Interrelated power delivery controls, including engine control inventions 07/07

20070173371 - Control device of vehicle, vehicle, and method of controlling vehicle: A control device causes a motor-generator to stop while a shift lever is set to a neutral position, and changes the rotation speed of an electric oil pump from a first rotation speed to a second rotation speed lower than the first rotation speed if a state of the electric... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070173370 - Vehicular control device and method: When an engine is in operation an ignition switch is turned off by a driver an ECU executes a program including the step of actuating an electric motor driven oil pump.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070173372 - Coasting deceleration control for a vehicle: A vehicle coasting deceleration control system has a motor/generator arranged in a drive-train of a vehicle. A controller is configured to determine a driver demand regarding deceleration of the vehicle at a time of coasting accompanied by an accelerator releasing operation. The controller is further configured to control the motor/generator... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070173373 - Hydraulic control apparatus of transmission: A hydraulic control apparatus for a transmission includes a line pressure regulating device that enables control in which an oil pressure from an oil pump is regulated so as to attain a line pressure, and that enables control in which the line pressure is switched stepwise between a low pressure... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070173374 - Vehicle controller of a vehicle power transmission device: In a vehicle power transmission device equipped with an automatic clutch, the gear-change for shifting up is effected suppressing a sudden increase in the engine rotational speed that results when the automatic clutch is disconnected, preventing deterioration in the drive feeling caused by the change of gear such as a... Agent: Mcginn Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20070173375 - Method for operating the drive train of a motor vehicle: 1. A method for operating the drive train of a motor vehicle. 2.1. In a known method, with the friction clutch completely closed, a control device monitors rotational speeds upstream and downstream of the clutch. As soon as slip occurs, the control devices reduces an output torque of an engine... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070167281 - Drive unit for a motor vehicle having a hybrid drive: A drive unit for a motor vehicle having a hybrid drive, includes an internal-combustion engine, an electrical rotating machine with a pertaining energy accumulator, a transmission unit, and a control unit. The transmission unit includes at least one starting gear position which can be operated only and exclusively when defined... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070167282 - Process for controlling an automated motor vehicle drive train and drive train: What is proposed is a process for controlling an automated motor vehicle drive train which has an engine and a transmission, with the step of at least once detecting at least one wear parameter of the transmission during its running performance, the wear parameter representing the wear or the fatigue... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070167284 - Method for operating a drive train of a vehicle: A method for operating a drive train of a vehicle with a hydrodynamic torque converter, one transmission device and one prime mover during a gearshift starting from an actual ratio to a target ratio. A nominal standard of the control pressure of the shifting element to be disengaged is adjusted... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070167283 - Hydraulic control apparatus for an automatic transmission: A hydraulic control apparatus, provided with a manual shift valve that outputs a forward range pressure and a reverse range pressure, and a linear solenoid valve that outputs an engagement pressure to the hydraulic servo that engages during reverse travel when energized, includes a fourth clutch relay valve that is... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070167285 - Reduced engine load at stop apparatus and method: Provided is an apparatus to enable a torque transmitting mechanism within an automatically shiftable power transmission to disengage at vehicle stop such that the slip within a fluid drive device is reduced. When vehicle movement is required a main pressure regulator trims the torque transmitting mechanism into engagement. A method... Agent: General Motors Corporation Legal Staff

20070161456 - Operating apparatus for a working industrial vehicle: A two-way clutch is provided between an engine and a generator motor. Further, a battery and a cargo handling pump are provided. The generator motor is set to either a generator mode or an electric motor mode. When a cargo handling load (detected by a sensor) is small, the two-way... Agent: Knoble, Yoshida & Dunleavy

20070161455 - Hybrid vehicle and method of assembling same: A parallel hybrid vehicle includes a heat engine, a transmission including an input and output, and an electrical device. The transmission input is coupled to the engine and the transmission output is coupled to the electrical device such that substantially all of the torque generated by the heat engine is... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070161457 - Method for controlling the engine of a motor vehicle having a manual transmission: In a motor vehicle having a manual transmission, for, in particular, limiting the engine speed during the start-up operation when fulfilling at least one permission criterion for the engine torque, said criterion depending on the driving state of the motor vehicle, a default engine torque is preset, which is specified... Agent: Stevens Davis Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070161458 - Transmission brake control assembly: A transmission brake assembly for controlling an output of a transmission of a motor vehicle includes a solenoid which is operatively engagable with a transmission. The solenoid selectively engages and disengages the transmission. A solenoid driver is electrically connected to the solenoid to drive the solenoid into and out of... Agent: Clark Hill, P.C.

20070155581 - Control device for vehicular drive system: A control device for a vehicular drive system including (a) a differential portion having a differential mechanism operable to distribute an output of an engine to a first electric motor and a power transmitting member, and a second electric motor disposed in a power transmitting path between the power transmitting... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070155582 - Dynamo-electric drive unit controlled compound power system: A dynamo-electric drive unit controlled compound system includes one dynamo-electric unit, a primary and a secondary dynamo-electric unit, or more than two dynamo-electric units incorporated with an engine or other rotating device, and one or more control units including a centrifugal clutch, one-way transmission mechanism, output clutch, or related transmission... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070155583 - Control device for vehicular drive system: A control device for a vehicular drive system including continuously-variable transmission portion 11 and step-variable transmission portion 20, wherein an emergency transmission control device is operated when one of the continuously-variable transmission portion 11 and step-variable transmission portion 20 fails to be normally operable, to change speed ratio of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070155584 - Control apparatus for vehicular drive system, vehicle provided with the control apparatus, and method for controlling vehicular drive system: A control apparatus for a vehicular drive system provided with a step-variable transmission portion operable to transmit an output of an engine to a drive wheel of a vehicle and functioning as a step-variable transmission, and an input clutch operable to permit and inhibit an input of a drive force... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070155585 - Method of controlling a vehicle transmission: A method of controlling a vehicle transmission during a gear change thereof, the vehicle transmission including an input shaft, an output shaft, input gearing, output gearing, a first clutch for establishing a driving connection between the input shaft and the input gearing to drive the output shaft in a first... Agent: Macmillan Sobanski & Todd, LLC

20070155586 - Accelerator pedal operation device: The pedal lever has a boss portion which acts as a center of rotation, and a first lever and a second lever which extend from the boss portion in two directions, wherein the reverse lever is coupled with an extending extreme end portion of the first lever, and the accelerator... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC