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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:
Jun. 14, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 15, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
477149 ; 3644241 ; 477144 ; 477905 ;
Abstract
In a method for downshifting of an automatic transmission of a vehicle according to an increase of throttle opening, a delay time between a judgement of a requirement of downshifting of the transmission and the execution of the downshifting is determined to base upon change rate of the throttle opening, and when the delay time was counted up, a requirement of downshifting of the transmission is again judged before the execution of any downshifting.