Method for controlling a continuously variable transmission

Patent · Tue Jan 20 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6986946

Itoh, H; Takada, M

A method is described for controlling variable transmission for motor vehicles, having an input shaft for connecting an engine to a continuously variable transmission, and a driving pulley mounted on the input shaft, the driving pulley including a non-movable member and a movable member. The movable member is actuated by an hydraulic cylinder to form a V-shaped opening between the non-movable and the movable member, an output shaft, a driven pulley mounted on the output shaft, the driven pulley including another non-movable member and another movable member. Another movable member is similarly actuated by another hydraulic cylinder to form another V-shaped opening between another non-movable member and another movable member, a flexible belt member spanning the pulleys, and a memory means. The method comprises: storing data representative of a plurality of discrete relationships between openings of a throttle valve and optimum numbers of revolutions per minute of the input shaft in the memory means. Each of the relationships correspond to an actual vehicle speed; detecting an actual opening of the throttle valve which is proportional to an amount of fuel injected into an engine; detecting an actual number of revolutions per minute of the input shaft; and detecting an actual vehicle speed.

• Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
• Patent Number(s): US 4637279
• OSTI ID: 6986946
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ENGINES
EQUIPMENT
FLUIDS
HYDRAULIC CONTROL DEVICES
HYDRAULIC FLUIDS
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MECHANICAL TRANSMISSIONS
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VEHICLES
VELOCITY
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