IP Library Granted Patent US 11,280,403
Granted Patent B2
US 11,280,403 · App. 17/318,507 · Granted Mar 22, 2022

Control device for automatic transmission

Inventors: Shingo Akita (Toyota, JP); Tomohiro Chimbe (Kariya, JP); Shingo Eto (Gamagori, JP); Nobufusa Kobayashi (Okazaki, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
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Patent No.
US 11,280,403
App. No.
17/318,507
Granted
Mar 22, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

A control device executes, when a jump-down shifting is executed, shifting control in which, after engaging elements establishing a pre-shifting gear position are released, an intermediate gear position that is a gear position between the pre-shifting gear position and a post-shifting gear position is established, and after the intermediate gear position is established, the post-shifting gear position is established. When an engaging element able to reduce a rotation speed difference between two rotating bodies connected by engaging elements establishing the intermediate gear position is regarded as a speed difference reducing element, the control device executes a pre-engaging process for generating a torque capacity in the speed difference reducing element while the shifting control is being executed and before establishing the intermediate gear position.

Claims (6)

1. A control device for an automatic transmission,

the control device being applied to a planetary gear automatic transmission that has a plurality of friction engaging elements switchable between an engaged state and a released state, and that changes a gear position by changing an engaging element to be brought into the engaged state among the friction engaging elements, wherein

when a jump-down shifting is executed, the control device executes shifting control in which, after engaging elements establishing a pre-shifting gear position are released, an intermediate gear position that is a gear position between the pre-shifting gear position and a post-shifting gear position is established, and after the intermediate gear position is established, the post-shifting gear position is established, and

when an engaging element able to reduce a rotation speed difference between two rotating bodies connected by engaging elements establishing the intermediate gear position is regarded as a speed difference reducing element, the control device executes a pre-engaging process for generating a torque capacity in the speed difference reducing element while the shifting control is being executed and before establishing the intermediate gear position.

2. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein the pre-engaging process is executed on condition that engaging elements establishing the post-shifting gear position includes the speed difference reducing element.

3. The control device according to claim 1 , wherein when a rotation speed of an input shaft of the automatic transmission connected to an output shaft of an internal combustion engine becomes equal to or higher than a synchronous rotation speed of the intermediate gear position, a process of starting establishment of the intermediate gear position is executed.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 12, 2021
From: AKITA, SHINGO; CHIMBE, TOMOHIRO; ETO, SHINGO; KOBAYASHI, NOBUFUSA
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 056217/0838 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2020-114901 · Jul 2, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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