| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 701066000 | Time regulated operations | 29 |
| 20080201048 | Signal Processing System with Rapid Signal Processing - The invention concerns a signal processing system with rapid signal processing, for example for controlling the transmission of a motor vehicle, with an input module (EM) that calls for a desired reaction by emitting a request signal, a signal processing module (SM), and a target module (ZM) that implements the desired reaction, which, to accelerate processing, provides that several steps are carried out in parallel, such that the said signal processing module (SM) comprises a check module (ÜM) and a clock module (ZTM) each of which receives the request signal, the signal processing module (SM) also comprises an actuator module (AM) acting between the input module (EM) and the clock module (ZTM), the clock module (ZTM) is connected to the output of the check module (ÜM), and the actuator module (AM) is connected to the target module (ZM) for transmitting the output signal of the signal processing module (SM). | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080312799 | METHOD FOR ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLING A BICYCLE GEARSHIFT AND BICYCLE ELECTRONIC SYSTEM - A method for electronically controlling a bicycle gearshift and a bicycle electronic system, wherein when a gearshifting request is transmitted from an electronic control unit to a driving unit, the driving unit associates a wait for a waiting time therewith. In the case of a multiple gearshifting, the waiting time allows a chain to mesh securely with a toothed wheel. By providing for the wait to be carried out in a driving unit of a derailleur, the computing capability of an electronic control unit is not affected by the management of the wait, and the electronic control unit is free to carry out other functions, for example the management of errors of the electronic system, communication with a display unit or various sensors of the electronic system, etc. | 12-18-2008 |
| 20090118955 | Control device for vehicular drive system - A vehicular drive system switchable between a continuously-variable and step-variable shifting states, and a control device for controlling the vehicular drive system so as to reduce a shifting shock of an automatic transmission included in the drive system, which takes place due to an overlap control involving a switching control of the drive system and a shifting control of the automatic transmission. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090132136 | Method and Device for Controlling a Fluid-Actuated Control System - A method and device for controlling a fluid-actuated control system, to optimize post-switching times for actuation of control elements in such systems. The system includes at least one pressure medium source, at least one hydraulically controlled control element and a device for controlling the fluid-actuated control system. The optimum post-switching time after hydraulic actuation of the control element, depends on a number of different factors such as a control-element-specific parameter, a specific mounting location of the control element, at least one operating parameter of the fluid-actuated control system and/or of the vehicle. A post-switching time control device controls and/or regulates at least the duration of a post-switching time of the at least one control element and with the above factors determines the post-switching time. | 05-21-2009 |
| 20090210123 | Method and Unit for Shifting Gear in a Power-Assist Transmission - A method and unit for shifting gear in a power-assist transmission; to shift gear, a series of operations are performed in sequence, and each of which must be completed prior to completion of the next operation; for each operation, a predicted time delay is estimated corresponding to the time lapse between the instant the operation is commanded and the instant the operation is actually completed; and the operations are commanded successively as a function of the predicted delay times, so that an operation is commanded before the preceding operation has actually been completed. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090281699 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - An in-gear oil pressure correcting section corrects engagement control oil pressure set up by an oil pressure supply control section over the entire range to be reduced by first predetermined pressure. An engagement determining section determines, on the basis of a torque converter slip ratio calculated by a calculating section, whether a frictional engagement element of a destination gear starts to engage or not. An addition correcting control section corrects the corrected engagement control oil pressure to add second predetermined pressure thereto in the case where engagement of the frictional engagement element has not been started yet when a timer measures first predetermined time. The addition correcting control section further corrects the corrected engagement control oil pressure to add third predetermined pressure thereto in the case where the engagement of the frictional engagement element has not been started yet when the timer measures second predetermined time. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090287385 | Method For Controlling A Shift Point In An Automatic Transmission - The method according to the invention for shift point control in automatic transmissions by means of an electronic control device, which receives a performance requirement value and the vehicle speed as input signals and triggers up-shifts and down-shifts, by means of a functional module. The functional module controls the shift point, by using characteristic shift curves stored in the control device as a function of the performance requirement value and the vehicle speed. When predetermined operating conditions apply, a speed range is defined below a defined vehicle speed, in which range an instantaneous down-shift is performed, which is independent of the currently applicable characteristic shift curve. As soon as the performance requirement value or an operating value proportional to the performance requirement value falls below a threshold, an up-shift subsequent to the down-shift is delayed by a first predetermined time period after the instantaneous down-shift. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090299589 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A DRIVE TRAIN BY TREATING THE MOTOR CHARACTERISTIC BY MEANS OF PARALLEL EVALUATION AND PT1-FILTERING - At least one input signal is detected in a time slot, representing the temporal progression of at least one rotational value of the motor of a drive train section and/or the respective corresponding power thereof and is electronically treated and/or evaluated a plurality of times in a parallel manner and according to different characteristics. At least one comparison of the different treating and/or evaluation results of the same input signal is determined, whether the transmission behavior of the drive train or at least one predetermined drive train component is altered. A PT1 filtering, for example, is used for the treatment and/or evaluation. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20090312929 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR IDENTIFYING A PASSIVE ROLLING MOMENT OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - Method for identifying a passive rolling moment of a motor vehicle ( | 12-17-2009 |
