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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2013
Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Masayuki Nishida, Tokyo, JP;
Koichi Inoue, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Keisuke Ajimoto, Tokyo, JP;
Shinya Yasunaga, Tokyo, JP;
Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided a vehicle control unit. The vehicle control unit provides an automatic mode that automatically determines a gear ratio in accordance with an operational status of a vehicle and a temporary manual mode that, with a driver's operation, selects any one predetermined gear ratio from among predetermined gear ratios set in advance and automatically switches a mode of operation to the automatic mode according to the operational status of the vehicle. When switching a mode of operation from the automatic mode to the temporary manual mode through a downshift operation that changes a gear ratio to a lower one in a transmission and an engine speed is lower than a reference rotational speed set in accordance with a vehicle speed, the vehicle control unit selects any one of the predetermined gear ratios such that the engine speed is equal to or more than the reference rotational speed.