Patent ID: 8634978

Claim:
A power transmitting apparatus for a vehicle disposed in a power transmission path between an engine and driving wheels of the vehicle, comprising: an electric differential portion having a rotating element; an electric control unit, configured with program logic, to perform: controlling a driving state through an electric motor coupled to the rotating element of the differential portion in order to change a differential state between an input rotation speed and an output rotation speed of the rotating element of the differential portion; calculating an amount of divergence between the actual rotation speed and the target rotation speed of the engine at a predetermined time point; and setting the target rotation speed of the engine so that the amount of divergence converges at a predetermined slope and the convergence of the amount of divergence is delayed compared to that without any control; and a mechanical gear shifting portion that constitutes a portion of the power transmission path between the electric differential(portion and the driving wheels, wherein the predetermined time point is a time point at which gear shifting of the mechanical shifting portion comes to an end, and at the time point at which the shifting of the mechanical shifting portion comes to an end, the electronic control unit sets the target rotation speed of the engine to be a value acquired by adding a predetermined value to the actual rotation speed of the engine.