Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryo Nishikawa

Nobuhiro Kira

Masashi Tanaka

Takashi Aoki

Yusuke Tatara

Kazuhisa Yamamoto

Tetsuya Hasebe

Akihiro Yamamoto

Hirokatsu Amanuma

Kazunari Takahashi

Hisayoshi Arai

A control unit for an electric oil pump of the present invention includes: a one-way valve that permits circulation of operating fluid from the electric oil pump to the friction engagement device and blocks circulation in the opposite direction; an accumulator that is connected to a fluid supply path joining the one-way valve to the friction engagement device and accumulates hydraulic pressure required for operating the friction engagement device; a hydraulic pressure measuring device that measures hydraulic pressure inside the fluid supply path; a vehicle speed measuring device that measures a vehicle speed of the vehicle; and a pressure setting device that sets a first predetermined pressure based on the vehicle speed measured by the vehicle speed measuring device.

Control unit for an electric oil pump

A hydraulic circuit control device that selectively supplies oil to a first oil passage and a second oil passage by an oil pump, the control device includes: an oil passage switching unit adapted to connect the oil pump to either the first oil passage or the second oil passage; a control mode switching unit adapted to switch the control mode of the electric motor to either a torque control mode or a speed control mode; an oil passage selecting unit adapted to select whether to connect the oil pump to the first oil passage or the second oil passage; and a control unit adapted to perform control so that the control mode switching unit switches the control mode to the torque control mode when the first oil passage has been selected, and perform control so that the control mode switching unit switches the control mode to the speed control mode when the second oil passage has been selected.

Hydraulic circuit control device

In a hybrid vehicle in which front wheels are driven by an engine and a front motor, and rear wheels are driven by a main rear motor and a sub rear motor, both main rear motor and the sub rear motor are driven when a large driving force is required as when the vehicle is driven at low speed to haul a trailer or the like or to run on a sandy ground, whereas when the required driving force is small, only the main rear motor is driven.

Hybrid vehicle

A hybrid vehicle is capable of performing regenerative operations of generator-motors disposed adjacently to front wheels and/or rear wheels of the vehicle so as to achieve efficient conversion of kinetic energy of the vehicle into electric energy as much as possible when the vehicle slows down, thereby permitting higher use efficiency of energy. When the vehicle decelerates, a target deceleration force or a target deceleration torque of the vehicle is set, and a permissible maximum value of the braking torque to be imparted to rear wheels from a second generator-motor is set, and the permissible maximum value and the target deceleration torque of the vehicle, whichever is smaller, is set as a target braking torque to be imparted from the second generator-motor to the rear wheels. Furthermore, with the remaining torque of the target deceleration torque being set as an upper limit, a target braking torque to be imparted to front wheels from a first generator-motor is determined, and a friction type braking mechanism compensates a shortfall torque of a total sum of the target braking torques of the two generator-motors to reach the target deceleration torque.

There are provided as drive sources an engine, a front motorprovided on a front wheelsside of the vehicle and a rear motorprovided on a rear wheelsside of the vehicle, and in executing a regeneration of deceleration energy when braking, a regeneration capacity of the front motorand a regeneration capacity of the rear motorare calculated, respectively, so that the regeneration is executed with either of these motorswhich can provide a larger regeneration capacity.

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Saitama, Japan

Ryo Nishikawa