Device for activating/deactivating a maneuvering mode of a drive in a hybrid vehicle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorJohannes Schwarz
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Abstract
A device activates/deactivates a maneuvering mode of a drive in a hybrid vehicle, wherein the drive has a combustion engine and an electric motor. The device has a detection unit for detecting whether an electronic parking aid is activated, and a switching unit for activating a maneuvering mode if the electronic parking aid is activated, wherein starting of the combustion engine is deactivated in the maneuvering mode.
Claims10
An apparatus for at least one of activating or deactivating a maneuvering mode of a drive in a hybrid vehicle, wherein the drive has an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, comprising:
- a processor comprising:
- a detection unit that is configured to detect whether an electronic parking aid is activated, and
- a changeover unit that is configured to activate a maneuvering mode when the detection unit detects that the electronic parking aid is activated,
- wherein the changeover unit is further configured:
- to initially deactivate starting of the internal combustion engine at a beginning of the maneuvering mode,
- while the maneuvering mode is activated, to determine whether the drive requires the internal combustion engine to be started, and
- upon determining that the drive requires the internal combustion engine to be started while the maneuvering mode is activated, to activate starting of the internal combustion engine in the maneuvering mode after the starting of the internal combustion engine was initially deactivated, such that the internal combustion engine is used to operate the vehicle during a remainder of the maneuvering mode without using the electric motor during the remainder of the maneuvering mode.
A method for at least one of activating or deactivating a maneuvering mode of a drive in a hybrid vehicle, wherein the drive has an internal combustion engine and an electric motor, the method comprising the acts of:
- detecting whether an electronic parking aid is activated;
- upon detecting that the electronic parking aid is activated, activating a maneuvering mode, wherein activating the maneuvering mode comprises initially deactivating starting of the internal combustion engine at a beginning of the maneuvering mode;
- while the maneuvering mode is activated, determining whether the drive requires the internal combustion engine to be started;
- and,
- upon determining that the drive requires the internal combustion engine to be started while the maneuvering mode is activated, activating starting of the internal combustion engine in the maneuvering mode after the starting of the internal combustion engine was initially deactivated, such that the internal combustion engine is used to operate the vehicle during a remainder of the maneuvering mode without using the electric motor during the remainder of the maneuvering mode.
A computer product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon program code that, when executed by a processor, carries out the acts of:
- detecting whether an electronic parking aid is activated;
- upon detecting that the electronic parking aid is activated, activating a maneuvering mode, wherein activating the maneuvering mode comprises initially deactivating starting of the internal combustion engine at a beginning of the maneuvering mode;
- while the maneuvering mode is activated, determining whether the drive requires the internal combustion engine to be started;
- and,
- upon determining that the drive requires the internal combustion engine to be started while the maneuvering mode is activated, activating starting of the internal combustion engine in the maneuvering mode after the starting of the internal combustion engine was initially deactivated, such that the internal combustion engine is used to operate the vehicle during a remainder of the maneuvering mode without using the electric motor during the remainder of the maneuvering mode.
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