Automatic transmission control decice

• US 10,641,386 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2016
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Jatco Limited (Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Jatco Limited (Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fujii, Ryosuke, Shiokawa, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Bishop, Erin D
• Application Number:
  US15/759,382
• Publication Number:
  US 20180259065A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,292 Days
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/0411 by control of shaft brakes
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2061/0488 during range shift from neutral (N) to drive (D)
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/0056 the gear ratios comprising seven forward speeds
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/2012 with four sets of orbital gears
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/2051 with eight engaging means
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/2071 using three freewheel mechanism
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2200/2087 three freewheel mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 2312/022 Preparing to drive off
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 3/66 composed of a number of gear trains without drive passing from one train to another
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 59/42 Input shaft speed
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 59/70 dependent on the ratio established
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 59/72 dependent on oil characteristics, e.g. temperature, viscosity
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 59/78 Temperature
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/0437 by using electrical signals F16H61/0403 and F16H61/061 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 61/686 with orbital gears

Abstract

In an automatic transmission control device of the invention configured to start an increase in engagement pressure of a start-up engagement element, when a determination threshold value for determining that a turbine rotational speed has reduced is reached or exceeded, the determination threshold value when a selection operation from a non-traveling range to a traveling range is made before a prescribed period of time from starting of an engine has elapsed, is increased and set greater than the determination threshold value when the selection operation is made after the prescribed period of time has elapsed. Accordingly, a reduction in the turbine rotational speed can be accurately determined, and thus it is possible to suppress torque fluctuations, occurring owing to engagement of a second brake, which is the start-up engagement element.

Claims

1. An automatic transmission control device, comprising:

a controller configured to start an increase in engagement pressure of a start-up engagement element when a reduction count value, which increases when an input shaft rotational speed of an automatic transmission is reduced, reaches or exceeds a determination threshold value, wherein

when a selection operation from a non-traveling range to a traveling range is made and before a prescribed period of time from starting of an engine has elapsed, the determination threshold value when the selection operation is made before the prescribed period of time has elapsed is set greater than the determination threshold value when the selection operation is made after the prescribed period of time has elapsed.

2. The automatic transmission control device as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the determination threshold value when the selection operation is made before the prescribed period of time has elapsed and when an oil temperature during a starting period of the engine is less than a prescribed oil temperature is set greater than the determination threshold value when the selection operation is made after the prescribed period of time has elapsed and when the oil temperature is greater than or equal to the prescribed oil temperature.

3. The automatic transmission control device as recited in claim 1, wherein:

the reduction count value corresponds to a number of times when the reduction of the input shaft rotational speed is continued.

4. The automatic transmission control device as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

a planetary gear train having a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, and a fourth planetary gearset arranged from a side of an input shaft to a side of an output shaft, in order of the first planetary gearset, the second planetary gearset, the third planetary gearset and the fourth planetary gearset;

an input rotating member configured to extend toward an outer diameter side from the input shaft and connected to a ring gear of the second planetary gearset between the second planetary gearset and the third planetary gearset;

a first connector connected at one end to a carrier of the second planetary gearset between the first planetary gearset and the second planetary gearset, and at another end to a ring gear of the fourth planetary gearset, and configured to cover an outer diameter side of the second planetary gearset and the third planetary gearset;

a planetary gearset provided by connecting respective two rotating elements of the first planetary gearset and the second planetary gearset;

a plurality of engagement elements that determine a gear ratio of the planetary gear train;

a first rotation sensor configured to detect a rotational speed of the first connector; and

a second rotation sensor configured to detect a rotational speed of a rotating element of the planetary gearset, the rotational speed of the rotating element being different from the rotational speed of the first connector,

wherein the controller is configured to calculate the input shaft rotational speed based on the rotational speed detected by the first rotation sensor and the rotational speed detected by the second rotation sensor.