Control device for controlling electric vehicle

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9862370-B2
Application number	US-201615386528-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 21, 2016
Priority date	Dec 22, 2015
Publication date	Jan 9, 2018
Grant date	Jan 9, 2018

Abstract

A control device for controlling an electric vehicle includes a driving source that rotates wheels, a braking device that applies braking force to the wheels, a creep torque control portion that controls magnitude of creep torque to be applied to the wheels, wherein the creep torque control portion includes a braking force detecting unit that detects the braking force applied by the braking device, a fundamental creep torque calculating unit that calculates fundamental creep torque corresponding to vehicle speed, a creep suppression torque calculating unit that calculates creep suppression torque smaller than the fundamental creep torque based on a result of the detection of the braking force detecting unit and a creep torque calculating unit that calculate the creep torque by subtracting the creep suppression torque from the fundamental creep torque.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control device for controlling an electric vehicle comprising:
a driving source that rotates wheels;
a braking device that applies braking force to the wheels, the braking device including a master cylinder, and wheel cylinders which are provided in the wheels respectively, the braking force being applied to the wheels by fluid pressure of the wheel cylinders;
a fluid pressure sensor that detects a fluid pressure in the master cylinder;
a brake control executing portion that executes a brake auto-hold control for maintaining the fluid pressure of the wheel cylinders and keeping the vehicle at a stopping state despite a depression amount of a brake pedal,
a creep torque control portion that controls magnitude of creep torque to be applied to the wheels,
wherein the creep torque control portion includes:
a braking force detecting unit that detects the braking force applied by the braking device;
a fundamental creep torque calculating unit that calculates fundamental creep torque corresponding to vehicle speed;
a creep suppression torque calculating unit that calculates creep suppression torque smaller than the fundamental creep torque based on a result of the detection of the braking force detecting unit; and
a creep torque calculating unit that calculate the creep torque by subtracting the creep suppression torque from the fundamental creep torque,

wherein
when the brake auto-hold control is in execution by the brake control executing portion, the braking force detecting unit detects the braking force by estimating a fluid pressure in the wheel cylinders based on an output from the fluid pressure sensor, and the creep suppression torque calculating unit calculates the creep suppression torque based on the estimated fluid pressure of the wheel cylinders, and
when the brake auto-hold control is in a standby state, the braking force detecting unit acquires the braking force based on the output from the fluid pressure sensor, and the creep suppression torque calculating unit calculates the creep suppression torque based on the acquired fluid pressure of the master cylinder.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein
the braking force detecting unit estimates the fluid pressure of the wheel cylinders as the braking force.

3. The control device according to claim 2 wherein
when the brake auto-hold control is in execution by the brake control executing portion, the creep suppression torque calculating unit calculates the creep suppression torque based on a maximum value of the estimated fluid pressure in the wheel cylinders.

4. The control device according to claim 2 , wherein the braking force detecting unit estimates the fluid pressure of the wheel cylinders based on a depression amount of a brake pedal.

5. The control device according to claim 3 , wherein the braking force detecting unit estimates the fluid pressure of the wheel cylinders based on the depression amount of the brake pedal.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Motors Corp

Inventors

• Sasaki Yusuke
• Ikoma Norihiko
• Kamachi Makoto
• Tomita Yoshinori
• Shimizu Ryo

Classifications

• B60W2710/182

  Brake pressure, e.g. of fluid or between pad and disc · CPC title

• B60W10/18 Primary

  including control of braking systems · CPC title

• B60T7/122 Primary

  for locking of reverse movement · CPC title

• B60L15/2009 Primary

  for braking · CPC title

• B60T2201/06

  Hill holder; Start aid systems on inclined road · CPC title