Adaptive Control Patents (Class 701/68)
  • Patent number: 12071963
    Abstract: A method for controlling a hydraulic system for actuating a drive train device of a drive train of a motor vehicle includes a first volumetric flow of a pressure medium being provided by an electrically operated pump, and a slave cylinder piston of a slave cylinder being actuated along an actuation path, in a manner controlled by a switch valve, via a second volumetric flow generated from the first volumetric flow. A leakage in the hydraulic system is determined from a comparison of the first and second volumetric flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Marc Rambert, Nicolas Leriche
  • Patent number: 12071987
    Abstract: Methods and systems for operating a plurality of electrical loads are described. In one example, the systems include electrical circuits for operating solenoid valves of a transmission that may be operated to simultaneously control two or more clutches for engaging and disengaging transmission gears. The systems and method may reduce hardware costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: DANA ITALIA S.R.L.
    Inventors: Alessandro Di Lisa, Mario Gelmini, Claudio Angeloni, Fabio Gunsch
  • Patent number: 12025072
    Abstract: A control method is provided for controlling an internal combustion engine for a vehicle configured to engage a lockup clutch during a fuel cut, and to decrease a lockup hydraulic pressure at a fuel cut recovery to bring the lockup clutch to a slip engagement. The control method includes estimating a torque of the internal combustion engine generated by the fuel cut recovery when a fuel cut recovery condition is satisfied. The control method further includes decreasing a decrease amount of the lockup hydraulic pressure as the torque is greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuzuru Tohta, Kohei Kamiya, Noriaki Ejiri, Tomoaki Kobayashi
  • Patent number: 12000441
    Abstract: A clutch control method is used in a vehicle that has a dog clutch and an engagement sensor, which detects an engagement of a dog clutch. The clutch control method includes executing an engagement of the dog clutch when a magnitude of a differential rotation of the dog clutch is less than or equal to a prescribed value when the engagement sensor is normal and then determining the engagement of the dog clutch using the engagement sensor. The clutch control method further includes setting the differential rotation of the dog clutch to a value larger than the prescribed value when the engagement sensor has failed and then determining the engagement of the dog clutch based on a difference between the differential rotation of the dog clutch at a time of starting the engagement of the dog clutch and the differential rotation of the dog clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masato Koga, Takayuki Kagaya
  • Patent number: 11919518
    Abstract: A method for controlling lane changing of a vehicle, including: receiving a lane changing instruction (step 101); acquiring a speed parameter of the vehicle (step 102); according to the speed parameter, determining a controlling coefficient of a predetermined controller (step 103); acquiring a position-deviation parameter and a heading-angle parameter of the vehicle; if the position-deviation parameter is greater than or equal to a first threshold, or, if the heading-angle parameter is greater than or equal to a second threshold, according to the controlling coefficient, the position-deviation parameter and the heading-angle parameter, determining a target steering-wheel steering angle of the vehicle; and according to the target steering-wheel steering angle, controlling the vehicle to perform a lane changing operation, till the position-deviation parameter is less than the first threshold, and the heading-angle parameter is less than the second threshold (step 105).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Ning Lu, Jian Gao, Lin He, Jianyong Ge, Tianpei Wang
  • Patent number: 11796594
    Abstract: According to one example, an electrical device is provided comprising electrical-device components, a first memory configured to store data temporarily, a second memory, the second memory being non-volatile memory, and a control device configured to acquire data indicative of at least one parameter of at least one electrical-device component of the electrical-device components responsive to a sample condition being met, store the acquired data in the first memory, determine that a fault condition exists based on the acquired data, the fault condition being indicative of a fault of one or more of the electrical-device components, and store the acquired data in the second memory responsive to determining that the fault condition exists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Flemming Johansen, Lars Opstrup Poulsen
  • Patent number: 11754175
    Abstract: The controller starts an output of an engagement instruction of the lockup clutch when a vehicle speed becomes a lockup start vehicle speed under a state where the lockup clutch is disengaged. When the vehicle speed, which is obtained a predetermined time after the output of the engagement instruction is started due to the vehicle speed becoming the lockup start vehicle speed, has reached a predetermined vehicle speed, the controller continues the output of the engagement instruction. When the vehicle speed has not reached the predetermined vehicle speed, the controller stops the output of the engagement instruction and restarts the output of the engagement instruction when the vehicle speed reaches a lockup restart vehicle speed which is set to a vehicle speed higher than the lockup start vehicle speed while the output is stopped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takeaki Ishibashi, Ikuhiro Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 11670992
