Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryuji Imai

Daisaku Sawada

Yoshinobu Soga

Masami Sugaya

Toshio Sugimura

Yoshiharu Harada

Toshimitsu Sato

Naoyuki Sakamoto

Masayasu Mizobuchi

Hisanori Nomoto

Takahiro Kondo

An apparatus for controlling ignition timing during a shift in a vehicular automatic transmission is provided that is capable of suppressing shift shock in the event that input torque of the automatic transmission is affected by external changes, such as changes in fuel and air pressure and the like, by adjusting immediately to those changes. This control apparatus is provided with an ignition timing controller that controls an ignition timing retard amount; a calculator that calculates a basic retard amount; a detector that detects an engine retard amount; a determinator that determines a retard correction value based on a shift mode of the automatic transmission and the like; and a corrector that corrects the ignition timing retard amount of the controller based on the retard correction value, the basic retard amount, and the engine retard amount.

Apparatus and method for controlling ignition timing during shift in vehicular automatic transmission

A hydraulic control system for a continuously variable transmission having two variable-diameter pulleys, a belt connecting the pulleys to transmit power from one of the pulleys to the other, and corresponding cylinders for changing effective diameters of the pulleys. The control system comprises: a hydraulic source delivering a pressurized fluid; a first pressure regulating device for regulating the pressurized fluid to apply a first line pressure to one of the cylinders for controlling a tension of the belt; a flow control device for controlling flow of the fluid into and from the other cylinder to change the effective diameters of the pulleys to vary a speed ratio of the transmission; a second pressure regulating device provided between the hydraulic source and the first pressure regulating device to regulate the pressurized fluid to apply a second line pressure to the flow control device, the second line pressure being higher than a pressure in the above-indicated hydraulic cylinder or the first line pressure by a predetermined value; and a releasing device for releasing the second pressure regulating device from its regulating operation while the speed ratio of the transmission is changed with the fluid discharged from the above-indicated other cylinder, or while the speed ratio is held constant.

Continuously variable transmission hydraulic control system having two

A hydraulic control system for a continuously variable transmission having a first and a second variable-diameter pulley provided on a first and a second shaft, a transmission belt connecting the first and second pulleys to transmit power from one of the first and second pulleys to the other, and a pair of hydraulic cylinders for changing an effective diameter of the pulleys engaging the belt. The hydraulic control system includes a hydraulic source delivering a pressurized fluid, and a flow control device for controlling a flow of the pressurized fluid from said hydraulic source into one of said hydraulic cylinders, and a flow of the fluid from said one hydraulic cylinder, thereby changing the effective diameters of the pulleys to vary a speed ratio of the transmission. The control system comprises a pressure regulating device for regulating the pressurized fluid which is delivered from the hydraulic source and applied to the flow control device so that a pressure of the pressurized fluid is higher than a pressure in the above-indicated one hydraulic cylinder by a predetermined value.

Hydraulic control system for continuously variable transmission

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Ryuji Imai