Control system for meshing type engagement mechanism

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9964161-B2
Application number	US-201614994486-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 13, 2016
Priority date	Jan 13, 2015
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

A control system for a meshing type engagement mechanism includes a meshing type engagement mechanism and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to allow a fluid chamber to be filled with a fluid by putting a switching valve into a cut-off state after respective dog teeth mesh with each other by a second member reaching a predetermined position determined in advance in response to a fluid pressure of the fluid chamber such that the second member is pressed in the direction in which the second member is separated from a first member by a release force depending on the torque transmitted between a surface of a first tooth and a surface of a second tooth, the fluid pressure of the fluid chamber is increased, and an engagement state between the first member and the second member is maintained by the fluid pressure which is increased.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control system for a meshing type engagement mechanism, comprising:
the meshing type engagement mechanism including a first member, a second member, a fluid chamber, and a switching valve, the first member including a plurality of first dog teeth protruding in an axial direction, the first dog teeth being placed at regular intervals in a circumferential direction of the first member, the second member including a plurality of second dog teeth protruding in the axial direction, the second dog teeth being placed at regular intervals in a circumferential direction of the second member, the second dog teeth being configured to be inserted between the first dog teeth, the fluid chamber being configured to allow the second member to be moved to the first member side by an operating force attributable to supply of a fluid such that the first dog teeth and the second dog teeth mesh with each other, the switching valve being configured to switch between a communicating state where the fluid is supplied to the fluid chamber and a cut-off state where the supply of the fluid to the fluid chamber is stopped and the fluid chamber is filled with the fluid, and a tooth surface of the first dog teeth and a tooth surface of the second dog teeth transmitting a torque in contact with each other being inclined surfaces such that a release force in a direction in which the first member and the second member are separated from each other in the axial direction is generated in response to the torque; and
an electronic control unit configured to control the supply and stopping of the supply of the fluid to the fluid chamber by the switching valve, the electronic control unit being configured to allow the fluid chamber to be filled with the fluid by putting the switching valve into the cut-off state after the respective dog teeth mesh with each other by the second member reaching a predetermined position determined in advance in response to a fluid pressure of the fluid chamber such that the second member is pressed in the direction in which the second member is separated from the first member by the release force depending on the torque transmitted between the tooth surface of the first tooth and the tooth surface of the second tooth, the fluid pressure of the fluid chamber is increased, and an engagement state between the first member and the second member is maintained by the fluid pressure which is increased.

2. The control system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a pump discharging the fluid; and
a flow path allowing the fluid chamber and the pump to communicate with each other,
wherein the electronic control unit is configured to control the pump after the flow path is cut off by the switching valve such that a discharge pressure of the pump is reduced.

3. The control system according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a detector detecting a position of the second member in the axial direction.

4. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the fluid is an incompressible fluid.

5. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein the first member and the second member are configured to rotate relative to each other when the first dog teeth and the second dog teeth do not mesh with each other, the first member and the second member being configured to rotate integrally with each other when the first dog teeth and the second dog teeth mesh with each other.

6. The control system according to claim 1 , wherein either one of the first member and the second member is connected to a fixed part such that the other one of the first member and the second member stops rotating when the first dog teeth and the second dog teeth mesh with each other.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kawakami Takaho
• Tabuchi Motoki
• Yoshino Hirotsugu
• Tsukano Fusahiro
• Shiotsu Isamu

Classifications

• F16D48/066

  Control of fluid pressure, e.g. using an accumulator (F16D48/062, F16D48/068 take precedence) · CPC title

• F16D48/00 Primary

  External control of clutches · CPC title

• F16D25/061 Primary

  the clutch having interengaging clutch members · CPC title

• F16D2048/0245

  Electrically driven rotary pumps · CPC title

• F16D2048/0266

  Actively controlled valves between pressure source and actuation cylinder · CPC title