Abstract:
An automotive transmission with three or four stages corresponding to as many forward speeds, established by the activation of respective hydraulic coupling elements via associated electrical valve-operating switches, includes an individual delay network in the energizing circuit of each valve-operating switch for modifying its response time in dependence on load and on the direction of shift. By this modification an upshift under load or a downshift under pull proceeds with substantially immediate activation of one coupling element upon deactivation of another coupling element, whereas under other circumstances (downshift under load or upshift under pull) an appreciable hiatus occurs between deactivation and activation to take advantage of the intervening speed change. Discrimination between load and pull depends on the accelerator position whereas upshifting and downshifting are distinguished either mechanically, with the aid of a manually operated lever, or electrically on the basis of the state of activation of a coupling element of an adjoining stage. The delay networks retard either the deactivation or the activation of the associated coupling elements, depending on whether the latter are of the slow-operating or the fast-operating type.
Abstract:
An automatic multiratio drive transmission having an automatic shift control system with a speed and throttle position pressure controlled shift valve controlling shifts between the highest drive ratio and the next lower drive ratio. When the shift valve is in the lower drive ratio position, a normal speed pressure signal increasing with increasing speed acting on the shift valve overcomes an opposing bias force controlled by throttle pressure to upshift the shift valve to the higher drive ratio position at increasing upshift speeds for increased throttle positions and provides an upshift hysteresis force decreasing with increasing throttle positions to prevent shift cycling as the highest ratio is established in a short time period and after a longer time delay period reduces the normal speed related governor pressure in an amount equal to the upshift hysteresis force at full throttle so that the downshift speed is the same as the upshift speed at the full throttle position.