Shift control method for hybrid vehicle with DCT

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9937925-B2
Application number	US-201615094199-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 8, 2016
Priority date	Nov 10, 2015
Publication date	Apr 10, 2018
Grant date	Apr 10, 2018

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a shift control method for a hybrid vehicle with a DCT that includes: a shifting state-determining step in which a controller determines whether an inertia phase of power-off down-shift is entered; a motor torque-adjusting step that request to reduce regenerative braking torque of a motor as much as a predetermined requested reduction amount, when the controller determines that the inertia phase has been entered in the shifting state-determining step; and a clutch torque-reducing step that ends the motor torque-adjusting step and reduces torque of an engagement clutch, when the requested reduction amount of the regenerative braking torque of the motor is less than zero while the controller performs the motor torque-adjusting step.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A shift control method for a hybrid vehicle with a DCT, the method comprising:
a shifting state-determining step in which a controller determines whether an inertia phase of power-off down-shift has been entered;
a motor torque-adjusting step that requests to reduce regenerative braking torque of a motor as much as a predetermined requested reduction amount, when the controller determines that the inertia phase has been entered in the shifting state-determining step; and
a clutch torque-reducing step that ends the motor torque-adjusting step and reduces torque of an engagement clutch, when a requested reduction amount of the regenerative braking torque of the motor is less than zero while the controller performs the motor torque-adjusting step.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the requested reduction amount of the regenerative braking torque of the motor in the motor torque-adjusting step is determined in accordance with the torque of the engagement clutch, a slip change rate of the engagement clutch, and a speed change rate of an engagement input shaft.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the requested reduction amount for reducing the regenerative braking torque of the motor in the motor torque-adjusting step is determined by the following equation,
Requested reduction amount=− Tc+Jm *( d Slip/ dt+dNi/dt )

where,
Tc; engagement clutch torque
Jm; moment of inertia of motor
Slip; slip amount of engagement clutch (=Nm−Ni)
Ni; speed of engagement input shaft
Nm; motor speed.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein in the clutch torque-reducing step, a reduction amount of the engagement clutch torque is calculated in the same as the requested reduction amount calculated in the motor torque-adjusting step.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the controller performs the shifting state-determining step that determines whether the inertia phase of power-off down-shift has been entered based on an engagement clutch torque, a disengagement clutch torque, a motor speed, and an APS signal; calculates an requested reduction amount in the motor torque-adjusting step and requests a motor controller to reduce the regenerative braking torque as much as the requested reduction amount; and stops the request for the motor controller to reduce the regenerative braking torque and reduces the torque of the engagement clutch by controlling a clutch actuator in the clutch torque-reducing step.

Assignees

• Hyundai Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Cho Sung Hyun
• Nam Ju Hyun

Classifications

• B60W20/15

  Control strategies specially adapted for achieving a particular effect · CPC title

• B60K6/48

  Parallel type · CPC title

• B60W2510/102

  Input speed change rate · CPC title

• B60K2006/4825

  Electric machine connected or connectable to gearbox input shaft · CPC title

• B60W2710/083

  Torque · CPC title