Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Giken Kogyo K.k.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki

Tetsuya Oono

Yoshio Wazaki

Norio Suzuki

Eitetsu Akiyama

Hiroshi Kitagawa

Nobuyuki Narisawa

Akira Kato

Hironobu Kiryu

Shigenobu Sekiya

Yoshiharu Abe

Yukihisa Ishii

Kazuo Hirabayashi

Yuji Fujimura

An excess slip control device for a driving wheel, comprising a driving wheel speed sensor for detecting a driving wheel speed of a vehicle, a slip determining means for determining a slip condition of a driving wheel according to an output from the driving wheel speed sensor, a fuel supply suppressing means for suppressing fuel supply to an engine according to an output from the slip determining means, and a retard control means for controlling an ignition timing to a retard position according to an output from the slip determining means. Thus, the fuel quantity to be supplied to the engine and the ignition timing are controlled according to the slip condition of the driving wheel. Accordingly, an operational shock due to a fluctuation in engine torque may be reduced to thereby improve the drivability, and a control lag may be also eliminated.

Excess slip control device for driving wheel

When the output from an internal combustion engine is reduced using a combination of a throttle valve control device, a fuel cut control device and an ignition retard control device, the starting point of operation of the ignition retard control device in a control region of condition for an excessive slipping of the driving wheel is provided between the starting region of operation of the throttle valve control device and the starting region of operation of the fuel cut control device. This permits the fuel cut control device to have a high responsiveness to a sudden variation in excessive slipping and no exhaust heat to be discharged, and also permits the throttle valve control device to become lower in responsiveness after the excessive slipping has been substantially converged but to have a small variation in fuel-air ratio. The ignition retard control device starts operation only when the excessive slipping cannot be suppressed by the throttle valve control device. Therefore, the use of the ignition retard control device which relatively easily permits an increase in the temperature of an exhaust gas can be restrained to the minimum.

Driving wheel slip control system

A control system for controlling driving wheels of an automotive vehicle in which when at least one of the driving wheels undergoes excessive slip, an ECU drives a pulse motor to bring a throttle valve of an internal combustion engine installed in the vehicle toward a closed position thereof to thereby suppress the excessive slip. When a state that a detected value of throttle valve opening is smaller than a detected value of accelerator pedal angle while the pulse motor is in stoppage has continued over a predetermined period of time, the ECU determines the initial position of the pulse motor by storing the detected throttle valve opening value as a reference value of the pulse motor position. If the initial pulse motor position has not been determined when a second predetermined period of time has elapsed after the pulse motor started to be driven to bring the throttle valve toward its fully closed position, a throttle system of the engine is determined to be abnormal, and then the pulse motor is forcedly driven to bring the throttle valve into its fully open position. After completion of pulse motor control for suppression of the excessive slip, the ECU carries out open loop control for driving the pulse motor to bring the throttle valve into a substantially fully open position irrespective of whether or not the initial position of the pulse motor has been determined.

Driving wheel control system for automotive vehicles

A driving wheel slip control system for a vehicle detects an excessive slip state of at least one of the driving wheels of the vehicle and reduces engine output when the excessive slip state is detected, by repeating alternate fuel cut and fuel supply such that fuel supply is stopped for a first predetermined time period, and a second predetermined time period. During the second predetermined time period the engine is supplied with an amount of fuel smaller than one required for an operating condition of the engine in the excessive slip state. If the excessive slip state has a greater variation in magnitude than a certain value, fuel supply is continuously effected for a third predetermined time period longer than the first predetermined time period or all the time during the excessive slip state. In another embodiment, slip value is determined which corresponds to the degree of an excessive slip of the driving wheel and a supply controller controls the amount of fuel supplied to various engine cylinders depending on the slip value. A fuel cut-off control cuts off the fuel supply to the various cylinders the number of which depends on the slip value when the slip value exceeds a predetermined slip value.

Driving wheel slip control system for vehicles

A device for correcting errors between an output value from an accelerator pedal position sensor for detecting the operating position of an accelerator pedal of a vehicle, and an output value from a throttle valve position sensor for detecting the rotational position of a throttle valve installed in an intake pipe of an engine mounted on the vehicle. The output value of one of the sensors is compared with reference values consisting of a plurality of different values when the accelerator pedal and the throttle valve are operating in a 1:1 correspondence. When one of the sensor output values corresponds to one of the reference values as a result of the comparison, the output value of the other of the sensors is learned for each of the reference values. The output value from the other sensor is corrected by the learned values.

