Patent ID: 8224535

Claim:
A control apparatus for a vehicular power transmitting apparatus that includes, in series, i) a differential portion which is provided with a differential mechanism having a differential function with respect to an input shaft and an output shaft, in which the differential mechanism is switched between a differential state and a non-differential state, and ii) a stepped shifting portion that shifts between a plurality of gears in a stepped manner, wherein during a shift with a switch between the differential state and the non-differential state in the differential portion, the control apparatus maintains a current gear at that time or shifts into a gear that is adjacent to the current gear; wherein the differential portion switches between a plurality of the non-differential states, each of which has a different speed ratio; and a shift point vehicle speed for changing the total speed ratio by the switch between different non-differential states in the differential portion and the shift in the stepped shifting portion being executed simultaneously is set within a vehicle speed range that is set such that a vehicle runs using a combination of the stepped shifting portion that uses a same gear as a higher gear, from among the gear before the shift in the stepped shifting portion and the gear after the shift in the stepped shifting portion, and the differential portion that has been placed in the differential state.