    Abstract: An electric machine for a drive of a motor vehicle, having a stator, a rotor which can be rotated relative to the stator, a temperature sensor arranged and designed to capture a temperature of the stator and a rotor condition capture sensor which is arranged and designed to capture a rotational speed and/or rotational position of the rotor accommodated in a stator-fixed manner. The temperature sensor and the rotor condition capture sensor are implemented as subsystems of a common sensor system, wherein a first subsystem having the temperature sensor has an elastic thermally conductive contact element connected to the temperature sensor, which contact element is permanently fitted to a contact region of the stator. A hybrid module having this electric machine is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ruppert, Michael Marsetz, Thomas Fritz
  • Patent number: 11618437
    Abstract: A control apparatus of a power transmission system for a vehicle calculates estimated driving force while taking account of inertia loss torque and a transmission efficiency, during execution of automatic parking control for automatically parking the vehicle at a target parking position. During execution of automatic parking control, the control apparatus sets a traveling mode to a gear traveling mode in which power is transmitted via a gear mechanism, or sets the traveling mode to a belt traveling mode in which power is transmitted via a stepless speed change mechanism, and fixes the speed ratio of the stepless speed change mechanism to the lowest-side speed ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hiroyasu Honda, Ryosuke Saito
  • Patent number: 11605848
    Abstract: Disclosed is a traction battery self-heating control method and a device. Acquiring a second temperature of a rotor at a current sampling time according to system parameters and a first temperature of the rotor at a previous sampling time, and estimating a third temperature of the rotor at a next sampling time according to the first temperature and the second temperature, and stopping the self-heating of the traction battery when the third temperature reaches a demagnetization temperature of the rotor. Whether to stop the self-heating of the traction battery is determined by estimating a rotor temperature under the self-heating condition, and comparing the rotor temperature with the demagnetization temperature of the rotor, and thus the self-heating control of the traction battery is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaojian Huang, Zhimin Dan, Bao Li, Xiyang Zuo
  • Patent number: 11577727
    Abstract: A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. An integrated actuator housing includes a single external power access for the shift actuator. A controller interprets a shaft displacement angle, determines if the transmission is in an imminent zero or zero torque region, and performs a transmission operation in response to the transmission in the imminent zero or zero torque region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: EATON CUMMINS AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Paul Peterson, Graeme Andrew Jackson, Paul Wilson, Christian Chimner, David L. Wadas, Thomas Connolly
  • Patent number: 11512748
    Abstract: This clutch control apparatus includes: a clutch device that connects and disconnects a power transmission between an engine and a drive wheel; a clutch actuator that drives the clutch device and changes a clutch capacity; a driven mechanism that is arranged between the clutch actuator and the clutch device, is operated by a drive of the clutch actuator, and operates the clutch device; a control part that calculates a control target value of the clutch capacity; and a temperature sensor that measures a temperature of the driven mechanism, wherein the control part corrects the control target value based on the temperature measured by the temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junya Ono, Akira Tokito, Tatsuya Ryuzaki, Kohei Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11506250
    Abstract: Systems and methods of controlling a clutch in a vehicle are provided. With the goal of enabling autonomous/assisted control of the clutch by an electronic control unit while preserving the familiar mechanical feeling at the clutch pedal that driving enthusiasts prefer, embodiments of the disclosed technology use a shuttle valve to blend control of clutch engagement between a driver and an ECU. In these embodiments, a clutch pedal in the vehicle may be mechanically connected to a piston in a first hydraulic cylinder (just like in a traditional mechanical/hydraulic clutch actuation system), and an ECU may actuate a second hydraulic cylinder. Accordingly, a shuttle valve may be used to route the fluid coming from the cylinder with the greater pressure (i.e. the driver actuated cylinder or the ECU actuated cylinder), to a third hydraulic cylinder which adjusts engagement of a clutch by a mechanical linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Alexander R. Green, Michael Thompson, Yan Ming Jonathan Goh, John Subosits, Avinash Balachandran
