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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2016
Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Yoshitaka Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control apparatus for a vehicle including an automatic transmission having a torque converter provided with a lock-up clutch, and including a kick-down controller that performs kick-down control to change a transmission ratio to a low side and to increase a number of engine revolutions based on a kick-down request in accordance with an accelerator operation and a lock-up controller that performs lock-up disengagement control based on the kick-down request to set the lock-up clutch to a disengaged state according to meeting of a disengagement condition. When the kick-down request not during the kick-down control is called a normal kick-down request and the kick-down request during the kick-down control is called a second-time kick-down request, the lock-up controller performs lock-up disengagement control according to the second-time kick-down request based on the disengagement condition which is more eased than the disengagement condition used for the normal kick-down request.