Vehicular power transmission device
A vehicular power transmission device that includes a parking gear that is drivingly coupled with wheels; a parking pawl that is capable of meshing or unmeshing with or from the parking gear; a hydraulic pressure actuator that unmeshes the parking pawl from the parking gear when a release hydraulic pressure is supplied; a first oil pump that generates a hydraulic pressure; a second oil pump that generates a hydraulic pressure, the second oil pump having a capacity smaller than the first oil pump; a hydraulic pressure control device that is capable of deriving the release hydraulic pressure from the hydraulic pressure generated by the second oil pump or the hydraulic pressure generated by the first oil pump and supplying the release hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic pressure actuator; and a control unit.
1. A vehicular power transmission device comprising:
a parking gear that is drivingly coupled with wheels;
a parking pawl that is capable of meshing or unmeshing with or from the parking gear;
a hydraulic pressure actuator that unmeshes the parking pawl from the parking gear when a release hydraulic pressure is supplied;
a first oil pump that generates a hydraulic pressure;
a second oil pump that generates the hydraulic pressure, the second oil pump having a capacity smaller than the first oil pump;
a hydraulic pressure control device that is capable of deriving the release hydraulic pressure from the hydraulic pressure generated by the second oil pump or the hydraulic pressure generated by the first oil pump and supplying the release hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic pressure actuator; and
an electronic control unit that is programmed to, when a non-parking range is selected from a parking range through an operation on a shift selection part while the first oil pump is stopped,
control the first pump so that it is not driven and control the hydraulic pressure control device such that the release hydraulic pressure derived from the hydraulic pressure generated by the second oil pump is supplied to the hydraulic pressure actuator, if the control unit determines that an inclination of a vehicle is less than a predetermined inclination angle, and
cause the first oil pump to be driven and control the hydraulic pressure control device such that the release hydraulic pressure derived from the hydraulic pressure generated by the first oil pump is supplied to the hydraulic pressure actuator, if the control unit determines that the inclination of the vehicle is greater than the predetermined inclination angle.
2. The vehicular power transmission device according to claim 1 , wherein
the first oil pump is a mechanical oil pump that is driven by a driving source driving the vehicle and generates the hydraulic pressure,
the second oil pump is an electrically powered oil pump that is driven by a rotary electric device that is different from the driving source and generates the hydraulic pressure,
the control unit, when the non-parking range is selected from the parking range through the operation on the shift selection part while the driving source is stopped,
controls the hydraulic pressure control device such that the release hydraulic pressure derived from the hydraulic pressure generated by the electrically powered oil pump is supplied to the hydraulic pressure actuator, if the control unit determines that the inclination of the vehicle is less than the predetermined inclination angle, and
causes the driving source to be driven to cause the mechanical oil pump to be driven and controls the hydraulic pressure control device such that the release hydraulic pressure derived from the hydraulic pressure generated by the mechanical oil pump is supplied to the hydraulic pressure actuator, if the control unit determines that the inclination of the vehicle is greater than the predetermined inclination angle.
3. The vehicular power transmission device according to claim 2 , further comprising:
a detector that is capable of detecting unmeshing between the parking pawl and the parking gear, wherein
when the control unit determines that the inclination of the vehicle is greater than the predetermined inclination angle and causes the driving source to be driven to cause the mechanical oil pump to be driven,
when the unmeshing between the parking pawl and the parking gear is detected, the control unit causes the driving source to be stopped.
4. The vehicular power transmission device according to claim 3 , further comprising:
a friction engagement element that is provided on a power transmission path from the driving source to the wheels and capable of disconnecting power transmission between the driving source and the wheels, wherein
when the non-parking range is selected from the parking range through the operation on the shift selection part while the driving source is stopped, in a case in which the control unit determines that the inclination of the vehicle is greater than the predetermined inclination angle, the control unit, with the power transmission path being disconnected by the friction engagement element, causes the driving source to be driven to cause the mechanical oil pump to be driven and controls such that the release hydraulic pressure derived from the hydraulic pressure generated by the mechanical oil pump is supplied to the hydraulic pressure actuator.
5. The vehicular power transmission device according to claim 4 , wherein
the friction engagement element is the friction engagement element that establishes the transmission path in the speed change mechanism, and
when a travel range as the non-parking range is selected from the parking range through an operation on the shift selection part, the control unit causes the driving source to be stopped and thereafter causes the friction engagement element to be engaged.
6. The vehicular power transmission device according to claim 2 , further comprising a friction engagement element that is provided on a power transmission path from the driving source to the wheels and capable of disconnecting power transmission between the driving source and the wheels, wherein
when the non-parking range is selected from the parking range through the operation on the shift selection part while the driving source is stopped, in a case in which the control unit determines that the inclination of the vehicle is greater than the predetermined inclination angle, the control unit, with the power transmission path being disconnected by the friction engagement element, causes the driving source to be driven to cause the mechanical oil pump to be driven and controls such that the release hydraulic pressure derived from the hydraulic pressure generated by the mechanical oil pump is supplied to the hydraulic pressure actuator.
7. The vehicular power transmission device according to claim 6 , wherein
the friction engagement element is the friction engagement element that establishes the transmission path in a speed change mechanism, and
when a travel range as the non-parking range is selected from the parking range through the operation on the shift selection part, the control unit causes the driving source to be stopped and thereafter causes the friction engagement element to be engaged.
8. The vehicular power transmission device according to claim 2 , wherein in a case in which the control unit determines that the inclination of the vehicle is greater than the predetermined inclination angle, the control unit causes the driving source to be driven to cause the mechanical oil pump to be driven and causes the electrically powered oil pump to be driven.
9. The vehicular power transmission device according to claim 2 , wherein the hydraulic pressure control device controls by a hydraulic pressure a friction engagement element that establishes a transmission path in a speed change mechanism, and
the electrically powered oil pump supplies the hydraulic pressure to the hydraulic control device while the driving source is stopped.