Patent ID: 8406969

Claim:
A control apparatus for a continuously variable transmission including a hydraulic clutch by which driving power between a power source and a driving wheel is switched to either a transmission state or a non-transmission state based on an occupant's operation, the control apparatus comprising: a reducing unit for temporarily reducing a hydraulic pressure supplied to said clutch such that said clutch waits in said non-transmission state, when an occupant performs an operation of switching said clutch from said non-transmission state to said transmission state before a predetermined time period has elapsed since said power source started up; and a control unit for, when the hydraulic pressure supplied to said clutch is increased after temporary reduction by said reducing unit, controlling at least any one of an amount of increase in the hydraulic pressure supplied to said clutch and a time period for which the hydraulic pressure supplied to said clutch is increased, based on a state related to a control response of said clutch at an end of said temporary reduction, said control unit determining that the control response of said clutch is high and decreasing at least any one of the amount of increase in the hydraulic pressure supplied to said clutch and the time period for which the hydraulic pressure supplied to said clutch is increased, more greatly when a duration of said temporary reduction is long than when the duration of said temporary reduction is short.