Patents Assigned to JATCO Ltd
  • Patent number: 10393257
    Abstract: A control apparatus includes a select lever, an inhibitor switch, a manual valve, a first SOL, a second SOL, and a controller. The controller controls the first SOL and the second SOL such that a hydraulic pressure is supplied to a first friction element and a second friction element when the inhibitor switch detects a D range. The controller determines that an operation position is at an intermediate position when operations of the first friction element and the second friction element are not detected. The controller determines that the first SOL has a failure when the operation of the first friction element is not detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sadamu Fujiwara, Hideharu Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 10385968
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control device for a continuously variable transmission (4) that has, as forward speed change stages, a first speed change stage (32) and a second speed change stage (33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Takahashi, Takuichiro Inoue, Koutarou Tagami, Fumito Shinohara, Hiroyuki Suzuki, Yuji Okamoto, Takashi Nobukawa
  • Patent number: 10377367
    Abstract: A control device for hybrid vehicle is configured to transmit a torque generated by an engine and a motor to a power transmission member according to a driving power request from a driver. The control device for hybrid vehicle includes motor control means and transmission capacity control means. The motor control means is configured to control an output from the motor according to the driving power request. The transmission capacity control means is configured to control a transmission capacity of the power transmission member. The transmission capacity control means is configured to increase the transmission capacity in consideration of a variation of the output from the motor when the output from the motor is increased based on the driving power request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Yoshinobu Kawamoto, Tomohiro Utagawa, Masayuki Miyazono
  • Patent number: 10378644
    Abstract: Disclosed is a control apparatus for a vehicular transmission comprising: a vehicle speed sensor; an accelerator opening angle sensor; and a gear-shift control section (8D) of a CVTECU 8. The vehicle speed sensor includes: an output shaft rotation speed sensor (90) configured to detect a rotation speed (rotation numbers) of an output shaft (41) of the automatic transmission; road wheel rotation speed sensors configured to detect rotation speeds (rotation numbers) of four road wheels (90B through 90E); and a vehicle speed calculating section (8B) of CVTECU 8 configured to calculate the vehicle speed from the information of the road wheel rotation speeds when a preset predetermined condition as a condition under which vertical variations of the rotation speed of the output shaft are generated is established and calculate the vehicle speed from the output shaft rotation speed information if the predetermined condition is not established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Hiroki Iwasa, Tetsuya Izumi
  • Patent number: 10377368
    Abstract: A controller is provided so as to control, when an electric vehicle (EV) mode is selected, a belt clamping pressure on the basis of discharged oil from a main oil pump which is driven by a motor generator. The controller is provided for a hybrid vehicle and is configured to perform control such that when the vehicle is stopped in the EV mode and a creep cut condition which does not require creep torque from the motor generator is met, a first motor idling rotation speed is set as a motor rotation speed. When the vehicle is stopped in the EV mode and a standby learning control completes learning of a zero-point oil pressure command value, the controller reduces a rotation speed of the motor generator to a second motor idling rotation speed which is lower than the first motor idling rotation speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hironori Miyaishi, Tomoyuki Mizuochi, Kenichi Watanabe, Masumi Fujikawa, Kouichi Kotsuji, Shingo Suzuki, Akito Suzuki, Tetsuya Izumi, Keisuke Iwado, Takanobu Mouri, Taiichi Onoyama, Seishi Shimamura, Akihiro Toyofuku, Ryuichi Arai, Kakuzou Kaneko, Ryuzo Noguchi, Satoshi Harui
  • Publication number: 20190242478
    Abstract: A control device limits a torque of a drive source until the release of locking by a park lock mechanism is completed if an instruction is given to change from a parking range to a travel range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takateru KAWAGUCHI, Fumitaka NAGASHIMA, Hideharu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190242473
    Abstract: A pulley propulsion device for an automatic transmission, which includes a fixed pulley, and a movable pulley constituted capable of relative displacement along a rotation axis of a pulley with respect to the fixed pulley, is provided. The pulley propulsion device includes a movable member constituted capable of relative rotation around a rotation axis of the pulley with respect to the movable pulley, a fixed member whose rotation with respect to a pulley case is regulated and adapted to give linear displacement to the movable member along the rotation axis of the pulley on the basis of rotation thereof, a driving mechanism having an electric motor and adapted to cause an output torque of the electric motor to be transmitted to the movable member and to cause the movable pulley to generate a predetermined pulley thrust, and a load sensor adapted to detect a load applied on the fixed member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori HAGIHARA