  • Patent number: 11498559
    Abstract: A launch control method for a vehicle may include a step of increasing clutch torque of a clutch according to a decrease in braking pressure, a step of maintaining a current level of the clutch torque for a first reference duration, a step of gradually reducing the clutch torque within a range which is lower than the first reference torque level and is equal to or greater than a second reference torque level which is lower than the first reference torque level, a step of gradually increasing the clutch torque until the clutch torque reaches a third reference torque level which is higher than the first reference torque level, and a step of bringing the control to a stop when a state in which a clutch slip is less than a predetermined critical synchronous slip is maintained for a predetermined critical synchronization duration or longer than the predetermined critical synchronization duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, Kia Corporation
    Inventor: Sung Hyun Cho
  • Patent number: 11502346
    Abstract: Disclosed is a traction battery self-heating control method and a device. Acquiring a second temperature of a rotor at a current sampling time according to system parameters and a first temperature of the rotor at a previous sampling time, and estimating a third temperature of the rotor at a next sampling time according to the first temperature and the second temperature, and stopping the self-heating of the traction battery when the third temperature reaches a demagnetization temperature of the rotor. Whether to stop the self-heating of the traction battery is determined by estimating a rotor temperature under the self-heating condition, and comparing the rotor temperature with the demagnetization temperature of the rotor, and thus the self-heating control of the traction battery is realized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED
    Inventors: Xiaojian Huang, Zhimin Dan, Bao Li, Xiyang Zuo
  • Patent number: 11486454
    Abstract: A driving force transmission control device includes a driving force transmission device configured to press a friction clutch by an actuator and a controller configured to control the driving force transmission device. The controller calculates a torque command value indicating a driving force to be transmitted from a rotating member on an input side to a rotating member on an output side based on information of a vehicle. The controller sets an electric current command value according to a magnitude and an amount of time change of the torque command value. The electric current command value is a target value of an electric current. The controller performs electric current feedback control such that an electric current corresponding to the calculated electric current command value is supplied to the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Oda, Go Nagayama, Tomonori Ono, Takashi Kouzai
  • Patent number: 11396917
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for controlling a clutch plate assembly of a vehicle. The system may include a first clutch control system, a second clutch control system, and a valve system. The valve system may have a first input fluidly connected to the first clutch control system for receiving a first pressure from the first clutch control system, a second input configured to be fluidly connected to the second clutch control system for receiving a second pressure from the second clutch control system, and an output configured to be fluidly connected to the clutch plate assembly. The valve system may be configured to provide at least a portion of at least one of the first pressure and the second pressure to the clutch plate assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thompson, Alexander R. Green, Yan Ming Jonathan Goh, John Subosits, Avinash Balachandran
  • Patent number: 11338794
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for operating a hybrid vehicle during launch conditions from rest. In one example, a threshold speed below which a clutch is closed during a vehicle launch is adjusted so that driver demand wheel torque is held constant for a constant accelerator pedal position until the clutch is closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Meyer, Kevin Ruybal, Bhavesh Paradkar, Todd Mccullough
  • Patent number: 11305778
    Abstract: Force-detecting sensors are installed in a motorcycle's handlebars, footpegs and seat to detect the rider's grip, weight and weight distribution. A control unit interprets the signals from the sensors to determine an attribute of the rider or an intention of the rider to make a manoeuvre. Signals from environmental sensors are used by the control unit to determine whether the intended manoeuvre would endanger the rider, and, if so, the rider is alerted before the manoeuvre is undertaken. The alert is provided before the rider notices the hazard, or before the rider reacts to the hazard. By giving advance warning, of as little as a fraction of a second, a rider is given extra time to avert a potential accident. The control unit also controls settings of the motorcycle during a hazardous state of the motorcycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Damon Motors Inc.
