CN110953332B

CN110953332B - Electronic gear shifter, gear shifting control method and vehicle

Info

Publication number: CN110953332B
Application number: CN201911261606.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 胡全; 白雪; 李圣涛; 李文豪
Original assignee: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd; Ningbo Geely Automobile Research and Development Co Ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co Ltd; Ningbo Geely Automobile Research and Development Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-12-10
Filing date: 2019-12-10
Publication date: 2022-08-02
Anticipated expiration: 2039-12-10
Also published as: CN110953332A

Abstract

The invention relates to the technical field of vehicles, in particular to an electronic gear shifter, a gear shifting control method and a vehicle, which comprise the following steps: the gear shifting control system comprises a gear shifting operation module, a gear display module and a control module, wherein the gear shifting operation module is used for receiving a gear shifting instruction and setting a target gear according to the gear shifting instruction; the control module is used for acquiring the gear shifting instruction and sending a target gear signal to the gear display module according to the gear shifting instruction; the gear display module is used for displaying indication information of a target gear according to the target gear signal; the gear display module comprises a first area and a second area. The invention not only displays the complex gear shifting logic directly through the gear display module, and is convenient for the user to operate and use, but also divides the gear display into two display areas, and the second area display adopts a hidden design, thereby saving the instrument arrangement space.

Description

Electronic gear shifter, gear shifting control method and vehicle

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of vehicles, in particular to an electronic gear shifter, a gear shifting control method and a vehicle.

Background

Along with the development of new energy automobiles and intelligent driving automobiles and the electronic development of a traditional power vehicle gear shifting and speed changing control system, more and more vehicles use electronic gear shifters. The connection of the electronic gear shifter and the gearbox is not a traditional mechanical mode, but a safer and faster electronic control mode is adopted, the traditional gear shifting mode is omitted, and all electronic signals are adopted for replacement.

The electronic gear shifting system has the working principle that the driving intention of a driver is converted into an electric signal to be output to the whole vehicle ECU, the whole vehicle ECU carries out intelligent judgment according to the current running condition of the whole vehicle, the whole vehicle ECU outputs a gear shifting instruction to the gear shifting executing mechanism under the condition of meeting gear shifting, the gear shifting executing mechanism carries out gear shifting and feeds back a signal to the whole vehicle ECU after the gear shifting is finished, and the ECU feeds back the signal of finishing the gear shifting to the electronic gear shifter. However, the electronic shifter is low in maneuverability, reducing much of the driving enjoyment for the user.

At present, some vehicles on the market adopt unique cross-axle five-point type electronic gear shifters, and the electronic gear shifter provides multiple driving modes, is strong in maneuverability, and greatly improves the driving experience of users. However, the five-point type gear arrangement of the cross shaft is complex, and the forward N/R, backward N/D, left M-, right M + and indication are complex, so that the user experience is poor. Therefore, a completely new design gear arrangement needs to be considered.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the technical problem that an existing cross-shaft five-point type gear shifter is complex in operation and free of gear display.

In order to solve the technical problem, in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application discloses an electronic shifter, including: a gear shifting operation module, a gear display module and a control module,

the gear shifting operation module is used for receiving a gear shifting instruction and setting a target gear according to the gear shifting instruction; the target gear includes at least: parking gear, reverse gear, forward gear and neutral gear;

the control module is used for acquiring the gear shifting instruction and sending a target gear signal to the gear display module according to the gear shifting instruction;

the gear display module is used for displaying indication information of a target gear according to the target gear signal;

the gear display module comprises a first area and a second area, the display form of the indication information displayed in the first area is a backlight highlight display form, and the display form of the indication information displayed in the second area is a non-backlight highlight display form.

Further, keep off position display module and include display panel and LED lamp plate, display panel with LED lamp plate joint.

Further, the display panel is formed by double-shot injection molding.

Furthermore, the first area is formed by injection molding of a white base material, and the second area is formed by injection molding of a smoked base material.

