Method for searching touch point of DCT clutch

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9989110-B2
Application number	US-201615273371-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2016
Priority date	Sep 23, 2015
Publication date	Jun 5, 2018
Grant date	Jun 5, 2018

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for searching a touch point of a clutch in a dual clutch transmission, including: (a) a step of checking whether a touch point searching condition for a non-driving clutch and a driving clutch is met or not; (b) when the search condition of the step (a) is met, a step of detecting a searching point at which an absolute value of a difference between an acceleration value of an engine and an acceleration value of the driving clutch is larger than a threshold value after applying a position value of the non-driving clutch to the engine; and (c) a step of determining a position of the non-driving clutch corresponding to the searching point as the touch point.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for searching a touch point of a clutch in a dual clutch transmission, comprising:
(a) a step of checking, by a controller, whether a touch point searching condition for a non-driving clutch and a driving clutch is met;
(b) when the searching condition of the step (a) is met, a step of detecting, by the controller, a searching point at which an absolute value of a difference between an acceleration value of an engine and an acceleration value of the driving clutch is larger than a threshold value after applying a torque of the non-driving clutch to the engine;
(c) a step of determining, by the controller, a position of the non-driving clutch corresponding to the searching point as the touch point; and
(d) engaging, by the controller, the driving clutch and the non-driving clutch according to the detected position of the non-driving clutch.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in the step (c), the touch point is determined by adding an offset compensation value corresponding to a torque of the engine to the position of the non-driving clutch corresponding to the searching point.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein, in the step (a), when the non-driving clutch is engaged with the driving clutch in a slip control state, the touch point searching condition is met.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein, in the step (b), searching the touch point is stopped when there is no change in the acceleration value of the engine in spite of applying the torque of the non-driving clutch to the engine.

Assignees

• Hyundai Autron Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kim Min-Hyo

Classifications

• F16D2500/70458

  Engine torque · CPC title

• F16D2500/50284

  Control of secondary clutch in the driveline, i.e. not including clutches in automatic transmission, e.g. in the vicinity of rear axle or on parallel drive shaft · CPC title

• F16D48/06

  Control by electric or electronic means, e.g. of fluid pressure · CPC title

• F16D2500/10412

  Transmission line of a vehicle · CPC title

• F16D2500/7041

  Position · CPC title