    Inventors: Damon Jay Giraud, Dominique Kwong
  • Patent number: 11247678
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle having partial/full autonomous driving, having a plurality of wheels, a drive system for producing a drive torque at at least one of the wheels, and a brake system for producing at least one holding force for holding still at least one of the wheels, a rotational speed sensor being allocated to at least one of the wheels, which sensor produces a respective signal pulse for each of a plurality of positions of angular rotation of the associated wheel, a specifiable driving maneuver being performed as a function of the produced signal pulses. For a short path driving process starting from a standstill, the brake force is reduced until the rotational speed sensor produces a first signal pulse, and is then held at least temporarily constant until a specified number of signal pulses is produced, and subsequently is increased up to the holding force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bettina Crepin, Leo Michels, Thomas Brettschneider, Toni Frenzel
  • Patent number: 11242926
    Abstract: A transmission includes an input shaft coupled to a prime mover, a countershaft, main shaft, and an output shaft, with gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. A shift actuator selectively couples the input shaft to the main shaft by rotatably coupling gears between the countershaft and the main shaft. The shift actuator is mounted on an exterior wall of a housing including the countershaft and the main shaft. A controller controls the shift actuator utilizing an actuating pulse and an opposing pulse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: EATON CUMMINS AUTOMATED TRANSMISSION TECH., LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Connolly, Joseph Paul Fumer, Sipei Chen, Jeff Hawarden, Ian Daniel McKenzie, Christopher DeBoer
  • Patent number: 11231076
    Abstract: A first engagement member rotates integrally with a first shaft. A second engagement member rotates integrally with a second shaft. An electric clutch device drives the first engagement member with a pressing member that extends and contracts in response to drive of the clutch actuator. The drive control unit performs a position control to control the clutch actuator, such that a drive amount of the first engagement member becomes a target stroke amount, when the first engagement member and the second engagement member are separated from each other and performs a pressing force control to control the clutch actuator, such that the pressing force between the first engagement member and the second engagement member becomes a target pressing force, when the first engagement member and the second engagement member are engaged with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shigeru Kamio
  • Patent number: 11199230
    Abstract: This clutch control device is provided with: a first valve; a second valve; a valve control unit configured to control the operation of each of the first valve and the second valve; an operation determination unit configured to perform an operation determination for the clutch device; and an initial operation completion determination unit which determines whether an initial operation of the clutch device has been completed. The valve control unit, if it is determined by the operation determination unit that an on-off switching process is required, subjects both the first valve and the second valve to opening-control. If it is determined by the initial operation completion determination unit that the initial operation has been completed, the valve control unit subjects the second valve to closing-control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: ISUZU MOTORS LIMITED
    Inventor: Shuuichi Yahagi
  • Patent number: 11187287
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling engagement of an engine clutch in a hybrid electric vehicle in which an engagement control method of the engine clutch is accurately determined so as to minimize a determination error and a sense of discontinuity caused by conversion of the engagement control method resulting therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chun Hyuk Lee, Kwon Chae Chung, Seong Ik Park
  • Patent number: 11130496
    Abstract: A clutch control method for a hybrid vehicle with a DCT of the present invention is provided. The method includes checking whether a current shift range is a D-range and determining a gradient of a current driving road and driver's vehicle stop requirement. In response to determining that the current shift range is the D-range, the gradient of the road is not a gradient that requires uphill driving, and there is driver's vehicle stop requirement, a controller reduces an operation current supplied to a clutch actuator of a clutch for transmitting power to a first gear to a regulation current. The regulation current is set based on an operation of the vehicle by the driver when the vehicle is restarted after the current reduction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Gi Young Kwon
  • Patent number: 11125322