Device for correcting error between accelerator pedal position sensor

In reducing the output from an internal combustion engine by a driving-wheel torque reducing means when a driving wheel is slipping excessively, thereby inhibiting the excessive slipping of the driving wheel, a total torque transmitted from the internal combustion engine to the driving wheel and a surplus torque consumed for the excessive slipping of the driving wheel are found, and the output from the internal combustion engine is reduced on the basis of an effective driving-wheel torque found from the total driving-wheel torque and the surplus torque and transmittable to a road surface. Alternatively, the output from the internal combustion engine may be reduced on the basis of the total torque transmitted from the internal combustion engine to the driving wheel and the surplus torque consumed for the excessive slipping of the driving wheel. Consequently, the driving-wheel torque can be converged quickly to a proper value, and it is possible to provide a closer control of the driving-wheel torque.

System and method for controlling torque of driving wheel

A driving wheel slip control system installed in a vehicle and having abnormality-detecting and failsafe functions. The system includes a slip status signal-generating device for generating a slip status signal indicative of whether or not the driving wheels of the vehicle are in a predetermined slip state, and a slip level signal-generating device for generating a slip level signal indicative of a degree of slip of the driving wheels. If a logical relationship between the slip status signal and the slip level signal is abnormal, and if the prime mover for driving the driving wheels is not accelerating and at the same time the slip level signal indicates the predetermined slip state, the slip level signal is determined to be abnormal. If an abnormality is detected during driving wheel slip control, an amount of reduction in output of the driving wheels is set to a predetermined amount to thereby continue driving wheel slip control, until the prime mover enters an operating condition other than acceleration. Further, the system comprises first and second control units. The latter informs the former of three states for determining whether or not driving wheel slip control can be carried out. The first control unit has the slip level signal-generating device and the slip status signal-generating device, and inhibition of operation of these devices is retarded when it is informed of a state inhibiting driving wheel slip control, if an excessive slip state of the driving wheels is occurring.

Driving wheel slip control system having failsafe function

A driving wheel slip control system in which cutoff of fuel supply to a cylinder to be controlled in respect of fuel supply when it has been determined that fuel cut is required, for the first time after a predetermined condition for carrying out driving wheel slip control was satisfied, is inhibited, when the cylinder belongs to the rear bank of cylinders of an internal combustion engine.

A driving wheel slip control system for a vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine, in which a decelerating condition of the engine is detected, a slip state of the driving wheels is detected, and the torque of the driving wheels is reduced in response to the detected slip state of the driving wheels. The torque reduction is inhibited irrespective of the detected slip state when the decelerating condition of the engine is detected. The engine is determined to be in the decelerating condition when the engine is in a region where the air-fuel ratio of a mixture being supplied to the engine is to be controlled to a value leaner than a stoichiometric ratio.

A system for controlling the slip of driving wheels of a vehicle detects an excessive slip state of at least one of the driving wheels of the vehicle wherein the slip of the at least one driving wheel has a magnitude greater than a predetermined magnitude, and interrupts fuel supply to the engine of the vehicle when the excessive slip state is detected. The system further detects a predetermined smaller slip state wherein the slip has a magnitude less than the predetermined magnitude. An amount of fuel supplied to the engine is corrected in dependence on the value of at least one predetermined operating parameter of the engine, which is sensed by at at least one parameter sensor, when the predetermined smaller slip state is detected. A plurality of different correction values responsive to operating conditions of the engine, which correct the amount of fuel supplied to the engine, are rendered virtually ineffective when the predetermined smaller slip state is detected.

A method for controlling the fuel supply of an internal combustion engine determines the fuel supply amount on the basis of sampled values of a pressure level within an intake pipe of the engine when the engine is operating outside of an idling range, and determines the fuel supply amount on the basis of sampled values of rotational speed of the engine when a predetermined time period has passed after the entrance of the engine operation into the idling range, and an idling speed of the engine is stabilized. Thus, a change in the engine rotational speed upon the start of idling which has been occurred in the prior art is eliminated.

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Tetsuya Oono