Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide high torque when power in the reverse direction to the rotation direction of an output shaft of a prime mover is outputted to a driving shaft using power outputted from the prime mover. SOLUTION: This power output device 10 comprises an engine 50, a clutch motor 30 connected with a crankshaft 56 thereof, and an assist motor 40 connected with the crankshaft 56 or the driving shaft 22 through a switching device 80. When the vehicle moves backward, the operating characteristic of the engine 50 is set to the characteristic on the low toque side instead of the characteristic (efficiency is prioritized) in forward movement, and torque Tm larger than and reverse to the engine torque Te is outputted from the assist motor 40. Thus, the electric power is regenerated by the clutch motor 30, high torque is outputted to the driving shaft 22, and the the vehicle can be moved backward. COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the maximum load capacity of an assist motor, and the maximum current value in an inverter circuit for driving the assist motor. SOLUTION: A control unit sets a WOT(wide open throttle) line as a boundary between over and under drive regions when the secured condition of the assist motor is in the over drive securing condition (S104). The control unit decides the target action point of an outer rotor shaft that is a driving shaft from requirement output (S106), and when the target action point is in the under drive region, a WOT line where engine torque can be made maximum is selected as the action line of an engine (S116), to raise a switch flag from over to under drive securing (S118). Consequently switching is made from the over to under drive securing, and the WOT line can be used as the engine action line when the action point of the outer rotor shaft, that is a driving shaft, is in the under drive region.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide power output equipment having high efficiency and small in size. SOLUTION: A power outputted from an engine 50 to a crank shaft 56 is transmitted to a rotating shaft 57e with the number of revolutions increased and the torque decreased by a step-up gear 57 fitted to the crank shaft 56. A driving shaft 22 of a vehicle running at a constant speed is operated generally with higher revolutions and a lower torque than operating points where the engine 50 is efficient and, therefore, by making the power outputted from the engine 50, the one with the high revolutions and the low torque by the step-up gear 57, the electric energy interchanged between a clutch motor 30 and an assist motor 40 on the occasion of conversion of the torque by the two motors 30 and 40 can be made small. As the result, the loss in the two motors 30 and 40 can be lessened and small-sized motors can be used for them.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce maximum load capacity of an assist motor, and also reduce maximum current value of an inverter circuit for driving the assist motor. SOLUTION: A control unit 90 sets a WOT line L2 as a boundary of an overdrive area and an underdrive area, when a coupling condition of an assist motor 40 is an overdrive linking condition (S104). The control unit 90 determines a desired coupling point of a drive shaft, namely an outer rotor shaft 35 from a required output (S106). When the desired operating point is in the underdrive area, the unit selects the WOT line L2 for maximizing a torque of an engine 50 as an operating line of the engine 50 (S116), and marks a switch flag from the overdrive coupling to the underdrive coupling (S118). Thereby, the overdrive coupling is switched to the underdrive coupling, and when the operating point of the drive shaft, namely the outer rotor shaft 35 is in the underdrive area, the WOT line L2 is used as the operating line of the engine 50. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten switching time when switching from an overdrive coupling to an underdrive coupling. SOLUTION: A control unit gives a switching command from an overdrive coupling to an underdrive coupling (S202). By this command, an actuator of a switching device is immediately started (S204). The control unit controls the actuator and separates a rotor shaft of an assist motor from a crankshaft of an engine (S206). The control unit controls the assist motor, accelerates rotation of the assist motor, increases the number of rotation of the rotor shaft of the assist motor and numbers of rotation are synchronized so that the number of rotation of the rotor shaft may be conformed to the number of rotation of an outer rotor shaft to be a drive shaft (S208). The control unit controls the actuator when the number of rotation of the rotor shaft coincides with the number of rotation of the outer rotor shaft and couples the rotor shaft with the outer rotor shaft (S212).
