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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Weitian Chen, Windsor, CA;
Hong Jiang, Birmingham, MI (US);
Bradley Dean Riedle, Northville, MI (US);
Vladimir Ivanovic, Dearborn, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H 61/04 (2006.01); B60W 10/06 (2006.01); B60W 10/11 (2012.01); F16H 61/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 10/06 (2013.01); B60W 10/11 (2013.01); F16H 61/0437 (2013.01); F16H 61/0204 (2013.01); F16H 2061/0444 (2013.01); F16H 2061/0451 (2013.01); F16H 2061/0455 (2013.01); F16H 2061/0462 (2013.01); F16H 2306/52 (2013.01); Y10T 477/677 (2015.01);
Abstract
A method of down-shifting a transmission avoids output shaft oscillations by briefly increasing the torque capacity of an off-going element at the end of the inertia phase. The torque capacity of the off-going element is then reduced to zero when the measured transmission speed ratio begins to decrease. The method is suitable for downshifts that involve multiple off-going elements and multiple on-coming elements such as a shift from tenth gear to sixth gear in a ten speed transmission.