Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Masashi Eto

Tomohiro Shibata

Takanori Nakashima

Takeshi Saito

Yoshiharu Saito

Masatoshi Saito

Manabu Mitani

Tomohiro Fukazu

Yosuke Naito

Hiroshi Saito

Takeshi Matsumoto

Yuichi Fukuchi

Akio Muto

Takanori Kon

Daiko Tsutsumi

Yuya Ishihara

Akio Futatsudera

Shohei Taka

Shinya Miwa

Yuuichi Hidaka

Atsuhiro Saeki

Nobuyuki Aruga

Taisuke Furuhata

Junpei Hatsuda

Shigeki Kazehare

Kaiwen Tong

Hiroki Endo

Haruhiko Miki

Yusuke Sasaki

Koichiro Fujita

Tatsuya Ide

A control systemincludes: a VTOL rotorand a cruise rotorconfigured to generate a thrust; a power unit that has a power generation deviceconfigured to generate power and supply the power to the rotors, and a batteryconfigured to store power which is supplied from the power generation device, and supply stored power to the rotors; and a control unitconfigured to calculate a charging time of the battery based on a required amount of power storage that should be stored in the battery when the aircraft flies in a predetermined flight condition, and a state of the battery, and determine a charge start time of the battery based on the charging time and a flight time it takes to reach the predetermined flight condition. With this, it is possible to suppress a deterioration.

Control system and control method, and aircraft

An aircraft includes: rotors each driven by an electric motor; a PCU that converts AC power output from a generator into DC power; an inverter that converts DC power supplied from the PCU into AC power and outputs the AC power to the electric motor; a DC wire that connects the PCU and the inverter; and an AC wire that connects the inverter and the electric motor. The AC wire is disposed in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which rotation shafts of the generator and a gas turbine extend.

Aircraft

A power supply device includes a power generator, a drive source, a plurality of power supply lines, a plurality of batteries, a diode, a difference calculating unit, or, and a difference summing unit. The difference calculating unit, oris configured to calculate a difference between demanded electric power P, P, P, or Pin the corresponding power supply line and a charge state of the corresponding battery. The difference summing unitis configured to sum the differences in electric power in the power supply lines calculated by the difference calculating units, and. In the power supply device, the drive source is controlled such that electric power equal to or higher than the electric power calculated by the difference summing unitis generated by the power generator.

Battery charge difference calculation system

A vehicle control device that controls a vehicle which is capable of traveling in a plurality of traveling modes including a first traveling mode and a second traveling mode. And the vehicle control device is capable of executing motor assist, in which electric power of a power storage device is supplied to an electric motor and driving of a drive wheel is assisted by the electric motor, when the vehicle is traveling in the first traveling mode, and is configured to change upper-limit assist electric power, which is an upper-limit value of electric power supplied from the power storage device to the electric motor in order to perform the motor assist, in accordance with a speed of the vehicle and a remaining capacity of the power storage device.

Vehicle control device

A vehicle control device that controls a vehicle is configured to execute rotation speed control when the vehicle is in series traveling, in which a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine is increased to a first rotation speed in accordance with an increase in a speed of the vehicle, and when the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine reaches the first rotation speed, the rotation speed of the internal combustion engine is decreased to a second rotation speed lower than the first rotation speed; and restrict execution of the rotation speed control when receiving a predetermined operation.

Provided is a control apparatus including a travelling control unit configured to control an engine travelling and a non-engine travelling of a hybrid vehicle, and perform switching from the non-engine travelling to the engine travelling in a case where a depression amount of an accelerator of the hybrid vehicle exceeds a predetermined depression threshold while the hybrid vehicle travels based on the non-engine travelling, and a switching suppression unit configured to suppress the switching from the non-engine travelling to the engine travelling by the travelling control unit while the hybrid vehicle travels in a short time depression area where depression of the accelerator does not continue for a period equal to or longer than a predetermined period of time.

Control apparatus, computer-readable storage medium, and system

A control device is provided, which includes: a route determining unit configured to determine a travelling route of a hybrid vehicle; a travelling time estimating unit configured to, in a case where the travelling route includes an engine travelling restricted section and an engine requiring section, in which engine travelling is required, exists before the engine travelling restricted section in the travelling route, estimate a travelling time during which the hybrid vehicle travels from the beginning of the engine requiring section to the engine travelling restricted section; and a vehicle control unit configured to cause the hybrid vehicle to start the engine before the engine requiring section when the travelling time is shorter than a predetermined time.