    Abstract: A flow valve control method, apparatus, and storage medium are provided. The method comprises: conducting a median current value teach-in of a flow valve starting from an initial median current value of the flow valve; and correcting a flow-current curve of the flow valve based on a deviation value obtained by the teach-in. Each teach-in process comprises: controlling current output to a flow valve, so that the flow valve successively goes through: when there is a flow passing through, an output flow enables a shifting mechanism to return to position, and when there is a flow passing through again, an output flow again enables the shifting mechanism to return to position; recording a current value the twice when there is a flow passing through the flow valve as a maximum median current value; and acquiring a deviation value of the maximum median current value from the initial median current value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Bingyu Zhang, Lilin Wei, Ouyang Li
  • Patent number: 11125283
    Abstract: A method for adjusting a clutch characteristic curve, including obtaining a torque-stroke learning value for adjusting the clutch characteristic curve, calculating a convergence value for each control point of the clutch characteristic curve, calculating a difference value between the convergence value and a characteristic curve value for each control point, and determining a new characteristic curve value of each control point according to whether a maximum value of the calculated difference values exceeds a preset reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: HyeonDeok Seo
  • Patent number: 11084474
    Abstract: A method for controlling a separating clutch in a power train of a vehicle having a drive motor and a retarder. The clutch is arranged such that a rotor of the retarder is switched into a drive connection with the motor and/or power train via the clutch and a working chamber of the retarder can be filled with an operating medium to build up a braking power such that braking torque is exerted by the retarder onto the power train and/or motor. A control system switches the clutch into a closed or an open position. The switching of the clutch into the closed position occurs depending on an input signal to the controller, and the clutch is switched back into the open position depending on essentially no medium being present in the working chamber of the retarder and that predetermined limits of an operating and/or environmental parameter are not exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Adams, Achim Menne, Philipp Müller
  • Patent number: 11067139
    Abstract: This vehicle transmission system includes a transmission (21), a clutch device (26), a clutch control unit (61), and a shift operation detecting means (48), and, when a hydraulic pressure is supplied from a clutch actuator (50) to a slave cylinder (28), the clutch device (26) moves to a connection side, in an in-gear stop state in which the transmission (21) is in an in-gear state, and a vehicle (1) is in a stop state, the clutch actuator (50) supplies a standby hydraulic pressure (WP) to the slave cylinder (28), and the clutch control unit (61) sets the standby hydraulic pressure (WP) to a first setting value (P1) during non-detection in which a shift operation is not detected by the shift operation detecting means (48) and sets the standby hydraulic pressure (WP) to a second setting value (P2) lower than the first setting value (P1) when the shift operation is detected by the shift operation detecting means (48).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD
    Inventors: Tatsuya Ryuzaki, Junya Ono
  • Patent number: 11047435
    Abstract: A method for actuating a clutch with a clutch actuation system, wherein an axially moveably mounted first piston (4) arranged on a master-side is moved via an electric motor, and the movement thereof is transmitted via a hydraulic section (8) to a second piston (10) positioned on a slave-side, which second piston actuates the clutch (11), wherein a path change triggered by the movement is measured and evaluated. In a method, in which a path change can be immediately measured, the path change of the clutch (11) detected on the slave-side is converted into an acoustic signal, which is transmitted via the hydraulic section (8) to the master-side for evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Raphael Kunzig
  • Patent number: 11028887
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for correcting a physical slip and wear coefficient of a clutch comprising obtaining a torque difference according to a positional relation between an engine and the clutch; obtaining a correction weight value corresponding to an engine torque according to the torque difference; and correcting the physical slip and wear coefficient according to the correction weight value and a running-in state of the clutch. The method relates to obtaining a torque difference in real time by means of a positional relation between the engine and the clutch in a manner corresponding to the positional relation, obtaining a correction weight value corresponding to the engine torque according to the torque difference, and further correcting the physical slip and wear coefficient by combining the correction weight value and a running-in state of the clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: GREAT WALL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Zhitao Hu, Antonius Johannes Ma Van De Ven, Xiaodong Liu, Wenjian Liu
