift element.

2. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein the form-locking shift element engages with the first input shaft between the electric machine and the first friction-locking clutch and with the second input shaft between the second clutch and the second subtransmission.

3. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein when the form-locking shift element is engaged, and both the first friction-locking and the second clutches are disengaged, the electric machine is coupled exclusively to the second input shaft and thus to the second subtransmission.

4. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein when the first friction-locking clutch is disengaged, and the form-locking shift element-as well as the second clutch are engaged, the electric machine and the internal combustion engine are coupled to one another, and coupled collectively to the second input shaft, and thus to the second subtransmission.

5. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 , wherein when the second clutch is disengaged, and the form-locking shift element as well as the first friction-locking clutch, are engaged, the first and second subtransmissions are coupled to one another, and the electric machine is coupled to the first and second input shafts, and thus to the first and second subtransmissions.

6. The hybrid drive according to claim 1 wherein the first and second input shafts of the first and second subtransmissions are disposed coaxially to one another.

7. A method for operating a hybrid drive according to claim 1 , comprising:
executing a gear shifting from a current gear of the first subtransmission to a target gear of the second subtransmission during a pure electrical driving mode via the first subtransmission, with the first clutch engaged, with the second clutch disengaged, and with the form-locking shift element disengaged, such that first, either according to a first variation, the form-locking shift element is synchronized and engaged, or according to a second variation, the target gear is synchronized and engaged in the second subtransmission; and
bringing the first friction-locking clutch to a slippage state, following which, in the first variation, the target gear is synchronized and engaged in the second subtransmission, or in the second variation, the form-locking shift element is synchronized and engaged, after which the first clutch is fully disengaged.

8. A method for operating a hybrid drive according to claim 1 , comprising:
executing a gear shifting from a current gear of the second subtransmission to a target gear of the first subtransmission during a pure electrical driving mode via the second subtransmission, with the first friction-locking and the second clutches disengaged, and the form-locking shift element being engaged, such that first, the target gear is synchronized and engaged in the first subtransmission; and
freeing the second subtransmission of load by means of at least partially engaging the first friction-locking clutch and disengaging the current gear of the second subtransmission, and following this, engaging the first friction-locking clutch.

9. A method for operating a hybrid drive according to claim 1 , during a pure electrical driving mode via the second subtransmission, with the first friction-locking and the second clutches disengaged and the form-locking shift element engaged, comprising:
executing a gear shifting from a current gear of the second subtransmission to a target gear of the first subtransmission while starting the internal combustion engine, such that first, the target gear is synchronized and engaged in the first subtransmission;
freeing the second subtransmission of load by means of at least partially engaging the first friction-locking clutch and the current gear of the second subtransmission being disengaged;
synchronizing subsequently the first friction-locking clutch, and at the same time, engaging at least partially the second-clutch for a tow-start of the internal combustion engine; and
disengaging after the tow-start of the internal combustion engine, the second clutch.

10. A method for operating a hybrid drive according to claim 1 , when the motor vehicle is stationary, for a generator operating mode of the electric machine, comprising:
engaging the form-locking shift element;
engaging a start-up gear in the first subtransmission;
engaging a neutral setting in the second subtransmission;
engaging the second clutch and the first friction-locking clutch, at most to a contact point thereof, and, for the subsequent start-up, or creeping stage of the first friction-locking clutch, engaging the first friction-locking clutch beyond the contact point.

11. A method for operating a hybrid drive according to claim 1 , during a pure electrical driving mode via the first subtransmission of the transmission, with the second clutch disengaged, with the first friction-locking clutch engaged, and with the form-locking shift element engaged, for starting the internal combustion engine of the hybrid drive, comprising:
synchronizing first and then engaging the form-locking shift;
bringing the first friction-locking clutch into a slippage, a rotational speed of the electric machine of the hybrid drive being increased; and
engaging the second clutch, the internal combustion engine of the hybrid drive being tow-started, and subsequently, engaging the first friction-locking clutch.

12. A method for operating a hybrid drive according to claim 1 , for executing a gear shifting from a current gear of the first subtransmission to a target gear of the first subtransmission, comprising;
starting from an internal combustion engine driving mode of the motor vehicle, with the first friction-locking and second clutches engaged, and with the form-locking shift element engaged;
increasing first a load to the electric machine of the hybrid drive, and decreasing a load to the intern

Assignees

• Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen

Inventors

• Kaltenbach Johannes
• Griesmeier Uwe

Classifications

• Y10S903/914

  Actuated, e.g. engaged or disengaged by electrical, hydraulic or mechanical means · CPC title

• F16H2003/0933

  with coaxial countershafts · CPC title

• F16H3/097

  the input and output shafts being aligned on the same axis · CPC title

• B60W20/00

  Control systems specially adapted for hybrid vehicles {(hybrid vehicle design, B60K6/00; electric vehicles B60L)} · CPC title

• B60W10/08

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