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Interrelated power delivery controls, including engine control March list of published pending patents 03/07

20070072737 - Method of clutch pressure regulation during downshift of a vehicle with automatic transmission: A method for maintaining a fuel cut function in a vehicle wherein, depending on the rate of vehicle deceleration, the pressure upon the lock-up and shift clutches associated with the vehicle's automatic transmission is changed accordingly. This is unlike prior practice, where a fixed pressure was applied to the lock-up... Agent: Rankin, Hill, Porter & Clark LLP

20070066441 - Gear shifting completion determining device and gear shifting completion determining method: The ECU executes a program including the step of setting a threshold value A to be compared with a stroke amount of an actuator for determining whether gear shifting has completed or not, taking no account of a deflection amount C of the hardware due to the shift load, when... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070066442 - Automatic stop device and method for internal combustion engine: An ECU executes a program including the steps of detecting a stroke amount SP of a clutch pedal, a value I of current flowing through a solenoid valve of a normally-closed type provided at a pipe coupling a master cylinder and a clutch release cylinder, and a stroke amount SC... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070066443 - Automatic transmission control device: An automatic transmission control device for a vehicle includes a gear change operation that is performed based on a throttle opening, a vehicle speed and an engine rotational speed. The automatic transmission control device also obtains a displacement of the throttle opening, determines whether the displacement falls within a predetermined... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070066444 - Automatic transmission control device: An automatic transmission control device of a vehicle performs a gear change operation based on a deceleration of the vehicle. The automatic transmission control device detects the deceleration of the vehicle and an engine rotational speed. The device also stores a peak value of the engine rotation speed during a... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070066445 - Fail control apparatus for automatic transmission: There is provided a fail control apparatus for an automatic transmission, which, in the event of a friction element failure, is capable of coping with the failure by identifying a failed part without erroneous determination and within a short time. The set gear ratio of a designated gear position at... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070060441 - Hydraulic control apparatus for belt-drive cvt of vehicle: A hydraulic control apparatus of a belt-drive CVT, controlling a transmission ratio by changing respective effective rotation radii of driving and driven pulleys, includes vehicle information sensors; hydraulic actuators changing the respective rotation radii; and a control unit determining each fluid pressure command value provided for the pulleys, and controlling... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070060442 - Rotation coupling employing torque converter and synchronization motor: A system employing a torque converter and a synchronizing motor to start up a large rotational driver/load combination. The torque converter is employed to increase the rotational speed of the load to the maximum speed permitted by the torque converter. The synchronizing motor is then employed to further increase the... Agent: Conocophillips Company - I.p. Legal

20070060443 - Lockup control device: Excellent fuel consumption and drivability are achieved by properly controlling the lockup-canceling timing in a vehicle with an automatic transmission equipped with a torque converter having lockup features. In conventional technology, the lockup got cancelled when it was determined that the vehicle speed was lower than lockup-canceling vehicle speed B... Agent: Leffert Jay & Polglaze P.A.

20070060444 - Method and system for controlling an engine for a vehicle, and a motorcycle: A method of controlling an engine for a vehicle including increasing an amount of air taken into the engine to an amount larger than an idling air amount corresponding an idling engine speed, when an engine speed of the engine is predetermined value or more, a throttle valve for controlling... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle LLP

20070054773 - Method for operating a motor vehicle: In a motor vehicle having an internal combustion engine which has an automatic start/stop device, and a controllable brake device at the start of and during an automatic stop phase, the effect of a braking torque which is greater than a threshold value is ensured. For this purpose, the brake... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070054774 - Automatic or automated motor vehicle transmission and method for control thereof with an emergency operation and a normal operation: An automatic or automated transmission of a motor vehicle and a method for control of the transmission in which in an emergency operation of the transmission a maximum admissible engine torque and a maximum admissible engine rotational speed of a prime mover of the motor vehicle connected or connectable with... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070054775 - 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 control module adjusts the duty cycle so that a... Agent: Daimlerchrysler Intellectual Capital Corporation Cims 483-02-19

20070054776 - Control device and method for input clutch of work vehicle: Large torque variation is suppressed by preventing the rapid connection (engagement) of an input clutch when a brake is released. When fine adjustment is performed with the use of brake operating means such as a brake pedal, a clutch pressure of the input clutch is varied with high responsiveness to... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20070049455 - Drive assembly and motor vehicle equipped with drive assembly: In a drive assembly of the invention, a sun gear, a carrier, and a ring gear of a planetary gear are respectively connected to a motor, to a compressor for air conditioning, and to a pulley (a crankshaft of an engine). The carrier is fixed to a casing via a... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070049456 - Hybrid vehicle and control method of hybrid vehicle: In the case where a start command of an engine is given with a gearshift lever being operated to a parking position, when a cooling water temperature Tw is lower than a threshold value Twref, and a stop time tst of the engine is a threshold value tstref or longer... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070049457 - Fail detecting apparatus for automatic transmission: There is provided a fail detecting apparatus for an automatic transmission which is capable of quickly detecting a failure of an oil pressure switch with accuracy. In addition to an oil pressure switch state determining process carried out while a vehicle is running, the state of an oil pressure switch... Agent: Rossi, Kimms & Mcdowell LLP.

20070049459 - Electromechanically actuated valve control for an internal combustion engine: A system and method to control engine valve operation in an internal combustion engine. Valves are controlled to improve vehicle drivability and reduce vehicle noise.... Agent: Alleman Hall Mccoy Russell & Tuttle, LLP

20070049458 - Shift control apparatus and shift control method of automatic transmission of vehicle: The invention relates to a shift control apparatus for an automatic transmission, that executes a torque reduction control when the transmission executes a second downshift in response to a second downshift determination made during first downshift. The shift control apparatus includes a multiple shift execution unit that starts the second... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070049460 - Method for kinetic (inertial) torque transmission and devices implementing it: A method for transmission of rotational or linear energy and a device implementing that method in which inertia of a member that is a non liquid physical body put in motion repeatedly by a difference in the angular or linear speeds of an input shaft and an output shaft is... Agent: Petre N. Kolev