Patent ID: 9200701
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A vehicle transmission apparatus comprising: an input member drive-coupled to an engine; an output member drive-coupled to a wheel; a speed change mechanism that includes a plurality of engagement elements and forms a plurality of shift speeds by engagement and release of the plurality of engagement elements, each of the plurality of shift speeds having a speed ratio, respectively, and each of the speed ratios being fixed and unchanging in value, the speed ratios of the plurality of shift speeds being different from each other, the speed change mechanism configured to (i) change a rotation speed of the input member at the speed ration of one of the shift speeds and (ii) transmit the changed rotation speed to the output member; and a control device that is configured to control the speed change mechanism so that the speed change mechanism selectively forms the plurality of shift speeds, wherein when a vehicle is transitioning from a free running state to an actual traveling state by forming one of the shift speeds in accordance with an acceleration request from a driver, the control device is configured to: the final target shift speed is determined based on at least a vehicle speed and the acceleration request from the driver, and the intermediate target shift speed has an intermediate speed ratio smaller than a final speed ratio of the final target shift speed, each of the intermediate speed ratio and the final speed ratio being one of the speed ratios, and in the free running state, the vehicle is traveling while the speed change mechanism is set to neutral with none of the shift speeds formed.