Aisin Aw Co., Ltd.

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoichi Tajima

Yomei Hakumura

Yasuhiko Kobayashi

Kohei Tsuda

Takashi Yoshida

Yoshitaka Murase

Kazuomi Okasaka

Shigeki Takami

Kiyoshiro Ueoka

Yukinori Nakamori

Takayuki Kubo

Atsushi Kayukawa

Takeshi Aoki

Masaya Yamamoto

Hiroatsu Endo

Takeshi Inuzuka

Kensuke Kamichi

Takahiro Kido

Masahiro Asai

Tomokazu Ito

Shunsuke Oyama

Masashi Yoshimi

Kazuo Kawaguchi

Yuma Mori

Shinichi Sasade

Tomokazu Nomura

Shinobu Nishiyama

Hideya Kawai

Subrata Saha

Akihiro Kimura

Arinori Shimada

Taiyo Uejima

Takehiko Suzuki

Jin Izawa

Keisuke Nishimura

Akihiro Yamanaka

Masatoshi Taguchi

Hideaki Goda

Hiroaki Kioka

Hirokazu Kobayashi

Yuki Sugiyama

Kazuhiko Motodohi

Yosuke Ueda

Masaya Kokubo

Tomohiro Kusamizu

Hiroki Tsutsumi

Minoru Kubokawa

A control device that includes an electronic control unit that is configured to perform, when specific control that causes a change in a state of a hydraulic circuit in the hydraulic control device that involves an increase in hydraulic pressure at the discharge port is performed in a state in which a rotational speed of the electric motor is a first rotational speed, torque increase control that controls drive of the electric motor such that torque of the electric motor starts to increase before hydraulic pressure at the discharge port increases by the specific control.

Control device

An inverter control device that controls a rotary electric machine drive device that includes an inverter with a plurality of switching elements, where the active short circuit control is executed in a high rotational speed region, and the shut-down control is executed in a low rotational speed region, which is on a low rotational speed side with respect to the high rotational speed region, in accordance with at least a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine.

Inverter control device and vehicle control device

A control device for a vehicle driving device which controls the vehicle driving device provided with a particular engagement device, a rotary electric machine, and a transmission apparatus disposed in a power transmission path coupling an internal combustion engine with wheels in order from the internal combustion engine side, wherein the transmission apparatus includes a plurality of engagement devices, and selectively forms a plurality of transmission shift stages different in transmission shift ratio according to a state of engagement of the plurality of engagement devices.

Control device for vehicle driving device

A control device for a vehicle drive device includes performing neutral travel control in which disengagement/engagement elements are disengaged with the wheels rotating so the state of a speed change mechanism is controlled into a neutral state where transfer of a drive force between the input member to the engine and the output member to the wheels is not performed, and the wheels are driven by a rotary electric machine drive force; and comparing an operating state value of each of target actuators that control the state of the disengagement/engagement elements, and a determination value so torque from the speed change mechanism to the wheels because of torque transferred by each of the disengagement/engagement elements, falls within an allowable range during neutral travel control, and determines whether the torque transferred from the speed change mechanism to the wheels falls within the allowable range.

Control device for vehicle drive device

A control device that controls a vehicle drive device in which a first engagement device, a rotating electrical machine, a second engagement device, and an output member are sequentially arranged in this order from an input member side on a power transmission path that connects the input member drivingly coupled to an internal combustion engine to the output member drivingly coupled to wheels. The control device controls both the first engagement device and the second engagement device to a slip engaged state, and causes the rotating electrical machine to generate electric power.

A control device that that performs starting control for an internal combustion engine. A first transition control during which a first engagement device is caused to transition from a disengaged state to a slipping engagement state is started after the starting request for the internal combustion engine is made. A rotational speed control in which the rotary electric machine is controlled such that a rotational speed of the rotary electric machine becomes a target rotational speed is started before the first engagement device transitions from the disengaged state to the slipping engagement state. A rotational speed control is terminated and torque control in which the rotary electric machine is controlled after the first engagement device transitions from the disengaged to the slipping engagement state, and the second engagement device is caused to transition from a direct engagement state to a slipping engagement state after the torque control is started.

