Patents Assigned to JATCO
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Patent number: 9643577Abstract: A vehicle control device controls a vehicle that has an electric oil pump, executes idling stop control for stopping a drive source when predetermined conditions are satisfied, and is capable of applying a braking force in a state where a brake pedal is released. The vehicle control device determines whether or not the vehicle is stopped, determines whether or not the electric oil pump is driven, and executes the idling stop control when stop of the vehicle is determined, driving of the electric oil pump is determined, and the braking force is applied to the vehicle. Application of the braking force is started after the vehicle is determined to be stopped and the electric oil pump is determined to be driven.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: JATCO LtdInventors: Kousuke Waku, Hideshi Wakayama, Noritaka Aoyama
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Publication number: 20170122383Abstract: In a cooling structure in a clutch having drive plates and driven plates, a lower limit of a width of each of dot grooves is set to a width a at which a flow quantity of lubricating oil passing through each of the dot grooves becomes a minimum flow quantity at which the drive plates and the driven plates can be cooled to a temperature equal to or lower than an upper limit temperature (Tmax) and an upper limit of the width of each of the dot grooves is set to a width b at which an air content in lubricating oil passing through each of the dot grooves becomes a maximum air content at which, according to lubricating oil having the air content, the drive plates and the driven plates can be cooled to a temperature equal to or lower than the upper limit temperature (Tmax).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2015Publication date: May 4, 2017Applicant: JATCO LtdInventors: Akira SUGIMURA, Atsushi MAEDA, Kou TAKAHASHI, Jumpei HAYAKAWA, Tadashi NAITO, Takashi KUBO
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Patent number: 9638318Abstract: There are provided a continuously variable transmission (CVT) in which a belt (7) is wound around a primary pulley (5) and a secondary pulley (6) to transmit power; a primary pulley rotational speed sensor (13) for detecting a rotational speed of the primary pulley (5); a vehicle stopped state determination means for determining whether a vehicle is in a stopped state; a belt slippage detection means for detecting belt slippage on the basis of a signal of the primary pulley rotational speed sensor (13); and a prohibition means for prohibiting detection of the belt slippage by the belt slippage detection means when a parking range or a neutral range is selected by a shift lever operation by a driver. In the vehicle stopped state during selection of the parking range or the neutral range, the rotational speed of the primary pulley (5) is not basically output, and the belt slippage does not occur.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignees: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Kiyofumi Sasaki, Youji Itou
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Patent number: 9625030Abstract: An automatic transmission is provided with a frictional engagement member that is operated by hydraulic pressure for shifting the automatic transmission, and includes an air vent opening. An automatic transmission controller includes a pressure regulator and a control section. The pressure regulator regulates the hydraulic pressure in response to a hydraulic pressure control signal. The control section performs an air vent operation of venting air from the frictional engagement member through the air vent opening. The air vent operation includes: a preliminary operation of setting the hydraulic pressure control signal to a preliminary pulse indicative of a preliminary value of pressure, wherein the preliminary value is lower than a normal value of pressure; and a normal operation of setting the hydraulic pressure control signal to a normal pulse indicative of the normal value, wherein the normal pulse follows the preliminary pulse.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: JATCO LtdInventors: Masaru Shimada, Hideharu Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9624986Abstract: In friction engagement device having forward clutch 5 and clutch operation pack 6 controlling engagement/disengagement operation of the forward clutch 5, the clutch operation pack 6 has hydraulic piston 61, engagement pressure piston chamber 62, snap ring 64, diaphragm spring 65 and ball lock mechanism BL. The diaphragm spring 65 provides biasing engagement force to the forward clutch 5 at a clutch side of the hydraulic piston 61. The ball lock mechanism BL restrains movement, in a disengagement direction, of the hydraulic piston 61 at a position where the forward clutch 5 is in an engagement state by the biasing engagement force by exerting ON pressure on the engagement pressure piston chamber 62, and after restraining the movement of the hydraulic piston 61, maintains the restraint of the disengagement direction movement of the hydraulic piston 61 even when the ON pressure of the engagement pressure piston chamber 62 is drawn.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: JATCO LtdInventors: Yusuke Nakano, Katsuya Kobayashi
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Patent number: 9626813Abstract: A control device for an automatic transmission, with a torque converter including a lock-up clutch, includes a learning unit configured to learn an engagement holding pressure, which is a hydraulic pressure immediately before the lock-up clutch is released, during coasting, and a determination unit configured to determine during learning in the learning unit whether or not an ON-failure in which the lock-up clutch is held in an engaged state in response to a release instruction has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: JATCO LtdInventor: Quinn Morrison
