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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7780571 | Automatic transmission control apparatus An automatic transmission control apparatus includes an engine rotational speed limit verifying section and a shift control characteristic changing section. The engine rotational speed limit verifying section is configured to receive an engine rotational speed limit... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7563197 | Shift control device and shift control method of automatic transmission In a shift control device and a shift control method of an automatic transmission that establishes a plurality of gear steps of different speed change ratios by selectively engaging a plurality of friction engagement devices, one of a shift start time point and an i... | 07/21/2009 |
| 7413526 | Automatic shifting-operation control system An automatic shifting-operation control system having an engine control unit that controls the operation of an engine by a signal of an intake air amount detected by intake air amount detecting unit which detects an intake air amount of an engine, and which includes... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7393307 | Fuel injection control apparatus of internal combustion engine A fuel injection control apparatus of an internal combustion engine having reduced erroneous determination and delay of discriminating/updating a gear position and thus having improved accuracy of its gear position information. The apparatus has a gear position sens... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7367918 | Method for self-configuring automated mechanical transmission and electronic controller A method for self configuring automated mechanical transmissions (AMT) and electronic control units (ECU) ensures compatibility therebetween. The method comprehends undertaking a program or subroutine when the vehicle is first powered up which moves the shift operat... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7357118 | Throttle body A throttle valve comprises an intake passage. A throttle shaft extends in a generally vertical direction. The lower end of the throttle shaft passes through the throttle valve and projects downward. A throttle lever is connected to the downwardly projecting lower en... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354378 | Motor vehicle, control unit, driving force transmission system, and motor vehicle control method A large gearshift shock that occurs if a renewed gearshift operation is forcibly carried out in order to meet a new gearshift request made through a driver's operating an accelerator pedal or a signal from an operation lever during a current gearshift operation. Gea... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7313472 | Tractor power hop control system and method A control system performs a method for controlling pitching and bouncing of a vehicle having an engine driving wheels through a transmission, and having a fuel control unit for supplying a variable amount of fuel to the engine in response to fuel control signals gen... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310943 | Hydrostatic transmission controls with alternative operating modes A hydrostatic transmission on a tractor is operated by a microcontroller providing current commands to the hydrostatic transmission pump, and manual controls that provide signals to the microcontroller so the current commands cause the hydrostatic transmission to op... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7311637 | Automatic transmission control system In an automatic transmission control system, an operating amount of a throttle due to a driver's depression of an accelerator pedal is detected, and the rotating number of an engine suitable for the detected throttle operating amount is detected. The automatic trans... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7302875 | Rotation transmitting device and hydraulic drive unit A hydraulic drive device, comprising a hydraulic motor (10), a rotating body (20) connected to the drive shaft (11) of the hydraulic motor (10), functioning, by itself as a flywheel, and having an internal gear (21) formed on the o... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7292922 | Target volume based torque phase control during upshift A transmission control system includes a first gear engagement element that receives fluid and engages a first gear. An electromagnetic actuator selectively interrupts fluid flow to the first gear engagement element based on a duty cycle of a control signal. A contr... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7257522 | Simulator for automatic vehicle transmission controllers A simulator comprising computer-aided design programs for simulating a shift control algorithm stored in an ECU of an automatic transmission having hydraulic clutches. In the simulator, a simplified hydraulic model describes the entire system so as to design a third... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7247127 | Method for increasing the spontaneity of an automatic transmission A method for shifting gears of a transmission of a vehicle, which, during a shift, a first shift element opens and a second shift element closes. To increase the spontaneity and reduce the shifting frequency a downshift from a first gear to a second gear is interrup... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7216025 | Adaptive pressure control method for synchronous downshifts in a multiple-ratio transmission An adaptive pressure control method for synchronous downshifts in an automatic transmission that uses pressure actuated friction elements. The method uses characteristic parameters that determine downshift quality for both power-on downshifts and power-off downshift... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7147588 | Upshift control method of an automatic transmission Fuel mileage and shift feel are significantly enhanced from an upshift control method of an automatic transmission that includes determining whether a fuel cut control is executed when the damper clutch is in the direct engagement state before an upshift. Performing... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7104925 | Automatic transmission and method of setting a standby oil pressure value Under the learning mode during a vehicle stationary condition, an oil pressure of the friction engagement element for setting a standby oil pressure value is increased by a predetermined step pressure while a transmission input shaft rotational speed has been mainta... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7101312 | Vehicular power take-off control A vehicular powertrain includes a throttle controlled engine and a power take-off system for driving external loads. A power take-off control executed in a first processor seeks to have engine control authority in accordance with operator invoked switch states inclu... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7099751 | Drive-by-wireless vehicle control Drive-by-wireless vehicle control techniques use a wireless connection between a sensor module and a control module. An action by the driver of the vehicle is detected by the sensor module and communicated to the control module using a message sent using a wireless ... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7090616 | Kick-down switching speed optimization for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle In the method for kick-down switching speed optimization in a motor vehicle with an automatic transmission, the kick-down upshift point is determined as a function of the load conditions and the road inclination in each case. ... