Abstract:
In a four wheel drive power transmission system for a vehicle, a power distribution device receives rotational power from an engine and provides rotational power to the combination of the front wheels and also to the combination of the rear wheels, and is controllable either to provide differential action between the front wheels combination and the rear wheels combination, or for this differential action to be at least partially inhibited by torque transmission. This slippage control device includes: a subsystem which estimates the torque being input to the power distribution device for four wheel drive from the transmission mechanism; and a subsystem which provides differential action inhibition of the power distribution device according to the thus estimated value of the torque being input to it from the transmission mechanism. The method of operation of this device is also described.
Abstract:
In a four wheel drive vehicle, a central differential device receives rotational power from an engine and provides it to the combination of the front wheels of the vehicle and also to the combination of the rear wheels of the vehicle. This central differential device includes a device for selectively restricting its operation. A control device is provided for this central differential device operation restriction device, and includes: (a) a means for detecting a condition representative of the road speed of the vehicle and of the load on the engine; and (b) a means for controlling the device for selectively restricting the operation of the central differential device, so that the operation of the central differential device is less restricted than otherwise, when the vehicle speed is relatively high and also the engine output is not relatively high. Various specializations of this control device, and also the method of operation thereof, are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a fuel vapor treating apparatus, in which fuel vapor evaporated in a fuel tank is not released directly into the atmosphere but is collected and treated. This apparatus is provided with a canister for collecting fuel vapor and a purge line for purging the fuel vapor collected in the canister to an intake passage of an engine. The canister has a first control valve for controlling introduction of fuel vapor thereto. The canister also has a second control valve for controlling the introduction of outside air and the exhaust of gas therefrom. The first control valve communicates with a vapor line extending from the fuel tank and is opened whenever the internal pressure of the fuel tank exceeds a predetermined level to introduce fuel vapor from the fuel tank into the canister. The second control valve is designed to communicate with the atmosphere and is opened whenever fuel is purged through the purge line to the intake passage to introduce outside air into the canister. The second control valve is opened whenever the internal pressure of the canister exceeds a predetermined level to exhaust fuel-free gas left after collection of the fuel. Both the first control valve and the second control valve are diaphragm check valves. The control valves are designed to be readily detached from the canister.
Abstract:
A hydraulic pressure control device for an automatic transmission for a vehicle, including a spool type hydraulic pressure control valve for selectively prevent setting up of the reverse stage when a manual shift valve is set to the reverse range while the vehicle is traveling forward, wherein the spool element of the hydraulic pressure control valve is positively shifted to a position for not preventing the setting up of the reverse stage by a hydraulic pressure available when the manual shift valve is set to the forward range.
Abstract:
For an automatic transmission for a vehicle such as an automobile having a first friction engaging means such as a clutch which is switched over between engagement and disengagement between two adjacent speed stages such as the third speed stage and the fourth speed stage and a second friction engaging mechanism such as a brake which is engaged at two spaced apart jumping apart speed stages such as the fourth speed stage under D range and the second speed stage under S range, a hydraulic control device switches over such two friction engaging means by a first shift valve for three speed stages such as the fourth, third and second speed stages with a help of second shift valve for switching over the second speed stage and the third speed stage. A drain port of the first shift valve is supplied with a hydraulic pressure from an S port of a manual shift valve through the second shift valve.
Abstract:
A hydraulic control system for a continuously variable transmission having a cylinder for changing the effective diameter of a pulley to control a speed ratio of the transmission. The control system comprises a spool valve assembly communicating with the cylinder to control the supply and discharge flows of a fluid to and from the cylinder. The valve assembly comprises a shift-speed control valve unit for controlling a rate of variation in the speed ratio of the transmission. The shift-speed control valve unit has only two discharge ports associated with the fluid discharge from the cylinder. The shift-speed control valve unit may take the form of a spool valve having a spool axially movable to open and close the ports to permit and restrict the fluid flows through supply and discharge conduits communicating with the ports and the cylinder. The spool may only partially open the corresponding port to permit the fluid flow therethrough for supplying or discharging the fluid. The valve assembly may comprise a shift-direction switching valve unit for changing the direction in which the speed ratio is varied. The switching valve unit has only two discharge ports associated with the fluid discharge from the cylinder.
Abstract:
A method for controlling a continuously variable transmission installed in a vehicle. The method controls the continuously variable transmission such that the desired engine speed or the desired transmitting speed ratio of the transmission may be determined to be a function of a throttle opening or a pressure within an intake pipe and a vehicle speed.
Abstract:
An apparatus for controlling an continuously variable transmission (CVT) used for a power transmission system of a vehicle. The CVT is controlled such that an actual engine speed becomes a desired engine speed. The desired engine speed is set as a function of running parameter such as intake throttle position. When the CVT is controlled in the same way as at the steady state of the vehicle at the acceleration of the vehicle, the acceleration performance is degraded. Thus, according to the present invention, the speed ratio of the CVT is reduced when the acceleration of the vehicle is small, in spite of the requisition of the vehicle acceleration. As a result, satisfactory drivability is attained.
Abstract:
A control system for controlling both an engine capable of selecting a plurality of output characteristics having different output torques for a throttle opening and dropping a selected output torque temporarily, and an automatic transmission connected to the engine. The control system comprises: a first decider for deciding it on the basis of data inputted that the output characteristics of the engine should be changed; a second decider for deciding it on the basis of input data including a vehicle speed and a throttle opening that a gear change should be performed; and a third decider for deciding, when the second decider decides the performance, the torque-down to be temporarily effected, to a value according to the output characteristics of the engine.
Abstract:
A hydraulic control device for generating a hydraulic pressure for a back pressure chamber of an accumulator in a speed stage shifting device of an automatic transmission for a vehicle such as an automobile is adapted to generate a hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the back pressure chamber of the accumulator by modulating the so-called line hydraulic pressure according to a balance between the modulated pressure itself and the line hydraulic pressure or more desirably an engine power simulation pressure modulated from the line hydraulic pressure to be lower than the line hydraulic pressure in low engine output operation under an influence of a signal hydraulic pressure controlled by an electromagnetic valve, wherein the signal hydraulic pressure decreases to substantially zero when the electromagnetic valve fails, and the accumulator control valve has a spool element having a first pressure receiving area exposed to the modulated hydraulic pressure to generate a positive feedback effect of decreasing the modulated hydraulic pressure along with increase thereof and a second pressure receiving area so that the accumulator control valve variably operates even when the signal pressure has decreased to zero exposed to the line hydraulic pressure or the engine power simulation pressure to generate an effect of increasing the modulated pressure, the first pressure receiving area having an effective pressure responsive sectional area substantially equal in the magnitude and opposite in the orientation to that of the second pressure receiving area.