Patents Assigned to JATCO Ltd
  • Publication number: 20190078685
    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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: 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: 10228055
    Abstract: A transmission controller increases hydraulic pressure supplied to a secondary pulley and decreases hydraulic pressure supplied to a primary pulley to shift a variator to a mechanical Low speed ratio when the hydraulic pressure supplied to the primary pulley and the secondary pulley vibrates. The transmission controller shifts the variator from the mechanical Low speed ratio to a High side when a sub-transmission mechanism is downshifted during controlling a speed ratio of the variator at the mechanical Low speed ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Masashi Suwabe, Tetsuya Izumi, Masayuki Miyazono, Takuichiro Inoue, Kunihiro Takahashi, Makoto Komatsu, Yuji Okamoto
  • Patent number: 10215277
    Abstract: A first target secondary pulley pressure Psteng is calculated based on an output torque Teng of an engine, and then an offset value Psteng+PO is calculated by adding a predetermined offset PO to the first target secondary pulley pressure Psteng. The first target secondary pulley pressure Psteng is outputted as a target secondary pulley pressure Ps(n) when a target secondary pulley pressure Ps(n?1) in a previous control cycle is less than or equal to the first target secondary pulley pressure Psteng; the offset value Psteng+PO is outputted as the target secondary pulley pressure Ps(n) when the target secondary pulley pressure Ps(n?1) in the previous control cycle is greater than or equal to the offset value Psteng+PO; and otherwise, the target secondary pulley pressure Ps(n?1) in the previous control cycle is outputted as the target secondary pulley pressure Ps(n), thereby suppressing an oscillation in the target secondary pulley pressure Ps(n).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Takahashi, Akito Suzuki, Toshiaki Izawa, Takashi Eguchi, Hidemasa Kawaguchi
  • Patent number: 10214214
    Abstract: A vehicle control device includes control means for executing coasting control to disengage a friction engaging element and set a rotation speed of a rotary shaft of a drive source at zero when a predetermined condition is established, the predetermined condition including at least a condition according to which an accelerator pedal is not depressed. The control means starts the coasting control after predicting that an actual speed ratio of a continuously variable transmission will be modifiable to a target speed ratio of the coasting control during the coasting control, even in a case where the accelerator pedal is not depressed but the actual speed ratio has not yet reached the target speed ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Yusuke Nakano, Yusuke Ota, Yoshimasa Nishihiro, Masayoshi Nakasaki, Yukifumi Ootsuka, Takuro Kawasumi, Shintaro Oshio
  • Patent number: 10207714
    Abstract: Control device for continuously variable transmission has continuously variable transmission mechanism (CVT) transmitting power with belt (7) wound around primary and secondary pulley (5, 6); torque convertor (2) having pump impeller (20), turbine runner (21) and lock-up clutch (2a); and control unit (10) controlling lock-up clutch (2a) to predetermined engagement state and controlling the CVT to predetermined transmission ratio, according to travelling condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seiichiro Takahashi, Hiroki Iwasa, Hironori Miyaishi, Sunghoon Woo, Takaaki Matsui, Tomoaki Honma, Yoshio Yasui, Yuta Suzuki, Masayuki Mannen, Susumu Saitou
  • Patent number: 10207715
    Abstract: An automatic transmission control device implements a downshift by disengagement of a clutch that is engaged in a gear position before the downshift. It is determined whether an engine state is in a predetermined region in which a change of an engine torque per a change of an accelerator pedal opening is smaller than that in another region, and the engine torque is within a predetermined range, and an engine rotational speed is within a predetermined range. It is determined whether an operating state is in a predetermined state of accelerator operation in which the accelerator pedal opening is larger than a predetermined value, and an accelerator pedal opening change rate has an absolute value smaller than a predetermined value. The downshift is inhibited in response to determination that the engine state is in the predetermined region and the operating state is in the predetermined state of accelerator operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Koguchi, Sho Okutani, Makoto Komatsu, Toshiaki Noda, Takuichiro Inoue, Yuuji Nagase, Hiroyasu Tanaka, Hideshi Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20190040947
    Abstract: A control device for a vehicle is provided, which vehicle includes a 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 which engages the engaging element in a state where the lockup clutch is engaged if an accelerator opening becomes not smaller than a predetermined opening during neutral running control in which the automatic transmission is brought into a power shut-off state during running of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Yusuke OOTA, Yoshimasa NISHIHIRO