| 20100082210 | SHIFT CONTROLLER - A shift controller for a motor vehicle includes an electric motor configured to rotate a shift drum associated with a transmission. An oil temperature sensor is configured to detect temperature of lubricating oil for the transmission. A controller is configured to control the electric motor. The controller controls the electric motor to operate in a preset first motor duty until a first predetermined time elapses after operation of the electric motor is started when the shift drum is turned from a first predetermined position to a second predetermined position. The controller is also configured to operate the electric motor in a second motor duty calculated based upon oil temperature after the first predetermined time elapses. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100168972 | Control apparatus for automatic transmission - A control apparatus for an automatic transmission including an automatic speed change mechanism that has an input shaft connected to a drive source, an output shaft connected to driving wheels, and a plurality of friction engagement elements, and that performs a shifting operation among a plurality of shift speeds by changing engagement/disengagement states of the plurality of friction engagement elements. | 07-01-2010 |
| 20100250078 | TRANSMISSION AND METHOD OF SHIFT CONTROL FOR TRANSMISSION - A transmission includes a controller being provided with a change-speed stage anticipator. The controller adopts a time, which one of the transmission's gear-mechanism selectors requires in shifting a current change-speed stage to another change-speed stage, as a pre-shift time for selecting the latter change-speed stage. The change-speed stage anticipator operates the one of the gear-mechanism selectors while adopting a temporary change-speed stage as a subsequent change-speed stage when the temporary change-speed stage, which is estimated from a state of vehicle after the pre-shift time, the state of vehicle being relevant to each element of an anticipated change-speed stage group that is made up of one or more of the change-speed stages that can be selected by the one of the gear-mechanism selectors being set on one of the transmission's input shafts that is disconnected from a power source, coincides with an anticipated change-speed stage that corresponds to the pre-shift time. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100305824 | REDUCTION OF SHIFT OCCURANCES ASSOCIATED WITH HYBRID VEHICLES - A method for controlling operating mode of a vehicle having the electrically variable transmission includes requesting a shift in the operating mode of the transmission and determining if the shift in operating mode is desirable given vehicle conditions. If a shift is desirable then the system compares a timer value with a predetermined time value. The system instructs a shift in the operating mode of the transmission when the timer value is greater than or equal to the predetermined time value and instructs no shift in operating mode of the transmission when the timer value is less than the predetermined time value. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20110213533 | VEHICLE DRIVING APPARATUS, AND CONTROL METHODS THEREOF - When the change speed is instructed, without changing value of a suppressing vibration flag set to value 1 as initial value, a fast fill as the preparation of a brake to be engaged when the change speed is executed and low pressure standby of hydraulic pressure to set the brake in a half-engaged state. Then the suppressing vibration flag is set to value 0 when a predetermined time passed since the change speed is instructed, a sum of a drive torque required for driving and a suppressing vibration torque, which is in the same direction as suppressing rotational fluctuation of a drive shaft, is output from a motor when the suppressing vibration flag is set to value 1. | 09-01-2011 |
| 20110231074 | METHOD FOR THE OPERATION OF A DRIVETRAIN - A method of operating of a drivetrain, having a drive motor and an automatic transmission with at least five shift elements, to improve a shift speed of at least one of a successive upshift and a successive downshift, such that at least one required shift element is prepared so that, when a synchronization point is reached, the successive upshift or downshift can be immediately carried out. The method comprises the steps of requiring, at most, two of the at least five shift elements be disengaged and a remainder of the shift elements be engaged, in each of the gears; and preparing a shift element, to be engaged before reaching the synchronization point, by a first time interval, that is applied in a time-controlled manner or an event-controlled manner for engagement, while the first upshift or the first downshift is being carried out while giving consideration to the successive upshift or the successive downshift. | 09-22-2011 |
| 20110264343 | AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND HYDRAULIC CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - A command hydraulic pressure learning control unit includes an output-side torque time rate of change calculation unit for calculating a time rate of change of a torque at an output side of an automatic transmission, and a correction unit for correcting a command hydraulic pressure when transmission of a drive force of a friction element to be engaged is started at the time of a next shift based on a difference between the calculated time rate of change of the output-side torque and a target value. | 10-27-2011 |
| 20110295475 | SPEED CHANGING CONTROL APPARATUS FOR VEHICLE - A speed changing control apparatus for use in a vehicle includes: a driving power source configured to generate driving power for running; a transmission having a synchromesh mechanism configured to synchronize an input shaft revolution number with an output shaft revolution number and an actuator configured to automatically carry out a shift operation; and an automatic clutch disposed between the driving power source and the transmission. The speed changing control apparatus is configured to start a shift disengaging operation for the transmission after a speed change is requested and before the automatic clutch turns into a decoupled state, so as to suppress torsional vibration at the time of decoupling the automatic clutch. Such control enables the synchromesh mechanism to carry out revolution synchronization with the input shaft revolution number of the transmission in a lowered state, and diminishes a revolution difference subjected to synchronization. | 12-01-2011 |