  • Patent number: 10371255
    Abstract: In a transmission control device, a controller determines failure of a rotation sensor. A hydraulic control circuit and the controller variably control a speed ratio of a variator, and in a case where the failure is determined, execute first control of restricting a shift range of the variator. The hydraulic control circuit and the controller variably control a gear position of a sub-transmission mechanism, and in a case where the failure is determined, execute second control of fixing the gear position of the sub-transmission mechanism to first speed. The hydraulic control circuit and the controller execute the second control at a different timing from the first control in a case where the gear position of the sub-transmission mechanism upon a determination of the failure is second speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Haruka Ozono, Masahiro Hamano
  • Patent number: 10371256
    Abstract: In a vehicle on which a torque converter having a lock-up clutch is mounted between an engine and a transmission, a meet point learning controller is provided to perform learning control for obtaining a learning value based on information on a meet point at which the lock-up clutch starts torque transmission. The meet point learning controller estimates a LU transmission torque based on a difference between an engine torque signal value and a torque converter transmission torque when the lock-up clutch moves from a non-engaged state to an engaged state during traveling of the vehicle, and uses, as the meet point information, a meet point detection pressure at a time when the LU transmission torque estimated value is determined to have entered an upward trend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Toshimitsu Araki, Seiji Kasahara, Hideshi Wakayama, Kouji Saitou, Hiroyasu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10371259
    Abstract: A control device for a continuously variable transmission with an auxiliary transmission includes: a cooperative control section being configured to shift the auxiliary transmission mechanism during the first inertia phase time period, and to shift the variator during the second inertia phase time period, when the cooperative control in which an input torque to the continuously variable transmission is equal to or smaller than a predetermined value in the cooperative control is judged, and being configured to shift the auxiliary transmission mechanism during the first inertia phase time period, and to shift the variator during the first inertia phase time period when the cooperative control in which the input torque to the continuously variable transmission is greater than the predetermined value is judged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mamiko Inoue, Takuichiro Inoue, Hiroyasu Tanaka
  • Patent number: 10371178
    Abstract: A drive pulley (12) is formed by a piston-cylinder mechanism in which a seal ring (15) is set on an outer periphery of a fixed piston plate (16) that is in sliding contact with a cylinder inner peripheral surface (12d) of a cylinder (12b), and is driven by being supplied with hydraulic pressure. As a control parameter of a surface roughness shape of the cylinder inner peripheral surface (12d) of the drive pulley (12), a kurtosis (Rku) of a roughness curve and a skewness (Rsk) of the roughness curve, each of which is a height direction characteristic average parameter, are used. The cylinder inner peripheral surface (12d) is set to a surface having a surface roughness shape whose measurement values of the kurtosis (Rku) and the skewness (Rsk) are predetermined respective control values or less. With this, it is possible to surely suppress sliding abrasion of the liquid-tight seal member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Takeshi Kurihara, Yoshihiro Oyama, Yoichi Tsuji
  • Patent number: 10364888
    Abstract: A control device for a continuously variable transmission includes: a line pressure generating-section configured to generate a line pressure; a pilot valve configured to supply a pilot pressure regulated so as not to exceed a first predetermined pressure when the line pressure exceeds the first predetermined pressure; a control section configured to generate the clamping forces by controlling the pilot pressure; a line pressure increase section configured to increase the line pressure to be greater than the first predetermined pressure when the control to increase the line pressure is performed when the line pressure is lower than the first predetermined pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki Honma, Yuta Suzuki, Itaru Shinohara, Hiroshi Sekiya, Hiromu Ogino
  • Publication number: 20190225222
    Abstract: A transmission controller gives an engagement instruction to a forward clutch so that the forward clutch is engaged when a rotation speed of the engine becomes a target engine rotation speed set on the basis at least of a vehicle speed and a speed ratio of a continuously variable transmission after the engine is started, if a cancellation request for a sailing-stop control is made during execution of the sailing-stop control, and the continuously variable transmission is downshifted before the forward clutch is engaged, if the target engine rotation speed when the cancellation request for the sailing-stop control is made is less than a first predetermined value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshimasa NISHIHIRO, Yusuke OOTA, Shintaro OHSHIO
