Patent ID: 11872986
Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  F  Y | IPC B

Claim 6:
7. A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, the vehicle comprising:
a drive source;
a continuously variable transmission;
an engagement element interposed in a power transmission path between the drive source and the continuously variable transmission; and
a controller configured to execute sailing stop control in which, when a drive source stop condition is satisfied during traveling, the drive source is stopped and the engagement element is released for traveling by inertia, wherein
the controller is configured to:
terminate the sailing stop control when the drive source stop condition becomes unsatisfied;
estimate an acceleration intention of a driver, and
in a case of the driver having the acceleration intention, set a gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission to be larger than that of a case where the driver does not have the acceleration intention, and then engage the engagement element,

wherein in the case of the driver having the acceleration intention, the controller executes a first control in which the continuously variable transmission is downshifted to increase an input shaft rotation speed of the continuously variable transmission and then the engagement element is engaged, and
wherein the controller executes the first control when a vehicle speed is equal to or higher than a vehicle speed at which the gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission becomes lowest during the execution of the sailing stop control.