| 20110320098 | TRANSMISSION POWER CONTROL PARAMETER CALCULATION METHOD AND DEVICE - A cubic metric calculator performs a calculation of a time average of power of the amplitude of a transmission signal when a cubic metric value is calculated as a product-sum operation between a transmission power-dependent term including an amplitude value depending on the transmission power of a transmission signal and a time average term including only a modulation parameter not depending on the transmission power of the transmission signal. When the transmission signal is transmitted, the operator inputs the amplitude value to calculate the transmission power-dependent term, reads the value of the time average term from coefficient memory, and performs the product-sum operation using an operation result of the transmission power-dependent term and the read value of the time average term, thereby calculating a time average of the power of the amplitude of the transmission signal. | 12-29-2011 |
| 20120004818 | CONTROL DEVICE FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - When a select lever is in a drive range, a microcomputer reads a value of an output voltage by a switch-operation-signal output circuit after detecting that both shift-up switch and shift-down switch are substantially simultaneously turned on, checks whether or not the output voltage by the switch-operation-signal output circuit is the output voltage indicating that the switch after a predetermined time has elapsed is in a normal condition, and only when the output voltage is such an output voltage, permits a manual mode of an automatic transmission and when the output voltage is not such an output voltage, cancels the manual mode. | 01-05-2012 |
| 20120150401 | SYSTEM FOR CONTROL OF A GEARBOX - A system for control of a gearbox: At least one control unit controls the gearbox in a motor vehicle which comprises an engine connected to drive the gearbox. The system responds to receiving an indication by choosing for the gearbox a gear among various possible gears which causes the engine to reach a desired speed ω | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120173102 | METHOD FOR DETERMINATION OF GEARSHIFT POINTS - The present invention relates to a method for determination of one or more shift points for a gearbox in a motor vehicle which comprises an engine connected to, in order to drive, said gearbox, where a shift point represents an engine speed at which said gearbox is adapted to effecting a downshift or upshift, said one or more shift points are determined on the basis of an engine target speed ω | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120232765 | CONFIGURABLE ELECTRONIC BRAKE SHIFT INTERLOCK OVERRIDE - Method and apparatus for an electronic override of the brake shift interlock in a motor vehicle can provide for the vehicle to be manually pushed while it is parked without keys. A timed window is initiated upon detection of a parked state of the vehicle with its transmission in a park position and ignition key removable or removed. Selection of an out-of-park position is inhibited. The invention monitors activation of the brake pedal during the timed window. Override of the brake shift interlock is enabled while the brake pedal is activated during the timed window, thereby allowing selection of an out-of-park shifter position. The timed window ends after a predetermined time or event (e.g., after the driver's door is opened) to inhibit any further shifter movement from the park position until the next ignition key-cycle. | 09-13-2012 |
| 20120283922 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MODEL-BASED NEUTRAL IDLE CLUTCH CONTROL - A vehicle includes an engine, an automatic transmission, and a controller. The transmission includes a neutral idle (NI) state and a designated NI clutch which is selectively actuated to exit the NI state. The controller executes instructions from tangible memory to shift out of the NI state and into a drive state. The controller includes a slip model which generates a desired clutch slip profile as a differentiable time function, and a desired slip derivative of the desired slip profile. The desired profiles are used to calculate a clutch pressure command for controlling the designated NI clutch. The time function may be at least a third order/cubic equation. A method includes executing the slip model to generate the desired clutch slip profile, calculating a desired slip derivative of the desired slip profile, and using the desired slip profile derivative to calculate a clutch pressure command for the designated NI clutch. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20120316741 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRANSMISSION CLUTCH CONTROL - A control system for a transmission includes an actuator module, a timer module, and a pulse module. The actuator module engages N hydraulic clutches and disengages M hydraulic clutches to operate the transmission in a gear ratio, wherein N and M are integers greater than zero. The timer module determines a first period starting when the transmission begins operating in the gear ratio. The pulse module selectively supplies a pressure pulse to P of the M hydraulic clutches based on the first period, wherein P is an integer greater than zero. A method for controlling a transmission is also provided. | 12-13-2012 |
| 20130138311 | OIL PUMP CONTROL METHOD FOR HYBRID VEHICLE - Noise may be prevented from being generated while providing smooth shift operability by preventing the overshoot phenomenon in which rpm of the electric oil pump is unexpectedly increased as the load decreases at the time when shifting ends in controlling the rpm of the electric oil pump to increase in order to increase the line pressure of the transmission as the shifting operation from step N to step D is performed in the hybrid vehicle having the electric oil pump. | 05-30-2013 |
| 20150369362 | HYDRAULIC CONTROL OPERATION AMOUNT GENERATION APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION AND CONTROL APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - With a hydraulic control operation amount generation apparatus for an automatic transmission and a control apparatus for an automatic transmission, a control operation amount at which any desired target packing control execution time can be realized is generated on a hydraulic model by determining formulae of the 2n−2 constraint conditions corresponding to the n hydraulic control phases relating to the packing control of the engagement devices. | 12-24-2015 |
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