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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2007

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2004
Applicants:

Hiroyuki Kushiyama, Wako, JP;

Shinichi Nishio, Wako, JP;

Takehiro Katakura, Wako, JP;

Kenji Nakajima, Wako, JP;

Inventors:

Hiroyuki Kushiyama, Wako, JP;

Shinichi Nishio, Wako, JP;

Takehiro Katakura, Wako, JP;

Kenji Nakajima, Wako, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 10/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A control system for a vehicle includes an engine switch control unit for switching the operating condition of the engine between the all-cylinder operating condition and the partial-cylinder operating condition, a failure determining unit for determining the failure of the lockup clutch control device, and a coupling capacity change inhibiting unit for inhibiting a change in coupling capacity of the lockup clutch accompanied by the switch control of the operating condition of the engine by the engine switch control unit during the failure determination by the failure determining unit.


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