# US 10,479,366 B2 · Gear shift control method of DCT vehicle

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- Number: US 10,479,366 B2
- Document ID: US10479366B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 15/806,586
- Filed: 2017-11-08
- Published: 2018-05-10
- Granted: 2019-11-19
- Earliest claimed: 2016-11-09
- Assignees: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
- Applicants: Hyundai Autron Co., Ltd.
- Inventors: Seong-Jin Park
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10479366B2

## CPC

- B60W 30/19: Improvement of gear change, e.g. by synchronisation or smoothing gear shift
- F16H 61/688: with two inputs, e.g. selection of one of two torque-flow paths by clutches
- B60W 10/02: including control of driveline clutches
- B60W 10/113: with two input flow paths, e.g. double clutch transmission selection of one of the torque flow paths by the corresponding input clutch
- B60W 2510/0275: Clutch torque
- B60W 2510/0283: Clutch input shaft speed
- B60W 2510/0638: Engine speed
- B60W 2510/1015: Input shaft speed, e.g. turbine speed
- B60W 2540/103: Accelerator thresholds, e.g. kickdown
- B60W 2710/027: Clutch torque
- B60W 2710/1005: Transmission ratio engaged
- B60W 2710/1083: pressure of control fluid
- F16H 59/20: Kickdown
- F16H 59/42: Input shaft speed
- F16H 2059/366: {Engine or motor speed}
- F16H 2061/0407: {by control of clutch in parallel torque path}
- B60W: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TO THE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT
- F16H: GEARING

## Abstract

Disclosed is a gear shift control method of a Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) vehicle. The gear shift control method includes a gear shift start determination step of determining whether a kick down shift, a biaxial shift determination step of determining, when the kick down shift is started, whether the gear shift is a biaxial shift; a clutch torque control step of uniformly decreasing torque of a release-side clutch and uniformly increasing torque of a connection-side clutch to synchronize revolutions per minute of a target gear input shaft with increasing revolutions per minute of an engine, a clutch synchronization determination step of determining whether the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft is synchronized with the revolutions per minute of the engine by the clutch torque control, and a gear shift performing step of performing gear shift control for engaging the target gear.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A gear shift control method of a vehicle mounted with a Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) including a first input shaft and a second input shaft provided in a first clutch and a second clutch to intermittently receive engine power and a first output shaft and a second output shaft respectively corresponding to the first input shaft and the second input shaft which alternately form gears according to a series of gear ratios, together with a separate shift mechanism, wherein
when a difference of gear level between a target gear and a current gear is as much as an odd-numbered gear level larger than one level when a kick down shift of performing a gear shift to a lower gear is made as an acceleration pedal is handled according to an acceleration intention of a driver, torque of a release-side clutch for transferring the engine power to the current gear is uniformly decreased, and torque of a connection-side clutch is uniformly increased to synchronize revolutions per minute of a target gear input shaft with increasing revolutions per minute of an engine, and a gear shift control for engaging the target gear is performed at a time point of synchronizing the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft with the revolutions per minute of the engine.

### Claim 2

A gear shift control method of a Dual Clutch Transmission (DCT) vehicle, the method comprising:
a gear shift start determination step of determining whether a kick down shift, which performs a gear shift to a lower gear as an acceleration pedal is handled according to an acceleration intention of a driver, is started;
a biaxial shift determination step of determining, when the kick down shift is started, whether the gear shift is a biaxial shift, in which a difference of gear level between a target gear and a current gear is as much as an odd-numbered gear level larger than one level;
a clutch torque control step of uniformly decreasing torque of a release-side clutch and uniformly increasing torque of a connection-side clutch to synchronize revolutions per minute of a target gear input shaft with increasing revolutions per minute of an engine, when a current gear state of the vehicle determined at the biaxial shift determination step is the biaxial shift;
a clutch synchronization determination step of determining whether the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft is synchronized with the revolutions per minute of the engine by the clutch torque control; and
a gear shift performing step of performing gear shift control for engaging the target gear, when the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft is synchronized with the revolutions per minute of the engine.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein at the gear shift start determination step, whether the kick down shift is started is determined from part or all of information on a displacement of the acceleration pedal and a difference between the current revolutions per minute of the engine and target revolutions per minute set according to handling of the acceleration pedal.

### Claim 4 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein at the biaxial shift determination step, when it is a down shift in which a difference between the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft and the target revolutions per minute of the engine at a time point of starting the kick down shift is larger than a preset reference value, the down shift is determined as the biaxial shift in which the difference is as much as the odd-numbered gear level larger than one level.

### Claim 5 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein in a process of synchronizing the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft with the revolutions per minute of the engine through the clutch torque control, the torque of the connection-side clutch is jumped to a synchronization start torque at a time point of starting the kick down shift and increased until a synchronization determination time point at a certain torque gradient.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The method according to claim 5, wherein a value of the synchronization start torque and a value of the torque gradient are values selected from values recorded in advance in correspondence to a difference between the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft and the target revolutions per minute of the engine at the time point of starting the kick down shift.

### Claim 7 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein the clutch synchronization determination step includes the steps of:
determining whether the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft and the revolutions per minute of the engine arrive at a synchronization determination time point; and
determining whether the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft and the revolutions per minute of the engine synchronized with each other arrive at a synchronization completion time point at which the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft and the revolutions per minute of the engine become equal to a target revolutions per minute of the engine.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The method according to claim 7, wherein when it is determined that the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft and the revolutions per minute of the engine arrive at the synchronization determination time point, the torque at the time point of arriving at the synchronization determination time point is maintained as the torque of the connection-side clutch until the synchronization completion time point.

### Claim 9 (depends on 7)

The method according to claim 7, wherein when it is determined that the revolutions per minute of the target gear input shaft and the revolutions per minute of the engine arrive at the synchronization completion time point, engagement of the target gear is performed after the torque of the connection-side clutch is reduced to a clutch torque transfer start point.

### Claim 10 (depends on 2)

The method according to claim 2, wherein at the gear shift performing step, engagement of the target gear is implemented by adjusting supply voltage of a hydraulic control solenoid valve involved in the engagement of the target gear among a plurality of hydraulic control solenoid valves.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method according to claim 10, wherein the hydraulic control solenoid valve switches a fluid passage so that fluid pressure is provided to a clutch or a brake which enables and disables engagement of the target gear, among a plurality of clutches or brakes.