Patent ID: 11906031
Assignee: KAWASAKI MOTORS, LTD.
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F | IPC F

Claim 13:
14. A vehicle comprising:
a traveling driving source;
a transmission including a speed change actuator and a speed change structure that is driven by the speed change actuator to change a speed of driving power of the driving source, the transmission switching gear stages from one of any two gear stages selected from the gear stages to the other gear stage while skipping an adjacent gear stage or adjacent gear stages;
an interrupter that includes a first connector connected to the driving source, a second connector connected to the transmission, and a fluid in a gap between the first connector and the second connector, and establishes or interrupts a power transmitting route through which the driving power is transmitted from the first connector to the second connector;
processing circuitry that controls the speed change actuator of the transmission; and
a driving wheel to which the driving power of the driving source is transmitted, wherein:
the processing circuitry receives flowability information indicating a value related to flowability of the fluid;
the processing circuitry determines whether or not a predetermined power interruption condition for interrupting transmission of the driving power from the driving source to the driving wheel is satisfied; and
when the power interruption condition is satisfied, and the processing circuitry determines that the value related to the flowability is not less than a predetermined reference value, the processing circuitry controls the speed change actuator to skip the adjacent gear stage or the adjacent gear stages and thereby set the transmission from the gear stage at the time of the determination to a gear stage having a reduction ratio lower than a maximum reduction ratio.