Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho

Aisin-warner Limited

Aisin-warner Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Motor Corporation

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Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Nippondenso Co., Ltd.

Toyoda Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Shinya Nakamura

Katsumi Kono

Yutaka Taga

Seitoku Kubo

Atsushi Honda

Hiroshi Ito

Kagenori Fukumura

Yoichi Hayakawa

Masataka Osawa

Ryoichi Hibino

Masatoshi Yamada

Nobuaki Miki

Ken Asami

Makoto Funahashi

Yukio Terakura

Kazuhiko Shibata

Keiji Tanaka

Hideki Yasue

Koujiro Kuramochi

Toshiyuki Asada

Takafumi Inagaki

Kazuaki Watanabe

Akira Takenaka

Kazumasa Nakamura

Yuji Kashihara

Nobuyuki Kato

Masafumi Kinoshita

Chihiro Hosono

Kozo Kato

Munetaka Noda

Kazuo Sakurai

Yasuro Ohishi

Kaiya Fujiura

Motoshi Hayashi

Kiyoshi Fukatsu

Hiroyuki Imamura

Yukio Tobe

Yasuhiro Shioda

Takaaki Kuroda

Yasuo Houjo

Yasuyo Okanoue

An improved scroll compressor comprises a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll, as well as an Oldham's coupling which enables the orbiting scroll to have a orbital movement. The Oldham's ring of the Oldham's coupling is so formed that its sliding surfaces for counterpart members to slide thereon are formed by a base material containing silicon particles, while the surface of each silicon particle (remaining on the base material's surface serving as a slidable surface for counterpart members to slide thereon) is formed into a flat surface. In practice, a ratio of silicon portions formed into flat surfaces to an entire sliding area of the Oldham's coupling is in a range of 3% to 20%, preferably 5% to 15%. With the use of the scroll compressor of the present invention, it is possible to improve the wear resistance of the Oldham's ring of the Oldham's coupling and its counterpart members in the scroll compressor.

Scroll compressor having an Oldham's ring containing silicon particles

The present invention realizes high-speed and stable controls irrespective of the characteristic perturbations accompanied with the variation in operation point of a plant. The principle of the invention is applied to slip control of a lock-up clutch of a transmission and to idling engine speed control. A plant input calculation unit OC working as a controller recognizes an actual plant plus a characteristic compensator CC as an augmented plant EOB. The characteristic compensator CC compensates for the characteristic perturbations of the augmented plant EOB accompanied with the variation in operation point, so that the augmented plant EOB always works at a design point with respect to the plant input calculation unit OC working as the controller. The characteristic compensator CC compensates for frequency-dependent gain and phase deviations through filter operations and for a stationary gain deviation by multiplying predetermined constants.

Devices for controlling plant, clutch slip, and idling engine speed and

An apparatus for controlling a lock-up clutch between pump and turbine impellers in a fluid-filled power transmitting device of a motor vehicle, such that a slip control device controls the actual slip speed of the lock-up clutch so as to coincide with a transient target slip speed, the apparatus including a device for calculating a final target slip speed of the lock-up clutch which assures a maximum fuel economy of the vehicle during a steady-state running, a device for setting, as an initial value of the transient target slip speed, a difference between the speeds of the pump and turbine impellers immediately before an operation of the slip control device is initiated, and a device for reducing the transient target slip speed toward the final target slip speed at a rate which decreases as the transient target slip speed approaches the final target slip speed.

Slip control apparatus for motor vehicle lock-up clutch

A clutch slip control device includes: a slip revolution speed detecting circuit for detecting an actual slip revolution speed of a clutch; a memory unit for storing constants set to satisfy response and stability of a feedback control system of the slip conditions, the constants being determined by a high-order function approximating variation in input-output frequency characteristics of a plant input for actuating the clutch and the actual slip revolution speed; a first calculation circuit for calculating a first parameter using the constants stored in the memory unit, the first parameter discretely reflecting past data of the plant input, which are obtained in a current feedback control cycle through in a cycle executed a plurality of times before; a second calculation circuit for calculating a second parameter using the constants stored in the memory unit, the second parameter discretely reflecting past data of a deviation of the actual slip revolution speed from a target slip revolution speed, which are obtained in the current feedback control cycle through in the cycle executed a plurality of times before; and a plant input determination circuit for determining a next plant input based on the first parameter and the second parameter.

Clutch slip control device and method of manufacturing the same, clutch

An apparatus including a slip control device for controlling an amount of slip of a lock-up clutch disposed between pump and turbine impellers in a power transmission system of a motor vehicle, such that an actual slip speed of the lock-up clutch coincides with a target slip speed, the apparatus comprising a hunting detecting device for determining the presence of a hunting defect if an amplitude of variation of the engine speed is larger than a predetermined first reference while an amplitude of variation of the turbine speed is not larger than a predetermined second reference.

