Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Denso Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho

Akira Oda

Atsushi Ayabe

Tomohiro Asami

Masahiko Kato

Teiji Kanamori

Kunio Kato

Takashi Ozaki

Yasuhiro Kanzaki

Damping control, by which an engine is controlled to output torque for reducing up-and-down vibrations such as pitching and bouncing of a vehicle, is performed. When the damping control is interrupted, the behavior of engine torque after the damping control is interrupted is predicted. Shift of an automatic transmission is controlled in accordance with the predicted behavior of the engine torque.

Vehicle, control method and control apparatus for vehicle

An electronic control system for an automatic transmission has an electronic control unit including a CPU and a memory. The control program is programmed based on an object-oriented programming. An object such as a domain control unit or individual control parts are provided for driving a corresponding linear solenoid valve. A shift request output unit determines types of required shift and outputs a shift request message including the shift type. The domain control unit determines a method to be executed in response to the shift type ID. Preferably, the shift request output unit further determines whether the shift is a single shift or a multiple shift and whether the shift is a normal shift or a special shift. These determination results are also included in the shift request message, so that the domain control unit varies the method to control the linear solenoid valves. The control program can be revised in a simple manner by revising only the domain control unit and individual control parts corresponding to the linear solenoid valve having the changed specification.

Automatic transmission control with object-oriented program

The present disclosure relates to an electric cigar lighter for use, for example in vehicles, having a circuit breaker. The circuit breaker includes an elongated fuse member having a fuse and a tube for covering the fuse. The tube has a melting point slightly lower than that of the fuse. Therefore, when the fuse melts and separates in two parts upon overheating of a heating element carried by an igniting of the lighter, the separated ends of the fuse are wrapped by the separated ends of the tube. Thus, even if the separated ends of the fuse member contact some portions of the lighter placed adjacent to the fuse member or other members, a short circuit can be prevented.

Electric cigar lighter

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Nagoya, Japan

Akira Oda