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To notice the presence of a driver of a vehicle contributing to the environmental protection of the earth. SOLUTION: A display unit is provided for a vehicle equipped with an economy running system which stops an engine automatically when the vehicle is stopped at a red light of an intersection or the like and restarts the engine when an accelerator pedal is depressed to restart running. This display unit includes a sensor for detecting a status of the engine 100, an idle stop lamp 1000 for displaying information so as to be recognized by a person outside the vehicle, and a computer 400 for displaying the idle stop lamp 1000 so as to inform the outside person that the engine 100 is in an idling stop status based on the running status of the engine 100 detected by the sensor. COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To attain a high torque when a power in the direction opposite to that of the rotational direction of the output shaft of a prime mover is outputted to a driving shaft using the power outputted from the prime mover. SOLUTION: A power output device 10 is provided with an engine 50, a clutch motor 30 connected with a crank shaft 56 thereof, and an assist motor 40 connected with the crank shaft 56 or a driving shaft 22 by a switching device 80. When a vehicle travels backward, the operating characteristics of the engine 50 are taken as the characteristics on the low-torque side instead of those at the time of traveling forward (characteristics of efficiency priority). Thus, the torque Tm larger than and reverse to the engine torque Te is outputted from the assist motor 40. It is thus possible to regenerate power by the clutch motor 30 and output a high torque to the drive shaft 22, thereby moving the vehicle backward.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make the distribution of the drive power outputted from the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive hybrid vehicle to be variable. SOLUTION: A four-wheel drive hybrid vehicle is constituted in such a way that part of the drive power outputted from an engine 150 is transmitted to a front axle 116 via a clutch motor, and the remainder is regenerated as electric power. The regenerated electric power is used for driving a motor which is coupled with a rear axle. In the hybrid vehicle, a speed change gear is interposed between the clutch motor and front axle 116. The speed change gear is constituted of a planetary gear 210 to which a ring gear 212 is fixed and a clutch 222. The front axle 116 is coupled with a sun gear 211, and the rotating shaft of the clutch motor is selectively coupled with a planetary carrier 213 or the sun gear 211, depending upon the switching a clutch 222. The rotating shaft is coupled with the carrier 213, while the vehicle runs normally and with the sun gear 211 while the vehicle is accelerated. Because of this means, the distribution of the drive power outputted from the front axle 116 can be made larger while the vehicle is accelerated.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To output a power which is outputted from a prime mover to a driving shaft efficiently. SOLUTION: A power output apparatus 20 has an engine 50, a clutch motor 30 which has respective rotors 31 and 33 on a crankshaft 56 and a driving shaft 22, an assistant motor 40 which is attached to a rotor rotary shaft 38, a 1st clutch 45 which couples and decouples the rotor rotary shaft 38 with/from the crankshaft 56, a 2nd clutch 46 which couples the rotor rotary shaft 38 with/ from the driving shaft 22 and a controller 80 which controls both the motors 30 and 40. The controller 80 operates both the clutches 45 and 46 to change the coupling state of the rotor rotary shaft 38 in accordance with the states of the engine 50, the driving shaft 22, etc., and a power outputted from the engine 50 is efficiently converted into a driving torque by both the rotors 30 and 40 to be outputted to the driving shaft 22.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suitably distribute the output power of an engine to two shafts by providing a second power control means for controlling the power output to a second output shaft by controlling a second electric motor based on the power which is input to or output from a first electric motor in an electric state by a first power control means. SOLUTION: Since the aiming engine torque Te and engine speed Ne of an engine 50 is set, the engine torque and engine speed of an engine 50 is controlled such that the engine torque and engine speed of an engine 50 become the setting values. A direction is transmitted to EFIECU by a control CPU to gradually adjust the torque of the engine to Te and the engine speed to Ne. In an assist motor 40, the driving shaft 22B for the rear wheels is given torque by power regenerated by a clutch motor 30 in proportion to the deviation of the rotational speed of the crankshaft 56 of the engine 50 from the rotational speed of the inner rotor 34 of the clutch motor 30.