Method of guiding vehicle shift timing
AssigneesHyundai Motor Company, Kia Corporation
InventorsSung Hyun Cho, Soo Han Song, Seong Hwan Cheong, Joseph D Chang
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Abstract
A method of guiding vehicle shift timing which may provide information related to the shift timing to a driver includes determining, by a controller, a virtual engine speed of an electric vehicle, determining, by the controller, a predicted speed limit arrival time taken for the determined virtual engine speed to reach a predetermined speed limit, controlling, by the controller, operation of a shift indicator configured to guide manual shift timing based on the determined virtual engine speed and predicted speed limit arrival time, and operating, by the controller, the shift indicator to provide shift timing information to the driver.
Claims20
A method of guiding vehicle shift timing, the method comprising:
- determining, by a controller, a virtual engine speed of an electric vehicle;
- determining, by the controller, a predicted speed limit arrival time taken for the determined virtual engine speed to reach a predetermined virtual speed limit;
- controlling, by the controller operatively connected to a shift indicator, operation of the shift indicator configured to guide manual shift timing, based on the determined virtual engine speed and predicted speed limit arrival time;
- and
- operating, by the controller, the shift indicator to provide shift timing information to a driver.
An apparatus of guiding vehicle shift timing, the apparatus comprising:
- a shift indicator;
- a processor operatively connected to the shift indicator;
- and
- a non-transitory storage medium containing program instructions,
- wherein the processor is configured to, by executing the program instructions:
- determine a virtual engine speed of an electric vehicle;
- determine a predicted speed limit arrival time taken for the determined virtual engine speed to reach a predetermined virtual speed limit;
- control operation of the shift indicator configured to guide manual shift timing, based on the determined virtual engine speed and predicted speed limit arrival time;
- and
- operate the shift indicator to provide shift timing information to a driver.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.