Patent ID: 9333969
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: B60K,B60W,Y02T,Y10S,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A hybrid vehicle comprising: an internal combustion engine which transmits drive power to a drive shaft; a first motor-generator which transmits drive power to a drive shaft; a second motor-generator which generates electric power by drive power of the internal combustion engine; a battery section which stores electric power to be supplied to the first motor-generator, and electric power for carrying out cranking of the internal combustion engine; a control section which is capable of controlling torque of each of the first motor-generator, the second motor-generator, and the combustion engine; and a drive power splitter mechanism having a sun gear engaged with the second motor-generator, a planetary carrier engaged with the internal combustion engine, a ring gear engaged with the first motor-generator, and a pinion gear carried on the planetary carrier, and which is rotated by meshing the ring gear and the sun gear via the pinion gear, so that a relationship of rotational speeds of the first motor-generator, a second motor-generator and the internal combustion engine are expressed by a straight line on the collinear diagram, wherein rotation and torque propelling the hybrid vehicle forward are assumed as forward rotation and positive torque and opposite rotation and opposite torque are assumed as backward rotation and negative torque, and wherein the control section includes a first control section which transmits only the drive power of the first motor-generator to the drive shaft while not starting the internal combustion engine by rotating the sun gear in the backward rotation while generating the positive torque on the ring gear and rotating the ring gear in the forward rotation, and a second control section which starts the internal combustion engine by carrying out cranking, in a case that the battery section fails while performing the first control, by generating the positive torque on the sun gear rotating in the backward rotation to generate electric power and rotating the first motor-generator by generated electric power, and generating the positive torque on the pinion gear by difference of rotational speeds between the sun gear and the ring gear.