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Patent number: 9625034Abstract: A control device (12) for a stepped transmission mechanism is configured to perform an interlock by engaging a first clutch (32) and increasing hydraulic pressure of a second clutch (33) up to a first predetermined pressure (P1) such that an output shaft of the transmission mechanism is fixed, after an idle-stop condition including at least a requirement that a vehicle is stationary was satisfied and before a stop of an engine (1). The control device includes a gradient detecting section (12a, 47) that detects a gradient (R) of a road surface on which the vehicle is stationary; and a hydraulic control section (12c) that performs a slipping interlock by reducing the hydraulic pressure to a second predetermined pressure (P2), if the gradient R detected by the gradient detecting section is lower than or equal to a predetermined value (RTH) during the interlock and before the stop of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: JATCO LtdInventors: Masayuki Miyazono, Hideshi Wakayama
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Patent number: 9616882Abstract: A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes a coast stop control section (60) which stops a fuel supply to an engine (E) when a vehicle speed is equal to or lower than a predetermined vehicle speed, an accelerator pedal is not depressed, a brake pedal is depressed, and a select position of a continuously variable transmission (1) is in a traveling position; and a low return control section (50) for retuning a transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission (1) to a low side after the engine (E) is restarted in a case where the transmission gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission (1) is a midway ratio which is higher than a predetermined transmission gear ratio, when detecting that the coast stop control section (60) is operated and the vehicle is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hironori Miyaishi
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Patent number: 9616883Abstract: A hybrid vehicle includes a mechanical oil pump that is driven by an engine and an electric oil pump that is driven by an electric motor, and is configured to activate the electric oil pump when traveling in an electric traveling mode, in which the engine is stopped and traveling is executed by a driving force from a driving motor.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignees: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., JATCO LTDInventors: Morihiro Nagamine, Akira Takano, Shintaro Oshio, Takuro Hirano, Yoshihisa Kodama, Akihiro Yamamoto
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Patent number: 9611933Abstract: A transmission controller searches a mechanical High, which is a minimum value of a possible speed ratio of the continuously variable transmission (CVT), based on an actual speed ratio, sets a control High lower than the mechanical High by a predetermined amount, and controls a speed ratio of the CVT by setting a minimum value of a speed ratio range of the CVT at the control High.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2013Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshio Yasui, Tomoyuki Mizuochi, Seiichiro Takahashi, Takashi Eguchi, Yohei Shimokawa
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Patent number: 9599169Abstract: A friction engagement element (CLx) is provided radially outside of a peripheral wall portion (32) of a clutch drum (30) and configured to be engaged by a piston (40). A piston (70) is provided radially inside of the peripheral wall portion (32) and configured to engage and a friction engagement element (CLz). A first peripheral wall portion (321) of the peripheral wall portion (32) includes through-holes (321a) communicating a radially inside of the first peripheral wall portion (321) with a radially outside thereof. A through-hole (87) is provided radially inside of the piston (70). The piston (70) includes a communication passage (79) radially passing through the piston (70) and communicating the through-hole (87) with the through-holes (321a) such that lubricating oil is supplied through the communication passage (79) and the through-holes (321a) to the radially outside of the clutch drum (30) when the piston (70) is in an initial position.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: JATCO LTDInventors: Hisashi Saito, Hideharu Yamamoto, Shinya Mochiyama, Atsushi Maeda
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Patent number: 9580076Abstract: Initial variation learning control is executed when learning condition is satisfied each time of its satisfaction, to absorb initial variations of manufacturing errors or variations of components of second clutch (CL2). When the number of times of total learning is counted and this becomes predetermined number (e.g. five times), initial variation learning control is judged to be converged. On the basis of condition of this convergence, so-called vertical sliding speed control returning belt (50) of variator (V) to LOWEST transmission ratio position is performed. With this, vertical sliding speed control is not performed in state in which excessively large torque acts on second clutch, and durability of belt and pulley is increased. It is therefore possible to prevent vertical sliding speed control from being performed in state in which input torque is predetermined value or greater, and possible to improve response of accelerator operation after performing vertical sliding speed control.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: JATCO LTDInventors: Kouichi Kotsuji, Hironori Miyaishi
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Patent number: 9576405Abstract: A failure determination device of a hybrid vehicle, includes an engine, a motor arranged in series with the engine, a clutch arranged between the motor and a driving wheel, a pressure adjusting mechanism that adjusts hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch, and that performs wet start clutch control for adjusting the hydraulic pressure, supplied to the clutch at least upon starting, to the hydraulic pressure causing the clutch to slip, and a controller configured to calculate required driving force on the basis of accelerator opening, and calculate torque capacity of the clutch, required for transmitting the required driving force by the clutch, as target torque capacity, calculate actual torque of the engine and actual torque of the motor, and calculate a torque deviation as a deviation between the target torque capacity and a sum of the actual torque of the engine and the actual torque of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignees: JATCO Ltd, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Norihira Amano, Hajime Tasaka
