Shift control method for vehicle with DCT

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9458932-B2
Application number	US-201514740730-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 16, 2015
Priority date	Nov 14, 2014
Publication date	Oct 4, 2016
Grant date	Oct 4, 2016

Abstract

A shift control method for a vehicle with a Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) may include determining whether power-on up-shifting has been initiated, performing torque handover control by controlling release-side and engage-side clutches by repeatedly calculating control torques of the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch over time, when the power-on up-shifting is started and a torque handover period is entered, determining whether tip-out is generated during the performing of torque handover control, obtaining a remaining updating time by recalculating a remaining time until the end of the torque handover period in accordance with a decrease in engine torque, when it is determined that tip-out has been generated, and controlling the release-side and the engage-side clutches on the basis of the control torques for the release-side and the engage-side clutches that are made different in accordance with the calculated remaining updating time during a remaining torque handover period.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A shift control method for a vehicle with a Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT), comprising:
determining, by a controller, whether power-on up-shifting has been initiated;
performing, by the controller, torque handover control by controlling a release-side clutch and an engage-side clutch by repeatedly calculating control torques of the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch over time, when the power-on up-shifting is started and a torque handover period is entered;
determining, by the controller, whether tip-out is generated during the performing of torque handover control;
obtaining, by the controller, a remaining updating time by recalculating a remaining time until an end of the torque handover period in accordance with a decrease in engine torque, when the tip-out is determined to have been generated in the determining of whether the tip-out is generated; and
controlling, by the controller, the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch on a basis of the control torques for the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch that are made different in accordance with the calculated remaining updating time during a remaining torque handover period.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein in the performing of torque handover control, the control torques of the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch are obtained by adding a difference to control torques in a previous control cycle,
wherein the difference is obtained by dividing a change in remaining control torque to be changed by a remaining time until the end of the torque handover period,
wherein the remaining time until the end of the torque handover period is obtained by subtracting a phase-lapsed time, which is a current elapsed time of the torque handover period from a basic phase objective-time calculated when the torque handover period is first entered, and
wherein the change in the remaining control torque is obtained by subtracting the control torque in the previous control cycle from a basic objective torque calculated when the torque handover period is first entered.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein in the controlling of the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch, the remaining updating time is obtained by subtracting an updating objective-torque of the release-side clutch from the control torque of the release-side clutch in the previous control cycle and then dividing a result obtained from the subtraction by an inclination of the control torque of the release-side clutch that provides a possibility to prevent a shock due to a decrease in engine torque by tip-out,
wherein the updating objective-torque is set to prevent the shock due to the decrease in the engine torque due to the tip-out.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the updating objective-torque is calculated on a basis of a tendency of a decrease in engine torque due to the tip-out of an engine and a map determined by repeated testing on control torques of the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch at a level of preventing the shock due to the decrease in the engine torque, and
the inclination of the control torque of the release-side clutch that provides a possibility to prevent the shock due to the decrease in the engine torque by the tip-out is calculated from a map determined by repeated testing in accordance with a number of revolutions of the engine and an objective gear to shift to.

5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the controlling of the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch includes:
obtaining a new updating phase objective-time by adding up the remaining updating time calculated in the obtaining of a remaining updating time and the phase-lapsed time that is the current elapsed time of the torque handover period; and
comparing the updating phase objective-time calculated in the obtaining of the new updating phase objective-time with the basic phase objective-time calculated when the torque handover period is first entered,
wherein as the result of the comparing of the updating phase objective-time with the basic phase objective-time, different control torques are obtained for the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch in accordance with whether the updating phase objective-time is equal to or less than, or whether the updating phase objective-time is more than the basic phase objective-time.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein as the result of the comparing of the updating phase objective-time with the basic phase objective-time, when the updating phase objective-time is equal to or less than the basic phase objective-time,
the control torques for controlling the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch are obtained by adding a difference to the control torques in the previous control cycle, wherein
the difference is obtained by dividing the change in the remaining control torque to be changed by the remaining time until the end of the torque handover period, wherein
the remaining time until the end of the torque handover period is obtained by subtracting the phase-lapsed time that is the current elapsed time of the torque handover period from the updating phase objective-time calculated in the obtaining of a new updating phase objective-time, and
the change in the remaining control torque is obtained by subtracting the control torque in the previous control cycle from the updating objective-torque.

7. The method of claim 5 , wherein as the result of the comparing of the updating phase objective-time with the basic phase objective-time, when the updating phase objective-time is more than the basic phase objective-time,
the control torques for controlling the release-side clutch and the engage-side clutch are obtained by adding a difference to the control torques in the previous control cycle, wherein
the difference is obtained by dividing the change in the remaining control torque to be changed by the remaining time until the end of the torque handover period, wherein
the remaining time until the end of the torque handover period is obtained by subtracting the phase-lapsed time that is the current elapsed time of the torque handover period from the basic phase objective-time calculated when the torque handover period is first entered, and
the change in the remaining control torque is obtained by subtracting the control torque in the previous control cycle from the updating objective-torque.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd
• Kia Motors Corp

Inventors

• Cho Sung Hyun
• Ha Sang Mo

Classifications

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• F16H2061/0407

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