Shift level selection device and vehicle
AssigneeIsuzu Motors Limited
InventorsAtsushi Uchino, Yoshitaka Kanda, Susumu Tsunoda
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Abstract
A shift level selection device comprising: a setting unit that sets a selection range in which the lowest speed shift level is a first shift level used in a set-off shift level among two or more shift levels; and a changing unit that, in accordance with the first shift level used in the set-off shift level, changes the selection range so that the lowest speed shift level is a second shift level, which is a lower speed than the first shift level.
Claims9
A gear position selection apparatus of a transmission including a plurality of gear positions, the plurality of gear positions including two or more gear positions set for a vehicle-start gear position of a vehicle, the gear position selection apparatus comprising:
- a setting section that sets a selection range of the plurality of gear positions selectable between when the vehicle starts moving and when the vehicle stops moving during automatic transmission traveling, the selection range being a range in which, among the two or more gear positions, a first gear position of the two or more gear positions used as the vehicle-start gear position is a lowest-speed gear position;
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- a changing section that changes, in accordance with the first gear position used as the vehicle-start gear position, the selection range such that the lowest-speed gear position is a second gear position of the two or more gear positions that is a lower-speed gear position than the first gear position.
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