Patent ID: 8235868

Claim:
A clutch control apparatus for a vehicle provided with a hydraulic clutch disposed in a middle of a power transmission path between an engine and a drive wheel and brought into an engagement state by hydraulic pressure supplied from outside, wherein before the clutch is brought into the engagement state, an intermittent hydraulic pressure Y is applied to the clutch while maintaining the clutch in a disengagement state, and thereafter a predetermined hydraulic pressure is applied to the clutch to bring the clutch into the engagement state, the clutch control apparatus further comprising: a gear change mechanism, and a solenoid valve adapted to control the hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch, the hydraulic pressure supplied to the clutch being controlled by controlling successive pulses of a pulsed drive current D supplied to the solenoid valve which in turn applies the intermittent hydraulic pressure Y, wherein the intermittent hydraulic pressure Y operates to undulately increase and decrease an operation amount S of the gear change mechanism for each of the successive pulses of the pulsed drive current D, wherein while the clutch is in the disengagement state, the intermittent hydraulic pressure Y temporarily returns to zero after each of the successive pulses of the pulsed drive current D.