Voith Turbo Gmbh Co. Kg

Playtex Products, Inc.

Voith Turbo Gmbh

Erwin Rotter

Herbert Depping

Wilfried Maier

Friedrich Haberle

Thomas Schonhaar

Volker Schempp

Voker Schempp

The invention relates to a process for the control of the shifting process of a vehicle with electro-hydraulically actuatable friction elements for the shifting-over between different transmission stages in a vehicle with at least in addition a drive engine in which a current actual value is determined for at least one magnitude characterizing the shift process in each shifting process; the actual value is compared with an establishable and/or storable desired value; on deviation of the actual value from the desired value, the control pressure for the at least indirect influencing of the magnitude characterizing the switching process is adaptively changed by a determinable, calculatable or prescribable first correction value for the achieving of an optimal shifting behavior and the course of the altered magnitude is storable in each case as new characteristic curve of the desired values. The invention is characterized by the following features: in at least the shifting processes in which through a further adaption no satisfactory shifting courses can any longer be insured, at least one actual value--the drive turning rate--is determined for a magnitude characterizing the acceleration of the turning rate to be synchronized in force-flow direction in the drive line on the input side of the coupling at a time point after the beginning of the synchronizing process; the actual value either of the acceleration of the turning rate to be synchronized or of a magnitude at least indirectly characterizing the acceleration of the turning rate to be synchronized, or that of the turning rate to be synchronized, is compared with a desired value; on deviation of the actual value from the desired value the control pressure is altered by a second correction value until the desired value course of the turning rate to be synchronized is set in, and, moreover, the course of the control pressure characteristic curve is replicated at higher pressures.

Process for controlling the shifting process of an automatic vehicle

Method of operating a vehicle transmission

A method for the control of shifting processes in a vehicle transmission from an initial gear to the next higher target gear includes the steps of continuously determining the vehicle acceleration (a) and the driven rpm (n.sub.2) behind the vehicle transmission. A shifting process is triggered when the acceleration value (a) and the essentially simultaneously recorded driven rpm value (n.sub.2) fall on a shifting point which lies on a shifting characteristic (n.sub.2 (a)) in an acceleration-driven rpm diagram, where the shifting characteristic (n.sub.2 (a)) has a stepped course with at least two break points (a.sub.-- max; a.sub.-- min) and the slope of the shifting characteristic for acceleration values a.sub.-- min&lt;a&lt;a.sub.-- max is always smaller than or equal to the slope of the shifting characteristic for acceleration values a.ltoreq.a.sub.-- min or a.gtoreq.a.sub.-- max. In other words, the following applies:

Methods and apparatus for controlling shifting processes in a vehicle

The invention concerns a method for operation of a drive unit of a vehicle, including a drive machine and a transmission with at least two gears. A quantity that characterizes acceleration of the vehicle and a quantity that characterizes the power of the drive engine are continuously determined. A gear shift speed range and a second speed range bounded by a lowest and highest attainable speed in the target gear can be established for a gear shift process in the initial gear. The gear shift speed range is bounded at least by a lower gear shift speed and an upper gear shift speed and the second speed range is bounded by a lower target speed, as well as an additional speed. The gear shift process is initiated as a function of the determined acceleration. The lower target speed is achieved in a gear shift process in a first limiting stage (high acceleration at low input speeds or limited deceleration at low input speeds) during initiation of a gear shift at a number of gear shift speeds. The gear shift process between the first limiting state and the highest attainable speed in the target gear is initiated as a function of the determined quantities in the gear shift speed range in the initial gear.

Method of operation of a drive unit and device for execution of the

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