  • Patent number: 10953872
    Abstract: A method for emergency steering control may include system cooperation control in which secondary collision avoidance is performed after forward collision avoidance by cooperatively controlling Emergency Steering Assist System (ESA) control through intervention in control of a Lane Keeping Assist System (LKAS) against excessive steering that causes lane departure in the ESA control when emergency steering is detected by an emergency steering controller in a forward collision situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jae-Il Park, Sung-Wook Hwang
  • Patent number: 10948033
    Abstract: A method for determining a kiss point. A drive unit having one or more motors with a motor output shaft is provided. One or more actuation profiles are ran and an amount of motor current and motor shaft position data is measured. The data measured is filtered and one or more motor current vs. motor shaft position plots having one or more curves with a high force and high current region are generated. A derivative is calculated over the curves and a slope of the high force and high current region is determined. A relative slope threshold is determined by multiplying the slopes by a predetermined percentage. One or more lines having a slope substantially equal to the relative slope threshold are plotted. The kiss point is determined based on the position of the motor shaft where the derivative of the curves equals the slope of the lines plotted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: DANA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Stijn Goossens, Ben Goyens
  • Patent number: 10926770
    Abstract: A method of controlling a dual clutch transmission, may include releasing a pressure of a non-driveshaft clutch and engaging a gear of a non-driveshaft; applying a first pressure to the non-driveshaft clutch and disengaging the gear of the non-driveshaft; determining a drag torque on the basis of a first rotation speed change rate of the non-driveshaft; releasing the first pressure and engaging the gear of the non-driveshaft; applying a second pressure to the non-driveshaft clutch and disengaging the gear of the non-driveshaft; determining a touch point torque on the basis of a second rotation speed change rate of the non-driveshaft; and adjusting a touch point of the non-driveshaft clutch on the basis of a net torque which is a difference between the touch point torque and the drag torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Young Ho Ko, Ho Young Lee
  • Patent number: 10793128
    Abstract: A vehicle brake system including: a brake operation member to be operated by a driver; a brake device configured to generate a braking force in accordance with an operation of the brake operation member; an operation amount sensor configured to detect an operation amount of the brake operation member; and a controller configured to control the braking force generated by the brake device, wherein the controller determines whether the brake operation member is in an operating state or in a non-operating state and controls, based on the determination, the braking force, and wherein the controller determines that the brake operation member is in the operating state when the operation amount exceeds an operating-state determining threshold and determines that the brake operation member is in the non-operating state when a time not less than a first set time elapses with the operation amount kept less than a non-operating-state determining threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Tetsuya Miyazaki
  • Patent number: 10738841
    Abstract: An oil pump control method for a DCT may include estimating line pressure, using a pressure-up model formed from a relationship between an oil pump driving current and a hydraulic pressure; stopping the oil pump when the line pressure estimated from the pressure-up model is equal to or higher than a predetermined upper limit hydraulic pressure; estimating a dropping line pressure from a first pressure-down model for a predetermined first reference time after stopping the oil pump on the basis of the line pressure estimated when the oil pump is stopped as an initial value; forming a second pressure-down model by opening a solenoid valve supplying hydraulic pressure to a non-drive side clutch, and estimating a line pressure from the second pressure-down model, and returning to the pressure-up step when the line pressure reaches predetermined lower limit hydraulic pressure or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Young Ho Ko, Young Min Yoon, Jin Sung Kim
  • Patent number: 10730507
    Abstract: A method of controlling gear shift for a hybrid vehicle with a dual clutch transmission (DCT) may include making a request for reduction in transmission input torque at a time point of entrance into down shift to a first stage from a second stage, determining whether the vehicle is accelerated via manipulation of an accelerator pedal during the down shift, and controlling to begin to gradually reduce an transmission input torque reduction request amount in a torque phase period in which clutch torque is exchanged after a first-stage gear is engaged upon determining that the vehicle is accelerated during the gear shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventor: Hyun Woo Lim
