Patent ID: 8382640

Claim:
A control apparatus of a clutch mechanism, comprising: a maximum speed lowering device for carrying out a maximum speed lowering process, wherein: the maximum speed lowering process lowers a maximum operating speed of the clutch mechanism; the maximum speed lowering device starts the maximum speed lowering process based on an execution start condition, wherein the execution start condition is a condition in which a changing speed of an operating position of a clutch operating member in an engaging direction at a time of setting the clutch mechanism to an engaged state from a disengaged state becomes equal to or higher than a predetermined starting speed, wherein the operating position of the clutch operating member is a position setting the clutch mechanism to the disengaged state; when the maximum speed lowering process is carried out, the maximum speed lowering device changes the operating position of the clutch operating member at a predetermined speed to a predetermined position setting the clutch mechanism to a half-engaged state, and then the maximum speed lowering device holds the operating position at the predetermined position for a predetermined period corresponding to one half of a fluctuating cycle at a time when an actual transmission torque periodically fluctuates in accordance with a change of the actual transmission torque transmitted from a power source to a transmission by means of the clutch mechanism, and then the maximum lowering device again changes the operating position at the predetermined speed; and the clutch mechanism is coupled to the clutch operating member and is interposed between the power source and the transmission, and the clutch mechanism changes an operating mode in conjunction with the change of the operating position of the clutch operating member.