  • Publication number: 20190040950
    Abstract: A lockup control device for a vehicle includes: a torque converter; a lockup control section configured to increase a lockup pressure difference command to an initial pressure difference when a lockup engagement condition is satisfied in a disengagement state of the lockup clutch, and then to increase the lockup pressure difference command by a ramp pressure difference by a predetermined gradient, the lockup control section being configured to determine a ramp start condition by which the lockup pressure difference command is switched from the initial pressure difference to the ramp pressure difference, based on a speed ratio which is a ratio of input and output rotation speeds of the torque converter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMADA, Kunihiro TAKAHASHI, Syunsuke IWAMOTO, Yuji OKAMOTO, Toshiaki NODA
  • Publication number: 20190040949
    Abstract: In a vehicle in which a continuously variable transmission, which is connected to an electric motor via a clutch, is operated using oil pressure of an oil pump driven by the motor, erroneous engagement of the clutch is quickly determined. The vehicle has the motor serving as a vehicle driving source, the oil pump connected to the motor, the continuously variable transmission, the clutch interposed between the motor and the continuously variable transmission, a clutch control means for controlling the clutch such that the clutch enters into a completely-engaged, slip-engaged, or release state, and a vehicle control means for controlling the motor such that the motor rotates at a target rotation speed. Also provided is an erroneous engagement handling control means that executes torque adjustment control to decrease an output torque of the vehicle driving source when the clutch is determined to be in an erroneously completely engaged state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihira AMANO, Youji ITOU, Masahiro HAMANO
  • Publication number: 20190032773
    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: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Yusuke OOTA, Yoshimasa NISHIHIRO
  • Publication number: 20190032778
    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: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takahiro YAMADA, Kunihiro TAKAHASHI, Syunsuke IWAMOTO, Yuji OKAMOTO, Toshiaki NODA
  • Publication number: 20190031171
    Abstract: A sailing stop control method for a vehicle including a transmission and a friction engaging element in series between an engine and drive wheels includes performing a sailing stop control to coast by shutting off power transmission by the friction engaging element, stopping the engine based on satisfaction of a sailing enter condition, restarting the engine upon satisfaction of a sailing exit condition during coasting by the sailing stop control, executing a shift control to set a target speed ratio of the transmission to a highest speed ratio smaller than a coasting speed ratio in normal time and satisfying engine exhaust performance after the restart of the engine if the sailing exit condition is a brake pedal depressing operation, and re-engaging the friction engaging element, if input and output revolution speeds of the friction engaging element are determined to be a synchronous revolution speed after end of the shift control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicants: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD., JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Tadashi Iwamoto, Masayoshi Nakasaki, Yoshimasa Nishihiro, Yukifumi Ootsuka
  • Publication number: 20190024791
    Abstract: In gear-shift control apparatus and method for a vehicular transmission, a variator which is interposed between an engine and driving wheels and which is capable of modifying a gear (speed) ratio continuously; a sub transmission which is installed in series with the variator and which is capable of switching a plurality of gear-shift stages through a replacement of engagement elements; and a transmission controller which performs a gear ratio control for the variator and a gear-shift stage control for the sub transmission are installed. During a deceleration through a second speed stage of the sub transmission, when the variator is a state in which the variator is at a lowest gear (speed) ratio, a down-shift in which the sub transmission is forced to perform the gear-shift from a second speed stage to a first speed stage, with the variator maintained at the lowest gear (speed) ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Kousuke WAKU, Incheol NA, Mamiko INOUE
  • Publication number: 20190024793
    Abstract: A control device of controlling a vehicle that includes an automatic transmission is provided with a control unit. The automatic transmission includes a power transmission mechanism with an engaging element, and a variator connected in series to the power transmission mechanism. The control unit of this device completes engagement of the engaging element after downshifting of the variator is completed when at least an accelerator pedal opening becomes not smaller than a predetermined opening, during neutral running control which brings the power transmission mechanism into a power shut-off state during running of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yusuke OOTA, Yoshimasa NISHIHIRO
