Patents Assigned to JATCO Ltd
  • Patent number: 10746290
    Abstract: A lockup control device for a vehicle includes: a torque converter, and a lockup control configured to increase a lockup pressure difference command to an initial pressure difference, when a turbine rotation speed variation amount of the torque converter becomes smaller than a predetermined value during a ramp control in which the lockup pressure difference command is increased by a ramp pressure difference, the lockup control section being configured to switch to a second increase gradient having an increase gradient lower than a first increase gradient of the ramp pressure difference when the turbine rotation speed variation amount is equal to or greater than the predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro Yamada, Kunihiro Takahashi, Syunsuke Iwamoto, Yuji Okamoto, Toshiaki Noda
  • Patent number: 10746294
    Abstract: A control device for a continuously variable transmission includes a belt type continuously variable transmission and a controller. The controller is configured to calculate an actual gear shift ratio based on rotation speed sensor values from a primary rotation speed sensor and a secondary rotation speed sensor, and to perform gear shift ratio control using feedback control to converge the actual gear shift ratio to a target gear shift ratio. The controller is further configured to stop calculation of the actual gear shift ratio when one of the rotation speed sensor values is less than a first threshold value determined based on a lower limit value of sensor detection accuracy, and stop calculation of the actual gear shift ratio even when one of the rotation speed sensor values is the first threshold value or greater, when a deceleration level of the drive wheel is a prescribed deceleration level or greater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Naoyasu Ikeda, Geunseok Ryu
  • Publication number: 20200254994
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle includes a drive shaft, an engagement element, an engine coupled via the engagement element, an electric motor coupled without via the engagement element, and a control unit that instructs a reengagement of the engagement element when an accelerator pedal opening increases to equal to or more than a predetermined degree of opening during switching of driving sources in which an engagement capacity of the engagement element is decreased while a torque of the electric motor is increased, and increases the torque of the electric motor to more than the torque of the electric motor before the accelerator pedal opening increases to equal to or more than the predetermined degree of opening until the engagement capacity of the engagement element starts increasing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa NISHIHIRO, Masaharu MOCHIZUKI, Takashi ENOMOTO
  • Publication number: 20200248802
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a transmission having a variator and a sub-transmission mechanism, a controller serving as a shift control unit adapted to, as shift of the transmission, shift the sub-transmission mechanism and the variator so that a through speed ratio becomes a target speed ratio, and an engine serving as a torque increasing portion adapted to increase a torque inputted to the transmission in association with the shift of the transmission. The controller has a torque setting unit adapted to make a magnitude of an inclination larger as an increase amount of the engine rotation speed in association with the shift of the transmission is larger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiya KITAGAWA, Tomoaki HONMA
  • Patent number: 10731757
    Abstract: The controller performs shift control of the transmission such that an actual pressure of a primary pressure becomes an indicating pressure. The controller includes a phase advance compensator which performs advance compensation of the indicating pressure, and a setting unit which sets an indicating pressure on which the advance compensation is performed by the phase advance compensator as the indicating pressure, in accordance with at least one of a rotation speed of a primary pulley, an input torque to a secondary pulley, a speed ratio, or a changing rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Takurou Kawasumi, Ken Okahara, Midori Yamaguchi, Masahiro Yamamoto, Hiroki Iwasa, Hiroki Kumashiro, Masayuki Shimizu, Ryuuichi Furukawa, Kenichi Mori, Kazutaka Adachi, Yutaka Kaneko, Hiroyuki Ashizawa
  • Patent number: 10731751
    Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission of a vehicle includes a shift control section including; a deceleration state judging section configured to judge whether a deceleration of the vehicle is a gentle deceleration state or a sudden deceleration state, and a downshift control section configured to command a plural stage downshift to downshift from a current shift stage of the automatic shift mechanism to a target shift stage that is lower than the current shift stage by two stages or more when the deceleration state judging section judges the sudden deceleration state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko Okumura, Takeshi Fujii
