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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2018
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi, JP;
Kohei Dodo, Nisshin, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus for a vehicle, which is provided with a drive power source, drive wheels and a continuously variable transmission, includes a friction-force control portion configured to control a friction force acting between a belt and pulleys of the continuously variable transmission, based on a belt-slip information received from an external device located outside the vehicle. The belt-slip information represents at least one belt slippy area in which a belt slippage is more likely to occur in the continuously variable transmission. The friction-force control portion controls the friction force such that the friction force is made larger in the at least one belt slippy area than in other areas in which the belt slippage is less likely to occur in the continuously variable transmission.