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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2007
Hideki Kubonoya, Toyota, JP;
Masato Kaigawa, Toyota, JP;
Keiji Hoshino, Kariya, JP;
Shigeru Kamio, Kariya, JP;
Hideki Kubonoya, Toyota, JP;
Masato Kaigawa, Toyota, JP;
Keiji Hoshino, Kariya, JP;
Shigeru Kamio, Kariya, JP;
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A control apparatus for a shift-position changing mechanism that changes the shift positions of an automatic transmission mounted in a vehicle using a rotational force of an actuator based on a signal corresponding to the state of an operation member, including: a mechanism that generates a rotational force for moving the actuator toward a rotation stop positional-range corresponding to the shift position, based on a rotation stop position of the actuator; a detection unit that detects a rotation amount of the actuator; a control unit that controls the actuator based on the signal and the detected rotation amount; and a learning unit that learns the rotation stop positional-range corresponding to the shift position, based on an amount by which the actuator has been rotated since a control over the actuator executed by the control unit is stopped.