  • Publication number: 20200238974
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle having a drive shaft, an engagement element, an engine connected to the drive shaft via the engagement element, and an electric motor connected to the drive shaft not via the engagement element includes a control portion adapted to stop the engine after a maintaining period in which the engine is maintained at predetermined rotation speed during travel of the vehicle. The a control portion gradually decreases an engagement volume of the engagement element while gradually increasing a power generation load of the electric motor during the maintaining period to disengage the engagement element, and stops the engine after disengagement of the engagement element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka SHIMIZU, Masayoshi NAKASAKI
  • Publication number: 20200240516
    Abstract: A CVT is provided with a primary pulley (1) and a secondary pulley (2) between which a belt (3) is wound, and hydraulic pressure control valves (5, 6, 7) which control pulley hydraulic pressures. A CVT controller (8) sets a base current indicated value to be output to solenoids (5a, 6a, 7a) of the hydraulic pressure control valves (5, 6, 7), on the basis of a pulley hydraulic pressure indicated value. A dither control unit (58) of the CVT controller (8) superimposes a dither current onto the base current indicated value to be output to the solenoids (5a, 6a, 7a) if, during pulley hydraulic pressure control, the situation is determined, on the basis of belt slip determination information, to be such that belt slipping is highly likely to occur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Junki MATSUI
  • Patent number: 10724630
    Abstract: In a control apparatus for an automatic transmission, in a drive train, a driving source and the automatic transmission having a plurality of gear-shift stages including the gear-shift stages at each of which a one way clutch is engaged during a drive are equipped, a gear-shift line correction by such coast correction lines as to provide such gear-shift line shapes projecting toward a lower vehicle speed side in a small accelerator opening area is added to up-shift lines of the gear-shift stages at each of which the one way clutch participates from among the gear-shift lines after the correction by vehicle speed correction lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shunsuke Ogasawara, Hiroaki Shiokawa, Yuichiro Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 10724627
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle is provided, which vehicle includes a driving source, a driven machine driven by the driving source, and an automatic transmission having a torque converter provided downstream of the driving source in a power transmission path and having a lockup clutch, and an engaging element provided downstream of the torque converter in the power transmission path. The device includes a control unit adapted to engage the engaging element in a state where the lockup clutch is engaged if a brake pedal is stepped on during neutral running control in which the automatic transmission is brought into a power shut-off state during running of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Yusuke Oota, Yoshimasa Nishihiro
  • Patent number: 10724633
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a vehicle including a motor-generator, a transmission, a shift hydraulic control unit, and a CVT control unit (CVTCU). When a downshift of the transmission is performed without an acceleration request from a driver, the CVTCU sets a pulley thrust at a secondary pulley on the basis of a first lower limit as a lower limit, which is a sum of a fundamental thrust and a first correction thrust. The CVTCU also sets a pulley thrust at a primary pulley on the basis of a second lower limit as a lower limit, which is a sum of the fundamental thrust and a second correction thrust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroki Iwasa, Hironori Miyaishi, Sungpil Ryu, Tetsuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 10718429
    Abstract: A slip lock-up control device for a vehicle includes a torque converter having a lock-up clutch, and a slip lock-up controller. The slip lock-up controller performs slip lock-up control using a lock-up pressure difference command to match an actual slip rotational speed to a target slip rotational speed based on engine torque information indicative of input torque, when a lock-up engagement condition is fulfilled when the lock-up clutch is in a released state. During the slip lock-up control, when in an engine torque unstable range for which an engine torque has a rise gradient with respect to a rise change of an engine speed, the slip lock-up controller sets the lock-up pressure difference command to a second lock-up pressure difference command for which a pressure difference fluctuation is averaged more than a first lock-up pressure difference command used in a range other than the engine torque unstable range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Jatco Ltd.
