Patent ID: 11885411
Assignee: ALLISON TRANSMISSION, INC.
Field: Mechanical elements (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC F  B | IPC B  F

Claim 11:
12. A method of operating a transmission of a vehicle, the method comprising:
receiving, by a controller of a control system of the vehicle, input provided by a first input device of the control system that is indicative of a desired enablement of a boost mode of operation of the transmission;
receiving, by the controller, input from a sensor of the control system that is indicative of a grade of a surface on which the vehicle is positioned;
determining, by the controller, a calculated grade of the surface based at least partially on the input from the sensor;
determining, by the controller, whether the calculated grade of the surface exceeds a grade threshold; and
boosting, by the controller and in the boost mode of operation, one or more fluid pressures applied to at least one clutch of the transmission from one or more baseline values to one or more boosted values in response to (i) receiving the input from the first input device and (ii) the determination that the calculated grade of the surface exceeds the grade threshold.