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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 11, 1984
Filed:
Apr. 01, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Yasuhisa Yoshino, Okazaki, JP;
Akira Kuno, Oobu, JP;
Hidetoshi Shimizu, Susono, JP;
Harumasa Minegishi, Susono, JP;
Assignees:
Nippon Soken, Inc., Nishio, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K / ; B60K / ; G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3644241 ; 74866 ; 192-358 ;
Abstract
An overdrive control apparatus is provided with a gradient sensor unit for sensing a gradient of a vehicle running road. The overdrive control apparatus releases an overdrive mode of an automatic change gear device which is set up for a level drive of the vehicle in accordance with a sensing signal from the gradient sensing unit.