Furthermore, the gear shifting operation module comprises a gear shifting rocker, and the operating stroke of the gear shifting rocker is in a cross shape.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application discloses a shift control method, including:

acquiring a gear shifting instruction, and analyzing the gear shifting instruction to obtain target gear information;

sending a target gear signal to a gear display module according to the target gear information;

the target gear signal is used for enabling the gear display module to display indication information of a target gear;

wherein the target gear comprises at least: parking gear, reverse gear, forward gear and neutral gear;

Furthermore, the target gear displayed in the first area adopts a first color to display gear characters.

Further, the target gear displayed in the second area adopts a second color to display gear characters.

Further, the first color is different from the second color.

In a third aspect, the embodiment of the application discloses a vehicle, which comprises the electronic gear shifter.

By adopting the technical scheme, the electronic gear shifter, the gear shifting control method and the vehicle have the following beneficial effects:

according to the electronic gear shifter, the complex gear shifting logic is directly displayed through the gear display module, and a user can operate and use the electronic gear shifter conveniently; this application not only directly shows the logic of shifting gears of complicacy through keeping off a position display module, and convenience of customers uses, still will keep off a position the demonstration and divide and establish in two display areas, and the hidden design is adopted in the regional demonstration of second, saves the instrument and arranges the space.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application, the drawings required to be used in the description of the embodiments are briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the description below are only some embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings without creative efforts.

Fig. 1 is a schematic view of an electronic shifter application of an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a gear display module according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a side view of a gear indication module according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a gear display panel according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a shift network communication diagram according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of a shift control method according to an embodiment of the present application;

the following is a supplementary description of the drawings:

10-a shift operating module; 20-a control module; 30-gear display module; 301-shift panel; 302-LED lamp panel.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. It is to be understood that the embodiments described are only a few embodiments of the present application and not all embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

Reference herein to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic may be included in at least one implementation of the present application. In the description of the present application, it is to be understood that the terms "upper", "lower", "top", "bottom", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, are only for convenience in describing the present application and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the referred devices or elements must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and be operated, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present application. Furthermore, the terms "first", "second" and "first" are used for descriptive purposes only and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance or implicitly indicating the number of technical features indicated. Thus, a feature defined as "first" or "second" may explicitly or implicitly include one or more of that feature. Moreover, the terms "first," "second," and the like are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It is to be understood that the data so used is interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application described herein are capable of operation in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein.

Gear display is used as an important part of human-computer interaction, and relates to structure implementation forms, gear logic, display modes, colors, light intensity, materials, process selection types, regulation requirements and the like.

As shown in fig. 1, an electronic shifter includes: the gear shifting control system comprises a gear shifting operation module 10, a gear display module 30 and a control module 20, wherein the gear shifting operation module 10 is used for receiving a gear shifting instruction and setting a target gear according to the gear shifting instruction; the target gear includes at least: parking gear, reverse gear, forward gear and neutral gear; the control module 20 is configured to obtain a gear shift instruction, and send a target gear signal to the gear display module 30 according to the gear shift instruction; the gear display module 30 is used for displaying indication information of a target gear according to the target gear signal; the gear display module 30 includes a first area and a second area, a display form of the indication information displayed in the first area is a backlight highlight display form, and a display form of the indication information displayed in the second area is a non-backlight highlight display form.

According to the electronic gear shifter, complex gear shifting logic is directly displayed through the gear display module 30, and operation and use of a user are facilitated; the gear display is divided into two display areas, the second area display adopts a hidden design, and the arrangement space of the instrument is saved.

