Patent ID: 8287431

Claim:
A vehicular control apparatus applied to a vehicle provided with an automatic transmission which is connected to an internal combustion engine and receives rotation from the internal combustion engine, the automatic transmission establishing a plurality of gears, each having a different gear ratio, by selectively applying a plurality of apply elements, the vehicular control apparatus comprising: a shifting device that, in response to a command to shift into a higher gear, shifts into the higher gear by reducing a hydraulic pressure that is applied to a predetermined first apply element thereby releasing the first apply element, while increasing a hydraulic pressure that is applied to a predetermined second apply element based on a hydraulic pressure command value such that the second apply element applies; a torque reducing device that, when applying the second apply element in order to shift into the higher gear, reduces output torque of the internal combustion engine by controlling a throttle valve of the internal combustion engine such that an opening amount of the throttle valve decreases; a determining device that determines whether an inertia phase that occurs when the second apply element is applied has started based on whether an input rotation speed of the automatic transmission has decreased; a learning device that, at the start of the inertia phase, adjusts the hydraulic pressure command value such that a period of time from when the command to shift into the higher gear is output until the inertia phase starts comes to match a target value, and learns the adjusted hydraulic pressure command value as a learning value; and a prohibiting device that, when it is determined by the determining device that the inertia phase has started, prohibits learning of the hydraulic pressure command value by the learning device when the output torque of the internal combustion engine is being reduced by the torque reducing device; wherein the torque reducing device delays a next start timing of the control to decrease the opening amount of the throttle valve compared to a last start timing when the prohibiting device prohibits the learning of the hydraulic pressure command value.