A control device for a vehicle drive device. A start control section executes internal combustion engine start control. A start slip control section executes start slip control of bringing one of the plurality of shift engagement devices into a slip engaged state. An intended engagement device deciding section that decides as an intended engagement device, based on a set determination speed. The intended engagement device deciding section decides as the intended engagement device a special engagement device that is the shift engagement device having been in the direct-coupling engaged state in order to form the reference shift speed, and that is disengaged when a transition is made to a special shift speed on an opposite side of the specific shift speed from the reference shift speed in order of speed ratios of the plurality of shift speeds.

The present invention relates to a control device that controls a vehicle drive device in which a rotary electric machine is provided in a power transfer path that connects between an internal combustion engine and wheels and in which a first friction engagement device is provided between the internal combustion engine and the rotary electric machine and a second friction engagement device is provided between the rotary electric machine and the wheels.

A hybrid drive device having an input member drivingly coupled to an internal combustion engine. Control is performed so that motor torque output by the motor produces at least a part of inertia torque needed for rotation change of input-related members during the shifting. The control device limits the motor torque in an inertia phase during the shifting to a set value that has been set to or below a value having a smaller absolute value between values of performance limit torque of the motor at times before and after the shifting, sets a target input rotational speed of the input member during the shifting, and controls the engagement state of the friction engagement elements that control the rotation change of the input-related members in the inertia phase so as to generate the inertia torque calculated from the target input rotational speed in the input-related members.

Hybrid drive device

A control device configured with a vibration reduction necessity determination section that determines whether or not a required drive operation point falls within a reduction necessary range, which is prescribed in advance as a range in which it is necessary to reduce torque vibration transferred from the internal combustion engine to the rotary electric machine. A cancellation control execution determination section that determines whether or not torque vibration cancellation control can be executed in the case where it is determined that the required drive operation point falls within the reduction necessary range. An execution control decision section that decides to execute the torque vibration cancellation control in the case where it is determined that the torque vibration cancellation control can be executed and that decides to execute operation point change control in the case where it is determined that the torque vibration cancellation control cannot be executed.

A shift control apparatus controlling a stepped transmission. The apparatus is configured with a gear ratio setting unit, and a shift speed change determining unit. A shift speed change predicting unit predicts in advance a change of shift speed by the shift speed change determining unit based on the set gear ratio, a rate of change in the set gear ratio, and an engagement preparation time which is a time needed for engagement preparation of the friction engagement element. A shift control unit controls a hydraulic actuator so that engagement preparation of a friction engagement element to be engaged is performed when a change of shift speed is predicted, and controls the hydraulic actuator so that a hydraulic pressure needed for engaging the friction engagement element is supplied to a hydraulic servo when a change of shift speed is determined by the shift speed change determining unit.

Shift control apparatus and transmission apparatus

A control apparatus for a vehicle is provided for a vehicle that has a normal mode and a power mode as vehicle driving characteristics. The control apparatus includes a continuously variable transmission mechanism that steplessly changes a speed ratio when rotational driving force of an engine output shaft is transmitted to a rotating output shaft; and a control portion that controls the continuously variable transmission mechanism such that, when a rotation speed is increased to a target rotation speed and a required output of an internal combustion engine when the power mode is selected is the same as when the normal mode is selected, the rate of increase in the rotation speed is greater when the power mode is selected than when the normal mode is selected.

Control apparatus for vehicle

A control device for a hybrid vehicle automatic transmission. A friction engagement element control unit includes a first play elimination control unit that sets a first pressure as the pressure for a first set time where the predetermined friction engagement element is engaged using a hydraulic pressure from the electric oil pump in a travel state in which only the rotary electric machine serves as a drive source. The first play elimination pressure is lower than a play elimination pressure for use in the case where the predetermined friction engagement element is engaged using a hydraulic pressure from the mechanical oil pump in a travel state in which the internal combustion engine serves as a drive source.

Control device for hybrid vehicle automatic transmission

A control device that controls a vehicle drive device, including a rotary electric machine and internal combustion engine that drive wheels, a first friction engagement device and a second friction engagement device. The control device is configured to execute rotational state control in which a rotational state of the rotary electric machine is controlled so as to establish a target rotational state with the second friction engagement device in a slip engagement state, and hydraulic pressure regulation control in which a hydraulic pressure supplied to the second friction engagement device is controlled on the basis of torque of the rotary electric machine produced during the rotational state control after the first friction engagement device is transitioned to a direct engagement state while the second friction engagement device is transitioned from the slip engagement state to a direct engagement state.

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Yoichi Tajima