Granted Patent B2

US 7,894,965 · App. 11/947,506 · Granted Feb 22, 2011

Abstract

Claims (29)

1. A transmission for a vehicle comprising:

a first gear set including a first plurality of gears;

a second gear set including a second plurality of gears;

a first plurality of elements operable in an applied state to selectively engage selected ones of said first plurality of gears and operable in a released state to selectively disengage selected ones of said first plurality of gears;

a second plurality of elements operable in an applied state to selectively engage selected ones of said second plurality of gears and operable in a released state to selectively disengage selected ones of said second plurality of gears; and

a controller in communication with said first plurality of elements and said second plurality of elements and operable to toggle said first plurality of elements between said applied state and said released state and operable to toggle said second plurality of elements between said applied state and said released state to provide the transmission with a desired gear ratio, said controller timing entry of at least one of said first plurality of elements and said second plurality of elements into said released state with entry of at least another of said first plurality of elements and said second plurality of elements into said applied state by controlling a hold pressure applied to said at least one element entering said released state, said controller determining said hold pressure by referencing current operating conditions of the transmission in a lookup table stored in a memory of said controller.

2. The transmission of claim 1 , wherein said current operating conditions include at least one of oil temperature, input torque, engine torque, and battery charge.

3. The transmission of claim 1 , wherein said lookup table is a surface lookup table and said current operating conditions include oil temperature and input torque.

4. The transmission of claim 3 , wherein said table is an nth-order lookup table containing n operating condition inputs.

5. The transmission of claim 1 , wherein said controller adaptively determines said hold pressure to maintain release of said at least one element entering said released state while said at least one element is entering said applied state within a predetermined window of time.

6. The transmission of claim 5 , wherein said predetermined window of time is substantially forty to seventy milliseconds.

7. The transmission of claim 1 , wherein said controller applies a weighting factor to the location of said current operating conditions within said lookup table to determine said hold pressure.

8. The transmission of claim 1 , further comprising at least one solenoid disposed between said controller and said first plurality of engagement elements and between said controller and said second plurality of engagement elements.

9. The transmission of claim 8 , wherein said hold pressure is achieved by controlling a duty cycle of said at least one solenoid.

10. A transmission for a vehicle comprising:

a first gear set including a first plurality of gears;

a second gear set including a second plurality of gears;

a first plurality of elements operable in an applied state to selectively engage selected ones of said first plurality of gears and operable in a released state to selectively disengage selected ones of said first plurality of gears;

a second plurality of elements operable in an applied state to selectively engage selected ones of said second plurality of gears and operable in a released state to selectively disengage selected ones of said second plurality of gears; and

a controller in communication with said first plurality of elements and said second plurality of elements and operable to toggle said first plurality of elements between said applied state and said released state and operable to toggle said second plurality of elements between said applied state and said released state to provide the transmission with a desired gear ratio, said controller timing entry of at least one of said first plurality of elements and said second plurality of elements into said released state with entry of at least another of said first plurality of elements and said second plurality of elements into said applied state by adaptively regulating a hold pressure applied to said at least one element entering said released state based on previous shift events.

11. The transmission of claim 10 , wherein said controller determines said hold pressure by referencing current operating conditions of the transmission in a lookup table stored in a memory of said controller.

12. The transmission of claim 11 , wherein said current operating conditions include at least one of oil temperature, input torque, engine torque, and battery charge.

13. The transmission of claim 11 , wherein said lookup table is a surface lookup table and said current operating conditions include oil temperature and input torque.

14. The transmission of claim 13 , wherein said table is an nth-order lookup table containing n operating condition 17 .

15. The transmission of claim 11 , wherein said controller applies a weighting factor to the location of said current operating conditions within said lookup table to determine said hold pressure.

16. The transmission of claim 10 , wherein said controller determines said hold pressure to maintain release of said at least one element entering said released state while said at least one element is entering said applied state within a predetermined window of time.

17. The transmission of claim 16 , wherein said predetermined window of time is substantially forty to seventy milliseconds.

18. The transmission of claim 10 , further comprising at least one solenoid disposed between said controller and said first plurality of engagement elements and between said controller and said second plurality of engagement elements.

19. The transmission of claim 18 , wherein said hold pressure is achieved by controlling a duty cycle of said at least one solenoid.

Assignments (18)