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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2000
Masami Kondo, Toyota, JP;
Yasunari Nakamura, Nagoya, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
Vehicle control apparatus for effecting cooperative control of an automatic transmission and a drive power source which produces an output to drive the vehicle through the automatic transmission, the automatic transmission incorporating a frictional coupling device which is engaged to place the automatic transmission in a power transmitting state, during power driving of the vehicle with the output of the drive power source, and is released to place the automatic transmission in a power disconnecting state, during coasting of the vehicle. The apparatus includes a device for determining whether a control initiating condition required to initiate an output increase control for temporarily increasing the output of the drive power source is satisfied or not, depending upon whether an operation to accelerate the vehicle is performed during the vehicle coasting while the frictional coupling device is placed in a released state, and a device which is operated when the control initiating condition is satisfied, for effecting the output increase control such that the output of the drive power source is larger by a predetermined amount than when the output increase control is not effected.