Patents Assigned to JATCO
  • Patent number: 10449964
    Abstract: Variator (20) and forward clutch (Fwd/C) disposed in series are provided between engine (1) having starter motor (15) and driving wheel (7). Sailing stop control that, on the basis of satisfaction of sailing entering condition, interrupts power transmission by frictional engagement element (Fwd/C), stops engine (1) and performs coast-travel is performed. When sailing entering condition is satisfied, coast-travel is started with rotation stop timing of variator (20) being delayed with respect to rotation stop timing of engine (1). When accelerator pedal depression operation intervenes after start of coast-travel, engine (1) is restarted by starter motor (15). When judged that input and output rotation speeds of frictional engagement element (Fwd/C) become synchronization rotation speed after restart of engine (1), frictional engagement element (Fwd/C) is reengaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Tadashi Iwamoto, Akira Takano, Masayoshi Nakasaki, Yoshimasa Nishihiro, Yukifumi Ootsuka
  • Patent number: 10421449
    Abstract: A controller is a control device for a vehicle including an engine, an automatic transmission, and an oil pump and executes a sailing stop control that stops the engine and brings the automatic transmission into a neutral state when a sailing stop condition is satisfied. The controller cancels the sailing stop control to start the engine when a road inclination becomes larger than a predetermined value during the sailing stop control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventors: Yusuke Oota, Yoshimasa Nishihiro, Masayoshi Nakasaki, Naoki Kobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190283755
    Abstract: A transmission controller increases a load applied on an engine when a start condition of a sailing-stop control is met.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: JATCO Ltd
    Inventors: Yoshimasa NISHIHIRO, Yusuke OOTA, Shintaro OHSHIO
  • Patent number: 10415698
    Abstract: A hydraulic control circuit includes a first pressure regulating valve for regulating a pump discharge pressure, a second pressure regulating valve for adjusting a pilot pressure to a torque converter pressure, and a first oil passage that connects an output port of the first pressure regulating valve and a torque-converter input-side oil passage, the second pressure regulating valve having an input port connected to the first oil passage through a second oil passage, a drive port connected to the first oil passage through a third oil passage, a spool axially displaced according to a drive pressure inputted into the drive port for regulating the torque converter pressure, and an output port. A throttle is provided between the connection section of the first and third oil passages and the connection section of the first and second oil passages, for adjusting the torque converter pressure to an appropriate pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: JATCO LTD
    Inventor: Katsuo Katou
  • Publication number: 20190277394
    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: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yutaka OKUMURA, Naoto SATO, Eiji SASAKI, Toshikazu SUZUKI, Hirona MATSUBARA
  • Publication number: 20190271392
    Abstract: Provided is a lock-up clutch control device of a vehicle in which a torque converter with a lock-up clutch is disposed between an engine and a transmission. This control device has a coasting capacity learning control section configured to decrease a LU differential pressure command value for the lock-up clutch during accelerator release operation and, when a slip of the lock-up clutch is detected during decrease of the LU differential pressure command value, update the LU differential pressure command value at the time of detection of the slip as a LU differential pressure learning value balanced with a coasting torque. The coasting capacity learning control section is further configured to, when operation of the PTC heater intervenes during coasting capacity learning control, correct the LU differential pressure command value by adding thereto a LU differential pressure correction value that corresponds to an increase of input torque to the lock-up clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Kohei KAMIYA
  • Patent number: 10400893
    Abstract: In a transmission, a controller sets a target line pressure to an offset target value, which is a value obtained by adding a positive offset amount to one of a target PRI pressure and a target SEC pressure, in a speed ratio range in which the offset target value is higher than the other at least during an inertia phase in a sub-transmission mechanism when a coordinated shift is carried out. At that time, the one of the target PRI pressure and the target SEC pressure is the target SEC pressure when a variator is downshifted by the coordinated shift while being the target PRI pressure when the variator is upshifted by the coordinated shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Mamiko Inoue, Tomonari Uchiyama, Hideshi Wakayama
  • Publication number: 20190264802
    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: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Applicants: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunihiko OKUMURA, Takeshi FUJII
  • 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: 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
  • 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
  • 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: 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: 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: 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: 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