In the embodiment of the present application, the electronic gear shifter includes a gear shift operating module 10 and a gear display module 30, and the gear shift operating module 10 may be a gear shift rocker, a gear shift knob, a gear shift paddle, or a gear shift key. As shown in fig. 2 to 4, the gear display module 30 displays the current gear of the vehicle, and the gear display module 30 is disposed on the dashboard. Different gears are displayed in different zones. Optionally, the common gears are set in the first area, the area where the gear characters are located is lightened by backlight, other residual gear characters are set in the second area, the gear characters in the second area are not displayed in a backlight mode, and when the vehicle is not in the gears set in the area, the area is not displayed, so that the occupied space is reduced, and the display of the instrument panel is concise. The distribution of gears is set according to the gear shifting logic, a reasonable and correct implementation method for switching from the current gear to the target gear is provided, and the driver is conveniently guided to shift. Optionally, a linear gear display logic is adopted, the gear P is arranged beside the gear N, and the gear R, the gear N, the gear M and the gear D are arranged in a linear sequence. The R gear, the N gear and the D gear are displayed in a first area, and the P gear and the M gear are displayed in a second area. As shown in fig. 5 and fig. 6, during a gear shifting operation, the gear shifting operation module 10 sends a gear shifting signal to the control module 20, and the control module 20 receives the gear shifting signal, processes the gear shifting signal, and sends a target gear signal to the transmission control module and the gear display module 30; the gear display module 30 displays the current gear after gear shifting according to the target gear signal through the instrument panel integration module. The traditional gear control logic communication logic is long in route, needs to be newly added with function safety design, influences the universalization and the cost of electron selector module, gear control communication logic design, network communication is directly communicated with the gear controller by the instrument, when realizing the gear display function, has shortened the network control route.

As shown in fig. 2 and 3, the gear display module 30 includes a display panel 301 and an LED lamp panel 302, and the display panel 301 is connected to the LED lamp panel 302 in a snap-fit manner.

In the embodiment of the present application, the gear display module 30 includes the display panel 301 and the LED lamp panel 302, the display panel 301 is connected to the instrument, the LED lamp panel 302 is connected to the display panel 301, and the LED lamp panel 302 is connected to the instrument through the wire harness. In some embodiments, the LED lamp panel 302 is fixed to the entire vehicle by clamping or screwing, and the display panel 301 is clamped to the LED lamp panel 302. A plurality of LED lamps corresponding to the plurality of gears are disposed on the printed circuit board of the LED lamp panel 302, and the adjustable backlight and the current gear information are respectively displayed according to the gear signals.

As shown in fig. 4, the display panel 301 is formed by two-shot molding.

In the embodiment of the present application, the display panel 301 is made of a plastic material, so that the light weight is provided, and the cost is saved. The display panel 301 is injection molded by using two different colors of materials, so that the injection molded display panel 301 has two different display areas. Optionally, the double-color injection molding adopts different materials except for different colors, so that the attractiveness and assembly performance of the product are improved.

The first area adopts white base material injection molding, and the second area adopts smoked base material injection molding.

In the embodiment of the application, the first area adopts a white base material for injection molding, so that the display form of the indication information displayed in the first area is a backlight highlight display form, and the second area adopts a smoke base material for injection molding, so that the display form of the indication information displayed in the second area is a non-backlight highlight display form. Optionally, the first area displays R, N, D characters, the first area displays P, M characters, the outer surface of the substrate is sprayed with metal gray paint, and the 3D laser etching removes the characters of the black paint display P, R, N, M, D, so that a P, M hidden effect is achieved.

The shift operating module 10 comprises a shift rocker, the actuation path of which is cross-shaped.

In the embodiment of the present application, the shift operation module 10 for receiving a shift command is a shift rocker, and the shifter is a cross-shaft five-point shifter. Can follow four directions in front and back left and right sides spring and add and cut the gear level, hang into different fender position: reverse gear R, neutral gear N, and forward gear D, and can start the manual shift mode M. Depending on the currently selected gear, the shift lever is moved forward and backward once or twice, switching between the following gears: r gear, N gear and D gear. For example: if the gear D is the currently selected gear, the gear shifting rod is moved forwards once, the gear shifting rod can be switched to the gear N, the gear shifting rod to be shifted automatically returns to the original position, and the gear shifting rod can be switched to the gear R when moved forwards again. And pressing a P gear button to start a parking mode P gear. The shift lever is moved forward and backward once to deactivate the parking mode P gear. The manual shift mode M-speed can only be selected from D-speed. The shift lever is moved once to the right or left to shift to the M gear.

As shown in fig. 5, an embodiment of the present application provides a shift control method, including:

s501: the control module acquires a gear shifting instruction;

the embodiment of the present application provides a specific manner for acquiring a shift command, which is as follows: and after receiving a gear shifting instruction of a user, the gear shifting operation module transmits the gear shifting instruction to the control module.

