Hydraulic control circuit for vehicle power transmission device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9982775-B2
Application number	US-201515509114-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 7, 2015
Priority date	Sep 9, 2014
Publication date	May 29, 2018
Grant date	May 29, 2018

Abstract

Ground wires are shared between a drive-side pulley solenoid valve and a driven-side pulley solenoid valve. Therefore, when a disconnection or short circuit occurs in the shared portion, a drive-side pulley and a driven-side pulley show substantially the same behavior. As a result, changes in the speed ratio γcvt of a continuously variable transmission are suppressed and changes in vehicle behavior are also suppressed. Therefore, it is possible to suppress the degradation of drivability during the failure of the solenoid valves involved in power transmission.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A hydraulic control circuit for a vehicle power transmission device, the vehicle power transmission device including:
a continuously variable transmission mechanism having a drive-side pulley, a driven-side pulley, and a transmission element wound around the drive-side pulley and the driven-side pulley; and a clutch mechanism that connects and disconnects a power transmission path for transmitting power of a drive power source to drive wheels through the continuously variable transmission mechanism, the hydraulic control circuit comprising:
a drive-side pulley solenoid valve configured to control an oil pressure supplied to the drive-side pulley;
a driven-side pulley solenoid valve configured to control an oil pressure supplied to the driven-side pulley; and
a clutch mechanism solenoid valve configured to control an oil pressure supplied to the clutch mechanism, wherein
in electric wiring of at least two solenoid valves among the drive-side pulley solenoid valve, the driven-side pulley solenoid valve, and the clutch mechanism solenoid valve, a ground wire is shared between the at least two solenoid valves and an electric circuit incorporated in an electronic control unit provided in a vehicle.

2. The hydraulic control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the drive-side pulley solenoid valve and the driven-side pulley solenoid valve are each a normally open solenoid valve.

3. The hydraulic control circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the drive-side pulley solenoid valve and the driven-side pulley solenoid valve are each a normally closed solenoid valve.

4. A hydraulic control circuit for a vehicle power transmission device, the vehicle power transmission device including:
a first transmission mechanism and a second transmission mechanism provided in parallel between an input rotating member to which power of a drive power source is transmitted and an output rotating member that outputs the power to drive wheels; a first clutch mechanism that connects and disconnects a first power transmission path for transmitting power of the drive power source to the drive wheels through the first transmission mechanism; and a second clutch mechanism that connects and disconnects a second power transmission path for transmitting power of the drive power source to the drive wheels through the second transmission mechanism, the hydraulic control circuit comprising:
a fail-safe solenoid valve that is a normally open solenoid valve;
a first clutch mechanism solenoid valve configured to control a first clutch oil pressure supplied to the first clutch mechanism;
a second clutch mechanism solenoid valve configured to control a second clutch oil pressure supplied to the second clutch mechanism, the second clutch mechanism solenoid valve being a normally closed solenoid valve;
a fail-safe valve configured to switch selectively to a first valve position and a second valve position based on an output oil pressure of the fail-safe solenoid valve and to switch to the second valve position at a time of a failure in which the fail-safe solenoid valve outputs a maximum oil pressure, an oil passage configured to supply an output oil pressure of the second clutch mechanism solenoid valve being connected to an oil passage configured to supply the second clutch oil pressure in the first valve position, and an oil passage configured to supply an oil pressure that is not transferred through the second clutch mechanism solenoid valve and is able to engage the second clutch mechanism being connected to the oil passage configured to supply the second clutch oil pressure in the second valve position, wherein
in electric wiring of the fail-safe solenoid valve and the second clutch mechanism solenoid valve, a ground wire is shared, the ground wire being between the fail-safe solenoid valve and the second clutch mechanism solenoid valve.

5. The hydraulic control circuit according to claim 4 , wherein
the fail-safe valve is configured to: (i) connect an oil passage configured to supply an output oil pressure of the first clutch mechanism solenoid valve to an oil passage configured to supply the first clutch oil pressure in the first valve position, and (ii) connect the oil passage configured to supply the first clutch oil pressure to a discharge oil passage in the second valve position.

6. The hydraulic control circuit according to claim 4 , wherein
the second transmission mechanism is a continuously variable transmission mechanism having a drive-side pulley, a driven-side pulley, and a transmission element wound around the drive-side pulley and the driven-side pulley.

7. The hydraulic control circuit according to claim 6 , wherein
the fail-safe solenoid valve is a drive-side pulley solenoid valve configured to control an oil pressure supplied to the drive-side pulley.

8. The hydraulic control circuit according to claim 7 , further comprising
a driven-side pulley solenoid valve configured to control an oil pressure supplied to the driven-side pulley, the driven-side pulley solenoid valve being a normally open solenoid valve, wherein
in electric wiring of the drive-side pulley solenoid valve, the driven-side pulley solenoid valve, and the second clutch mechanism solenoid valve, either one of a power supply wire and a ground wire is shared, the power supply wire being between electric circuits, the ground wire being between the drive-side pulley solenoid valve, the driven-side pulley solenoid valve and the second clutch mechanism solenoid valve.

9. The hydraulic control circuit according to claim 4 , wherein
the second transmission mechanism provides a speed ratio on a higher vehicle speed side than a speed ratio provided by the first transmission mechanism.

Assignees

• Toyota Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Inagaki Takafumi
• Soga Yoshinobu
• Moriyama Shuji
• Mizuno Yoshihiro
• Nitani Hiromitsu

Classifications

• F16H2061/1252

  Fail safe valves · CPC title

• F16H2061/1268

  Electric parts of the controller, e.g. a defect solenoid, wiring or microprocessor · CPC title

• F16H61/0206 Primary

  Layout of electro-hydraulic control circuits, e.g. arrangement of valves · CPC title

• B60Y2410/115

  Electric wiring; Electric connectors · CPC title

• F16H61/12

  Detecting malfunction or potential malfunction, e.g. fail safe (in control of hydrostatic gearing F16H61/4192) {; Circumventing or fixing failures} · CPC title