    Inventors: Takeaki Ishibashi, Syunsuke Ogasawara, Taisuke Hikita, Tomotaka Hirano
  • Patent number: 10718390
    Abstract: Abnormality detection device for automatic transmission of invention has automatic transmission 5A connected to vehicle driving source 1, 3 through clutch 4a; range detector detecting selection range of selector lever 9 and outputting detection signal; manual valve 90 configured to, when selector lever is positioned at drive range position, engage clutch and bring automatic transmission into power transmission state, and when selector lever is positioned at range position except drive range position, disengage clutch and bring automatic transmission into power non-transmission state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Junki Matsui, Masahiro Hamano, Norihira Amano
  • Publication number: 20200224756
    Abstract: A transmission case (10) includes a case (2) and a side cover (3). A rotation sensor (5) including a connector terminal part (52) is attached to the side cover (3). A seal member (FIPG) (4) is interposed between joining surfaces (22a, 32a) of the case (2) and the side cover (3). A notch portion (25) where the seal member (4) is accumulated is provided to an outer peripheral surface (22b) of the joining surface (22a) which is adjacent to the connector terminal part (52). Accordingly, the amount of the seal member (4) protruding outward from the outer peripheral surface (22b, 32b) of the flange portions (22, 32) is reduced, thus suppressing connection failure of a connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shogo FUJII, Mitsuhiro AKIYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200223420
    Abstract: The controller forms a control device for a vehicle with which torque generated in an engine and a motor generator is transmissible to a continuously variable transmission in accordance with a driving force request from a driver. The controller includes an engine controller forming a motor control unit adapted to control an output of the motor generator in accordance with the driving force request, and a transmission controller forming a transmission capacity control unit adapted to control a transmitted torque capacity of the continuously variable transmission, and, in a case where motor assistance is performed and when stability of the transmitted torque capacity of the continuously variable transmission is detected, performs the motor assistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Jonghwan LEE
  • Patent number: 10712755
    Abstract: A pressure control valve includes a spool that strokes to one side in the direction of an axis due to the conduction of current to a coil, a spring that urges the spool to the other side in the axis direction, a control device for controlling the conduction of the current to the coil, a determination unit for determining the start of a foreign substance removing operation by the spool, a command value setting unit for setting a command value for the current conducted to the coil, and a dither current setting unit for setting a dither current superimposed on the command value. When the determination unit determines the start of the foreign substance removing operation, the dither current setting unit changes an oscillation frequency of the dither current to an oscillation frequency lower than the frequency at the current point in time, and the command value setting unit periodically increases and reduces the command value on which the changed oscillation frequency is superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Hideki Ishii, Yoshinori Ishimori, Yutaka Hirose
  • Patent number: 10704680
    Abstract: In a transmission control device for controlling a transmission, a controller determines failure of a SOL corresponding to a hydraulic secondary-pressure actuator. The controller variably controls line command pressure, and in a case where the failure is determined, fixes the line command pressure to a line pressure set value. The controller variably controls primary command pressure, and in a case where the failure is determined, continuously changes a speed ratio of a variator by variably controlling the primary command pressure. The controller variably controls secondary command pressure, and in a case where the failure is determined, fixes the secondary command pressure to a secondary pressure set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hamano, Youji Itou, Kosuke Abe, Haruka Ozono
  • Patent number: 10704668
    Abstract: An air breather chamber structure includes: a first breather chamber provided to a housing receiving a transmission; and a second breather chamber provided to an upper portion of the housing in a gravity direction, the first introduction hole being positioned on the first side of the imaginary surface, the second introduction hole being positioned on the second side of the imaginary surface, the atmosphere communication hole being positioned on the first side of the imaginary surface, the discharge hole being positioned on the second side of the imaginary surface, the first introduction hole and the discharge hole being positioned below the second introduction hole in the gravity direction, and the atmosphere communication hole being positioned above the second introduction hole in the gravity direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka Okumura, Naoto Sato, Eiji Sasaki, Toshikazu Suzuki, Hirona Matsubara
  • Patent number: 10697452
    Abstract: An oil pressure control device for a vehicle is configured such that, when switching from an oil pressure supply by means of a mechanical oil pump driven by a motor/generator to an oil pressure supply by means of an electric oil pump driven by a sub-motor, a supply ratio of oil supplied from the mechanical oil pump and a supply ratio of oil supplied from the electric oil pump, are adjusted based on an oil pressure difference between a first oil pressure and a second oil pressure, via first and second flapper valves. When the first oil pressure becomes less than or equal to a pump drive threshold, an increase in the second oil pressure is initiated, and the first oil pressure and the second oil pressure are made to match at a predetermined equilibrium oil pressure higher than a required line pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Yutaka Shimizu, Shusaku Katakura, Yusuke Ota, Youko Yoshioka, Yukiyoshi Inuta, Tomoyuki Koike
  • Patent number: 10697536
    Abstract: In a transmission control device for controlling a transmission, a controller determines failure of a SOL corresponding to a hydraulic primary-pressure actuator. The controller variably controls line command pressure, and in a case where the failure is determined, continuously changes a speed ratio of a variator by variably controlling the line command pressure. The controller variably controls primary command pressure, and in a case where the failure is determined, fixes the primary command pressure to a primary pressure set value. The controller variably controls secondary command pressure, and in a case where the failure is determined, fixes the secondary command pressure to a secondary pressure set value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Masahiro Hamano, Youji Itou, Kosuke Abe, Haruka Ozono