S503: the control module analyzes the gear shifting command to obtain target gear information;

specifically, the control module analyzes the gear shifting command according to the gear shifting logic to obtain a target gear to be shifted by the user. The target gear includes at least: park, reverse, forward, and neutral. In some embodiments, the target gear further includes a manual shift mode, a sport mode gear, and the like.

S505: the control module sends a target gear signal to the gearbox control module;

specifically, the control module analyzes the information of the target gear and then sends a target gear signal to the gearbox control module.

S507: the gearbox control module controls the gearbox to be in a target gear;

specifically, the gearbox control module controls the gearbox to shift according to the target gear signal, and the gearbox is shifted into the target gear from the current gear.

S509: the control module sends a target gear signal to the gear display module;

specifically, when the control module sends a target gear signal to the gearbox control module, the target gear signal is sent to the gear display module at the same time.

S511: the gear display module judges whether the target gear is a first area or not; if yes, go to step S513, otherwise, go to step S515;

specifically, the gear display module receives the target gear signal and judges the display area of the target gear.

S513: the gear display module displays a target gear in a first area;

specifically, if the display area of the target gear is preset in the first area, the gear display module displays the target gear in the first area. The display form of the indication information displayed in the first gear area is a backlight highlight display form.

S515: the gear display module displays a target gear in a second area;

specifically, if the display area of the target gear is preset in the second area, the gear display module displays the target gear in the second area. And the gear indication information displayed in the second area is displayed in a non-backlight highlighting mode.

According to the gear shifting control method, the network communication is directly communicated with the gear controller through the instrument, the gear display function is achieved, meanwhile, the network control path is shortened, and the structure cost is reduced.

As shown in fig. 6, in the embodiment of the present application, after receiving the shift command, the electronic shifter sends a shift signal to the control module 20; the control module 20 receives the gear shifting signal to obtain target gear information, and then sends the target gear signal to the gearbox control module and the instrument integration module, and the instrument integration module displays the target gear through the gear display module 30; the gear display module 30 determines that the shifted gear is in the first area or the second area according to the target gear signal, and then displays the shifted gear in different display forms in the corresponding areas.

As shown in fig. 4, the target gear displayed in the first area is displayed with a first color to display a gear character.

In the embodiment of the application, except for the backlight highlighting of the gears displayed in the first area, corresponding gear characters can be lightened when the vehicle is hooked into the gears set in the display area, and the corresponding gear characters can be displayed in the same or different colors.

As shown in fig. 4, the target gear displayed in the second area uses a second color to display the gear character.

In the embodiment of the application, the gears displayed in the first area are hidden, the gear characters are displayed in a hidden mode, the gear indicator lamp is only lightened to display at the current position, and the corresponding gear characters can be displayed in the same or different colors.

The first color is different from the second color.

In the embodiment of the application, the color of the gear character of the gear information displayed in the first area may be the same as or different from the color of the gear character of the gear information displayed in the second area. For example, the first region displays an R shift, an N shift, and a D shift, and the R shift, the N shift, and the D shift are displayed in a backlight manner, and characters are simultaneously lighted when the current shift is performed, and display colors thereof are respectively white and green. The first area displays P gear and M gear, the characters of the P gear and the M gear are designed in an implicit mode, only the current gear indicator lamp is lighted and displayed, and the colors are red and orange respectively. When the gears are activated, the specific display form of each gear is shown in table 1. In some embodiments, the gear D and the gear M can be interchanged, and characters of the gear P, the gear D and the gear M are hidden and displayed in the second area.

TABLE 1 functional description of the Gear display Module

The embodiment of the application also discloses a vehicle, which comprises the electronic gear shifter.