Control device and computer readable storage medium

A control device of a vehicle includes a discharge control unit. The discharge control unit, in a case where a plurality of regenerative sections are included in a scheduled traveling route, extracts a first regenerative section on a vehicle side, a second regenerative section closest to the first regenerative section, and a dischargeable section between the first regenerative section and the second regenerative section. The discharge control unit, in a case where a predicted regenerative electric power amount in the first regenerative section is greater than a predicted discharge electric power amount in the dischargeable section, sets a section obtained by merging the first regenerative section, the second regenerative section, and the dischargeable section as a control target section, and performs the discharge control based on a remaining capacity of a power storage device and a predicted regenerative electric power amount in the control target section.

Control device of vehicle

A control device is provided, which includes: a destination determining unit configured to determine a destination of a hybrid vehicle that includes an engine, a motor and a battery and is able to supply waste heat from the engine to the battery; a arrival judging unit configured to judge whether the hybrid vehicle can arrive at the destination with a remaining capacity of the battery based on the remaining capacity and a temperature of the battery; and a vehicle control unit configured to control the hybrid vehicle to start the engine and supply the waste heat from the engine to the battery when the arrival judging unit judges that the hybrid vehicle cannot arrive at the destination.

A vehicle control device having a prime mover, a first rotating member which is rotated by power of the prime mover, and a second rotating member which is connected to the first rotating member and which rotate a drive wheel, includes a deriving unit which derive a prime mover request output that is an output requested by the prime mover in accordance with a request output to the drive wheel, and a control unit which increase or decrease a rotation speed of the prime mover between a lower limit rotation speed and an upper limit rotation speed in accordance with a change in a rotation speed of the drive wheel. The control unit increases or decreases the rotation speed of the prime mover without changing a power output by the prime mover or an output of the first rotating member in accordance with the prime mover request output.

A hybrid electric vehicle including a gradient acquiring portion which acquires a gradient of a road surface on which the vehicle is running, and a control portion which determines whether the vehicle runs on a first driving by means of power from the motor by releasing the engagement and disengagement portion, or on a second driving by means of power from at least the internal combustion engine by applying the engagement and disengagement portion. The control portion restricts a switch from the second driving to the first driving when the gradient of the downward slope is equal to or greater than a threshold value. The control portion holds the second driving when the switch from the second driving to the first driving is restricted, even though the control portion obtains a request for a switch to the first driving while the vehicle runs the downward slope on the second driving.

Hybrid electric vehiclecapable of switching driving modes based on gradient

In a hybrid vehicle control apparatus, driving of the vehicle is switched between driving modes including engine driving mode in which driving is to be powered by an internal combustion engine and electrical machine driving mode in which driving is to be powered by a rotating electrical machine, and required driving force in each of the driving modes in accordance with predetermined characteristics based on accelerator position and vehicle speed to control driving force of the vehicle to the calculated required driving force, when the driving mode is switched, driving force of the vehicle is controlled based on the required driving force of the driving mode before switched unless at least one of the accelerator position and the vehicle speed changes.

Hybrid vehicle control apparatus

A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission includes a controller. The controller is configured to control the automatic transmission. The automatic transmission includes a first input shaft, a second input shaft, an output shaft, a first clutch, a second clutch, and gear trains. In a case where a standby shift stage does not lie between a predetermined current shift stage and a target shift stage, the controller controls the first clutch to be disengaged and the second clutch to be engaged, and then controls a synchronizing device among synchronizing devices for the predetermined current shift stage to be disengaged and a synchronizing device among the synchronizing devices for the target shift stage to be engaged during a disengagement of the first clutch, and then controls the second clutch to be disengaged and the first clutch to be engaged.

Shift control apparatus for automatic transmission

A cooling device for cooling lubrication oil which circulates in a vehicle transmission is provided with a first oil circulating circuit through which a clutch oil for lubricating a first and second clutch of the transmission circulates, a second oil circulating circuit through which a gear oil circulates to lubricate mechanisms other than the first and the second clutches, and a cooling water circulating circuit through which a cooling water circulates to cool an engine and a motor. Also provided is a first heat exchanger exchanging heat between the first lubrication oil and the second lubrication oil, and a second heat exchanger exchanging heat between the first lubrication oil and the cooling water.

Heat exchanging device of lubrication oil

A control device of a twin-clutch transmission includes a gear operation mechanism driven by a single actuator mechanism . The gear operation mechanism performs a selection operation to select a synchromesh unit to operate from a plurality of synchromesh units and a shift operation to drive the selected synchromesh unit to an engagement position (in-gear position) corresponding to a shift position. In the control device, based on a deceleration rate of a vehicle, a determination is made to allow or disallow continuation of the shift operation at a change of a shift position to a target shift position. When a determination is made to disallow continuation of the shift operation, only the selection operation is performed, and the shift operation is prohibited. When a determination is made to allow continuation of the shift operation, the shift operation is allowed.

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Masashi Eto