  • Patent number: 10619683
    Abstract: Provided are a method of learning a torque-stroke relationship of a clutch, and more particularly, a clutch torque-stroke learning method in which, during a process of dividing a torque region on a torque-stroke curve (T-S curve) of a clutch into two or more regions and learning the T-S curve passing through two or more torque regions with different torque section values, by learning the curve for a first torque region (e.g., a high-torque region or a low-torque region) when the curve is learned for a second torque region with guaranteed reliability, it is possible to prevent a problem of the T-S curve not converging to a previously learned curve value when the T-S curve is continuously learned for the two or more different torque regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Min-Hyo Kim
  • Patent number: 10436314
    Abstract: A method for operating an automatic transmission (1) of a motor vehicle in which a hydraulic pump, associated with a hydraulic system, for supplying pressure in the hydraulic system is driven by a drive engine and in which hydraulic shifting elements (B1, B2, B3, C1, C2) are actuated to engage gear steps. According to the method, before the drive engine is turned off for a short duration of time, at least one non-actuated shifting element (B1, B2, B3, C1, C2) of the automatic transmission (1) is actuated or filled with pressure oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Dennis Wohlfahrt, Harry Nolzen
  • Patent number: 10415699
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an engine, a continuously variable transmission and a torque converter that has a lock-up clutch. The torque converter is arranged between the engine and the continuously variable transmission. The vehicle further includes engine accessories such as an air conditioner compressor and alternator that are driven by the engine. In this vehicle, a slip control is executed that produces a predetermined slip rotational state by controlling a lock-up capacity of the lock-up clutch. During slip control of the lock-up clutch, the engine-equipped vehicle executes cooperative control that suppresses load fluctuations of engine accessories such as the air conditioner compressor and the alternator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuzuru Tohta
  • Patent number: 10399555
    Abstract: A hybrid vehicle and a method of controlling a charge mode therefor are provided. The control method includes determining a first torque, which is a currently requested torque and determining a second torque, which is a predicted requested torque that is predicted to be generated in the near future from the present time, or predicted acceleration. Additionally, the method includes releasing a lock-up charge mode when the first torque is less than a first threshold value relevant to a reference for determining coasting driving and the second torque or the predicted acceleration is less than a second threshold value relevant to a driving mode change reference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Jea Mun Lee, Joon Young Park
  • Patent number: 10369879
    Abstract: A hybrid module for a powertrain includes a drive, a first coupling section that couples the hybrid module to a transmission, and a second coupling section that couples the hybrid module to an internal combustion engine. The second coupling section includes a shifting arrangement having at least two shift elements which can take an initial and a shift position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Ohnemus, Edmund Bauchrowitz, Markus Nussbaumer, Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 10337574
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining an engagement point of a hybrid clutch in a hybrid vehicle; which hybrid clutch is actuated by a hydrostatic clutch actuator and disconnects or connects an internal combustion engine and an electric traction drive; the engagement point is determined by slowly actuating the clutch starting from a position in which the hybrid clutch is in the non-actuated state, and monitoring a moment of the electric traction drive when a defined increase in the momentum is detected. In a method in which engagement point adaptation is optimized, a current engagement point (tp) is adapted during operation of the hybrid vehicle using a start-up routine, by which a first engagement point is determined when the hybrid vehicle is started; the hybrid clutch is moved close to a previously determined engagement point, and starting from said last determined engagement point, the hybrid clutch is displaced further until the defined increase in the moment is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventor: Erhard Hodrus
  • Patent number: 10233983
