Control apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10330194-B2
Application number	US-201715857003-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 28, 2017
Priority date	Jan 13, 2017
Publication date	Jun 25, 2019
Grant date	Jun 25, 2019

Abstract

A control apparatus for an automatic transmission including a torque converter with a lock-up clutch capable of connecting the output shaft of an engine and the input shaft of the automatic transmission includes a state determination unit configured to determine, based on an operation signal from an ABS device, whether the ABS device of a vehicle is in a normally operating state or in a fail state, a rotation speed determination unit configured to determine whether the rotation speed of the input shaft is not less than a reference rotation speed, and an operation control unit configured to control engagement of the lock-up clutch based on the operation state of the ABS device and the result of comparison between the rotation speed of the input shaft and the reference rotation speed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control apparatus for an automatic transmission including a torque converter with a lock-up clutch capable of connecting an output shaft of an engine and an input shaft of the automatic transmission, comprising:
a fuel cut determination unit configured to determine, based on a control signal to control the engine, whether fuel cut to cut off fuel supply to the engine is being executed in a case in which a running state of a vehicle is a deceleration state based on detection by a detection unit configured to detect the running state of the vehicle;
a state determination unit configured to determine, based on an operation signal from an ABS device, whether the ABS device of the vehicle is in a normally operating state or in a fail state in which the ABS device does not normally operate;
a rotation speed determination unit configured to determine whether a rotation speed of the input shaft detected by a rotation speed detection unit is not less than a reference rotation speed corresponding to a gear range of the automatic transmission; and
an operation control unit configured to control engagement of the lock-up clutch based on an operation state of the ABS device and a result of comparison between the rotation speed of the input shaft and the reference rotation speed in a state in which the running state of the vehicle is the deceleration state, and the fuel cut is not being executed.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the operation control unit controls the engagement of the lock-up clutch when the ABS device is in the normally operating state, and the rotation speed of the input shaft is not less than the reference rotation speed.

3. The apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a storage unit configured to store a control map that associates each gear range of the automatic transmission with a reference rotation speed of the input shaft in each gear range,
wherein the rotation speed determination unit
acquires, from the control map, the reference rotation speed of the input shaft associated with the gear range selected in the running state of the vehicle, and
performs the determination based on comparison between the detected rotation speed of the input shaft and the reference rotation speed of the input shaft acquired from the control map.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the reference rotation speed of the input shaft is a rotation speed set based on a change in an inertia in a driving force transmission path corresponding to each gear range of the automatic transmission.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Egashira Fumio
• Hibino Yasuyuki
• Ishikawa Yutaka

Classifications

• F16H2312/18

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