Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Transmission control
Reexamination Certificate
2011-03-15
2011-03-15
Black, Thomas G (Department: 3661)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Transmission control
C701S055000, C477S115000, C477S117000, C477S120000, C477S046000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07908065
ABSTRACT:
An ECU executes a program that includes the steps of i) calculating a sporty running counting SC based on a state of a vehicle according to an operation of a driver; ii) changing a condition for executing sporty running in which an upshift is inhibited when an accelerator is suddenly released and in which a downshift is promoted during sudden braking such that the condition is easier to satisfy and changing a condition for returning from sporty running so that it is more difficult to satisfy when the sporty running count SC is equal to or greater than a threshold value; and iii) changing the condition for executing sporty running so that it is more difficult to satisfy and changing the condition for returning from sporty running so that it is easier to satisfy when the sporty running count SC is not equal to or greater than the threshold value.
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Fukumasu Toshihiro
Kaigawa Masato
Kondo Masami
Kubonoya Hideki
Kuwahara Seiji
Black Thomas G
Louie Wae
Sughrue & Mion, PLLC
Toyota Jidosha & Kabushiki Kaisha
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