Abstract: A slip of the driven wheels is converged by causing the torque generated by the engine to be reduced and applying braking force when a slip of the driven wheel becomes large during accelerating. Control of the application of the braking force to the left-hand and right-hand driven wheels is made individually and separately from each other. When such an incident occurs as causing no normal control of decreasing the torque generated by the engine to be made, the contents of control of application of the braking force is changed so as to apply the same degrees of the braking force to both of the left-hand and right-hand driven wheels.

Abstract: In a slip control system for a vehicle a slip ratio of driving wheels of the vehicle is detected, and the slip of the driving wheels is controlled to converge on a predetermined target slip ratio when the slip ratio of the driving wheels exceeds a predetermined threshold slip ratio. When the vehicle is running a rough road, the threshold slip ratio is increased. The running condition of the vehicle is detected and increase of the threshold slip ratio is inhibited depending on the running condition of the vehicle.

Abstract: A torque converter with a lockup clutch is interposed between an engine and a driven wheel, and the lockup clutch is coupled or uncoupled on the basis of a predetermined lockup characteristic. When a slip value of the driven wheel against a road surface reaches a given value or higher, torque to be applied to the driven wheel is decreased to thereby perform slip control. During this slip control, the lockup clutch is forced to be uncoupled prior to the lockup characteristic. The forcibly uncoupled state of the lockup clutch is maintained for a given period of time from the time when the slip control ends.

Abstract: Disclosed is a four wheel drive vehicle with four wheels drivable, which is provided with a first slip control apparatus for reducing a driving force to the wheels by operating a brake mounted on each of the wheels and with a second slip control apparatus for reducing a driving force to the wheels by reducing the engine output. Operation of only the first slip control apparatus or both the first and second slip control apparatuses is selectively carried out in accordance with the number of wheels which are detected to be slipping in an amount greater than a given degree of slippage. Particularly when such slipping wheels are two, the slip control is conducted by operating only the first slip control apparatus or both the first and second slip control apparatuses in accordance with control modes predetermined on the basis of six combinations in which such two slipping wheels out of the four wheels are combined with each other.

Abstract: When a slip value of the driven wheel on a road surface reaches a predetermined value, the slip control is implemented to apply a braking force to the driven wheel as well as to decrease torque to be generated by the engine. When the brake is operated manually, or when a foot brake is stepped down, only the slip control by application of the braking force to the driven wheel is inhibited.

Abstract: A slip control mechanism of a car has a hydraulic booster for driving a master cylinder for providing hydraulic pressure to a first brake provided for each driven wheel, a second brake provided for each driving wheel, a slip detection device for detecting the slip of driving wheels, a slip control device for operating the second brake, based on signals from the slip detecting device, by using the operating oil of the hydraulic booster as operating oil of the second brake so as to reduce the slip of the driving wheels, the control device comprising a pressure control valve for controlling hydraulic pressure of the operating oil of the second brake, including a pressure reducing valve for reducing the hydraulic pressure of the operating oil of the second brake, detection device for detecting completion of the slip control by the operation of the second brake, and a release device for opening the pressure reducing valve for a predetermined time so as to release the operating oil of the second brake on the occasi

Abstract: A slip control apparatus is designed such that an output from the engine is rapidly reduced to a set limit value by a feed-forward control when a friction coefficient on pavement gets large and the engine output reduced to the set limit value is then returned to a set return value larger than the set limit value by the feed-forward control. After returning to the set return value, the engine output is subjected to feed-back control so as to turn a slip value of the driven wheel to a target value. The set limit and return values can be changed in accordance with the friction coefficient on pavement and a vehicle speed. The set limit and return values can be corrected in a direction in which they become larger when the slip value gets larger on account of the upshifting of the transmission.

Abstract: A slip control system for a vehicle contains a first control unit for implementing feedback control of torque applied to the driven wheels so as to allow an actual slip value of the driven wheel to reach a predetermined target value. There are set a first judgment value larger than the target value and a second judgment value smaller than the first judgment value. A second control unit is provided for temporarily reducing the torque applied to the driven wheel by a predetermined decrement, in place of the feedback control, when the actual slip value reaches the first judgment value or larger than the first judgment value. There is further provided a third control unit for gradually reducing the torque applied to the driven wheel, in place of the feedback control, when the actual slip value of the driven wheel does not reach the second judgment value or a value smaller than the second judgment value even if a predetermined period of time elapses after start of control by the second control unit.

Abstract: A power train control system for controlling power to be transmitted to a traction wheel of a vehicle from a vehicle engine through an automatic transmission shifts its speed range according to shift patterns depending upon speed of the vehicle and a load of the vehicle engine. When slippage occurring on the traction wheel is detected, the automatic transmission is caused to shift its speed range according to a specific shift pattern for traction control which predetermined according to at least a rotational speed of a driven wheel of the vehicle so as to control the power transmitted to the traction wheels from the vehicle engine, thereby eliminating the slippage.

Abstract: Slip control is carried out so as to reduce torque applied to the driven wheels by reducing torque generated by the engine when a slip value against the driven wheels on pavement is larger than a predetermined value. A shift characteristic of the automatic transmission interposed between the engine and the driven wheels is set as a first shift characteristic which is a basic characteristic at the time of ordinary running where no slip control is carried out and as a second shift characteristic set so as to become at least unlikely to cause downshifting during slip control compared with said first shift characteristic. As the slip control terminates, a return of the first shift characteristic is prohibited when the torque generated by the engine is large (for example, when a degree of operation of an accelerator is not zero) or when downshifting is caused if based on the first shift characteristics.

