Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yoshiyuki Kokubo

Yoshiharu Saito

Tatsuyuki Ohashi

Koichi Hasegawa

Taichi Kitamura

Masahide Saito

Hiroyuki Kuki

Hiroshi Terayama

Shinichiro Watanabe

Dennis P Parker, Jr

Hiroki Kimura

Takeru Tajima

Shunpei Hino

This control device for a vehicle switches a shift range of an automatic transmission through the use of an actuator, wherein the control device for a vehicle is characterized in being provided with a shift selection unit for receiving a shift position selection from a driver and a control unit for switching the shift range to a parking range through the use of an actuator when a vehicle power source turns off or when a drive power source stops, the control unit maintaining a neutral range, when the vehicle power source turns off or when the drive power source stops, until the elapse of a first prescribed time after the shift selection unit receives a neutral position selection while the vehicle power source is on or while the drive power source is driving.

Control device and control method for vehicle

A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode for performing a shift operation by determining a gear position or gear ratio to be set according to a vehicle running condition and a manual shift mode for performing a shift operation instructed by a manual operation by an operator. The shift control apparatus includes a region determining unit for determining whether the present running condition is in a first region where downshift is performed at the present gear position or gear ratio in the automatic shift mode or in a second region higher in vehicle speed than the first region, and an upshift allowing unit for allowing upshift instructed by the manual operation by the operator in the manual shift mode when the region determining unit has determined that the present running condition is in the second region.

Shift control apparatus for automatic transmission

A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode for performing a shift operation by determining a gear ratio to be set according to a vehicle running condition and a manual shift mode for performing a shift operation instructed by a manual operation by an operator. The shift control apparatus includes a vehicle speed comparing unit for comparing a vehicle speed at the time of inputting a first manual shift command for downshift to a predetermined gear ratio in the manual shift mode and a vehicle speed at the time of inputting a second manual shift command for downshift during a first shift control period from the time of inputting the first manual shift command to the time of completing first shift control according to the first manual shift command, and a successive shift allowing unit for allowing the downshift by the second manual shift command when the vehicle speed comparing unit has determined that the vehicle speed at the time of inputting the second manual shift command is lower than the vehicle speed at the time of inputting the first manual shift command.

A shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission having an automatic shift mode and a manual shift mode. The shift control apparatus includes a shift characteristic changing unit for changing the first shift characteristic to a second shift characteristic such that a region for outputting an upshift signal is displaced toward higher vehicle speeds after performing a downshift by the manual operation, a delaying unit for delaying the output of the upshift signal by a predetermined time period according to the vehicle running condition when the vehicle running condition becomes a condition where the upshift signal is to be output according to the second shift characteristic, and an upshift allowing unit for once allowing the output of the upshift signal when the above condition continues after the elapse of the predetermined time period determined by the delaying unit.

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Wako, Japan

Yoshiyuki Kokubo