An apparatus including a slip control device for controlling an amount of slip of a lock-up clutch disposed between pump and turbine impellers in a power transmission system of a motor vehicle, a slip-parameter monitoring device for detecting the actual slip speed of the lock-up clutch or a control error between actual and target slip speeds of the lock-up clutch, a summing device for obtaining a sum of values of the actual slip speed or control error detected by the slip-parameter monitoring device for a predetermined period of time, and a defect detecting device for determining the presence or absence of a defect in slip control of the lock-up clutch by the slip control device, on the basis of the sum as compared with a predetermined reference. The slip-parameter monitoring device and summing device may be respectively replaced by a speed-parameter monitoring device for detecting a speed-related parameter which varies due to hunting in slip control of the lock-up clutch by the slip control device, and a smoothing device for smoothing the speed-related parameter. In this case, the hunting detecting device determines the presence or absence of the hunting defect on the basis of a difference of the speed-related parameter from its smoothed value.

A slip control apparatus for a fluid-operated lock-up clutch in a power transmitting system of a motor vehicle, wherein the amount of slip of the lock-up clutch is controlled such that the actual slip speed of the clutch coincides with a target value. The apparatus includes a device for establishing a restricted slip control mode if the vehicle running condition upon detection of a judder of the clutch is in a first area in which the clutch is likely to experience the judder. In the restricted slip control mode, the slip control of the clutch is inhibited while the vehicle running condition is in the first area, but is permitted while the vehicle running condition is in a second area in which the clutch is unlikely to experience the judder. The first and second areas of the vehicle running conditions are defined by parameters such as engine load or throttle valve opening and temperature of an oil used for operating the clutch.

An apparatus for controlling a motor vehicle, including a fuel cutting device for cutting a fuel supply to an engine while a throttle valve is placed in an engine idling position, a clutch control device for effecting partial or full engagement of a lock-up clutch disposed in parallel with a fluid-filled power transmitting device while the throttle valve is placed in the engine idling position, an automatic cruising control device for controlling the throttle valve so that the vehicle runs at a substantially constant speed, and a restricting device for restricting or inhibiting the engagement of the lock-up clutch by the clutch control device while the throttle valve is controlled by the automatic cruising control device. The restricting device may be adapted to restrict or inhibit the engagement of the lock-up clutch if it is determined that the frequency at which the throttle valve is alternately placed in the engine idling position and a position near the engine idling position is higher than a predetermined threshold.

Automobile control apparatus having fuel cutting means, lock-up clutch

A slip control apparatus for a lock-up clutch in a power transmitting device of a motor vehicle equipped with a fuel-cut device for cutting a fuel supply to an engine when the engine speed is higher than a predetermined value, the apparatus including (a) a slip control device for controlling the lock-up clutch such that the actual slip speed coincides with a target slip speed, (b) a detector for detecting deceleration following acceleration of the vehicle, and (c) a timing control device for commanding the slip control device to initiate a slip control operation upon detection of the vehicle deceleration, and inhibiting the fuel-cut device from initiating a fuel-cut operation for a predetermined delay time after the initiation of the slip control operation. For controlling the lock-up clutch, the slip control means produces a slip control output determined on the basis of a feedback control value and a feed-forward control value. The apparatus may include a device for zeroing or reducing the feedback control value after the fuel-cut operation is initiated.

Lock-up clutch slip control apparatus and engine fuel-cut control

An apparatus for controlling a lock-up clutch between pump and turbine impellers in a power transmitting system of a motor vehicle, including a slip control device for controlling the amount of slip of the lock-up clutch, and a judder detector for detecting a judder of the lock-up clutch based on the number of detected speed variations of the turbine impeller during slip control of the lock-up clutch by the slip control device, wherein the judder detector is inhibited from using a variation of the turbine impeller speed variation for the detection of the judder, if the amount of change of the variation amplitude is larger than a predetermined threshold or if the period of the variation is outside a predetermined range. The judder detector is preferably arranged to operate on the basis of the variation amplitude of the turbine impeller speed as compared with the variation amplitude of the output speed of an automatic transmission multiplied by the actual speed ratio of the transmission, or on the basis of a phase difference between the variation waveforms of the turbine impeller and transmission output speeds.

Motor vehicle lock-up clutch control apparatus, having means for

An apparatus including a slip control device for controlling an amount of slip of a lock-up clutch disposed between pump and turbine impellers in a power transmission system of a motor vehicle, a slip-parameter monitoring device for detecting the actual slip speed of the lock-up clutch or a control error between actual and target slip speeds of the lock-up clutch, a summing device for obtaining a sum of values of the actual slip speed or control error detected by the slip-parameter monitoring device for a predetermined period of time, and a defect detecting device for determining the presence or absence of a defect in slip control of the lock-up clutch by the slip control device, on the basis of the sum as compared with a predetermined reference.

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