It should be noted that: the sequence of the embodiments of the present application is only for description, and does not represent the advantages and disadvantages of the embodiments. And specific embodiments thereof have been described above. Other embodiments are within the scope of the following claims. In some cases, the actions or steps recited in the claims may be performed in a different order than in the embodiments and still achieve desirable results. In addition, the processes depicted in the accompanying figures do not necessarily require the particular order shown, or sequential order, to achieve desirable results. In some embodiments, multitasking and parallel processing may also be possible or may be advantageous.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from the other embodiments. In particular, for the apparatus embodiment, since it is substantially similar to the method embodiment, the description is relatively simple, and for the relevant points, reference may be made to the partial description of the method embodiment.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that all or part of the steps for implementing the above embodiments may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by a program instructing relevant hardware, where the program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium, and the above-mentioned storage medium may be a read-only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk, etc.

The above description is only exemplary of the present application and should not be taken as limiting the present application, as any modification, equivalent replacement, or improvement made within the spirit and principle of the present application should be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. An electronic shifter, comprising: the electronic gear shifter is a cross-shaft five-point gear shifter;

a gear shift operation module (10), a gear display module (30) and a control module (20),

the gear shifting operation module (10) is used for receiving a gear shifting command and setting a target gear according to the gear shifting command; the target gear includes at least: parking gear, manual gear, reverse gear, forward gear and neutral gear; the gear shifting operation module (10) comprises a gear shifting rocker, and the operating stroke of the gear shifting rocker is cross-shaped;

the control module (20) is used for acquiring the gear shifting instruction and sending a target gear signal to the gear display module (30) according to the gear shifting instruction;

the gear display module (30) is provided with gear characters, and the distribution of the gear characters is set according to a gear shifting logic;

the gear display module (30) is used for displaying indication information of a target gear according to the target gear signal;

the gear display module (30) comprises a first area and a second area, the first area is provided with a character of the reverse gear, a character of the forward gear and a character of the neutral gear, and the second area is provided with a character of the parking gear and a character of the manual gear; the display form of the indication information displayed in the first area is the backlight normally-highlighted display form of the gear characters, and the display form of the indication information displayed in the second area is the non-backlight highlighted display form of the gear characters;

the gear display module (30) is used for lighting a character of the reverse gear, a character of the forward gear or a character of the neutral gear in the first area based on the forward and backward movement operation of the gear shifting rocker; the background area of the first area is normally bright, and the gear characters of the first area are set in a visible mode under the condition that the gear characters of the first area are not lighted;

the gear display module (30) is used for lighting characters of the manual gear in the second area based on the left-right movement operation of the gear shifting rocker; based on the pressing operation of a parking gear button, lightening characters of a parking gear in the second area; wherein the gear character in the second region is in a hidden setting when not being lighted.

2. The electronic shifter of claim 1, wherein the gear display module (30) comprises a display panel (301) and an LED lamp panel (302), and the display panel (301) is clamped with the LED lamp panel (302).

3. The electronic shifter of claim 2, wherein the display panel (301) is bi-injection molded.

4. The electronic shifter of claim 3, wherein the first region is injection molded with a white substrate and the second region is injection molded with a smoked substrate.

5. A shift control method, characterized in that the shift control method is applied to the electronic shifter of any one of claims 1 to 4, which is a cross-shaft five-point shifter; the method comprises the following steps:

acquiring a gear shifting instruction received by a gear shifting operation module (10), and analyzing the gear shifting instruction to obtain target gear information; the gear shifting operation module (10) comprises a gear shifting rocker, and the operating stroke of the gear shifting rocker is cross-shaped;

sending a target gear signal to a gear display module (30) according to the target gear information;

the target gear signal is used for enabling the gear display module (30) to display indication information of a target gear;

the gear display module (30) comprises a first area and a second area, and the first area and the second area are respectively provided with partial gear characters; the gear characters in the second area are arranged in a hidden mode;

the display form of the indication information displayed in the first area is the backlight highlight display form of the gear character, and the display form of the indication information displayed in the second area is the non-backlight highlight display form of the gear character.

6. The shift control method according to claim 5, wherein the target gear displayed in the first region is a gear character displayed in a first color.

7. The shift control method according to claim 6, wherein the target gear displayed in the second region is a gear character displayed in a second color.

8. The shift control method of claim 7, wherein the first color is different from the second color.

9. A vehicle characterized by comprising the electronic shifter of any one of claims 1-4.