Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Shinichi Nishio

Shoichi Tanizawa

Norio Nakauchi

Kazuo Okada

Takehiro Katakura

Tatsuyuki Ohashi

Tetsuya Mochizuki

Osahide Miyamoto

Hideki Machino

Hiroyuki Takeo

Kenji Nakajima

Yoshiyuki Nagayama

Hiroyuki Kushiyama

Kouji Shibuya

Shouji Asatsuke

Akio Tsuura

Hiroshi Terayama

Hiromitsu Ishibashi

Hideki Takamatsu

A control apparatus of a vehicular automatic transmission includes a control device designed to control gear changes of the transmission on the basis of operation or control signals from a first manual gearshifting part and a second manual gearshifting part. When it determines a multiple operation of the first and second manual gearshifting parts, the control device executes the operation signal from the first manual gearshifting part.

Control apparatus of vehicular automatic transmission

A control device for a hydraulic automatic transmission for a vehicle, including start control device for supplying a hydraulic pressure to a first hydraulic engaging element for a low-speed position and a second hydraulic engaging element for a high-speed position in performing in-gear control by a select operation from a nonforward range to a forward range, thereby first setting a shift position to the high-speed position and next switching the high-speed position to the low-speed position; temperature detecting device for detecting the temperature of a power train; and high-speed position setting operation inhibiting device for inhibiting a high-speed position setting operation by the start control device in the case that the temperature detected by the temperature detecting device is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.

Control device for hydraulic automatic transmission for vehicle

A control system for a vehicle includes an engine switch control unit for switching the operating condition of the engine between the all-cylinder operating condition and the partial-cylinder operating condition, a failure determining unit for determining the failure of the lockup clutch control device, and a coupling capacity change inhibiting unit for inhibiting a change in coupling capacity of the lockup clutch accompanied by the switch control of the operating condition of the engine by the engine switch control unit during the failure determination by the failure determining unit.

Control system for vehicle having an engine capable of performing and stopping combustion in each cylinder

In a system for controlling an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders and connected to the automatic transmission and mounted on a vehicle and the operation of the engine is switched between full-cylinder operation during which all of the cylinders are operative and cutoff-cylinder operation during which some of the cylinders are non-operative, based on at least the load of the engine, a gradient of road on which the vehicle runs is estimated and the cutoff-cylinder operation is prohibited when the estimated gradient is equal to or greater than a threshold value. With this, it becomes possible to generate sufficient deceleration, when the vehicle runs a downhill during cutoff-cylinder operation, while ensuring to prevent the operator to feel excessive acceleration.

Control system for cylinder cutoff internal combustion engine

A vehicular automatic transmission TM has a torque converter TC connected to the engine E and an automatic transmission mechanism (gear trains ) connected to the output side of the torque converter, the drive power from the engine for which gear shifting is performed via the torque converter and the automatic transmission mechanism is transmitted to the wheels and the vehicle is driven. The control apparatus for this automatic transmission mechanism has a towing state presumption device that presumes based on the driving conditions that the vehicle is in a towing state, and a lockup engagement increase mechanism that increases the degree of engagement of the lockup clutch of the torque converter when it is determined via the towing state determination device that the vehicle is in a towing state.

Vehicular automatic transmission apparatus

A control apparatus for a hydraulically-operated vehicular transmission, to buffer in-gear shocks in any driving condition of a vehicle, includes a pressure regulating solenoid valve for controlling an oil pressure in a hydraulic engaging element which establishes a predetermined speed transmission train of the hydraulically-operated vehicular transmission, an accumulator connected to an oil passage which is communicated with the hydraulic engaging element, a discriminator for discriminating whether the pressure accumulation in the accumulator-has been completed or not, and a controller for maintaining an outlet pressure of the pressure regulating solenoid valve at a predetermined pressure until the pressure accumulation in the accumulator has been completed and for increasing the output pressure of the pressure regulating solenoid valve, after the pressure accumulation in the accumulator has been completed, depending on a driving condition of the vehicle.

Control apparatus for hydraulically-operated vehicular transmission

Shift valves are provided to switch oil passage connections to a state in which an oil pressure in one hydraulic clutch of an arbitrary speed transmission train and an oil pressure in a hydraulic clutch of a transmission train which is adjacent thereto as seen in the order of speed are controllable by a pair of linear solenoid valves . Skipped speed change from a predetermined first speed transmission train to a second speed transmission train which is not adjacent to the first speed transmission train is made possible. In concrete, a large-capacity accumulator A is connected to an oil passage L which is in communication with 5th-speed hydraulic clutch C . At the time of skipped speed changing from 5th speed to 3rd speed, shift valves are switched to a state of 3rd-4th speed change. The oil pressures in the hydraulic clutches C , C for 3rd and 4th speed transmission trains, respectively, are made controllable by the linear solenoid valves . While buffering the pressure decrease of the oil pressure in the 5th-speed hydraulic clutch C by the accumulator A , pressure increase control of 3rd-speed clutch C is carried out by one of the linear solenoid valves to thereby skip-downshift from 5th to 3rd speed. The other linear solenoid valve is held at a low-pressure waiting state to prepare itself for the 3rd-4th speed switch-upshifting.

At downshifting, hydraulic pressure of hydraulic clutch on engaging side (ON clutch pressure) is increased when an input and output speed ratio ('Gratio') has fallen below a predetermined value YGDNS. YGDNS is variably set depending on the vehicle speed and the engine temperature so that it becomes a lower value at a high vehicle speed than at a low vehicle speed, and a higher value at a low engine temperature than at a high temperature. When a downshifting command to a still lower speed stage is issued during downshifting control (when FTBD=1), a downshifting completion processing is performed in the course of the downshifting control (step in S111). Oil pressure in a hydraulic engaging element on the disengaging side QDNOFF and oil pressure in a hydraulic engaging element on the engaging side QDNON are switched to the oil pressures at the time of completion of downshifting, to thereby complete the first step downshifting control at an early time. In order to prevent unnecessary speed changing at the time of tire locking, downshifting is prohibited when deceleration of the vehicle speed has exceeded a predetermined value (when a setting of FLOCK=1 is made).

Control apparatus for hydraulically operated vehicular transmission

The disadvantage in the conventional transmission in which a high speed stage is established during the initialization operation by the starting up of an electronic control circuit, is eliminated. The disadvantage is that the rotational speed of an engine lowers due to the establishment of the high speed stage during the initialization operation at the time of running in a low speed stage, with the result that the recovery of the driving force after the completion of the initialization operation is delayed. To solve this disadvantage, valves that can switch the transmission to a neutral condition in the running range are provided. During the initialization operation of the electronic control circuit (20), a neutral signal which shifts the transmission (1) to the neutral condition is output (S902) to the valves. If the transmission (1) is in a running range, there is performed an in-gear control, after the completion of the initialization operation, to establish a speed stage depending on the vehicle speed at that time (S908).

A control system for an automatic vehicle transmission having an auto-shifting device for determining an auto-shifting gearshift signal indicative of a gear to be shifted to in accordance with predetermined gearshift scheduling characteristics in response to a detected vehicle speed and an engine load, and a manual-shifting device for determining a manual-shifting signal indicative of a gear to be shifted to in response to a manual-shift command. A gearshift is conducted in response to one of the auto-shifting gearshift signal and the manual-shifting gearshift signal. In the system, the manual-shifting command is inhibited from being accepted for a predetermined period since the gearshift device conducted a gearshift in response to the auto-shifting gearshift signal. With this arrangement, it is possible to prevent down shifting from occurring consecutively so as to prevent drivability or driver's comfort from being degraded.

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