Patent ID: 9701311
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: B60W,F16H

Claim:
1. A controller for a vehicle, the vehicle including a plurality of engagement elements for performing an engagement operation by hydraulic pressure, the plurality of engagement elements having a first engagement element and a second engagement element, a transmission gear state being established by i) engaging the first engagement element and ii) engaging the second engagement element, the first engagement element being an engagement element common to a plurality of transmission gear stages, the first engagement element being an engagement element to be brought into an engaged state for establishing a transmission gear stage immediately before a start of an economic running and a transmission gear stage immediately after cancellation of the economic running, the controller comprising at least one electronic control unit configured to i) stop an engine and ii) switch the plurality of engagement elements between the engaged states and disengaged states, when a specified economic running start condition is established, such that the first engagement element is started to be switched from the engaged state to the disengaged state after the second engagement element is started to be switched from the engaged state to the disengaged state.