Patent ID: 8594898

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling a belt type CVT connected to a prime mover mounted on a vehicle through a forward clutch to change power of the prime mover in speed and transmit the power to a driven wheel of the vehicle, comprising: an operating condition determiner adapted to determine whether it is in a predetermined operating condition where an operator is likely to apply a panic brake or the vehicle is likely running on a low friction road surface; a first clutch hydraulic pressure controller adapted to control supply of hydraulic pressure by setting a first value as a friction coefficient of the clutch when the vehicle is determined to be not in the predetermined operating condition and calculating a desired hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the clutch based on the set first value; a second clutch hydraulic pressure controller adapted to control supply of the hydraulic pressure by setting a second value that is greater than the first value as the friction coefficient when the vehicle is determined to be in the predetermined operating condition and calculating the desired hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the clutch based on the set second value; and a belt clamping pressure controller adapted to control hydraulic pressure to be supplied to the belt as clamping pressure and supply the clamping pressure after subtracting a value corresponding to inertia torque of the prime mover from the clamping pressure when the second value is set as the friction coefficient of the clutch.