    Abstract: A process of controlling an actuating assembly for a coupling in the driveline of a motor vehicle, wherein the actuating assembly comprises a drive for moving an actuating element for operating the coupling unit, sensing a position signal representing the position of the actuating element; sensing a force signal representing the operating force required for displacing the actuating element; controlling the drive by means of an electronic control unit as a function of the position signal and the force signal. Further an actuating assembly is used for carrying out the process, as well as a drive assembly having such an actuating assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: GKN Automotive Limited
    Inventors: Mark Schmidt, Frank Bernreuther, Kai Sorge, Rudolf Fitz, Stephan Leven
  • Patent number: 10208815
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a rotating machine, a clutch transmitting torque to the rotating machine when engaged, and a detection unit detecting a change in cogging torque of the rotating machine, and learns an engagement position of the clutch based on a change in the cogging torque during a change in a clutch stroke of the clutch in a case where the rotating machine is stationary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yasuhiro Oshiumi
  • Patent number: 9862388
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a drivetrain having an internal combustion engine, a dual-clutch transmission, having a first and second sub-transmission having at least one shiftable gear ratio, a first friction clutch disposed between the internal combustion engine and the first sub-transmission and a second friction clutch disposed between the internal combustion engine and the second sub-transmission to provide a drivetrain torque at a transmission output of the dual-clutch transmission by transferring an engine torque adjusted thereto via the friction clutches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Georg Goppert, Artur Schlappa
  • Patent number: 9834204
    Abstract: A method for learning an upwards friction coefficient of an engine clutch of a hybrid vehicle includes: after the engine clutch is engaged, disengaging, by a controller, the engine clutch which connects an engine with a motor or disconnects the engine from the motor; when the engine clutch is disengaged, comparing, by the controller, a temperature of the engine clutch with a threshold value; and when the temperature of the engine clutch is less than the threshold value, increasing, by the controller, a friction coefficient of the engine clutch up to a certain value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Hyundai Motor Company
    Inventors: Yeon Bok Kim, Jeong Soo Eo, Young Joon Chang
  • Patent number: 9630627
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive environmental context data upon which automatic engagement of a fuel economic driving mode (eco-mode) is conditioned. The processor is also configured to evaluate the context data to determine if the eco-mode should be automatically engaged based on a data correspondence to an engagement factor and engage the eco-mode upon correspondence of the data to an engagement factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kwaku O. Prakah-Asante, Steven Joseph Szwabowski, Fling Tseng
  • Patent number: 9626457
    Abstract: Method for real time computation of the state variables of a hybrid differential-algebraic process model (DAP) in succeeding time steps on a process computer with a process interface, the process computer detecting at least one process variable of a physical process and/or producing output for influencing the physical process, the hybrid DAP being solved at least by a integrator functionality, a condition evaluation functionality and identification of a condition change by a consistency detection functionality for structure decision variables, and depending on the result parts of the hybrid DAP being active or inactive. Prompt computation is possible when a condition of the hybrid DAP changes by the consistency detection functionality being carried out in a sorted consistency handling function (KHF), in the case of a condition change, first and third parts of the sorted KHF being carried out once and a second part thereof being carried out repeatedly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: Art Systems Software GmbH
    Inventors: Daniel Curatolo, Marcus Hoffmann, Benno Stein
  • Patent number: 9534646
    Abstract: A method of adjusting clutch characteristics of a Double Clutch Transmission (DCT) vehicle may include determining whether gear shifting has been initiated, updating a T-S curve of a release-side clutch by a transmission torque that is determined using an equation of motion of an engine and a clutch, when a condition in which a difference between an engine speed and a speed of a release-side input shaft is satisfied to be above a first predetermined reference value during a first reference period of time when the gear shifting is determined to have been initiated, and when a torque handover has not been initiated, updating the T-S curve of a connection-side clutch by the transmission torque that has been determined using the equation of motion during a period of time from completion of torque handover to completion of the shifting of gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORP.
    Inventors: Sung Hyun Cho, Hwan Hur