Interrelated power delivery controls – including engine control – Transmission control – Including fluid drive
Patent
1993-03-02
1995-11-21
Vrablik, John J.
Interrelated power delivery controls, including engine control
Transmission control
Including fluid drive
477 97, 477107, 477110, B60K 4102, B60K 4104, B60K 4122
Patent
active
054681960
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for controlling a car equipped with an automatic transmission having a lockup clutch. According to the control method of the present invention, when the lockup clutch is in the lockup state, a variation of a generated torque is detected. When the range of the torque variation detected exceeds a predetermined value, an engine torque is reduced by controlling the engine, and the automatic transmission is controlled to compensate for a reduction of the driving torque due to a reduction of the engine torque. Thus, the speed change ratio is changed to the low gear side. The control unit of the present invention includes a unit for controlling an output torque of an engine according to a command value, a unit for changing the transmission ratio of the automatic transmission, a unit for detecting a variation of the engine torque, a unit for deciding a target driving torque, a unit for reducing a torque command value when the range of a detected variation of the torque has exceeded a predetermined value when the lockup clutch was in the lockup state, and a unit for deciding a transmission ratio at which the reduction of the driving torque due to the reduction of the engine torque is compensated for.
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Ibamoto Masahiko
Kawashima Ken'ichi
Kuroiwa Hiroshi
Minowa Toshimichi
Nishimura Yutaka
Hitachi , Ltd.
Vrablik John J.
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