Abstract: An automatic speed control system for a vehicle includes an automatic transmission, a speed change switch for producing signals for changing a vehicle speed, and a shift down control device. The shift down control device carries out a shift down operation of the automatic transmission of the vehicle under a certain vehicle driving condition when the shift down control device receives the signals from the speed change switch. A gradient detecting device detects a gradient of a running path on which the vehicle is driven, and shift down prohibiting device prohibits the shift down operation even where the speed change switch is actuated to the vehicle speed at least when the gradient of a running path detected is greater than a predetermined value so that unnecessary shift changes are suppressed.

Abstract: When the driven wheel of the vehicle slips against the road surface to a large extent, such a large slip of the driven wheel can be converged by reducing torque to be applied to the driven wheel by slip control, i.e., by control the throttle valve for adjusting a load of the engine in a direction of forcibly closing the throttle valve prior to operation of the accelerator. In a region of the opening angle of the accelerator nearby its full open region, for example, accounting for 75% or more, a control-unreactive region is provided which is unreactive to slip control, thereby preventing the throttle valve from lowering a given opening angle, for example, 25%. This arrangement can retain the opening angle of the accelerator nearby its full open position even if slip control cannot work normally, thereby ensuring an open state of the throttle valve and allowing the vehicle to run at least to a tune-up factory nearby.

Abstract: When a slip value of the driven wheel of a vehicle on a road surface reaches a predetermined value, the braking force is applied to the driven wheel by way of slip control. The slip control by application of the braking force to the driven wheel is inhibited when the vehicle speed reaches a high speed above a predetermined vehicle speed.

Abstract: A constant-speed cruising control system for a vehicle having an automatic transmission includes a vehicle speed controller which controls the throttle valve of the engine on the basis of the difference between a target vehicle speed and the actual vehicle speed so that the latter approaches the former, a gear shifting mechanism which receives a gear shifting command and shifts the gear stage of the automatic transmission according to the content of the gear shifting command which it receives, and a gear-shifting controller which receives an engine load signal representing the load on the engine and a speed difference signal representing the difference between said target vehicle speed and the actual vehicle speed, and delivers to the gear shifting mechanism a gear shifting command which requires the gear shifting mechanism to shift the gear stage down either when the load on the engine is not lighter than a first preset value or when the load on the engine is lighter than the first preset value and heavier t

Abstract: An automatic transmission control system for controlling an automatic transmision for use in a vehicle provided with a throttle control system which electrically controls a throttle valve to control the engine output according to the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal and a constant-speed cruising control system which makes the vehicle cruise at a desired constant speed includes a first gear-stage setting system which designates a gear stage of the automatic transmission on the basis of a first gear-shifting pattern, which applies when the constant-speed cruising control is not performed, and in which the gear stages of the automatic transmission are related to the detected amount of depression of the accelerator pedal and the vehicle speed or a value corresponding to the vehicle speed, and a second gear-stage setting system which designates a gear stage of the automatic transmission on the basis of a second gear-shifting pattern, which applies when the constant-speed cruising control is performed

Abstract: An engine control apparatus includes an operation amount detection section for detecting an operation amount of an acceleration pedal, a throttle valve for adjusting an engine output, an arithmetic section for receiving the output from the operation amount detection section and calculating a control amount corresponding to the output operation amount of the acceleration pedal in accordance with a predetermined characteristic, the control amount being one for controlling the throttle valve, a motor for receiving the output from the arithmetic section and driving the throttle valve in accordance with the control amount calculated by the arithmetic section, a return detection section for detecting a return state of the acceleration pedal, and a control section for, when the return detection section detects the return state of the acceleration pedal, controlling the arithmetic section to output the control amount in accordance with a characteristic with which the engine output is decreased below that according to

Abstract: The vehicle slip control apparatus is designed so as to enable the slip control to be done by causing the output torque of the engine to be reduced and operating the brake when an amount of a slip or spinning of the driven wheels is large. A control ratio of the slip control by the brake to the slip control by the engine is altered to an optimum value in accordance with requirements for the driving of the vehicle.

Abstract: The engine control system of the present invention comprises an engine output changing device for controlling an engine output of at least one of engine power, engine, engine torque and engine speed. At least two controls for controlling the engine output changing device are selected from a direct control device for directing detecting an actual value to which the engine output changing device is operated. A target value for the engine output changing device is set based on an amount an accelerator is operated to thereby adjust the engine output changing device to eliminate a difference between the actual value and the target value.

Abstract: The slip control is conducted so as to cause an amount of the slip of the driven wheel to become a target value by controlling the torque to be transmitted to the driven wheel. The target value is altered during the slip control on the basis of a requirement for road holding capabilities of the driven wheel against a road surface.

Abstract: The vehicle slip control apparatus is designed so as to enable the slip control to be done by causing the output torque of the engine to be reduced and operating the brake when an amount of a slip or spinning of the driving wheels is large, on the one hand, and only by causing the output torque of the engine to be reduced without using the brake when an amount of the slip or spinning of the driving wheels is small.