Patent ID: 7524264

Claim:
A vehicle controller of a vehicle power transmission device including an engine, a clutch and a transmission, wherein: said clutch is equipped with a clutch controller which disconnects said clutch at the time of gear change of said transmission; said engine is equipped with an engine controller which controls the engine based on the amount the accelerator pedal is depressed as a basic parameter, wherein at the time of gear-change, said engine controller, in response to a gear-change instruction signal, performs a gear-change engine control for controlling said engine independently of said amount the accelerator pedal is depressed; and in said gear-change engine control at the time of gear-change of shifting up, said engine controller executes a control for decreasing said engine output for a predetermined period of time prior to disconnecting said clutch, and the target value for decreasing the output depends upon the vehicle operating conditions of when said gear-change instruction signal is output.