  • Patent number: 10183670
    Abstract: The drive system from the engine (1) to the drive wheels (7) of a vehicle is equipped with a torque converter (2), which has a lock-up clutch (3), and a variator (4). Said engined car is provided with a lock-up control means for controlling the engagement/disengagement of the lock-up clutch (3) and a gear change mode switch-controlling means (FIG. 8) for performing control to switch between a “continuously variable gear change mode” and a “DSTEP gear change mode.” While traveling, the gear change mode switch-controlling means (FIG. 8) prohibits gear change by the “DSTEP gear change mode” when the detected oil temperature is at or below a lock-up engagement-permitting threshold for permitting engagement of the lock-up clutch (3) and allows gear change by the “DSTEP gear change mode” when the detected oil temperature is higher than the lock-up engagement-permitting threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Tomoaki Honma, Akihiro Tanabe, Tomoko Sasaki
  • Publication number: 20180372220
    Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission includes: a transmission gear ratio control section configured to control the transmission gear ratio so that a rotation speed of the output element rapidly becomes closer to a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine, a first engagement control section configured to perform a first engagement control to be brought to the full engagement state after the rotation of the internal combustion engine is increased in the slip engagement state while a torque transmission capacity of the lockup clutch is increased when the lockup clutch is switched through the slip engagement state to the full engagement state by an ON operation of an accelerator of the vehicle, the transmission gear ratio control being prohibited during the first engagement control by the first engagement control section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kohei KAMIYA, Tomoaki HONMA, Yasuhiro ENDO
  • Patent number: 10160460
    Abstract: The integrated controller determines whether or not, regardless of execution of the WSC control, a rotation speed of the motor generator falls to less than an idle rotation speed and also whether or not differential rotation of the second clutch becomes less than a predetermined value, and determines that, if the determination is positive, a continuous MAX pressure failure has occurred in the second clutch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Norihira Amano, Hajime Tasaka
  • Patent number: 10155517
    Abstract: An engine control device for a vehicle including a power train where a continuously variable transmission is coupled to an engine, includes engine torque control means configured to control the engine so as to obtain an basic engine torque corresponding to an operating state of the vehicle, and command means configured to command engine torque control means to increase an engine torque from the basic engine torque during a gear shifting from a first speed stage to a second speed stage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Yuzuru Tohta, Hideshi Wakayama, Mamiko Inoue, Takuichiro Inoue
  • Publication number: 20180355970
    Abstract: A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle including a variator provided in a power transmission path between a driving source and a driving wheel of a vehicle and a friction engaging element provided between the variator and the driving wheel, engaged when a running range is selected, while disengaged when a non-running range is selected and shutting off transmission of power through the power transmission path is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu KAWAMOTO, Seiichirou TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20180355969
    Abstract: A control device that controls an automatic transmission is provided, in which device the automatic transmission includes a variator disposed in a power transmission path between a driving source and a driving wheel of a vehicle, and a friction engaging element disposed between the variator and the driving wheel, in a manner capable of transmitting a power disconnectably via the power transmission path. The control device increases a speed ratio of the variator toward a predetermined target speed ratio with disengaging the friction engaging element during a vehicle stop of the vehicle, and executes a learning regarding a hydraulic control of the friction engaging element when the friction engaging element is disengaged during the vehicle stop. The control device decreases the target speed ratio at a time of learning when the learning is executed during the vehicle stop, compared to a time of vehicle stop other than the time of learning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshinobu KAWAMOTO, Seiji KASAHARA, Haibin MA