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Patent number: 9568099Abstract: There is provided an oil pressure control device for a belt-type continuously variable transmission which includes two pulleys and a belt, wherein each of the two pulleys has a movable sheave which moves by oil pressure supplied to a hydraulic chamber, wherein the oil pressure control device calculates a request torque according to a running state, wherein when calculating the oil pressure which is supplied to the hydraulic chamber of the movable sheave on the basis of the request torque, the oil pressure control device reduces the request torque if the request torque is greater by a predetermined value or more than an actual input torque which is inputted to the belt-type continuously variable transmission. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an oil pressure control device for a belt-type continuously variable transmission with which undesirable vibration can be avoided by means of stable speed-ratio control.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Tomoaki Honma, Seiichiro Takahashi, Akito Suzuki, Masahiro Iriyama
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Patent number: 9568094Abstract: Provided is a control device of an automatic transmission, by which a supercharger can be prevented from becoming high in temperature and deteriorating in durability. An automatic transmission is connected to an engine (1) in which a supercharger (2) is mounted and has a manual mode to manually select a desired gear ratio from a plurality of fixed gear ratios. A control device includes a manual mode detection unit, a temperature judgment unit (31) and a gear ratio changeover unit (43) arranged such that, when the manual mode detection unit detects that the automatic transmission is in the manual mode and when the temperature judgment unit judges that the temperature of the supercharger is higher than or equal to a predetermined value, the gear ratio changeover unit changes the gear ratio of the automatic transmission to a higher gear ratio and thereby lowers the rotation speed of the engine (1).Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventor: Hironori Miyaishi
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Patent number: 9566974Abstract: A transmission controller executes synchronization shift of shifting a variator in a direction opposite to a speed ratio change direction of a sub transmission mechanism when shifting a sub transmission mechanism. When a gear position of the sub transmission mechanism is at the second gear position and an output increase request of a power source is made, the transmission controller prohibits the synchronization shift and shifts only the sub transmission mechanism from a second gear position to a first gear position.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2012Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignees: JATCO LTD, NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.Inventors: Hiroyasu Tanaka, Mamiko Inoue, Ryousuke Nonomura, Takuichiro Inoue, Norio Asai, Masato Mori, Satoru Ishii, Fumito Shinohara
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Patent number: 9562546Abstract: In a hydraulic control circuit including a solenoid valve, whose change responsiveness in an actual pressure with respect to a change in an instructional pressure deteriorates when the instructional pressure enters a dead band region on a lower pressure side than a dead band threshold, for adjusting a hydraulic pressure supplied to a hydraulic device operated by the hydraulic pressure based on the instructional pressure, the instructional pressure is increased in a stepwise manner to a charge pressure higher than the dead band threshold, when the instructional pressure is set in the dead band region and the instructional pressure increases within the dead band region to such an extent that a speed ratio does not change. Then, a lower limit of the instructional pressure is set to the dead band threshold, and use of the dead band region is prohibited for a certain period of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2013Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: JATCO LTDInventors: Seiichiro Takahashi, Takashi Eguchi, Tomohiro Utagawa, Hisao Nobu, Kenji Sakakibara, Takahiro Ikeda, Masayuki Shimizu
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Patent number: 9556956Abstract: A control unit comprises determining unit for determining whether or not a predetermined elapsed time condition is established after a shift has been performed to a specific gear position reached by engaging a specific frictional engagement element of a stepped transmission mechanism, and restricting unit for prohibiting the stepped transmission mechanism from performing a shift back to the specific gear position while allowing a continuously variable transmission mechanism to perform shifts so that an automatic transmission is controlled to a target speed ratio until the determining unit determines that the predetermined elapsed time condition is established.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: JATCO LTDInventors: Mamiko Inoue, Hiroyasu Tanaka, Masato Mori
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Patent number: 9556952Abstract: A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle with a drive source automatic stop unit for automatically stopping a drive source when a predetermined automatic stop condition is satisfied and an electrical oil pump to be driven during an automatic stop of the drive source includes a drive prohibition time calculation unit configured to calculate a drive prohibition time of the electrical oil pump on the basis of a heat generation amount of the electrical oil pump, and a drive prohibition unit configured to prohibit the drive of the electrical oil pump until the drive prohibition time elapses from the end of the drive of the electrical oil pump.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: JATCO LTDInventor: Yoshinobu Kawamoto
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Publication number: 20170021834Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: JATCO LtdInventors: Yuzuru TOHTA, Hideshi WAKAYAMA, Mamiko INOUE, Takuichiro INOUE