  • Publication number: 20190227579
    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: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Hideki ISHII, Yoshinori ISHIMQRI, Yutaka HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20190226580
    Abstract: A control method of a continuously variable transmission mounted on a vehicle includes performing advance compensation in a speed ratio control system of the continuously variable transmission, and making an advance amount according to a vibration frequency of torsional vibration of an input shaft of the continuously variable transmission which is the advance amount of the advance compensation variable in accordance with an operation state of the vehicle. A feedback gain of speed ratio control of the continuously variable transmission performed in the speed ratio control system is variable in accordance with an operation state of the vehicle. When the advance amount is made variable, the advance amount is made variable in accordance with the feedback gain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicants: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Soojung Hong, Kenichi Mori, Yutaka Kaneko, Kazutaka Adachi, Ken Okahara, Masayuki Miyazono
  • Publication number: 20190226578
    Abstract: A controller forms a control device for a vehicle equipped with an automatic transmission including a parking lock module. If a power transmission clutch is engaged erroneously (S2) on the basis of electrical abnormality in a solenoid part while an N range is selected (S1), the controller forcibly turns off the solenoid part to forcibly disengage the power transmission clutch (S3). Further, if a vehicle speed is equal to or less than a predetermined vehicle speed (S4), the controller applies a parking lock using the parking lock module (S5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takateru KAWAGUCHI, Fumitaka NAGASHIMA, Hideharu YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20190219167
    Abstract: A Controller constitutes a control device for a vehicle having an automatic transmission on which a shift-by-wire system is mounted. The controller changes display of an range indicator to N-range display after disengagement determination of an power transmission clutch is made when a shifting operation from a D range to a N range is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd., NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takateru KAWAGUCHI, Fumitaka NAGASHIMA, Hideharu YAMAMOTO
  • Patent number: 10344811
    Abstract: A vehicle controlling device has a frictional engagement element provided between a drive motor and a driving wheel; a shifting unit capable of selecting a travel range or a non-travel range; first obtaining unit configured to, during selection of the travel range, obtain a first parameter including at least a first motor torque value that is a torque value of the drive motor; second obtaining unit configured to, during selection of the non-travel range, obtain a second parameter including at least a second motor torque value that is a torque value of the drive motor; and operating unit configured to, on the basis of the first and second parameters, calculate a zero point hydraulic pressure command value at which the frictional engagement element starts to generate a torque capacity. It is therefore possible to detect a zero point of a clutch between the drive motor and the driving wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kenji Hattori, Kouichi Kotsuji
  • Patent number: 10344853
    Abstract: A hydraulic switch malfunction assessment device includes a solenoid valve disposed in a hydraulic circuit of an automatic transmission and having a characteristic such that a hydraulic pressure supplied to a frictional engagement element changes due to a change in an electric current supplied to the solenoid valve, and a hydraulic switch interposed between the solenoid valve and the frictional engagement element and configured to output an ON signal when the hydraulic pressure is higher than or equal to a threshold value and output an OFF signal when the hydraulic pressure is less than the threshold value. Also provided is a controller configured to control the supplied current to a prescribed current value or less when a predetermined running condition has been met, and then assess a malfunction of the hydraulic switch, based on a state of operation of the solenoid valve and the signal from the hydraulic switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Takamitsu Shimazu, Youji Itou
  • Publication number: 20190203813
    Abstract: An automatic transmission is provided, which includes a variator having a first pulley, a second pulley and a belt wound around the first and second pulleys, a first motor configured to give a pulley thrust force for shifting the variator to the first or second pulley, a second motor configured to cause a belt clamping force to be generated in the variator, and a power transmission mechanism provided between the second motor and the variator, to transmit an output torque of the second motor to the variator. The power transmission mechanism includes a cycloid decelerator configured to decelerate an input torque from the second motor, and transmit the decelerated input torque to the variator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takanori HAGIHARA