Jatco Corporation

Mazda Motor Corporation

Hitachi Appliances, Inc

Hiroyuki Imamura

Kenji Tojo

Takeshi Tsuchiya

Mutsunori Matsunaga

Satoshi Nakamura

Masashi Miyake

Masaru Ohtahara

Hiroaki Yokota

Naoyuki Noguchi

Kazuyuki Fujimura

Yuichi Yanagase

Makoto Aoki

Yoshinobu Yosuke

Takafumi Kurata

Syuuji Hasegawa

Mitsuaki Hashiba

A scroll fluid machine comprises compression chambers defined with an orbiting scroll orbiting relative to a fixed scroll, and a back pressure chamber provided on the face opposite from a wrap of the orbiting scroll. A back pressure port is provided, which is formed in an end-plate of the orbiting scroll and connects from a compression chamber side opening opened to a compression chamber side and to a back pressure chamber side opening opened to a back pressure chamber side. The compression chamber side opening is opened and closed by an end-plate of the fixed scroll according as the orbiting motion of the orbiting scroll to perform connection and blockage of the back pressure port. The flow resistance of fluid flowing in and out between the back pressure chamber and the compression chamber is reduced and the compression efficiency and reliability are improved.

Scroll fluid machine

A spool of a lock-up control valve has a first effective area exposed to a release pressure which is supplied to a release chamber of the lock-up clutch and a second larger effective area which is exposed to the apply pressure which is supplied to an apply chamber. When acceleration is demanded when the lock-up clutch is in one of slip or fully lock-up modes and a sudden demand for acceleration is made, the pressure differential between the apply and release pressures is reduced below the normal level for a predetermined period of time.

Lock-up clutch pressure control device

A pressure control system for a lock-up clutch includes a variable flow restriction orifice disposed in a lubricating circuit. The variable flow restriction orifice is operated depending upon a discharge rate of an oil pump so that working fluid flow through the lubricating circuit is restricted when the discharge rate of the oil pump is smaller than a predetermined value.

Pressure control system for lock-up clutch in automotive automatic power

According to the lockup device of a fluid transmission under the present invention, at the decelerating running when the change rate of engine load exceeds a set value, a lockup control pattern is changed so that the area where the lockup device is controlled to perfect friction or to the specified friction force. By this change, at the decelerating running large engine brake force can be worked and a good feeling of deceleration can be given to a driver. In the case where fuel supply to the engine is suspended at the decelerating running of the engine, transmission of large engine brake force as mentioned above results in comparatively longer time of maintaining high engine speed and longer time of fuel supply cutting off, with consequent saving of fuel consumption. Moreover, by changing the target slip quantity to the increasing side at the accelerating running, torque increasing action at the accelerating running is displayed effectively and accelerability can be improved. At the normal running, lowering of specific fuel consumption due to slip of the torque converter can be checked by setting a target slip quantity small. Thus, coexistence of improvement of accelerability and improvement of specific fuel consumption can be planned.

Lockup control device of a fluid transmission

A spool of a lock-up control valve is arranged to have equal pressure differential areas exposed to the apply and release pressures applied to the apply and release chambers of the lock-up clutch. The movement of the spool is determined by changes in a single variable level pressure and independent of the apply pressure.

A shift control system for an automatic power transmission employs an electrically operable timing control valve. The timing control valve is disposed in a second pressure line connected to a second frictional element, which second pressure line is connected to a first pressure line connected to a first frictional element. The timing control valve is designed to be switched between a first position for shutting-off the fluid communication between the first pressure line to the second frictional element and a second position for establishing fluid communication therebetween. The timing control valve is operated by a control signal from an electric or electronic control unit which provides the control signal for the timing control valve for operating the latter with a given lag time from starting of variation of pressure in the first frictional element.

Shift control system for automatic power transmission

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Shizuoka, Japan

Hiroyuki Imamura