CONTROL APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF CONTINUOUSLY VARIABLE TRANSMISSION, PROGRAM FOR REALIZING THAT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH THAT PROGRAM IS RECORDED

摘要

An ECU executes a program that includes a step (S110) of increasing belt squeezing pressure to a value P (ON) greater than a normal value P (OFF) that is set as the belt squeezing pressure when a footbrake switch is off, when the footbrake switch is on (i.e., YES in S100) and the time elapsed after the footbrake switch was turned on is less than a threshold value T (0); and a step (S108) of gradually reducing the belt squeezing pressure to the normal value P (OFF) when the time elapsed after the footbrake switch was turned on is equal to or greater than the threshold value (i.e., YES in S106). As a result, a decrease in fuel efficiency of a vehicle in which a continuously variable transmission is mounted, as well as a reduction in the durability of a belt of this continuously variable transmission, can be reduced.