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7063639 | Snowmobile planetary drive system Disclosed is a snowmobile including a reduction drive system including planetary gears. In an alternate embodiment, a reversing unit is provided. In a further alternate embodiment, an offset is provided in the drive system. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7052341 | Method and apparatus for controlling a propulsive force of a marine vessel A propulsive force controlling apparatus controls a propulsion system attached to a hull of a marine vessel. The propulsion system includes a motor, a propulsive force generating member which receives a torque from the motor to generate a propulsive force, a clutch ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7052430 | Transmission with friction launch mechanism A powertrain includes a power transmission having an input shaft continuously connected directly between an engine and a planetary gear member of a first planetary gearset. Another member of the planetary gearset is selectively grounded by a torque transmitting mech... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7050898 | Vehicle driving force control In a vehicle driving force control apparatus for controlling a driving force of the vehicle to achieve a target acceleration or a target vehicle speed, a running resistance estimating section calculates an estimated running resistance. A target acceleration modifyin... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7017552 | Operating mechanism An operating mechanism is provided and has an operating lever, an adjusting lever, and a valve element that is rotatably disposed in a channel, wherein the adjusting lever is connected with the valve element via a shaft. A coupling element is provided for interconne... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7001308 | Shift device for an automatic transmission of a vehicle A shift device for an automatic transmission of a vehicle, particularly of a motor vehicle, is proposed in which the request to change the current ratio of the automatic transmission upon reaching preset operating states of the vehicle can be automatically generated... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6980898 | Downshift acceleration control A turbine acceleration control system for a transmission in a vehicle determines a desired turbine acceleration based on a downshift type and an altitude of the vehicle. The turbine acceleration control system determines a downshift type that results from one of a t... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6975217 | Vehicle fuel mileage meter A vehicle fuel mileage meter capable of displaying a value approximate to a fuel mileage obtained from actual driving only is provided. The fuel mileage meter includes a fuel mileage display and a control unit. The control unit controls display of a fuel mileage on ... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6975930 | Rate limiting control system A method of controlling an operation of a mechanism is provided. A first rate limit is assigned to a first input device that is operable to generate a first signal to control the operation of the mechanism. A second rate limit is assigned to a second input device th... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6942595 | Control system for the drive of a pto for an agricultural vehicle A control system for the drive of a power take-off mechanism on an agricultural tractor that records machine-specific values of the implement attached to the tractor. The drive train between the tractor engine and the power take-off includes a CVT transmission. The ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6937930 | Transmission control system An apparatus controls a vehicle having an engine including a throttle having a throttle position sensor, the throttle being adjustable to vary the speed of the vehicle, a transmission having an input shaft, an output shaft, and drive means there between providing a ... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6896636 | Oil system The oil supply device for a change-under-load transmission having a high-pressure circuit and a low-pressure circuit is designed in such a manner that the high-pressure feed line to the consumer devices of the transmission system incorporates an inlet aperture of sm... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6860833 | Driving control apparatus for vehicle and control method of same A driving control apparatus for a vehicle which includes an engine which generates power by fuel combustion; a transmission which changes engagement/disengagement states of plural frictional engagement devices so as to realize plural shift speeds whose gear ratios a... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6855092 | Throttle control method and method of selecting powertrain objectives An electronic throttle controller adjusts vehicle acceleration based on accelerator pedal movement. The controller compares a rate of change of a pedal voltage with a rate of change of a filtered pedal voltage. The filtered pedal voltage depends on filter alpha valu... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6855091 | System for controlling an automatic transmission throttle valve and method of use A system for controlling a transmission throttle valve allows the transmission response to be quickly adjusted. The system includes an adapter assembly which is mounted on the rotatable throttle member of a fuel management device. A cam assembly is selectively posit... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6832147 | Method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle with a gear-shift transmission In a vehicle with a gear-shift transmission of a kind that requires a torque-free state to shift gears, the riding comfort is improved by a method of shifting gears where a gear shift is preceded by the steps of: reducing the vehic... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6827668 | Engine control system The system of the invention for adjusting a transmission ratio in a transmission, which is built into a motor vehicle, includes at least two determining elements with the aid of which values are determined based on different determining modes. These values represent... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6805655 | Oil pressure control mechanism for automatic transmission Many vehicles designed for running on rough terrain include an automatic transmission for performing speed change by connecting or disconnecting an oil hydraulic clutch provided alongside each speed change gear. However, depending on the posture of the driver, it ma... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6789000 | Microprocessor-based control system for gas turbine electric powerplant A microprocessor-based control system for a gas turbine electrical powerplant the microprocessor-based control system controls the startup, operation, and shutdown of the gas turbine electric powerplant. The microprocessor-based control system of the present inventi... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6733418 | Control system and method for vehicle and engine control unit There is provided a control system for a vehicle, which enables the vehicle to smoothly travel only to find a place to park when an electric throttle control device is in a condition incapable of controlling a throttle valve, thereby improving drivability. An ECU de... | 05/11/2004 |
